The car was powered by a single-cylinder 3 1/2 hp engine, the wheelbase was 54-inches, the tread 36-inches and it had a two-speed transmission which had no reverse.

This motor buggy was offered on a limited basis, occasionally under the name of Kalamazoo, but more often as the Michigan.

[1][2] Serious production of an automobile did not begin until 1911 with the formation of the Michigan Motor Car Company.

Newspapers headlined “one of the worst business deals in Michigan financial history".

Four officials of the Michigan firm were said to have earned an extra $100,000 each from what the press called the “velvet payroll".

[1][2] There was an attempt by Edward F. Gerber, the Michigan distributor in Pittsburgh, to continue manufacture, but this plan fell through.