The story of Preston Tucker and his car_is well known: Better-looking and technologically superior to the competition, the “game-changing” 48 (née Torpedo)_was brought down by a combination of an obtuse and hostile press and mean-spirited competitors and government officials. Germany has an equivalent of Tucker: Borgward. But while the Chicago-based American carmaker folded after just […]

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