SOVIET CAR “MOSKVICH-408” ISSUED IN 1964. Youthful impressions sometimes impose their stereotypes on our lives. It’s funny that the “Moskvich-408” has remained in my mind a real car, and not his successor, “412”, hasn’t appeared six years later supermassive VAZ-2101 “Zhiguli”. And when in the early 1990-ies I was told that a car owner, a man very advanced in years, wants to sell the car “Moskvich-408ИЭ” low mileage, in General, with very few for that time’s money, I immediately agreed with the owner about the meeting.
UNFORGETTABLE “FOUR HUNDRED AND EIGHTH”…
Not all know that Louis-Joseph Chevrolet, whose name is famous American car company, and millions released it the car does was neither the owner of the company, nor a car designer.
In the prewar years, the Soviet automotive industry did not spoil the country’s economy by heavy vehicles. In small quantities it was producing vehicles medium-duty, established in the Yaroslavl automobile plant — “five-tonne” YAG-3 YAG-4.
English automobile firm ROVER (in translation from English — “Rover”) originated from factory, founded in 1877 and manufactures bikes under the same name. My first car — a three-wheeled Rover with the engine De Dion-Bouton — she began to produce in 1903. However, the first vehicle, fully justifying the title “the Rover”, the company has released only in 1948 — it was a versatile four-wheel drive Land Rover, which later had worldwide recognition, and is similar to models created subsidiary company with the name LAND ROVER — many decades of serial production. Among them was a Land Rover series II (1958), Range Rover with 3.5 litre engine (1970) and the Land Rover series III with synchronized transmission (1971).
Firm CHERY is currently one of the leading Chinese automobile industry. The machine, manufactured by it, sometimes as two drops of water similar to those produced by such famous companies as TOYOTA, DAEWOO, SEAT, HONDA and many others. However, this does not prevent the Chinese to produce cars that are at prices not too much different from the Russian, and the quality of manufacturing from cars-prototypes.
The first car with the name Pajero was released by MITSUBISHI more than a quarter century ago in 1981. It was a three-door car with a spar frame with torsion bar front and leaf spring rear suspension, rigidly connected front axle and reduction gear. The SUV is characterized by simplicity and reliability of construction.
Sixty-nine years ago, the Gorky automobile plant received the assignment to develop a new six-passenger model. She had to fill the gap between mass four-cylinder “Victory” and representative ZIS-110. He had planned to deliver a boosted six-cylinder engine GAZ-11. Its standard version has already been used on the truck GAZ-51. Designing and preparing to manufacture a new car, which subsequently received index GAZ-12 ZIM, conducted in a very short time. Just five years later, in late 1950, began serial production.
The Dodge Caliber hatchback size class C. the Older generation were very familiar brand these military vehicles, which, along with lend-lease “Studebakers” and “jeep” roads have been worthy of the great Patriotic war, ending his difficult path in Berlin. We are talking about cars of the American company Dodge, the most prominent representative of which in our country was the famous Dodge 3/4 four wheel drive jeep, overgrown terrain, the capacity of which amounted to 0.75 tons.
French Renault Megane size class S. the French firm Renault was founded in 1898 by an enthusiast of the nascent car industry Louis Renault and eventually became the largest automobile company of France. In 1945 the company was nationalized and under the name of Regie Nationale des Usines Renault SA has become the property of the state. Its main products — cars and trucks — accounted for 75 percent of sales.
The creation of the Japanese car firm MAZDA (previously it was called Toyo Cork Cogyo) started in 1960 by running a series made popular minicar R-360. Today as popular Mazda2 is a compact front wheel drive model size class. It is enough to remember 2008, the year when the Russian buyers not only choose an appropriate quota of 2 thousand cars, and together joined in a five-month long queue to buy these cars.