Mass Soviet car VAZ-2101. In the early postwar years the car fleet in the country has increased dramatically this occurred both at the expense of production of cars “Moskvich-400” and “Victory” M-20, and because of the reparation receipts of vehicles from defeated Germany. In the country for the first time appeared quite a large number of cars in private use of citizens. And the more familiar Soviet people with the pleasures of owning a car, the more it became a circle wishing to possess this miracle of technology.
THE ADVENTURES OF THE “ITALIAN” IN RUSSIA
The first car with this name was established in 1914 by Lionel Martin and Robert Bamperbol — owners of the workshop in the London district of Kensington. A number of cars of sports type, in 1924, the company was on the verge of bankruptcy, and 5,000 pounds was purchased by the engineer V. Renwick. Creating a good 1.5-liter engine with overhead camshaft, new head of the firm and its companion A. Bertelli made him the main for ASTON MARTIN until 1936.
BMW 1 series new car-class Golf. When in 1974, the company Volkswagen has released a compact front wheel drive VW GOLF, it was hard to imagine that this tiny three-door hatchback small class, the exterior of which was designed by the great Italian designer Giorgetto Giugiaro, will be the founder of a giant class of vehicles, called by the name of the very first “Golf course”. The reason for this was the tremendous popularity of cars in this class — for the first nine years of production of the VW GOLF they were released 6.8 million copies.
In 1951 the Board of FIAT at one of their meetings decided to replace produced from 1936 compact car TOPOLINO (“little mouse”) is more modern and comfortable machine. In the postwar years, the need of the population of Italy in an affordable and easy means of transport were enormous. At the same meeting were identified and the main characteristics of a compact car: speed over 85 km/h, with a capacity for 4 persons.
“We have mastered the car ZIS-110 the machine is very complicated. Besides the fact that it requires a high level of culture of manufacture, it requires great technical maturity.” These words were spoken 30 years ago at the factory party conference of I. A. Likhachev, Director of the automobile plant, which bears his name.
In the spring of 2004 the German automobile Bayerische Motoren Werke (BMW) came out with a new ultra-luxury convertible BMW 645Ci CABRIO. The creators of the new machine paid great attention to her comfort, because BMW 645Ci CABRIO for the respectable, wealthy buyers aged 50 — 70 years, able to pay for the car in the base set of about 110 000 Euro.
All-wheel-drive BMW X5. In recent decades, the popularity of SUVs-SUVs are steadily growing — today, these machines are bought not only by those who do not enjoy the roads and “ways” but those who never in life was “blessed” by the wheels of your car touching the primer. The reason for the popularity of SUVs, not only in their vehicles (car enthusiasts willing to buy and jeep”SUV”), but in the full image of the car — reliable, powerful, fast, maneuverable and safe.
A new family of cars VAZ-2118 “the guelder-rose” is only the third in 35 years of existence, the Volga automobile plant — after “penny” VAZ-2101 and “chisel” VAZ-2108/2109 — really new, not previously upgraded cars.
The second-stage model of the Volga car was three-door front wheel drive hatchback VAZ-2108 “Sputnik”. The design of the VAZ-2108 was started in may 1977, the launch of a series of fundamentally new for the company and the entire automotive industry VAZ-2108 “Sputnik” (export name — “Samara”) held in late 1984. Three years later, came the five-door version of the hatchback — VAZ-2109, and in the early 1990-ies, four — door sedan VAZ-21099.
When an artist falls in tough conditions restricting the freedom of his work, this sometimes leads to the most advantageous solutions. For several decades, the designers of the Gorky automobile plant under the new modifications of the car “Volga” as immutable bases are forced to use the frame from released in 1968, the old GAZ-24. Sometimes this leads to rather controversial, but in General, these limitations contribute to the kind of positive conservatism, allowing to maintain the style and visibility of cars Gorky brand.