Stout Scarab: America Built the First Minivan in 1936 and Priced It Into the Grave Detroit invented the minivan almost fifty years before Detroit took credit for it. The problem was that the man who did it charged four times too much and died before anyone noticed. Everyone knows the story the industry likes to … Read more
Dymaxion Car: Brilliant and Forgotten Walter Chrysler wanted in. Henry Ford wanted in. Henry Kaiser wanted in. Three of the biggest names in American manufacturing looked at Buckminster Fuller’s three-wheeled aluminium teardrop and reached the same conclusion: this thing changes everything. Ford offered him anything in the catalogue at seventy-five percent off. Chrysler believed it … Read more
