Tag: Auto

Even the Ultimate One has Forebears

The owner of this big bulky BWM needs to tell everybody that he’s driving a BMW (the car license plate from Berlin is real, I just erased the number and added a BMW logo). In Germany, BMW drivers have the reputation of being posers.

Something this old Isetta from 1950s didn’t need. It was billed as a motor roller mobile and you didn’t need a car driving license for it. Even the police used Isettas. And it is a BWM, essentially.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: The Ultimate Driving Machine

Karl Friedrich Michael Vaillant

Carl Benz

Who??! —  Better known as Carl Benz, the inventor of the first viable automobile. This portrait of his is in Ladenburg, close to Mannheim, Germany, where he made his invention and located to – privately as well as his factory – in 1904.

This is for One Word Sunday.  More who? photos can be found here.