From Cars to Planes and Back Again, Part I

Part I of 5 At a number of car shows during the past few years Honda has been touting both their latest cars as well as the HondaJet, their entry into the very light business jet market. It’s a very advanced design that looks good and claims excellent performance....

The Drivin’ ‘O the Green

This St. Patrick’s Day, celebrate both Irish pride and the arrival of Spring by taking a drive in your 1959 Shamrock. What, you don’t own a Shamrock, the “Irish T-Bird” built in Ireland?  Well, don’t fret.  Almost no one owns a Shamrock.  Fewer than a dozen were...

Bonnie and Clyde, Thelma and Louise, Daimler and Maybach

This Month in Motorhead History On March 17, 1834, Gottlieb Daimler was born in Germany. Had he been born 100 years later, he would have seen an automotive industry the likes of which early automakers could hardly dare dream, and yet, had he been born 100 years later,...

This Week in Motorhead History: Nash—From Bicycles to Jeeps

It was over 100 years ago this month that automotive pioneer Charles W. Nash, at the time a former president of General Motors, acquired the Thomas B. Jeffery Company of Kenosha, Wisconsin, and renamed it the Nash Motors Company.  Nash automobiles would then live on...

Nissan Is Named

This Week in Motorhead History On June 1, 1934, the Japanese based automobile manufacturer Jidosha-Seizo Kabushiki-Kaisha changed its name to Nissan Motor Company. It had been founded the previous December and would produce the company’s first Datsun the following...

Who the Heck is Bertha Benz?

This month, in 1944, Bertha Benz died. And anyone who loves cars, knows cars, or has ever sat in a car, you should care. Arguably, without Bertha Benz and her spontaneity, resourcefulness and courage, Benz & Cie., later to become Daimler-Benz, might never have...