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Louise and Panhard were soon more than business partners: they married on May 17, 1890. Panhard et Levassor began commercial production, which it supported with clever marketing, including a catalog of 24 CAR CRAZY its vehicles published in January 1892 and a leaflet with customer testimonials published that October. Benz also discovered opportunity in France when, in early 1888, French engineer Émile Roger visited him at his Mannheim factory. Roger bought a Patent-Motorwagen and secured the rights to sell it outside Germany— in France, under the name Roger-Benz, which, he had decided, would not turn off potential customers who might be offended by a purely German name.
French roads were suited for speed, and the Parisian daily newspaper Le Petit Journal took advantage on July 19, 1894, when it sponsored the world’s first automobile competition, a race from Paris to Rouen. More than one hundred vehicles were entered, but only twenty-one started. A steam-powered French De Dion-Bouton placed first, covering the nearly eighty miles in six hours and forty-eight minutes, an average speed of about 12 miles per hour. Two Panhards and two Peugeots rounded out the top five.
Smith’s worry that Olds was minimizing customer complaints about the Curved Dash further worsened the bad feelings between the men. Dealers were reporting defects, but Olds was slow to correct them. “The repair items are a fright and the black eye our runabout will get from breakage complaints will grow worse the deeper we get in,” Smith had told Olds in 1902. ” 46 CAR CRAZY Ransom Olds believed his car had proved itself worthy—in competitions and the daily experiences of thousands of owners.
