Compact car FIAT 500 Nuova. The reconstruction of post-war Italy was slow and difficult, Even the car manufacturers the leader of the Italian industry FIAT for a long time have not offered to buyers of new machines, releasing a small series only of the pre-war models and they did not find any significant demand among indigent populations with the Exceptions of the baby FIAT-500 Topolino, created in the prewar years, the designer of Dante Diakonoi, but this once is the most popular in Italy, car with each post-war year sold worse — affected by the obsolescence of the design of the sample 1936.
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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.
Urgent need in a very simple and highly reliable AWD vehicle designed for the average command of the red Army, as well as for reconnaissance, communications, and towing light artillery systems, have emerged during the Soviet-Finnish armed conflict that took place in severe winter conditions off-road.
Japanese car Mitsubishi lancer of 2007. Continuous update — here is one of the main principles of creation of high-tech consumer products. Constantly decreasing period of the market entry of new improved cameras, mobile phones and more productive computers. Is not time consumer is to buy “the best of” the perfect digital video camera or pocket PC, as a manufacturer throws on the market a new model with better consumer qualities, leaving the buyer with the “old”, released only a year ago an electronic device on hand.
Did you know that the first domestic car, which became the hero of a thousand jokes became legendary minicar, created at Zaporizhia automobile building plant? If a quick “flip through” a hefty volume of the complete collection of the works of the oral creativity of the Soviet people, one of its most significant chapters will probably be entitled “Jokes about “Zaporozhets” And this is a sign of the unprecedented popularity of this machine have a Soviet man that went from “hunchback” ZAZ-965 and “eared” ZAZ-966 front-wheel drive cars, the first of which was the ZAZ-1102 “Tavria”.
Compact car FIAT 500 Topolino. With the advent of the automobile mankind has had another dream as soon as possible to buy this vehicle. However, for a large part of the population for many years this dream was very far from realization — too big was the difference between the cost of cars and income of potential buyers.
The domestic auto industry came to the choice of the prototype for the production of small-car very responsibly — was based on FIAT600 miniature, won in Europe, indeed wildly popular. The design of the new “vehicle” was entrusted to design Bureau of the Moscow plant of small cars — MZMA. Within a year, was created prototypes of the machine, which received the name of the factory “Moskvich-444”. The car is initially equipped with two-cylinder motorcycle engine MD-65 capacity of 17.5 HP, but tests showed that it is rather weak for such a vehicle. Instead, he designed a four-cylinder V-shaped 23-horsepower air-cooled engine.
The Renault Logan sedan of the company “Avtoframos”. If in your childhood you received a gift of a real soccer ball or, say, skibord, you will probably understand my feelings when I suddenly found myself the owner of a Renault Logan—car French origin, and in the Moscow production.