"The Silver Ghost was the first systematically engineered car with very, very high-quality standards, and the first upper-class automobile embraced as a dignified way to travel," said Tony Lewin, who covers the company for Automotive News Europe.
Their father (a cultured tea merchant with a soft spot for Doris Day movies) was a zealous guardian of their virtue -- necessary insurance for marriage to a man of their caste and class -- outfitting the family automobile with window shades, a driver and a guard.
Motoring Festival & Concours d'Elegance - World-class automobiles take center stage each November at the annual Hilton Head Island Motoring Festival & Concours d'Elegance at the Port Royal Golf Club.
The Horse Show had pace, variety, class; the Automobile Show is as impressive as jardiniere in a hotel lobby.
For years, the onetime leader of a steelworkers' union had been portrayed as a success story from the industrial working class, an automobile factory worker who was elected president on his fourth try.
China's aging oil fields have been unable to meet its fast-growing energy needs, feed its manufacturing sector and satisfy a rising class of automobile drivers in Chinese cities.
He distinctly remembers thinking, as her house flashed by his window and he stomped the brake pedal to the floor, that he needed to buy a better class of automobile.
Detroit's working class built automobiles, the weapons that defeated fascist Axis armies, and created relatively broad-based affluence.
A 1924 law established regional park commissions to accommodate the emerging class of urban automobile owner.
