The Allan Cars Hellas SA is a Greek motor car manufacturer. The company was founded in 1989 by [Michael Allen Giannopoulos and was run by him until 1959. Michael Kolesidis, prominant businessman and mechanical engineer, ran the company until his death in 2003. The factory is located in Sindos (an area of Thessaloniki) and has 120 employees. The company specialises in tuning and developing models of BMW, Lotus and Porsche but is planning to relsease its first wholy-manufactured car in 2009, the Allen AL1.