Setting a Hundred-Year Standard

摘要

Remembering Panhard and Levassor, the company that invented the first manual transmission. 20th century French automobile company Panhard and Levassor were always unconventional. Sometimes, their deviations from the norm didn't quite pan out. For example, one car, the Panhard and Levassor Dynamic, featured the driver seat in the middle of the car, with passengers on either side, for a few years before the design was scrapped as awkward and impractical.