Societe Parisienne was a constructor of high quality bicycles, tricycles and velocipedes, formed in Paris in 1876 by Monsieur Reynard. By 1891 the company had ...
Citroen’s magnificent, space-age DS turned the motoring world on its head when it launched at the 1955 Paris Auto Salon. Onlookers at the show were ...
The 1930s were a tumultuous time for many of the world’s premier automakers; as a crippling economic depression loomed over much of the global economy, ...
“The Standard of the World” was not only Cadillac’s advertising slogan, but it was a doctrine for its engineers and designers to live by. During ...
As MG, Jaguar and others were finding much success in the emerging sports car market, Triumph and its parent company Standard felt that a competent ...
Barn find typically means an old, neglected, cannibalized hulk discovered moldering in some leaky, vermin-infested lean-to. That’s not this classic Horch 853 Sport Cabriolet (a ...
Peugeot originated in the Eighteenth Century as a family industry; manufacturing history began in 1810 with production of coffee and pepper grinders. Later production of ...
“Luxury that Moves with you.” This bit of generic American marketing-speak announced an exclusive multinational luxury Grand Touring car, the Ghia L 6.4. Officially a product ...
When Bugatti’s spectacular Type 57 debuted in 1934, it would ultimately prove to be the final all-French design in the marque’s short but brilliant ...
Brunn & Co. of Buffalo, New York had a long tradition of fitting beautiful and exclusive coachwork to the likes of Pierce-Arrow, Rolls-Royce, and Lincoln ...
Panhard et Levassor is one of the founding names in the history of the automobile, tracing its origins to Emile Levassor’s 1891 prototype with an ...
Introduced in early 1930, the first series Cadillac V16 firmly positioned General Motors’ top brand at the pinnacle of the luxury automobile market. Cadillac made ...