The
De Luxe was an
American automobile manufactured in 1907 by the De Luxe Motor Car Company of
Detroit, Michigan Country Life in America, February 1907, p. 456)]. The De Luxe was a high-priced vehicle for its day, retailing for around $5000. De Luxe took over the factory belonging to the Kirk Manufacturing Company, maker of the
Yale automobile in
Toledo, Ohio in 1906. Soon after De Luxe moved to a brand new facility on a site on Clark Street at Jefferson Avenue in Detroit. After producing fewer than 100 cars in 1908, the company was acquired by the
E-M-F Company in 1909. The factory was used by E-M-F to build the Flanders 20. E-M-F was acquired by
Studebaker in 1910, who continued to produce automobiles in Detroit until its operations were moved to
South Bend, Indiana in the 1920s.