Manufacturer Marques & Models - Cars By Brand
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Oldsmobile
Oldsmobile is one of America’s oldest marques. Inventor Ransom Eli Olds who was born in Geneva, Ohio, in 1864 established the Olds Motor Vehicle Company in 1897 aged 34. Oldsmobile was the first company to mass produce automobiles with its highly successful Curved Dash Model that became America’s most popular car between 1903 – 1905. With minimal bodywork and the distinctive… Continue reading »
Plymouth
Founded on July 7th 1928, Plymouth was a division of the recently formed Chrysler Corporation and represented its lower cost budget cars and a direct competitor to Chevrolet and Ford. While the name was originally inspired from the rock where William Bradford and the Pilgrims landed in Massachusetts in 1620, aboard the Mayfl ower, hence the ship that appears in the marque badge,… Continue reading »
Pontiac
While the Pontiac Motor Company has been building cars since 1926, the company’s origins were very much connected the Oakland Motor Car Company. In 1893 Edward M. Murphy founded the Pontiac Buggy Company in Pontiac, the principal town in Oakland County, Michigan, who was a producer of horse drawn carriages. Edward M. Murphy later acquired the designs of a two-cylinder car,… Continue reading »
Porsche
From fifty cars with – well let’s face it – more or less a VW engine, hand-built in an old woodworking shed at Gmund in the mountains of Austria, and once poised to take control of Volkswagen, Porsche has come a long way in six decades. Prof. Ferdinand Porsche designed the infamous VW ‘peoples car’ pre-1939, and even then had a vision for a sports car. But as he languished… Continue reading »
Rolls Royce
What was to become regarded as the “Best Car in the World” resulted from a meeting in May 1904, and the subsequent link-up, between the Hon. C.S. Rolls, who sold Panhards, and Henry Royce, who made electric cranes. A number of early models were built, but it was the 40/50hp, seven-litre, six cylinder ‘Silver Ghost’ of 1906 which really brought the Rolls-Royce concern… Continue reading »
