If you ever wondered why the quintessential Brit hero, The Saint, drove a Volvo, there is a particular reason. 
The P1800 Volvo he drove, was, at least at first, a British car. It was assembled by Jensen, the renowned English sports car maker, after Karmann Ghia lost out on the bidding to build the car. And in one of the most productive marketing moves in the car industry, Volvo decided to capitalize on the British connection by supplying vehicles for the British TV show, “The Saint,” which starred Roger Moore as the slightly shady, free-lance, womanizing, good guy. Read more . . .
By the time Rolls and Royce met in 1904, the latter had escaped the gloomy lower class life in 
London to turn himself into a success. It was a hard struggle, because Royce’s father died when the boy was nine, and he was immediately thrust into the role as a breadwinner for the family. Trying to do his bit, he delivered telegrams and sold newspapers, but luck finally smiled his way when an aunt lined him up an apprenticeship at the Great Northern Railway.
While on this apprenticeship, he learned the basics of the machinist’s trade, and he also started to study electricity, a relatively new field of endeavor in 1879. 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 . . .
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 . . .