Good Day to all our faithful readers. This weeks posts are quite interesting as we follow the development of the Continuously Variable Transmission or CVT which was used in Clyno Cars and Reeves cars in the early 1900’s, further developed by DAF in the 1950 and 60s and used by Volvo, Nissan, Honda and others. […]
RATED BY TIMES MAGAZINE AS SOME OF THE UGLIEST CARS EVER BUILT To be born an American and be named after a famous British Poet and a character out of Shakespeare almost guarantees that you’ll end up being eccentric and doing something daft. Milton Othello Reeves (August 25, 1864 – June 4, 1925) was an […]
The Overland Automobile Company was founded in 1903 by Claude Cox, who, at the time, worked for the Standard Wheel Company in Terre Haute, Indiana, United States. In 1905 Overland relocated to Indianapolis, Indiana, which was also the home of Stutz Motor Cars. In 1908, Overland Motors was purchased by John North Willys and in […]
TECHNICAL GENIUS – THE GREAT DEPRESSION – AND MANAGEMENT MEDIOCRITY This is the story of a young company that had the potential of greatness, but failed in circumstances beyond their control combined with one or unexplained moments of poor judgement. The thin red line between success and failure is clearly demonstrated in this post. In […]
In 1974 the DAF group sold their motor car factory and assembly plant together with their stock of components to The Swedish Volvo Group. Volvo then proceeded to re-badge the last DAF model (DAF 66) as a Volvo 66. Volvo made substantial improvements to the DAF 66 in areas of safety and minor improvements to […]
The DAF 66 was a small family car produced by the Dutch company DAF from September 1972 to 1976. It was the successor of the DAF 55. When DAF sold their car factory to Volvo production of the DAF 66 ceased. Volvo upgraded the DAF 66 and marketed it as the Volvo 66. The […]
The DAF 55 was a small family car produced by the Dutch company DAF from December 1967 to September 1972, when it was replaced by the DAF 66. All DAF 55 models featured the unique Variomatic, which was the DAF version of the belt-driven Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT) with no manual transmission available. The 55 […]
THE END OF THE LINE FOR DAF MOTOR CARS The DAF 46 was a small family car that was manufactured by the Dutch company DAF. It was introduced in November 1974 to ultimately replace the DAF 44. At the time of the launch it was announced that the two cars would be sold “alongside” one […]
The DAF 44 was introduced in September 1966. It was the first car to be built at the company’s new assembly plant in Limburg. The DAF 44 represented a cautious move upmarket from the smaller and slower Daffodil model (which was rebadged as the DAF 33) The same flat twin engine of the less powerful […]
In the last year of the DAF 32 (The Daffodil) DAF launched the new DAF44. A year later (1967) the Daffodil was upgraded to the DAF 33. The Daffodil name disappeared. The DAF 33 was a slight upgrade on the previous model including a new front end. The range was also expanded to include a […]