About sports “cents”, the General public knows not so much. However, “Lada” took part in the USSR championship in road racing in 1972, almost immediately after the start of their serial production. Subtle at first glance, the car proved to be very fertile subject for her conversion to a sports car. This was facilitated by the fact that is well amenable to forcing the base engine with the camshaft in the cylinder head, and that was the cause of many victories sports “cents”.
All-wheel drive MERCEDES-Benz ML-class. We have somehow got used to whizzing through the streets of the city to the jeep, which, in fact, are not vehicles, but only cars-“overgrown”. Motorists derisively call them “SUV”, alluding to conditionally increased permeability of these machines — except on smooth asphalt. Their appearance is due to the fact that the car was quite difficult to combine in one vehicle function of the vehicle-an SUV and a comfortable limousine — they have totally different suspensions, transmissions, engines, steering… However, lately began to appear and all-wheel drive machine with a universal transmission and variable ground clearance, easily coping with off road terrain and at the same time, with increased comfort and a pronounced sporty character.
CITROEN C4 — new car-class Golf. Experts autostructure easily isolated in the flow of vehicles machine of a company, focusing on their unique appearance. Signature style is created in a variety of ways — from finding original and thus memorable silhouette of the car before designing fancy logos or easily recognizable false radiator grille specific forms. However, blind adherence to the chosen style again brings up the fact that models of different classes produced by one company, often differ from one another only in size.
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.
