Terraplane was a car and truck brand built by the Hudson Motor Car Company of Detroit between 1932 and 1938, launched in July 1932 as the Essex-Terraplane with Amelia Earhart helping to introduce it and shortened to Terraplane in 1934. Roy Chapin conceived it as a very light, low-priced car with an aviation-flavoured name to replace the sagging Essex during the Depression. The cars were small but powerful, with a steel frame and Duo-Automatic brakes that paired hydraulic and mechanical systems, and for 1933 buyers could choose an optional straight-eight. Terraplane sales outpaced Hudson in the mid 1930s, which Hudson management reportedly disliked, and the make was dropped after 1938.
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built by the Hudson Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan, between 1932 and 1938.
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The Terraplane was a car brand and model built by the Hudson Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan, between 1932 and 1938.
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Sales of the Terraplane outpaced Hudson vehicles in the late mid-1930s and it is said that Hudson management was not fond of that fact and that was partly why they chose to eliminate the car as a make.
Lead, headquarters
built by the Hudson Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan, between 1932 and 1938.
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The Terraplane was a car brand and model built by the Hudson Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan, between 1932 and 1938.
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The Terraplane was a car brand and model built by the Hudson Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan, between 1932 and 1938.
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built by the Hudson Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan, between 1932 and 1938.
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