First, estate taxes are due only on the portion of an estate's value that exceeds the exemption level; at the 2015 exemption level of $5.43 million, a $6 million estate would owe estate taxes on $570,000 at most.. Today, 99.8 percent of estates owe no estate tax at all, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation. [3] Only the estates of the wealthiest 0.2 percent of Americans -- roughly 2 out of every 1,000 people who die -- owe any estate tax.
However, Studebaker's financial problems were worse than the Packard executives thought. The Packard marque was phased out, and the company returned to the Studebaker Corporation name in 1962. The South Bend plant ceased production on December 20, 1963, and the last Studebaker automobile rolled off the Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, assembly line on March 16, 1966.
The Sunbeam Tiger, the car driven by agent Maxwell Smart (TV and latest movie), came out of the Rootes Group, which was later purchased by Chrysler Corporation. Sunbeam was created in 1887, producing bicycles held by some as the best money could buy. In 1899 the Sunbeam car company was created; the airship R34, which made an Atlantic crossing in 1919, was powered by five Sunbeam Maori DOHC V12 engines. It was the first aerial crossing from the UK to the USA and back, done in 183 hours.