What's Cool Top Rated Search Find automotive web sites across Canada. Motoring Memories by Bill Vance Jowett Jupiter One of the rarest sports cars to reach North America was the British Jowett Jupiter.
Some cars are so exotic, so massive, so outstandingly impressive, they stand above all others.
One of these is the big Hispano-Suiza that had Spanish origins but was built in France. Edward G. Budd Early cars used rudimentary wooden bodies fitted to metal running gear. But Edward G. Budd saw the potential for sheet steel in the burgeoning automobile industry and pioneered the all-steel body. BMW Isetta Bubble cars came onto the European auto scene in the 1950s in response to high gasoline prices, and the need for low cost weather-proof, personal transportation. The BMW Isetta was one of the best known and most successful.