# Motor Baron — Build an American car empire > Build an American car empire (iPhone/iPad app by Spencer Deville.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/motor-baron/id6816696655 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Spencer Deville](https://appshunter.io/developer/6816696657) - Category: Games, Entertainment, Simulation, Strategy - Price: $4.99 - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 15.0 · 2 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-10-07 - Data updated: 2026-10-08 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/motor-baron/id6816696655/reviews.md ## What is Motor Baron? It is January 1900. The automobile is a rich man's toy, the roads are mud, and you have $25,000 and an idea. Seventy years later, will your name be on half the cars in America? Motor Baron is a car company tycoon game that runs from 1900 to 1970, one month at a time. You make every decision: what to build, where to build it, what to charge, and when to bet the company on something new. DESIGN EVERY CAR Pick the market segment, chassis, suspension, engine, gearbox, body, interior and build quality. See how working, middle-class and wealthy buyers will rate it before you spend a dollar. As the decades pass, new engines, closed steel bodies and electric starters open up, and buyers move from runabouts and touring cars to sedans, compacts and more. BUILD THE FACTORIES Start with craftsmen at benches. Move up to machine shops, interchangeable parts, the moving assembly line and powered conveyors. Add lines, keep crews on the same model so they get faster, and decide where to build: near the buyers or where wages are low. SELL COAST TO COAST Sign dealers across 12 regions of America, from New England to California. Set their margins, keep them happy, and ship cars where the demand is. BEAT 26 RIVAL CARMAKERS Rival companies launch new models, cut prices and chase the same buyers. Watch the market, find the gaps, and win the segments that matter. RACE FOR GLORY Enter hill climbs, reliability trials, road races, beach speed trials and endurance tours. A win in the newspapers sells cars. A breakdown in front of the crowd does the opposite. LIVE THROUGH HISTORY Panics, the Great War, the Roaring Twenties, the Crash, the Depression, wartime army contracts and the postwar boom all reshape your market. RUN THE BUSINESS Borrow from the bank, pay your taxes, hire bookkeepers, sales staff and market researchers, and fund research into engines, lighter construction, reliability and comfort. GO PUBLIC List your company on the exchange, pay dividends, split your stock, buy shares in your rivals and take them over. LIVE LIKE A BARON Spend your personal fortune on a forty-room mansion, a steam yacht, a private railroad car or an island. Or give it away and put your name on libraries, hospitals and a university. ALSO 54 Game Center achievements No ads and no in-app purchases Plays offline Your game saves automatically after every month Started in Motor Baron: 1900? Import your save and carry on past 1915. ## Version history (last 4 releases) ### 1.0.3 — 2026-10-08 A fairer start and a cleaner screen. Early game is easier to get off the ground. New companies now start with a bit more reputation, and having only a few dealers no longer ruins your sales in a region. New hires now start work, and their effects begin, only after their first wage is paid at the end of the month. Crew turnover only shows up when it's high and you can do something about it. Cleaner screens: the dotted underlines are gone and the factory page has less text. ### 1.0.2 — 2026-10-08 Achievements and leaderboards are now live in Game Center, shared between Motor Baron and Motor Baron: 1900. Also added a one-time prompt asking you to rate the game. ### 1.0.1 — 2026-10-07 Version 1.0.1 is a big update. NEW - Game Center: 54 achievements with their own illustrated medals, and era leaderboards at 1915, 1929, 1945 and 1970 - Difficulty setting: Relaxed, Standard or Cutthroat - Rivals now fight back with price cuts and early launches once you gain market share - Labor: crew turnover, strikes, the Five-Dollar Day, the union, contract talks and pensions - Personal fortune upkeep, selling your belongings, and sports teams - Pop-up cards with a drawing for every new part and market - Tap Cash, Profit or Reputation for a detailed breakdown - Saved games: keep up to 10 named copies, plus automatic yearly copies - Haptic feedback and a new launch screen IMPROVED - Redesigned factory and shipping screens that fit the phone with no sideways scrolling - Number boxes now open the number pad and select the whole number - Rebalanced factory output and production-method upgrades - Region cards on phones, factory list, sortable Market tab - Clearer monthly briefing, including warnings FIXED - Production targets no longer shrink when you reopen the game - Screens no longer jump back to the top after racing, adding lines or opening an office - Many smaller fixes ### 1.0 — 2026-10-07 No release notes. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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