Brutus at Sinsheim: 47 litres of aero engine and no front brakes
Brutus exists only because somebody was twenty-two litres out. A 1907 fire engine chassis, a BMW VI aero engine and seven different published capacities.
Maybach until 1941: the car maker that never lived on cars
Maybach was never a car manufacturer. Between 1,700 and 2,400 cars in twenty years, and by 1932 cars were a tenth of turnover. The real subject is the gearboxes.