The Frazer Nash and Bristol display, Geneva Salon 1948, via BOC Heritage Trust. We mentioned China Car Times‘ April Fools’ about Bristol being purchased by Xinjiang No 1 Tractor Company in our coverage of the Shelby American joke, but the truth turns out to be far stranger: Frazer-Nash has bought the assets of the insolvent, […]
As we mentioned last week, gasoline-electric hybrid cars are not a new invention, nor were they something that was only tried once at the outset of the automotive age before being revived again a century later. GM had its own hybrids in the 1960s, the XP512H and the XP833, and as Tim Martin from The […]
Enduring Automotive History Myths, No. 467 and 467a: Electric cars, while popular around the dawn of the automotive age, were quickly abandoned when the invention of the electric self-starter prompted the widespread adoption of internal combustion. They have only been recently reconsidered as a viable means of transportation. Gasoline-electric hybrids were similarly abandoned after Dr. […]