Cars

Hanomag was an established name when the company produced its first car. They built their first steam engine in 1836; by 1905 they were producing steam trucks. When the...

The Hansa Automobile Gesellschaft was founded in 1905 to build light cars. Light cars were comparatively rare in Germany at the time. By 1913, the company was building small...

H.R. Harris was a steam engineer employed by the city of Detroit.  Mr. Harris designed and operated steam-powered electric generating plants.  In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Harris...

  Heinkel, like fellow airplane maker Messerschmitt, was prohibited from making aircraft after WWII. In 1953 Heinkel began building a high end 4-stroke scooter called the Tourist.  Scooter sales...

  Constructed in 1932, this one-of-a-kind, propeller driven car was discovered in a barn in France in 2000 having been placed there by the original owner in the late...

In early 1940, Rudy Stoessel, Paul Erdos, and Burt Chalmers opened a small body shop in Hollywood called Coachcraft, Ltd., and began building custom bodies for movie stars and...

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  The Passport multi-purpose vehicle seen here was the third and last model produced by the short-lived French manufacturer Hobbycar. Perhaps manufacturer is the wrong term, as even the...

In the period immediately after the Second World War, many talented people wanted to “have a go” at producing their own vehicle. One such person was a Michael Hoffmann,...

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  The Honda Beat was built for the Japanese Domestic Market, aka JDM. This mid-engine, two-seat convertible Kei-class car was produced from May 1991 to February 1996, with nearly...

  The Honda City Turbo was the brainchild of Hirotoshi Honda, founder of well-known Honda tuning firm Mugen and son of Honda’s founder Soichiro Honda. When he created the...

The Honda Insight is a hybrid electric vehicle, introduced in Japan in November 1999. It features Honda’s Integrated Motor Assist (IMA) gasoline-electric engine, producing 61 mpg in the city...

Few companies have offered electric vehicles, with only a handful being sold or leased. These cars typically suffer from heavy battery weight, short range, and long charging times. The...

The Honda Life Step Van was Japan’s first microvan. Based on the 1971 Honda Life Sedan, the unique-looking vehicle’s primary mission was to serve as a delivery mule for...

The LN360 is a commercial version of Honda’s first successful kei-class car, the N360. The “L” in the model name notes that it is a “light van”. It is...

The Honda N-ONE is a modern interpretation of one of Honda’s first production cars, the N360. The N-ONE was previewed at the Tokyo Motor Show in 2011, and went...

Honda’s idea for a practical kei-class car came to life with the N360 series. The “N” stood for “norimono”, which means “vehicle” in Japanese. Hitting the market in March...

Honda Motor Co. is one of the greatest success stories of the post war motor industry. Soichiro Honda began making piston rings for the aircraft industry in the late...

Honda Motor Co. is one of the greatest success stories of the post war motor industry. Soichiro Honda began making piston rings for the aircraft industry in the late...

The Honda S660 is the spiritual successor to the 1990’s Honda Beat, itself a descendent of Honda’s first sports car, the 1963 Honda S500 roadster. The result of a...

Honda Motor Co. traces its automobile roots back to 1959. The S800 was introduced to the world at the 1965 Tokyo Motor Show, and would replace the successful S600....

During the 1970s light, rugged utility cars were very popular with the public in Europe. Vehicles in this category included the Volkswagen Thing, the Citroën Méhari, the Mini Moke,...

To celebrate their 50th Anniversary, Hot Wheels went on tour, appropriately titled, The 50th Anniversary Legends Tour, in 2018. The mission was to visit several cities across the United...

Benjamin B. Hotchkiss, an American, was asked by Napoleon II to establish an arms factory in France in 1867. Hotchkiss had plants in New England and New York and...

IFA is not a brand name of a particular automobile, but rather the state-owned company to which all the automobile factories belonged (such as Audi, DKW, Horch, Wanderer, and...

Ferdinand Innocenti’s company started in 1931 as a major steel tubing manufacturer. His patented “Innocenti pipe” is still used in scaffolding today. Before the war, the company also developed...