Gorky automobile plant in the postwar period in addition to building trucks. middle class car “Victory”, and then “Volga” was produced and Executive cars, the first of which was the six-GAZ-12 ZIM (full name of the factory in the time — Gorkovskii automobile plant named after Molotov) release 1950. Car the item is constantly improving, to replace the Winter came “the Seagull” — first GAS-13, and then the GAZ-14. The last modification can be considered as the best Executive car Gas. The car GAZ-14 “Chaika” release of 1977 was designed according to the scheme “sedan”, that is, without internal partitions in the interior, which in limousines separates the passenger compartment from the cabin of the driver. The car had three rows of seats, with two seats in the second row were folding.
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The rapid growth of car fleet in our country in the last decade has led to a number of problems, many of which do not find their solutions: many kilometers of traffic jams and fumes of city streets by automobile exhaust. The increase in the number of cars outstrips the pace of road construction and organizational measures to streamline the traffic. The transport problem for large cities is not new, and its decision of the Moscow authorities began almost eighty years ago. In 20-e years of the last century one of the ways to solve transport problems of Moscow, the leaders of the Soviet Russia has seen the development of public transport.
The four-door PEUGEOT 407 sedan 2004. The last few years under the heading “Showroom” almost every year there are publications about the car company Peugeot — during this time, the readers had become acquainted with practically all new models of the company — PEUGEOT 206, PEUGEOT 307, PEUGEOT 607… AND now in our next publication — the story of the new PEUGEOT 407.
The first production models of this vehicle was delivered to army units in September 1985. The machine incorporates the most advanced technical and technological solutions of its time and represented a successful synthesis of freight Rover SUV and a sports car.
Family car SKODA OCTAVIA Combi 2004 the SKODA, occasionally arriving in the Soviet Union in the second half minuvshey century of fraternal Czechoslovakia, produced for domestic motorists that time more of an impression than the current one, the most extravagant cars of the inhabitants of the modern Russia. This is no accident: because the automotive plant of Enterprises of heavy engineering Skoda remained, but the opinion of experts of world car industry, almost the only of the socialist camp, who managed to keep their technical and design individuality, developed over almost half a century pre-war activities.
Still there was the Great Patriotic war, the designers of the Gorky automobile plant began work on a new car that had to produce in peacetime. The design of the machine, which later became known as the GAZ-M20, began in February 1943 and in November 1944 was ready the first prototypes.
Introduced in 2003, the new JAGUAR XJ.8 is a rare combination of external conservatism inherent in machines of this brand, with ultra-modern filling, which is equally state of the art technology. The conservative appearance — fully aluminium monocoque, assembled without welding, glue and rivets; aluminum V-engines (“six” and three “eight”) with a capacity from 238 to 395 HP, mated to a six-speed hydromechanical automatic; multi-link air suspension and automatically adjustable shock absorbers and, of course, a full set of the most modern electronic control systems.
This car is rightfully called the initiator of the modern “off road” boom which Appeared in 1948, LAND ROVER DEFENDER 110 with minimal improvements produced to this day. And currently, LANDY (as friends call this car the harsh British) is a relatively inexpensive jeep, designed for heavy load and bad roads.
Soviet midget car MOSKVICH-403. The first postwar car of the Moscow plant of small cars (MZMA) MOSKVICH-400 already at the launch of serial production was a day yesterday the German automobile industry, because it is only slightly upgraded OPEL KADETT K-38 model 1935. Undoubtedly, the year of its launch, the German car was a very sturdy vehicle with a monocoque body and independent suspension of front wheels of the type du-bonnet and brakes on all wheels hydraulically operated. However, in 1946 the car was too old.
Luxury car with four-seater body “convertible” — a Museum piece. Through the entire radiator inscription: “Hispano-Suiza”. In the top tank of the radiator you can see another emblem. It is also well known — “Skoda”. But… the car is dated 1924, while the Czechoslovak automobile factory “Laurin-Klement” only in 1925 and received the name “Skoda”. And another “but”. On trafaretka under the hood “of the Spanish-Suiza” you may find the word “škoda plzeň” and “Laurin-Klement” (now Skoda) was in the city of mladá Boleslav. Maybe brand mark of the company that manufactured the body, anything to clarify? Here it is. The inscription on it: “Erdmann und Rossi. Berlin.” But the body for “Spanish-Suiza” made mainly by the French company…