Round 9: Tossup 14

Joseph Goebbels suppressed records of a type of this device developed by Jewish inventor Siegfried Marcus. Claims that he had allowed a Nazi takeover of these devices’ Opel factory were denied by Alfred P. Sloan’s memoir. Wilhelm Maybach’s company DMG produced these products, a “people’s” version (15[1])of which was created by the (*) “Strength Through Joy” program. A shoddy, East German, one of these products with a 10-year wait time was called the Trabant. The Anti-Semetic Dearborn Independent was run by a creator of these vehicles (10[1])who claimed his came in “any color, so long as it’s black.” For 10 points, name these vehicles produced by Henry Ford. ■END■

ANSWER: automobiles [or cars; reject “motorcycles”]
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Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardConv. %Power %Neg %Avg. Buzz
VAULT II at Georgia Tech2026-01-246100%33%50%76.67
VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS2026-03-133100%33%33%70.00
VAULT II at McGill2026-03-134100%25%25%61.50
VAULT II at UCSB2026-03-135100%40%0%58.40
VAULT II Northern UK2026-04-243100%100%0%47.33
VAULT II Southern UK2026-04-244100%75%25%58.00
VAULT II at Harvard2026-04-302100%50%0%64.50
VAULT II at MINT2026-06-195100%0%0%80.40
VAULT II Stanford Online2026-07-178100%50%25%61.50