Cars with front-wheel drive today is not a novelty: they are building nearly three dozen firms. Prosperity “front-drive” started in the sixties. But in the thirties several of the companies produced cars of such design schemes.
The car company Les automobiles Renault index of AG was in its time the most popular not only in France but also in many other countries. Unpretentious, cheap — not coincidentally, these machines have become the world’s first production taxi. A characteristic feature of the RENAULT cars was a radiator located between the engine and passenger compartment; wherein the engine hood without the characteristic radiator grille was narrow, short and sloping.
The production of cars, the German company Bayerische Motorenwerke started only in 1927, when the factory gate in the city Eisenach left the car BMW DIXI. Compact and inexpensive car helped the firm to overcome the great depression of 1929 and acquire a well-deserved popularity among buyers. But a breakthrough in the leaders of the global car industry has contributed to the firm’s BMW two-seater sports BMW 328, which appeared in 1936, the Machine was equipped with two-liter inline “six” with a capacity of 80 BHP and a top speed of 150 km/h. its design is based on principles, which later became a classic in the design of sports cars: in accordance with the basis of the car was a tubular frame on which is mounted the body panel.
Walter Chrysler, linking his life with autostructure and occupy considerable positions in well-known US companies, dreamed, however, of creating your own car. With the help of three talented designers – Fred Zedera, Owen Skelton and Carl Breera – in 1924 the machine was designed, it meets Chrysler’s ideas about technical perfection and top-class comfort of the vehicle. Vehicle CHRYSLER poluchivshii title 70 was a huge success at the time of the buyers -. More than 300 thousand cars were sold in 1924.
The VW PASSAT sixth generation. As you know, the trade winds — it’s steady air currents in tropical latitudes over the ocean. They say that the strength and consistency of these winds are the reason that family classic German car company Volkswagen was at one time given the name of the wind — PASSAT.
The first American car company Cadillac, founded in 1902, was a machine, practically do not differ from those produced workshops of Henry Ford. However, since 1909 the company went into the part of General Motors, began to produce cars with a more powerful 4-cylinder engines. In the future, the Cadillac firm specialized in the production of the most prestigious and comfortable limousines, and CADILLAC, the brand became a sign of wealth of the owner of the car, the entertainment machine, usually become carriers of new trends in automotive engineering. It is on the limousines CADILLAC introduced the electric starter and electric lighting (1912), V-shaped 8-cylinder engines (1915), dynamic system balancing, crankshaft and brakes on all four wheels (1924), as well as synchronized transmission (1929).
CHEVROLET SPARK is the compact car class A. And exhibitions, and the streets are compact cars always become the object of attention. At the international auto none full-size luxury car does not attract as much public, how many small, almost like a toy car. In our country this car is a Korean car DAEWOO MATIZ, the bulk of which in Russia started mainly after running it in series at the factory Uz-DAEWOO Auto in the Republic of Uzbekistan.
Moscow car factory ZIS your Executive cars started to produce in 1936. The first such car was the limousine ZIS-101 created by the design team under the direction of E. Vazhinsky “explanation” for American car BUICK EIGHT 90. The limousine was equipped with row “eight” working volume of 5.77 liters and output of 90 HP transmission was transcutanat the car’s top speed was 115 km/h. ZIS-101 was produced until 1941, all were made 8752 instance.
All-wheel drive SUV UAZ PATRIOT. SUVs are in fashion now. The highway was filled with jeeps of all sizes and kinds — from toddlers, in size far ahead of the domestic “Oka”, to giants, created, appears, on the basis of dump trucks. But if in countries with well-developed road network, the acquisition of the Rover —a tribute to the windy fashion in Russia, with its snow and off-road, four-wheel drive all terrain vehicle becomes imperative.
MERCEDES R-class. The modern market cars to the limit filled with cars of various types, which, however, can be grouped into clearly-defined classes that allows the buyer to compare vehicles according to their technical characteristics and prices in order to offer dozens of vehicles to choose only one. Accordingly, firms-producers to create new machines “tied” them to a particular class and, consequently, to the already established consumer group.
