If you love the v-v-vvrooom, 0-to-60-seconds experience, then you can thank Gleason Corporation. The company designs, manufactures, and sells cutting tools and metalworking machines that produce gears used in drive shafts. Gleason sells to makers of air and marine craft, buses, cars, RVs, SUVs, and trucks, as well as agricultural and construction machinery and roller coasters. The company also provides replacement parts for the aftermarket, engineering support, and inspection software and training programs for its customers. Gleason, founded in 1865, was taken private in 2000 and is owned by members of the Gleason family, the Gleason Foundation, senior executives of the company, and Vestar Capital Partners.