AVANTI MOTOR CORPORATION

Avanti Motors will reawaken the Avanti III as an all-electric, hand-built luxury car... The Studebaker Corporation from whose roots the Avanti sprang was a family owned business established in 1852 in South Bend Indiana to build wagons and carriages. It produced the majority of all wagons used by the Federal Government during the Civil War and produced these vehicles through 1920. In 1902 Studebaker introduced its first automobile an electric car followed by a gas powered vehicle in 1905. At one point in it's history it was the largest manufacturer of wheeled vehicles in the world. It was also one of the very few wagon makers to successfully make the transition from horse drawn vehicles to horseless carriages as early automobiles were known.

Also known as: Avanti Motors