Fiat’s 500, the popular Topolino (Little Mouse) as it was called, was the world’s smallest mass-produced car. Designed in 1936 by a young and ingenious engineer, Dante Giacosa, its mechanicals were very simple: a small four-cylinder engine overhanging the wheel axis,...
A luxury sports car powered by a straight-eight engine supercharged through a positive-displacement blower engaged from the driver’s seat, with all-independent suspensions and very high performance ratings, the 540 K was built at the Daimler Benz works in Mannheim in...
The U.S. Buick brand, founded in 1903 and acquired by General Motors in 1908, suffered heavily in 1933 the consequences of the severe recession that affected the global economy: from fourth place in the ranking of the best selling brands, it sank in the sixth and...
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