Tintin's Cars

See also my links : Tintin and : cars.

All pictures are obviously © Hergé, but this page was prepared by François de Dardel. You can imagine I needed hundreds of hours to research and identify all the cars. I was content only when I had found the perfect match in form of a photograph of the real car.

I started these pages in March 2003. The following year, in 2004, the Éditions Moulinsart published a book on the same subject: "Tintin, Hergé, les autos", with additional information on some of the cars, adorned with a few typos and a commercial promotion for the miniature cars distributed by Atlas.

Many viewers of these pages have helped me correct mistakes and identify some of the cars. My sincere thanks to all. Alphabetically: Mark Ashbridge, Iñaki Azpiazu, Eric Banzinger, Alfonso Barrola, Joris Bergsma, Frans van Bree, Michel Casaubon, Jean-Luc Coudray, Thierry Dubois, Jean-Marc Durieux, Thierry Federspiel, Daniel González, Claude Goritte, Marcus Hoogveld, Nick Knoll, Timo Laitinen, Pascal Monnin, Franck Noyalet, Yann Saunders, Guillaume Villemagne and Livio Zanone.

You probably know that the 2006 Brussels Car Show was held on January 12 to 22 under the motto of Tintin's cars. A sign that the bout of fever that struck me in 2003 is contagious.
You can see a few pictures on their site, which has the bad manners of refusing your access unless you load the last version of Flash... I am grateful to Pascal "Quattro" for the ticket.

Updated on 6 February 2010