Nickname firmly entrenched behind the “Ford-T” — auto, “copies” which for two decades was 15 007 003 instance. This amazing car deserves to be told separately. Thanks to her Henry Ford became “road king”, and millions of Americans turned from pedestrians to motorists. “Ford-T” was the first in the world began to assemble on the conveyor, it has spawned countless anecdotes and legends, and historians of motoring has got a rich material for research.“TIN LIZZIE”
Nickname firmly entrenched behind the “Ford-T” — auto, “copies” which for two decades was 15 007 003 instance. This amazing car deserves to be told separately. Thanks to her Henry Ford became “road king”, and millions of Americans turned from pedestrians to motorists. “Ford-T” was the first in the world began to assemble on the conveyor, it has spawned countless anecdotes and legends, and historians of motoring has got a rich material for research.
Mercedes-Benz S-Class 2005 issue. Increased attention okoloavtomobilnoy public to high-end machines are difficult to explain from the perspective of common sense, as these luxury limousines can not be evaluated in terms of practicality. But with the addition of the terms “most-most” – the most comfortable, the most expensive, most powerful, fastest – they are difficult to apply. After all, there will always be faster sports cars, cars from kutyure – expensive limousines and pokomfortabelnee.
About the British car firm Jaguar have seriously started talking after the creation of its sports car JAGUAR XK-120 with 6-cylinder engine capacity of 160 HP, which was first unveiled at the London motor show in 1949. A year later, the company released a luxury car JAGUAR Mk-V has become one of the most prestigious in the UK.
Spanish car firm Sociedat Espanola de Automoviles de Turismo (SEAT), which translated from Spanish means “Spanish society of cars for tourism”, was founded in 1919 as a branch of the Italian concern FIAT.
Not everyone knows that the name of American auto-mobile firm Cadillac was given in honor of the founder of the city of Detroit Frenchman Antoine de la Cadillac Mot. The first self-propelled carriages new firms did not differ grace and was a not very successful copy of the Henry Ford vehicles. In 1909, the firm became part of General Motors, where it was tasked with the issue of expensive cars with improved comfort.
Japanese HONDA LEGEND edition 2005. Soichiro Honda was born in 1906 and lived a full 85 years, becoming sort of a legend — the same as Henry Ford in America, or Andre Citroen in France. The son of a village blacksmith, and did not receive a diploma engineer, Soichiro Honda became a Professor at several universities, cavalier of the Legion of honor, the highest orders of Japan and many European countries, as well as the gold medal FIA — International Federation of Motorsport.
As you know, four-wheel drive Jeep Wrangler are derived from army vehicles to Willis MB and Ford GP. They inherited from prototypes, high reliability, Spartan simplicity and ruggedness. The years went by, cars were improved; increased engine output, increased reliability and security, a Jeep Wrangler has remained the same — short wheelbase, two-door, with an open body and simple internal design.
Mitsubishi Lancer 2005 issue. My first meeting with the Mitsubishi Lancer took place at the uncontrolled intersection. Thump in the left door of my “Fields”, the gnashing of metal on metal, squeaking brakes and… silence. The driver of a new “Japanese” was the young lady that turned out to be only the second time in my life independently drove his car to the “big world” — and on a day she was clearly not up to the sign “give way”.
In 1904, the company Volkswagen has released a small series of sporting four-wheel drive is a pleasure car in the segment, created on the basis of the mechanisms of the VW Golf. The first model was shown at the Detroit motor show in 2004, the Car was developed under the leadership of chief designer of the American center style Volkswagen D. Jenkins leading designer of the project K. Brockshmidt, in the style of beach car (dune buggy) with a body of fiberglass. The machine is equipped with a 3.2-liter engine capacity of 240 HP, which allows to accelerate to 100 km/h in 6,6 s.
English motorcycle firm Triumph was founded in 1901 in Coventry, a German immigrant, Z. Bettmann. The production car was deployed it only in 1923, when Triumph acquired the bankrupt car firm Dawson. The first car of the United firm was a Triumph 10/12НР with the engine a working volume of 1.4 L. the first car was followed by the Super Seven (1928), Scorpion 12/16НР (1932), Super Nine (1932)… Especially popular with buyers of steel sports car company Triumph, created under the leadership of chief designer D. Healy, reminiscent of an Italian Alfa Romeo.