Soviet passenger car GAZ M-1. The giant car plant in Nizhny Novgorod, was built in a record short time – just three and a half years. Creating it was a result of the signing of the 31 May 1929 agreement between the US by Ford Motor Company and the Government of the USSR. And January 29, 1932 off the assembly line of the Nizhny Novgorod automobile plant (NAZ) came off the first half tons lorries license NAZ-AA (FORD-AA), and in December of the same year – and passenger cars GAZ-A (FORD-A). Let me remind you, the lorry with the acronym NAE released a few months on the radiator: in the same 1932 Nizhny Novgorod was renamed Gorky the city of the company, respectively, received the name of GAS – Gorky Automobile Plant named after Molotov and produce trucks GAZ-AA.
This legendary Emka
Compact car KIM-10-50 release 1940. Economy cars have always been interested in the mass market for its relative cheapness, compactness and simplicity of design. They attracted automakers such as low cost, processability and high demand.
At the end 1940-x of years in several countries of Europe, a dilapidated Second world war, gradually began to recreate the automotive industry. On the streets there are inexpensive micro cars purely personal use: trehalase German “Messerschmitt” with a body that resembled the fuselage of an airplane of the same name, quadruple “Zundapp-Janus” with doors in the front and rear body panels, three-wheeled double “Heinkel kabine”, quadruple “BMW-600” and Italian is a four – seater FIAT 500 and the double four “Isetta” with a narrowed rear track.
Lenin in Gorki near Moscow in the spacious garage, which is included in the exposition of the House Museum of V. I. Lenin, it is an unusual machine: instead of rear wheel rollers with wearing them on the tracks under the front skis. For several years she has served the Vladimir Ilyich when traveling on snow-covered roads of the Hills in surrounding villages and in Moscow. Today our story about the history of this unique vehicle-the all-terrain vehicle and further development of such structures.
Compact MPV Citroen C4 Picasso. Readers of “M-K” is not the first time meet in the pages of the journal about the famous French car company Citroen. The last time it was in No. 10, 2005, edition of told car enthusiasts about finding this company’s corporate identity, the Foundation of which was laid in 1948 in the design of the mini Citroen 2CV. The first successor “De shvo” (“Two horses”—named 2CV) was the Citroen C3 2002, followed by the car of a Golf class C4 (2005), and here is a new one-volume front-wheel-drive seven-seat compact MPV Citroen C4 Picasso, unveiled at the Paris motor show 2006. It has grown in size compared to its predecessor, but the characteristics of the corporate style equally blended in his look.
Popularity of compact SUVs is growing rapidly, accordingly, increasing the number of sales of small SUVs. The production of this kind of cars today are embracing even those firms who only yesterday considered such machine status.
The first all-wheel drive model of the firm Willis was created in 1941 in accordance with the supply contract for the US army light army vehicles of class “quarter-ton”. The SUV, called the Willis-MB, after the war became the prototype of the series of Jeep Wrangler, which they inherited from the predecessor of the army high reliability, Spartan simplicity and ruggedness.
The first multi-purpose four-wheel drive car with the name HONDA CR-V was released in 1995 and in 11 years of mass production sold in 160 countries with a circulation of 2.5 million copies, becoming the best-selling Japanese car company Honda. By the way, the car is outside the Country of the rising sun — it is released in the United States, Canada, England, Thailand and the Philippines.
Opel Antara 2006 model. The fashion for SUVs-crossovers swept the European car market in the late 1980-ies. Many car companies began a race to create a machine of this type, and only Adam Opel AG has gone the other way. We should remind readers that at the time, but her part of the concern General Motors has also included the Japanese firm Isuzu, who had considerable experience of creating a four-wheel drive multipurpose vehicles. In 1989, Isuzu launched the Rodeo four-wheel drive—this car is called Opel Frontera and began to produce in 1991, the English company of General Motors.
All-wheel-drive car BMW X5 2006. Not so long ago we introduced readers to a BMW X5 of the company Bayerische Motoren Werke, first unveiled at the 1999 Detroit auto show. The first in the history of the company four-wheel drive SUV with a distinctive sporty character caused a sensation in the automotive world. However, the producers didn’t call him neither a jeep nor an SUV nor a crossover: BMW X5, they took to the specially designed class of vehicles called SAV (Sports Activity Vehicle), which translated to English means something like “sports-active car”.