Those cars are still more attractive than anything you can buy today.
@loghorizon4510 ай бұрын
Simply because they didn't have to take several emission standards and passenger and pedestrian safety standards into account.
@Infernal_Elf9 ай бұрын
@@loghorizon45 There is the problem of Trying to make as much money as possible also. Duesenberg was only focusing on making the best.
@Philobiblion11 ай бұрын
The Auburn, Cord, Duesenberg Automobile Museum in Auburn, IN is a magical place and not that far from I-80 if you're passing through.
@tommycharnie987 Жыл бұрын
Whenever I was a little kid I went to the Dusenberg museum. At the time I didn’t understand the significance and beauty that these cars had to the auto industry. Hopefully I’ll go back soon.
@pallen106511 ай бұрын
I hope Rich's Restaurant still has outstanding baked goods. Go and see ..
@trr94001 Жыл бұрын
My grandfather was born in 1914 and the Duesenberg was his favorite car. I doubt he ever saw one in person but it was the poster car of the day like a Lamborghini or a Bugatti.
@gowdsake710311 ай бұрын
NOT even close
@georgeOswald-j6o11 ай бұрын
craftmanship even over 100 yrs later BEAUTIFUL America's SUPERCAR
@henrywhyte Жыл бұрын
I wish more people knew about the golden age of American cars
@badhairdaave Жыл бұрын
I miss my Pinto 😢
@dukecraig2402 Жыл бұрын
The creator of this video doesn't, first off the saying "It's a Doozy" was in use before Duesenberg car's existed, and no, Duesenberg's weren't the finest most luxurious car's ever made in America, those were Packard's. Duesenberg's were faster with an emphasis on performance and did indeed have a very high build quality but they were loud and raucous cars with a bit rougher ride of a car, they were something that rich playboys or rich younger women would drive to get people's attention but when it came to all out luxury that was Packard, they were quieter inside, more plush and rode smoother, you wouldn't want to go across country in a Duesenberg just the same as you wouldn't want to ride a Harley with open pipes across country, by the time you got to the other side you'd be so sick and tired of having the sound of that loud exhaust in your head making your ears ring from hours of it droning away you'd wanna sell it and buy something else, no, when it came to all out luxury Packard's were the most luxurious car's ever to come out of America.
@GuineaPigLover666 Жыл бұрын
And I wish I didn't have a small Weiner
@jwalster941211 ай бұрын
@@badhairdaavemay it rest in ashes.
@FYMASMD11 ай бұрын
Expecting Americans to know any of their history is asking too much.🙄
@robertscheinost179 Жыл бұрын
I had the good fortune to visit the ACD Museum in Auburn, Indiana around 1994. What a museum. Also, there was a guy here in Connecticut that used to bring his two! Duesenbergs to the car show at the Durham fair grounds in CT every year in the late '80's-early '90's. I have a 1965 "Road and Track" magazine which covers the annual event at the ACD Museum. One picture showed a Duesenberg towing a Cord, all the way from Mass! Another photo showed the present (1965) owner of the "Mormon Meteor" a record breaking Bonneville Salt Flat Duesenberg racer. So yeah, a Duesenberg was by far the best of the best. I really am a lucky man to have experienced these occurrences! By the way, I still have that "Road and Track" magazine. Cheers for the video.
@manga1211 ай бұрын
ah those were really unique beautiful cars I have seen both the 1 and the 3 at the kruse auction years ago when it was running, there is still one of the other kruses I think a cousin and some buisness partners that run worldwide auctioneers and they get some pretty nice stuff too, high profile stuff, cords, bentlys, supercars, your american muscle cars, all kinds of vintage, it costs to go inside the auction but you can at this time go all about the old kruse victory musium grounds and look at all the cars and swap meet free as well as many food trucks and the cruise in's they have over several days downtown, but as for the meteor's those are something special, the 3 by the way is the 2 but it was reengined I belive and thats what made it the three they slapped in an aircraft engine
@T-41 Жыл бұрын
Good program! I would agree about Duesenberg J and SJ having been the “best “ US cars. There were other companies such as Packard and Pierce Arrow that produced very well engineered luxury cars with high quality materials and build quality and offering good performance. What set Duesenberg in a class of its own was the unique combination of top luxury and hand built quality with what today we would call a supercar powertrain and performance. It was a creature of its time, not to be repeated. What passes for “luxury-performance cars today reminds one of appliances, “computers on wheels “ styled like and produced like mass market cars .
@gowdsake710311 ай бұрын
It's a very low standard compared to the rest of the world
@lancewalker199911 ай бұрын
Comparing Duesenberg to Tesla is like comparing fine china to paper plates. Duesenberg is akin to rolling sculpture. Not bad for a couple of guys named Fred and Augie from Iowa.
@Cadillac61 Жыл бұрын
Duesenberg and Tesla do not belong in the same sentence. Teslas quality pales next to average cars like Toyota and Chevrolet. Please don’t insult one of if not the greatest American car ever built, only cars like Packard and Cadillac could come close and in some cases (few) better than a Duesi
@richardgarno659111 ай бұрын
And Tesla’s are ugly. Really ugly.
@clownworldtimes643410 ай бұрын
@@richardgarno6591 I agree. They are not aesthetically pleasing. I would not purchase one, but I was surprisingly impressed with the experience the one time I drove one for just ten miles.
@daleolson350610 ай бұрын
Plus they are bad for the earth.
@Infernal_Elf9 ай бұрын
Only more modern cars that could be compared to the Dusenberg`s is The Mercedes Benz 600 and The Revival of the Maybach by mercedes the original editions. And some Rolls Royce could probably match.
@wonderplanet3436 ай бұрын
Tesla brought EVs back to best selling autos. They lack variety but stick with good efficiency. The big thing is long distance and a good charging system. ❤ Also they profit now so they may stay in business. However the industry is cutthroat so they are likely to fail without Elon. Or because of him hurting feelings of people and randomly fathering kids, probably using drugs and promoting free speech, including for meanies.
@robertqueberg461211 ай бұрын
This is a great video to introduce a neophyte to the world of the cars between the wars. I had a chance opportunity to ride in the “Twenty Grand” world’s fair Dusenberg, in a July 4th parade in the early 1960’s. My brother and I were kids in our early teen years, but that was an automobile, not a car. The details were amazing. A marble gear shift knob, and an altimeter in the dash. As you stated, there will likely not be another automobile that would deserve comparison to this legend. The Tesla has some nice features, but it also comes with an extension cord and plug, not a supercharger, or cylinders.
@GordonBeckles Жыл бұрын
At 64 years old, I remember back (during my childhood) when the elderly would use the expression... "that's a real Duesy" ...and many folks using the saying with no clue nor (experienced) point of reference. 😂
@phaedrussmith1949 Жыл бұрын
I never knew that this was the reference. Interesting. I recall my Grandmother using the term. I doubt she ever saw one.
@dukecraig2402 Жыл бұрын
It's a myth, the term "It's/That's/She's/He's a Duzy" (some spell it Doozy) was in use before the cars existed, it's just that at a certain point people thought it referenced the quality level of a Duesenberg car but actually it's not true, it's just another myth like how people believe the saying "the whole 9 yards" came from the length of a belt of machinegun ammo, nope, the fact is "the whole 9 yards" goes back to at least the 1850's long before machineguns were even invented and is part of a punchline from a joke about a man's wife who wasn't a very good seamstress and had made him a shirt using "the whole 9 yards" of fabric she'd bought for making it which resulted in an excessively large and baggy shirt.
@phaedrussmith1949 Жыл бұрын
@@dukecraig2402 Well now I'm just confused. My Grandmother also used the "Whole nine yards" saying too, and she did have that machine gun down in the cellar. . .
@dukecraig2402 Жыл бұрын
@@phaedrussmith1949 Bet she had a sewing machine down there to.
@badhairdaave Жыл бұрын
@@phaedrussmith1949I bet she was a real Lulu ❤
@erichwieger504911 ай бұрын
Works of art in power and motion.
@backnineblues10 ай бұрын
About 25-30 years ago I’m sitting at a red light in Roslyn, Long Island, NY. To my left, a Duesenberg entered the intersection and made a left to be on the road that I was on. I caught up to it and noticed an extra plate on the back that said something like “ITSADOOZIE”. Only one I have ever seen live.
@oldsjunkie1 Жыл бұрын
I could stand in front of these at the museum in Auburn for hours and hours...
@RajaReign784 ай бұрын
The “31” Dusenberg is one of my favorite hot wheels castings and when they made it a final run in 2003 along with the Auburn speedster 852 I was extremely pissed off and almost gave up collecting cars. These oldies as my grampa called them are absolutely gorgeous looking cars and I thought of them as a moving piece of art.
@tbmike237 ай бұрын
I would argue that Packard deserves this distinction. Duesys were great, and many manufactures like Bentley and Bugatti borrowed from them, but they went out of business in 17 years, while Packard built high performance military aircraft engines for both world wars, and hand built the finest cars during the brass era. In fact, before high rpm engines, they would machine to such insanely high tolerances that they would drop test pistons in the block, and the air pressure would catch them.
@here_we_go_again257111 ай бұрын
Yes! The most beautiful cars ever made in the USA!
@PhilMasters11 ай бұрын
There’s one of these cars in Europe, in a museum in the west of England. I walked into that room and got the message. It’s the star of the show.
@t-bird_guy9 ай бұрын
i'll be honest, Duesenberg's are beauties, even if they're not from an era I know or am very interested in, and I wish I could see one someday. I love how in depth you went onto this topic, great video!
@metricstormtrooper Жыл бұрын
@4.55 you mean drum brakes don't you? Happy Christmas, we still say that here in Australia.
@bobfeller60411 ай бұрын
That straight 8 must sound amazing.
@cddc24688 ай бұрын
20s and 30s had the most beautiful car designs in history, without a doubt. The styling and elegance is just perfect. I love all decades of auto design up until the late 2000s. Each are absolutely amazing in their own right, but 20s and 30s will always hold a place in my heart
@knighttuttrupriprock9733 Жыл бұрын
Great job, subscribed. Best of luck to you and your channel. My Dad loved those cars.
@bartscarstories Жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@Imnotplayinganymore Жыл бұрын
You make a good case. Can't argue. Thanks for the great aesthetic video. No yelling or flapping your arms about like some obnoxious car videos tend to do...just the facts and making a humble, well thought out case.
@bartscarstories Жыл бұрын
Hey thanks!!
@mikescott562411 ай бұрын
Some of those "facts" aren't.
@Imnotplayinganymore11 ай бұрын
@@mikescott5624 Well any “the greatest” video is by nature subjective. So maybe “facts” was a poor choice of words
@teklife Жыл бұрын
the current top of the line Lucid Air is luxurious and a game changer in many ways. it's top tier, premium engineering at all costs.
@dennismason374010 ай бұрын
I purchased a whammy bar (for electric guitar), made by Duesenberg, recently and it's engineering is pretty darn clever.
@alittlebitgone10 ай бұрын
You know they are not related, right?
@dennismason374010 ай бұрын
@@alittlebitgone- not sure. The wang bar is made in Germany. I know Deusenberg may be a common name however my feeling is that it might or might not be the same family. Probably not - I haven't done the research YET.
@mwrcrft Жыл бұрын
Nice story, thanks to youtube these stories are available. Jay Leno and his love for the Dusey is well documented and Randy Ema the top restorer has some great stories between them.
@braddietzmusic2429 Жыл бұрын
I’m inclined to agree with you, and it would be hard to argue. Also… Tesla has absolutely NO business being in this video. It’s a more expensive Prius thing. Modern “Money no object” vehicles? Rolls Royce and Bentley come to mind, although their engineering is generally fully conventional.
@alanpeachey408511 ай бұрын
What a fabulous car, the juice and burgers, and when you look at all the automobiles that have come and gone did Dusenburg, I believe could be put back into production with all the ladies technology that we have for is truly one of the most remarkable errors of time and that’s what you don’t get out of a plastic toy with a battery in it called a Tesla car did you can’t put in the garage just in case it catches fire so thank you so much for the juice and thank you thank you thank you for Jay Leno and I hope that all is well in the family. Regards Alan Hoochie automotive electrical engineer from down under. Regards
@GuineaPigLover666 Жыл бұрын
Only 7.5k subs?? This person is gonna blow up soon.
@misters283711 ай бұрын
This car is the PROOF that truly even the "Muscle Cars" of the 60s were outdated technology when they were new....Duesenberg was using Race/Aircraft technology (DOHC/4V/Supercharging) in road going automobiles, it took another SIXTY years (until the 90's) for even Corvette/Cadillac to use this 1930's type of Technology and another 10 years for it to trickle down to Common Automobiles (Though usually in 4/6 cylinder form, the V8's were still reserved for the Sport/Luxury Cars.)
@stephenberry120511 ай бұрын
Amazing cars - I agree, one of the best cars of all times. The Duesie was the first car to have 4 wheel hydraulic brakes. The first car to have disc brakes was the 1949 Crosley The first sports car to have disc brakes was the 1953 Jaguar C type The first sustained production car with disc brakes was the 1955 Citroen DS.. My first car in Australia was a 1962 Citroen ID19.... the ride and brakes were supreme.
@box4859 Жыл бұрын
I'd have to throw in Pierce Arrow and Ruxton as runner ups.
@CHRISTIEMALRYLIBRARY8 ай бұрын
god i love Dueseberg
@victorriceroni8455 Жыл бұрын
I always thought the 59 Cadillacs were the most beautiful cars in the world, but this has changed my mind.😍
@kermitefrog64 Жыл бұрын
Jaye Leno has one of these cars and what craftsmanship for the Duesenburg.
@mikescott562411 ай бұрын
They're impressive cars, but regardless how many casino owners, pizza chain magnates, or TV comedians own them, Duesenbergs are not some stand alone single best, certainly not when adjusted for price. Learn something about the 120 years of automotive history before parroting claims.
@-Stop-it11 ай бұрын
@@mikescott5624 - Who put a bee in your bonnet? He only said Leno owned one. He owns 100+ other cars too.
@FYMASMD6 ай бұрын
@@mikescott5624where is yours? You sound like a real expert. A petty, jealous one. 🙄
@lbco5229 Жыл бұрын
Everyone should visit the Nethercutt collection in Sylmar, California (Los Angeles). Incredible! Added bonus - it’s free.
@MrRhino10 Жыл бұрын
Well done. Awesome work. Picked a sub up
@alanFconrad10 ай бұрын
Awesome cars
@chipcook53467 ай бұрын
All the Auburn marks were beautiful, beautiful.
@DonnyTrent5533 Жыл бұрын
If only Duesenburg had survived the Depression, it's a hell of a trip to imagine what they would've been making in the 50s and 60s
@pyridonfaltis976111 ай бұрын
It's not quite up just to imagination, there were multiple attempts to revive Duesenberg after war, some came quite close to become true. Ed's auto reviews has a video on the issue: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5rJhIaXa7Z0a5o
@Pinakij10 ай бұрын
This video was a real doozy! Thanks your insight was very much on the bull’s-eye I think
@billolsen436011 ай бұрын
In the 1920's and 30's, Duesenberg made the most powerful engine with their Straight 8, 265 minimum horsepower, but Packard made the smoothest with their V12 which were also almost indestructible and were used in American Tanks and PT Boats. Americans didn't begrudge movie stars and producers from driving Model J Duesenbergs, tho.
@NealZ317 ай бұрын
Dang we went backwards yall. Driving is now a chore; back then it was a luxury.
@e.a.p3174 Жыл бұрын
The Duesenberg SJ was the greatest car ever built. In 1927 it had 4 valves per cylinder, double overhead cam and super charged. I think it produced 300 hp and topped out at a 130mph . There was nothing in the world which came even close in engineering and performance. It wasn’t until the 50’s that Chrysler’s hemis could make that kind of horse power. Remember there was a world war in between where engine development advanced rapidly. 4 valves per cylinder in mainstream engines took until the 1990s or later to become common
@TheRealDrJoey Жыл бұрын
And supercharging is still rarely available. The engineering on these things was uncompromising. I am sure I cannot even BEGIN to appreciate what went into the creation and manufacture of these machines.
@dukecraig2402 Жыл бұрын
The 1950's Chrysler Hemi's weren't all that powerful, they didn't even make ½ HP per ci, it was the late 60's "Elephant" Hemi engine's that Chrysler made that were powerful and were a completely different engine with no parts interchangeability with the 50's Hemi's.
@shelbygtsoo Жыл бұрын
I had a 1/18 model j Dusenberg which i spent long time admiring her beauty and dreaming of the day I will buy one but as I get closer to the end and with no hope of ever owning one I just keep dreaming
@bartscarstories Жыл бұрын
Was that a Pocher model?
@shelbygtsoo11 ай бұрын
@@bartscarstories I cannot remember brother but I remember it was in maroon colour with black roof and interior. It was very detailed and amazingly beautiful
@jantr957 ай бұрын
The Duesenberg shown driving at 8:55 and a few times in between is actually one of 2 SSJ models that had 400 horsepower. And the famous Mormon Meteor race car should have been mentioned as it broke and held quie a few speed records in its time.
@doodles8635 ай бұрын
The Duesi is absolutely stunning, better than anything produced these days
@moriver385711 ай бұрын
Agree. Well done.
@Djm85209 ай бұрын
Cord, Auburn, Duesenberg: what an automobile trifecta!
@MaxBeline-vc4fg11 ай бұрын
It's not a car, it's an automobile..
@TheSilverShadow1710 ай бұрын
Same difference
@erepsekahs11 ай бұрын
Ridiculously beautiful.
@williamjones716311 ай бұрын
I had a teacher in high school that as a child of about 10-12 years old he had the experience of meeting a gangster that had a Duesenberg in the outskirts of Chicago. He specifically remembered the car because of its size and the guy made sure they knew it was a Duesy.
@speedwagon756211 ай бұрын
…I wonder if any prohibition gangsters/ mobsters ever owned a Duzy…
@mry82 Жыл бұрын
Never knew the etymology of "duese" (sp?). Very cool!
@armorhand33328 ай бұрын
I've loved Duesenbergs since I learned about them as a kid....no, there will never be anything like them again....
@williamsullivan479 Жыл бұрын
I agree. I've been to the museum.
@wellshutchins688511 ай бұрын
How could you fail to mention the famous stream lined record holding Mormon Meteor! I saw it at Pebble Beach a few years ago. What a beautiful beast.
@BadEconomyOfficial3 ай бұрын
“Only ONE man in town I know of that owns a Duesenburg!” ~ Carter Pewderschmit- Family Guy.
@alpenroseable10 ай бұрын
i totally agree and for German ears it is a fantastic name, for me it is the best car of all times, mary pickford in her duesenberg, i love it.
@pgabrieli Жыл бұрын
hydraulic disc brakes?!? you're kidding, right? 😂
@Infernal_Elf9 ай бұрын
no he aint en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_brake But they where generally quite unreliable for a while on most cars
@pgabrieli9 ай бұрын
@@Infernal_Elf holy crap! I really didn't know. thanks!
@DrTheRich Жыл бұрын
Tesla's are not luxurious, not even close... Minimalism =/= luxury... If you compare a tesla to a Mercedes s class in terms of luxury, the difference is night and day. i think in terms of modern electric cars, the Lucid Air might be the closest to a Duesenberg. Very fast, very luxurious 4 door sedan made in limited quantities, clearly advertised to the rich.
@ColeHalford10 ай бұрын
I know of 2 Disney cartoons that had cars that looked similar to this. Ducktales & 101 Dalmatians
@lewisbrodnax7898 Жыл бұрын
Nobody can produce such fine craftsmanship today. It was never truly a commodity of mass production, but an extension of Master Craftsmen. Which is why t coachworks were ordered separately. You can't get that in today's market. Such Master Craftsmen aren't alive today.
@robertscheinost179 Жыл бұрын
There are still a few around.......If you can afford them!
@dukecraig2402 Жыл бұрын
Yes they are, craftsmen like that still exist and still hand make just about anything you could possibly want and do just that for rich people every day, they still hand make fine silverware and jewelry for example. Every day in the automotive repair and restoration business people hand make parts repairing and restoring cars especially one's like this where their millionaire owners want them restored exactly how they were made in the first place. Aircraft restoration is another place where such craftsmen work every day, when they pull a P47 Thunderbolt out of a lake that it's been sitting at the bottom of since WW2 they don't really "restore" it the way people think, what they actually do is hand reproduce every single part either using factory blueprints or the old part as a pattern for a new one, or sometimes a combination of the two, aircraft like that that've been sitting at the bottom of a lake for decades only the registration plate will be the only original part used, every other part will be reproduced by hand. There's nothing people could do 100 years ago that people can't do nowadays, the mystique that surrounds that idea is just a myth.
@oldsjunkie1 Жыл бұрын
You should go on a little journey and discover how many true craftsmen there are out there. The best part is, a lot of us don't care about the currency much. The passion is where these creations come from.
@mikescott562411 ай бұрын
Inheriting real estate or being a trust funder doesn't make you an authority on automobiles.
@dillonjames-so5cz Жыл бұрын
Wish someone would bring back this company couldn't believe what it would be like today
@abdulabdanahib96179 ай бұрын
Several unsuccessful attempts were made to revive the Duesenberg
@bethbartlett569210 ай бұрын
⚜️ Dusenberg and Studebaker, (Bugatti, Cord, and Auburn) are the flavors I desire. The greatest decade of "body" design emerged out of the late 20's through the 1930's.
@Dejan-gz6vz Жыл бұрын
I saw 2 in Louwman Museum in Den Haag and that 2 car was by far most beautiful in this very beautiful museum. Look nicer than RR, Bugatti, Hispano-Suiza, Issota Fraschini...
@daveallen8824 Жыл бұрын
it would be 40 years before another manufacturer would have 4 valves per cylinder and double overhead cams...a true tour de force.
@mikescott562411 ай бұрын
No, no, no. Stutz DV-32 among others.
@turbomustang84Ай бұрын
Packard had a V12 and was a marvel in its day
@Wolfgang-the-Gray11 ай бұрын
I learned of the Duesenberg back in high school in 1980. You are correct the finest automobile in the world!
@eddylauterback131211 ай бұрын
Shirley Booth would say "it's a doozy " on the Hazel show. Doozy meaning the best
@Blaqjaqshellaq11 ай бұрын
Is that Gary Cooper at 10:10 ?
@waggitnshaggit659211 ай бұрын
Yep that’s Coop
@greasercody01 Жыл бұрын
I had a model j boat tail that sold for $142k so yeah, it's safe to say his estimates are correct..
@DrTheRich Жыл бұрын
don't they sell for 400k+ nowadays? maybe should have held on to it...
@greasercody0110 ай бұрын
@@DrTheRich it was in kinda terrible condition.. By the time I had gotten it the previous owner had jus let it go a little far... At that point I was just happy to get what I did..
@richardmorton4259 Жыл бұрын
Dusenbergs were more powerful, fancier, and basically completely customized. But Packard built the best quality cars.
@wernerdanler2742 Жыл бұрын
That's hilarious. A tesla is nowhere near a Duesenberg. It's more like a Fiat.
@vincedibona4687 Жыл бұрын
Make America Classy Again!
@ExcitedDragon-fp8yp11 ай бұрын
The engine was light years ahead of it's time, costly, for sure, but people shell out millions for cars today, ridiculous
@briankleinschmidt366411 ай бұрын
7:39 That is a pretty car.
@michelvondenhoff9673 Жыл бұрын
Duesenberg and Cord budget Duesy maybe?
@seanhoward8025 Жыл бұрын
The Cord 810/812 was originally designed as the "baby Duesenberg"
@jamestregler1584 Жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas ⛄ and GOD bless German engineering ; from old New Orleans 😇
@eugeneclasby51810 ай бұрын
It was American not German.
@IndroneelMukerjiАй бұрын
The Marmon 16!
@szilardretkes2703 Жыл бұрын
Craftsmanship....
@mikescott562411 ай бұрын
Craftsmanship and high top speed were the Duesenberg Model J's only two draws.
@roycehuffman39911 ай бұрын
10:05 Duesenberg is spelled incorrectly.
@pallen106511 ай бұрын
Chariot of the terrestrial gods ..
@Niterider73 Жыл бұрын
They work great cars anyway you look at it! Quality, speed, if I had to take a guess on what would be a close second as far as quality goes I would say packered around this time, a close third would be l Cadillac and fourth would be Lincoln. It's like the old saying goes, they don't build them like they used to.
@stevelawrie911510 ай бұрын
I don't know if I'd like to drive a car that doubled as a whoopy cushion.
@edgarribeirodossantos9019 Жыл бұрын
Agreed! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
@jaimeduncan616711 ай бұрын
You should not ignore Tesla either, even if it goes broke, and EVs fail this time and become mainstream in 20 years instead of 10 you will be pressed to find more than a handful of car companies as impactful as Tesla. I agree, it's unlikely that any company is going to build a car that is far ahead of the other brands, true luxury, and a work of art at the same time. We will need a true breakout in technology, like a company, say Chinese, having a monopoly on advanced solid-state batteries.
@skendler Жыл бұрын
While it was an amazing vehicle and incredibly advanced for its time it was more than 20 years till an automobile had Disc brakes. While I like the content, that sort of mistake kinda makes me wonder who or what is the creator and narrator of this channel.
@deborahchesser7375 Жыл бұрын
DOHC and superchargerd, oh in 1927 too. Packard was right there with Dusenberg.
@mikescott562411 ай бұрын
Packard was more refined.
@alessandrovitii4 ай бұрын
Lucid ig gets close to what that duesenburg was in its time. Hyper car fast and practical without being millions
@mndlessdrwer Жыл бұрын
It's always unfortunate when the engineering genius behind something truly special dies way too early and the entire thing just kind of falls apart as a result. I'm surprised that none of the other American automakers bought up the patents and manufacturing equipment, etc. when the company went under. If the engine is that impressive, then it really should have been something people fought over to scavenge from the corpse of the company.
@mikescott562411 ай бұрын
What "patents?" Other than extreme craftsmanship, there was nothing remarkable about a Model J's chassis. Learn about Bentley's Speed Six, Delage, Pierce-Arrow. Ettore Bugatti drove a Packard Eight on European business trips.
@mndlessdrwer11 ай бұрын
@@mikescott5624I didn't mention a single thing about the chassis, only the engine. The engine is the main attraction for this vehicle, after all.
@donaldahern99309 ай бұрын
The classic cars of the late 1920s to the 1930s make today's cars pale in comparison.inspite of the tec advances.
@danwaltz752710 ай бұрын
Is this where the term " that a duese "
@Scott_J_Tepper11 ай бұрын
Best American car ever? I'd give that crown to the Springfield Rolls-Royce, circa 1926. While other cars (American and foreign) broke down a lot, the overbuilt and understressed 40/50 just kept on running.
@rogermouton2273 Жыл бұрын
Well, I tend to think that, in spirit, the closes current car to a Duesenberg is the Bugatti Chiron.
@bapi664311 ай бұрын
They were real Duesy’s
@michaellawrence5492 Жыл бұрын
Have to agree they were able to bring everything together to create the greatest car in a moment of time but also the people who could and did afford them existed that don't today flying is their thing along with yachts and cars are forced to share the same roads with many more them costing so much less but could still could total them and it's passengers. Notice the most wealthy today when on the road ride in basically tanks on wheels painted black, ha!.