It is on taking a peek sneak into the rich global history of sporting cars that you shall find the reason why driving a ‘Mini Cooper’ is still a joyride.
Founded by Andre Citroen in a post-World War I era in 1919, in the last 100 years Citroen has changed many hands, many brands, many designs, and continues to soldier on. This French brand has many inventions, innovations, and World Records to its credit. Citroen has recently entered the Indian market and MWTV looks at the brand’s history.
On 18 August 1896 Gottlieb Daimler presented the very first motorised truck in the world. It was sold by Daimler to British Motor Syndicate, an automobile company in London. Exactly 125 years later a Mercedes-Benz Actros made the journey from Stuttgart to London carrying two historic trucks on-board, including a replica of the World’s First Cargo Truck.
Originally, these vehicles were simply known as the ‘Land Rover’ - predominantly an off-road capable car model of the Rover Company. However, as ‘Land Rover’ became more established as a brand, the ‘Series’ indication later became a retronym model name. The Range Rover was introduced in 1970.
Harley-Davidson, Inc., H-D, or Harley, is an American motorcycle manufacturing company which was founded in 1903 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The brand was founded by a gang of four – one Harley and three Davidsons. Given the ratio of three Davidsons to one Harley, it's easy to wonder why the company was not called Davidson-Harley. Since the novel idea for the motorcycle came from William Harley, the gang thought it was only fair to put his name first.
Lamborghini Automobili was born as the oeuvre of its Italian founder Ferruccio Lamborghini. Born in 1916, Ferruccio aided as a mechanic in the Italian Royal Air Force during the Second World War before starting a business of building tractors from discarded surplus World War II military hardware. The tractor company was growing at a rapid rate by the mid-1950s and so, Ferruccio Lamborghini expanded his business into construction boilers and air-conditioning systems in 1960, Lamborghini had become one of Italy’s great industrialists
