The story of Errett Lobban Cord is an American legend of success and failure, of attempting mightily and falling hard. 
It mirrors the age in which he lived, and it is chock full of soaring victories and dreadful failures, and, of course, his ultimate creations, the Cord L-29 and Cord 810/812, ultimately represent both. Read more . . .
This morning it is very probable that you had an encounter with David Dunbar Buick’s most important gift to the world, 
and we don’t mean the Buick Roadmaster or any other Buick automobile. Truth be told, Buick’s most amazing contribution to our lives came in the bathroom. He patented a procedure for bonding porcelain to iron, creating the bathtub as we know it today. So if you took a shower this morning (and we definitely hope you did), you owe a tiny bit of gratitude to one D.D. Buick. Read more . . .
Imagine a car company that produced not only the most highly regarded luxury cars of its era, but also the most successful racing cars.
Imagine a company that combined the best attributes of Rolls-Royce and Ferrari. And imagine such a company not being controlled by corporate boards of directors, but only by a single visionary man. If you can imagine all this, then you can imagine what Bugatti was like in 1930. Read more . . .
Somewhere in Motor Racing Heaven W.O. Bentley must be smiling, because, after more than half a century, the company 
that carries his name (and his brother’s) has been liberated from Rolls-Royce. Of course, neither popular British marque is independent. BMW owns Rolls-Royce, while Volkswagen is the caretaker of the Bentley brand, but there is no doubt that W.O. would have a preference that circumstance to the previous administration in which Bentleys were little more than Rolls-Royces without the famed radiator shell. Read more . . .
If the marque were named Bamford Martin, would it have the same panache? 
How about if it were called plainly Ford Martin? Would the automotive cognoscenti find it similarly appealing? Truth be told, either name would be as apropos as the fabled Aston Martin moniker, just as the DB initials signify Aston Martin’s significant debt to David Brown, the man who gave a more distinctive stamp on the marque than even its founders. Read more . . .