Passenger car GAZ-A. Many people know the famous saying of the Patriarch of the American car industry Henry Ford — “the Buyer is entitled to choose a car of any colour provided that its color will be black.” However, not everyone knows that the Ford-T was painted black not because of the aesthetic preferences of the Ford to the Kohler. The reason for this was purely technological — Assembly-line production with its rigid rhythm were taken for drying the body after painting a certain, very short time, which in the early XX century was granted only black Japanese quick-drying enamel…
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BMW Wartburg (GDR). The world is constantly changing—some States are split into several, while others prefer to merge into one. The latter include the FRG and GDR merged at the end of last century, unified Germany. The process of reunification of these States was not easy—the level of industrial potential of the Eastern part of the new country were significantly lower compared to the West, and the process of modernization of production demanded huge financial investments. Of course, a radical update is needed and the automotive industry, since the East German factories were producing at that time only not the most modern cars — mainly small car Trabant and Wartburg.
Serial production of the GAZ-31105 “Volga” started on 18 may 2007. The interior of this model was developed by the specialists of the Gorky automobile plant in cooperation with German companies EDAG and Hormann Rawema. Designers significantly changed the interior of the car, improved the ergonomics of the driver’s and passenger seats, increasing the overall safety of the structure and ease of driving. When you create a new “Volga” was used high-tech materials, ensuring the car meets the rigorous European standards.
At full capacity, the Assembly line of the Gorky automobile plant, producing the new cars GAZ-21 “Volga”, earned at the end of April 1957, although the first three machines of this type went with him on 15 October 1956. According to experts, the body “21st” was designed without the influence of the American Ford Minline sample 1953, purchased the Gorky automobile plant to review the design of this machine. However, in the design process, lead designer of the project A. Nevzorov managed to create a generalized image of a modern car, successfully combining achievements of American designers and European schools. It is worth mentioning that in 1958, at the world industrial exhibition in Brussels (Belgium) the most prestigious award “Grand Prix” got it “Volga”.
Local military conflicts and counter-terrorism operations of recent years has revealed the problem of resistance army transportation from destroy military units of the enemy, and also weapon illegal formations. To a large extent this issue has affected the cars intended for transportation of personnel, transport of various military cargo, installation of special equipment.
Design domestic car GAZ-21 “Volga” is haunted by the many fans of this car. Some create precise scale models-copies of this iconic sedan. Others meticulously and carefully recreate the published in the edition of luxury vintage cars, which today look better than the ones that came off the Assembly line 50 years ago. Well, while others using a fundamental design decision, so happily found in the design of GAZ-21, creating the “explanation” of this car an exclusive design.
The car VAZ-1111 “Oka” was put into production in 1988 — assembling the machine was carried out at the Kama and the Volga factories. Further production of the car and joined the Serpukhov car factory, which produced the first machine with manual control. “Oka” is a front wheel drive car midget class (its length is 3.2 m), fitted with a 29-horsepower two-cylinder engine working volume 0,649 L.
Runabout created in 1957, little known at the time to a wide audience by engineer Alec Issigonis of the British Motor Corporation, justly called a masterpiece of design and autocostruzione. The urgent need for such a vehicle began to be felt in the large cities of great Britain in the mid 1950s due to increased car ownership and lack of space for Parking. That’s why an inexpensive, compact and economical car, capable to drive and Park there, where there is no place for a full-size, could find demand among buyers.
In the early 1950-ies of the countries of Western Europe is flooded with a variety of subcompact cars: Germany — Heinkel-Kabine and Zundap Janus, France — Citroen 2CV, England — Mini, Italy — Bernardo and FIAT-600. Firm FIAT has a considerable experience of creating compact cars, its first mass minicar FIAT-500 Topolino firm produced from 1936 to 1955. The decision to replace FIAT-500 more modern model was adopted in 1951, and since 1955 has begun mass production of the model “600”. Quadruple machine with a total length of 3,215 m was equipped with a 21.5 horsepower engine and a top speed of 95 km/h.
Not so often we have to meet on city streets the car “coupe” or “convertible”. However, at the dawn of its existence, almost all cars were just that — open, with soft rising tent. In the future, the Foundation of the world fleet amounted to more prestigious and therefore more expensive cars with closed bodies. Well, coupe and cabriolets became the exception and, to the surprise of okaloacoochee the public, again significantly more expensive.