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Today we pick up our Stutz series once more, at the dawn of 1929. Stutz wasn't in the best way at the time: Its vehicles (though very luxurious) were selling slowly, and were largely seen as behind the times with luxury competition. Management had taken the company's advertising in a new direction in the second half of the Twenties, and was largely ignoring the company's racing pedigree - the thing that put Stutz on the map.

We pick up our Stutz coverage again today, in the mid-late Twenties. The company saw its financial situation worsen around the middle of the decade, just as it launched the new Vertical Eight series of cars. More expensive than ever before and more powerful, the new Stutz luxury motorcars weren't without fault. Though superbly built, they had engineering issues with their hydraulic four-wheel braking system that the company couldn't seem to sort out.The brake issues damaged the company...

An ultra-luxurious ride assembled in the U.S. by a company attempting to revive itself, the outrageous 1971 Stutz Blackhawk made a Rolls-Royce or a Bentl...

Stutz Motor Cars was subject to multiple successive changes in both fortune and direction early in its existence. Founded in 1911 based on racing success at the inaugural Indianapolis 500, by the middle of the decade Stutz had its IPO on the New York Stock Exchange. While the company's sales increased, by the end of the decade it was without its founder and embroiled in a stock cornering scandal. Though it was delisted from the NYSE circa 1921, Stutz kept on selling the luxury cars for whic...

We pick up the Stutz story once again today, at a turning point in the brand's history. Though its foundation as Ideal Motor Car Company was only a few years prior in 1911, by 1919 big changes were afoot at the company. Disenchanted that he'd lost control of his company when he sought outside investment capital, Harry C. Stutz departed his own firm in July of that year. He took with him the other remaining founder, Henry Campbell. Control of Stutz Motor Cars fell to its primary investo...