South Bend: Elkhart: Two dozen makes of The Studebaker cars were manufactured here, La Porte: Company including the popular Elcar. Munson Company produced Mapping the built the first 750,000 cars gasoline-electric from 1901-1963, hybrid cars in america first producing in 1898. electric vehicles. crossroads: Auburn: The Auburn Automobile Company produced cars from 1900 through 1936, including the Indiana first car with front-wheel drive and hidden headlamps; home of the Auburn Cord Automobile Duesenberg Automobile Museum today. History Fort Wayne: The first gasoline pump that could accurately dispense gas was invented by Sylvanus Bowser in 1885, later adding a hose for automobiles. Logansport: The ReVere Motor Car Corporation produced custom handmade automobiles that included the first modern hubcaps. Kokomo: Elwood Haynes built the first Lafayette: successful spark- Subaru of Indiana ignition automobile in Automotive began 1893. Chrysler opened a manufacturing cars factory here in 1956. here in 1989. Muncie: Union City: Home of the Inter-State Automobile Made the Union Company in 1909; Warner Gear (1901) and automobile and later Borg-Warner (1928) manufactured the Le Grande transmissions through 2009. custom bodies. New Castle: Maxwell-Briscoe built the world’s largest automobile factory in 1907, later a Chrysler Plant. Richmond: In 1919 Westcott Motor Car Company introduced bumpers as Indianapolis: standard equipment. Dozens of makes of cars were manufactured here from 1900 Connersville: through the 1930’s. The Cole Eight makes of cars Motor Car Company produced were manufactured the first automobile for a U.S. here, including the President, William Taft in 1910. luxury McFarlan. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Terre Haute: was built in 1909 as a test site Home of Tony for the new automobile industry. Greensburg: Honda Hulman (1901), who Motor Company Indiana has more interstate highways than revolutionized the began producing any state comparable in size, sometimes use of billboards Columbus: cars here in 2008. called “the Crossroads of America.” for advertising to Short-Lived Reeves In its history, more than fifty communities in drivers. Hulman Indiana produced over 200 makes of cars. automobiles were bought the produced here from Indianapolis Motor 1908-1912. Cummins Speedway, improving Engine Company was and restoring the founded in 1919. race in 1946. Princeton: Toyota Motor Manufacturing was built here in 1996 to produce trucks, vans, and utility vehicles. Evansville: Graham Brothers built a truck factory here in 1919, later merging with Dodge and then Chrysler. Map created by the Ball State University Libraries’ GIS Research and Map Collection for the purpose of educational research and learning. Sources: Ball State University Libraries’ Digital Media Repository; Indiana: A History by William E. Wilson; Indiana Historical Society Digital Collections; Cruise-In.com. .