The look of the Michelin Man was inspired in 1894, when a pile of tires at the Lyon Universal Exhibition caught company ...

Born in 1898, Bibendum (the Michelin Man) has communicated ... and numerous representatives on hand to sign up distributors. Just what France's automotive industry could have become, and how ...

One early ad, in which Bibendum was still made ... the Michelin Man's portly figure was suggested by a stack of Michelin bicycle tires greeting visitors at a 1894 exposition in Lyons, France.

Edouard noticed a stack of tires at an auto industry show in Lyon, France in 1894 and remarked to André that it looked like a man without ... The two Michelin men, made of tires, look like ...

Remember when we said the first Michelin Man figure came to be in 1898? Well, that’s only a couple of years after the invention of the first car in around 1895. Even vehicles made as recently as ...