The years immediately following World War II were not very considerate to the British car industry. Its manufacturers were strained nearly 
to the breaking point by more than a half decade of armed conflict that left resources constricted, factories in rubble, and the labor force testy to get theirs after so many years of sacrifice.
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If the definition of a classic is something that has stood the test of time, then the Morgan 4/4 is the epitome of the expression. 
In continuous production since 1936, except for those gloomy years of World War II when Britain didn’t produce any civilian cars at all, the 4/4 has gone from contemporary to venerable to outdated to rejuvenated to out-moded to timeless over the course of its 7 decades. Now that a new millennium has dawned, with the British car industry teetering on the brink of implosion and/or suicide, it appears truly a miracle that the Morgan make has survived. Yet, survive, it has, and prospered. Read more . . .
In the Fifties and Sixties, American sports cars used the brute muscle of big displacement engines 
to combat the more sophisticated and nimble sports machinery of the Europeans, but there was a time when the situation was just reversed. And in that period–1910 to 1915–the Mercer Raceabout was America’s pre-eminent sports car. Read more . . .
Gottlieb Daimler’s company had grown into a staid, conservative enterprise producing a succession of dreary automobiles 
when Ferdinand Anton Porsche strode in the door in the 1920’s. Daimler, of course, was one of the earliest auto pioneers, assembling a motor carriage in 1886 almost on top of the work being done by his fellow German, Karl Benz. In 1907, Paul, Gottlieb Daimler’s son, took over the chief engineering post at the company, and, while he made certain it maintained its reputation and a builder of sound engines, there wasn’t much excitement or verve attached to the Daimler brand.
Ferdinand Porsche, however, would alter all that. Read more . . .
Cars, of course, don’t have political affiliations. That reality simply adds to their charm. However, 
one car, has been unfairly associated with a political movement, and a deplorable movement at that: the German National Socialist (Nazi) Party. The Mercedes-Benz 500K came to flower coincidentally with the Nazi assumption of influence of Germany. Because of that, and because of the newsreel and movie footage that always seemed to show one Nazi official or another in a grosser Mercedes, the car has become nearly a symbol for oppression. That is very unfortunate, because the Mercedes-Benz 500K and its successor, Read more . . .
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