Wolverine (make of car)

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Wolverine
owner Reo Motor Car Company
Introductory year 1927
Products Automobiles
Markets United States

Wolverine was an American automobile brand.

Brand history

Wolverine Six (1928)

The Reo Motor Car Company of Lansing , Michigan introduced the brand in 1927. It was designed for automobiles that were cheaper than Reo's normal vehicles. The brand was given up again in December 1928.

Wolverine Auto & Commercial Vehicle Company and Wolverine Motors previously used the same brand name.

vehicles

Only one model was on offer. The Six had a six-cylinder engine from the Continental Motors Company . It had a displacement of about 3261 cc and made 50 hp . The chassis had a wheelbase of 290 cm .

Initially there was only the Brougham body design . The original price was 1195 US dollars . In July 1928, a convertible for the same price and a sedan for $ 1,295 were added to the range. A coupe was planned, but no longer appeared.

literature

Commons : Wolverine  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Beverly Rae Kimes, Henry Austin Clark Jr .: Standard catalog of American Cars. 1805-1942. Digital edition . 3. Edition. Krause Publications, Iola 2013, ISBN 978-1-4402-3778-2 , pp. 1564 (English).
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1763 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. Beverly Rae Kimes, Henry Austin Clark Jr .: Standard catalog of American Cars. 1805-1942. Digital edition . 3. Edition. Krause Publications, Iola 2013, ISBN 978-1-4402-3778-2 , pp. 1564 (English).
  2. George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1763 (English).