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.
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.
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.
