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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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.
First, second, third… Three racing car across the finish line three car team of the Soviet Union. Long-awaited success! So in 1975, ended in Minsk in the first stage of the Cup of friendship socialist countries.
Post-war industrial crisis has forced automakers in many countries to pay attention to cheap minicar — just like she had at the time a steady demand. Was no exception to this process and firms of West Germany — in the automotive market of the country had at that time a lot of sidecars — a four-wheeled Heinkel Kabine and a Zundapp Janus, a three-wheeled Messerschmitt and finally, the BMW Isetta with the rear wheels close together.
The 1960s, often called a time of change. In this decade changed all the styles and fashion, presidents and General secretaries, and the Soviet Union over Khrushchev’s thaw and Brezhnev’s stagnation began. Varied and principles of automotive design — Empire-style, artsy-rounded turned into Gothic, sharp-faceted…
After the Second world war, the automotive industry of many European countries were in deep crisis. The post-war devastation, unemployment, inflation — all of this contributed to the growth of sales of expensive models. In these circumstances, many European firms began to produce a compact motorized wheelchairs, it is available to the public.
“Soap”, “the Hunchback”, “Fafik” — not once nicknamed little brisk Zaporozhets 965-th model. Many of us that he began his “auto” biography. Not all, however, know how motley was the story that first among the “Cossacks”.