A to Z
Review
Page 10 – ‘Thanks Matteo TT Stucchi and long live Swisscarsightings.com!’...
Editor’s Note: In Dennis Adler’s new book, Ferrari: 75 Years, he tells the story of nearly a century of motorsports...
For those not in the know, Kyalami Green in Audi-speak is a bright shade that closely resembles Porsche’s more aptly-descriptive...
1769 Cugnot Steam Tractor The very first self-propelled vehicle that paved the way for every automobile after it was this...
1881 Thury-Nussberger Steam 3-Wheeler Rene Thury and Jean-Jacques Nussberger, builders for the medical equipment company Societe d’Instruments de Physique de...
1884 De Dion, Bouton et Trepardou Dos-à-Dos Originally built and owned by French nobleman and pioneer automaker, Count De Dion,...
1886 Benz Patent Motor Car With the stationary two-stroke gas engine he had developed in 1879/80, Karl Benz had earned...
1886 Daimler Motorized Carriage Daimler’s first engine, which he built together with his long-standing congenial companion Wilhelm Maybach, was a...
1898 Renault Type A The very 1st cornerstone of a huge empire, this voiturette, designed and built by Louis Renault,...
1899 Benz 8HP Rennwagen With this car, Fritz Held won the class victory and the Great Gold Medal in the...
1899 Benz 8HP Rennwagen First Benz car purpose-designed as a racing car. With this car, Fritz Held won the class...
1899 Daimler 12HP Rennwagen Based on the world’s first four-cylinder car: A successful racing car – also built in a...
1899 Renault Type B Just a few months after launching his 1st car, the Voiturette Type A, Louis Renault was...
1900 Benz 16HP Rennwagen In Detail engine water-Cooled Conta Flat Twin Cyl position Mid Engined aspiration Natural valvetrain 2 Valves...
1900 Benz 20HP Rennwagen First Benz car with inclined steering column:This racing car, developed by Georg Diehl and equipped with...
1900 Daimler 23HP La Turbie Rennwagen A successful racing car – also built in a 28 hp engine version -,...
1900 Mercedes 35HP Rennwagen In 1900, Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschat (DMG) produced a special car, named after its horsepower. Emil Jellinek, DMG’s cheif...
1901 Mercedes 35HP Phaeton The Phaeton was the passenger car version of the first 35HP Race-Car which won many French...
1902 De Dion-Bouton Type K1 8CV For the 1902 year, De Dion-Bouton radically changed their automobile design beginning with the...
1902 Mercedes 40HP Simplex The 35 hp Mercedes was quickly followed by the 40 hp car which included numerous new...
1902 Renault Type K City-to-city car races were all the rage at the start of the century. The Type K...
1902→1904 Cadillac Model A With a high level of craftsmanship and usability, the 1903 Cadillac was well received at the...
1903 Benz 60HP Parsifal Rennwagen This car was built in direct competition with Mercedes: Karl Benz could work up little...
1903 Martini 14/18HP Rochers de Naye Friedrich von Martini established his company in Frauenfeld in 1860 and started by producing...
1903 Mercedes 60HP Simplex The 90 hp car built for the Gordon Bennett Cup race was destroyed in the great...
1903 Mercedes 90HP Rennwagen The 90 HP Rennwagen built for the Gordon Bennet race was destroyed in a factory fire...
1904 de Dion-Bouton Model AD In the summer of 1904 de Dion-Bouton lauched their first four-cylinder car and called it...
1904 Mercedes 90HP Rennwagen The design of the 90 hp Mercedes that was built in 1904 was almost identical with...
1904 Rolls-Royce 10 HP The world’s oldest surviving Rolls-Royce, which dates from 1904, was sold today (3 December 2007) by...
1904→1905 Cadillac Model B In January of 1904 Cadillac offered the Model B and at the time they were producing...
1905 Cadillac Osceola Coupe Osceola Coupe was somewhat of a brass era prototype in that it’s Coupe bodystyle was conceptual...
1905 Darracq 200 In December of 1905 driver Victor Hemery broke the outright land speed record with this Darracq 200....
1905 Mercedes 120HP Rennwagen In Detail submitted by Richard Owen engine M 175464, Cats Iron, Inline-4 position Front Longitudinal aspiration...
1905 Renault Type AG The Renault 8 CV Type AG was born in 1905. It was a costly vehicle, reserved...
1906 Cadillac Model M Under-seat engines were becoming outdated in 1907, so Cadillac disguised the fact by mounting a dummy...
1906 Mercedes 120HP Rennwagen The 120 hp Mercedes racing car of 1906 was fitted with the first six-cylinder car engine...
1906 Mercedes 80HP Rennwagen The racing engine’s technology is based on the 60 hp engine constructed by Maybach in 1903....
1907 Benz 60HP Targa Florio Rennwagen In 1906, a new high-performance racing car was built that was powerful enough to...
1907 Mercedes 120HP Rennwagen The cylinder dimensions were equivalent to those of a six-cylinder test engine designed by Paul Daimler...
1907 Renault 130HP Grand Prix In Detail submitted by Richard Owen engine Inline-4 valvetrain OHV 2 Valves Cyl displacement...
1907 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost In its first few years of production, the Silver Ghost was the best touring car in...
1907 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost In its first few years of production, the Silver Ghost was the best touring car in...
1907 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost Barker Roi de Belges In its first few years of production, the Silver Ghost was the...
1907 Thomas Flyer Model 35 At the beginning of the 20th century, the dawn of the automobile industry motivated several...
1908 American Underslung Roadster In the late 1900s, the automotive industry in America was really taking off. Several startup corporations,...
1908 Benz 120HP Rennwagen The 120 hp Benz of 1908 is one of three cars which were successfully entered in...
1908 Benz 150HP Rennwagen The 150 hp Benz Grand Prix racing car, built in 1908, was used for the first...
1908 Cadillac Model S In November of 1907, Cadillac introduced the Model S which was a variant of their 10HP...
1908 Cadillac Model T In November of 1907, Cadillac introduced the Model T which was a variant of their 10HP...
1908 Delage Type F Delage is a French company that was founded in 1905 by L.Delage and A.Legros. The marque...
1908 Delaunay-Belleville F6 At the beginning of the century, Delaunay-Belleville was one of the most, if the most desired French...
1908 Mercedes 140HP Mercedes was victorious at the 1908 French Grand Prix near Dieppe with a 140HP grand rpix car...
1908 Mercedes 150HP Semmering Rennwagen This car had the largest displacement of all the cars ever built by DMG. The...
1908 Thomas Flyer Model F Replacing the Model 35 of 1907, Thomas launched their 1908 model with both six and...
