Packard models

Packard was an American maker of luxury cars founded in 1899 in Warren, Ohio, by James Ward Packard, William Doud Packard and George Lewis Weiss. Operations soon moved to Detroit, to a large plant on East Grand Boulevard. With Pierce-Arrow and Peerless, Packard was one of the "Three Ps" of American luxury cars.

The Twin Six of 1916 was one of the first production cars with a twelve-cylinder engine, and the V12 line continued as the Packard Twelve. Its advertising slogan, "Ask the Man Who Owns One", is credited to James Macauley. During the Second World War Packard built 55,523 Merlin V12 aero engines under contract with Rolls-Royce, which powered the P-51 Mustang fighter. In 1954 Packard merged with Studebaker to form Studebaker-Packard. The last Packard was built in 1958, the brand was phased out in 1959, and the Packard name was dropped from the company name in 1962. See also Studebaker and Pierce-Arrow.