On 17 February 1972, the world car production record was broken by the Volkswagen Beetle, with a total of 15,007,034 units produced worldwide, thereby surpassing the production figure that had been held by the American Ford Model T for nearly fifty years. Volkswagen hence donated the car to the Smithsonian Institution for permanent exhibition…
Happy Birthday Ernst Heinkel, Who? Ernst Heinkel was born on 24th of January 1888 in Grumbach, Germany. He designed spectacular aircraft for the German Luftwaffe during the Second World War. After the war Heinkel produced the Microcar the Heinkel Kabine. We celebrate this innovative designer’s Birthday with his innovative Microcar – the Heinkel Kabine…
Sir Alex Issigonis (18 November 1906 – 2 October 1988) was a British-Greek automotive designer. He designed the Mini, launched by the British Motor Corporation in 1959, and voted the second most influential car of the 20th century in 1999. Issigonis was nicknamed “the Greek god” by his contemporaries. Whilst he is most famous for his creation of the Mini, he…
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., commonly known as Honda, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate automotive manufacturer headquartered at the Toranomon Alcea Tower in Toranomon, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in October 1946 by Soichiro Honda, Honda has been the world’s largest motorcycle manufacturer since 1959, reaching a production of 500 million as of May 2025. On…