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World War II when Britain didn’t produce any civilian cars at all, the 4/4 has gone from contemporary to venerable to outdated to rejuvenated to out-moded to timeless over the course of its 7 decades.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 . . .
After being a dominant force in Grand Prix racing before World War II, the engineers at Mercedes-Benz must have found the late Forties to be a humiliating period. 
Their nation was a shambles, devastated by the fall down of the Nazi regime with which their cars had been so closely associated, fairly or unfairly, and, as other countries clawed their way out of the abyss, back toward normalcy, they were being left behind. Other, lesser brands were occupying winner’s circles that Mercedes-Benz engineers figured they owned.
Mercedes’ engineers collapse
But the draught in Mercedes-Benz motorsport fortunes would end soon after the Fifties started. Mercedes’ crack engineering corps finally got the approval to go racing, and, under the direction of Rudolph Uhlenhaut, who had been through the good times and the bad times with the company, they jumped into the project with a vengeance. Read more . . .
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