Best of Benny Goodman - Part 1 | Jazz
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LOS ANGELES - German carmakers Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Audi and Porsche define the European luxury, having built the reputation based on advanced engineering, refined performance and the state of the art technology.
But it wasn t always so three quarters of a century, the French car manufacturers could go all the way to the end with the world's best when it came to pushing limits style and grace when art deco was king, the Car manufacturers such as Bugatti, Delahaye, Delage, Talbot-Lago, Voisin and Hispano-Suiza product ravishingly beautiful cars, some cars now popular among the most valuable ever.
The memory of these cars live in shows and auctions of classic cars Petersen Automotive Museum here recently organized an exhibition called rolling sculpture, which celebrated some of these French cars, including The exhibition is now over, although Petersen now present one of those French brands in another exhibition entitled the art of Bugatti.
Like some of their luxury American counterparts such as Duesenberg and Packard, French companies could not resist several disasters, including the Great Depression and World War II and its consequences.
The major French brands have been victims of austerity measures taken by the French government after World War II when the country struggled to rebuild, a naval engineer named Paul-Marie Pons has been appointed to develop a restructuring plan and modernization of the French automotive industry the so -called Pons plan by critics deemed dictatorial divvied French industry for the benefit of seven manufacturers of French volumes, including the big brands that survive today Renault, Peugeot and Citroën .
In these lean years, luxury buyers were in short supply in France and on export markets also supply steel were scarce and the government imposed a punitive luxury tax on cars with engines 0 over 2 liters.
Some of the cars of this golden era of French design have reached stratospheric prices Sellers 1937 Delahaye 135 Competition Tribunal Torpedo Roadster by Figoni and Falaschi fetched June 6 million of Elegance Amelia Island Concours in 2014. The stunning Bugatti Type 1936 57SC Atlantic was estimated at between 30 million and 40 million.
Strolling through the exhibition, it was tempting to imagine how the world would have been had these big brands have survived into the 21st century.
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