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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
After the successful launch of the DAF 600 in 1959 the company began on designing its replacement. In 1961 the Daffodil and the DAF 750 were announced. The 750 was essentially the same as the “Daffodil” except that it was what you could call an entry level vehicle with less trim and refinement. The Daffodil […]