Here at Motoring Weekly, we recently read an article in Automotive News about whether General Motors will resurrect the Hummer brand. This was on the back of sales successes for large SUVs and in recent days we have seen reports that RAM pretty much saved FIAT Chrysler in June with ever increasing sales. Let's start by looking at the brand that had a love/hate relationship with … [Read more...]
Rambler
This weeks history article became part of the 4th largest car business in the US but sadly was lost when number four was swallowed up by number three! Rambler was one of the oldest brands and like many manufacturers, came from a bicycle maker. Thomas B Jeffery was the designer of the bicycles and the first cars. He was a part of the Gormully and Jeffery Manufacturing Company … [Read more...]
Willys
Willys technically doesn’t exist but its heritage does and has an Italian co-owner even though it is American through and through. John Willys founded his company in 1912 as the Willys-Overland Motor Company. He had started out by selling bicycles around New York State and this had lead him to set up a dealership for Overland cars. In 1907 with supply from the factory a … [Read more...]
American Motors
American Motors (AMC) was formed in 1954 by the merger of Nash-Kelvinator and the Hudson Motor Car Company. Nash had recognised that the Big 3 being General Motors, Ford and Chrysler were going to be hard to beat without economies of scale and they found Hudson to be a willing partner to start the process. With the completion of the merger, the new AMC was able to reduce the … [Read more...]