✨ How a German Prince created a Vauxhall legend
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By accident, a German prince created the first sports cars. Here’s how…
We’ve heralded the 1911 Vauxhall Prince Henry as one of the most influential cars of the 20th century, being perhaps the first proper production sports car. But what was the inspiration
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The prince working on his Vauxhall
By accident, a German prince created the first sports cars. Here’s how…
We’ve heralded the 1911 Vauxhall Prince Henry as one of the most influential cars of the 20th century, being perhaps the first proper production sports car. But what was the inspiration behind it? And who was Prince Henry?
His name was actually Heinrich, and he was Prince of Prussia (the dominant state within the German Empire), brother to Kaiser Wilhelm, grandson to Queen Victoria. A very keen motorist, for four summers he arranged the Prinz-Heinrich-Fahrt, translating as ‘tour’ but more like a road rally and reliability trial. And it was in an effort to win his trophy that the hot Vauxhall was created.
The first tour of 1908 ran from Berlin to Stettin (now Szczecin) on the Baltic coast, west to Hamburg, down to Trier on the Luxembourg border and finally east to Frankfurt – a total of some 1370 miles. Special prizes would be given for speed, reliability, hillclimbing and