Marvel (automobile)
Marvel Motor Car Company | |
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Overview | |
Manufacturer | Marvel Motor Car Company |
Production | 1907 |
Body and chassis | |
Body style | runabout |
Powertrain | |
Engine | horizontal two-cylinder gasoline |
Transmission | planetary |
Chronology | |
Successor | Crescent Runabout |
The Marvel was an automobile built at 284–290 Rivard Street, Detroit, Michigan, United States, by the Marvel Motor Car Company in 1907.
Marvel Motor Car Company purchased the Paragon factory and began building their own runabout. The Marvel was a two-seat runabout with a horizontal two-cylinder 14-hp engine, a planetary transmission and single chain drive. Price was set at $800, (equivalent to $25,126 in 2022).
The company lost its factory space and ended production. The car became the Crescent in 1908.
- Motor vehicle manufacturers based in Michigan
- Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of the United States
- Cars introduced in 1907
- Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1907
- Vehicle manufacturing companies disestablished in 1907
- 1907 establishments in Michigan
- 1907 disestablishments in Michigan
- Defunct manufacturing companies based in Detroit
- Brass Era vehicles
- 1900s cars