Tintin's Cars

It should be noted that after World War II, the settings and accessories, including cars of Tintin albums were drawn by the "Studios Hergé", which included several other artists such as Jacques Martin, Bob de Moor and Michel Demarets.

See also my links : Tintin and  cars.

All pictures are obviously © Hergé, but this page was prepared by François de Dardel, who keeps the copyright of this study. 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.

This is not a commercial site: I have nothing to sell. It is only a study I made for my own enjoyment — and hopefully for the pleasure of some of my readers.

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, Luc Balleyguier, Alfonso Barrola, Joris Bergsma, Alain Bingen, 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, Jean-Noël Lamothe, Guillaume Lavie, André Martin, Ingo Menker, Thierry Milan, 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. I am grateful to Pascal "Quattro" for the ticket.

In november, 2011, The New York Times published an article about Tintin and his cars, referring to the present page.

Hergé, born Georges Remi on 22 May 1907 in Etterbeek (Belgium), died on 3 March 1983 in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert.

Updated on 22 December 2021