Car extra small class ZAZ-965. 2008-the year of Reykjavik, the annual auto show antique automobile club of America. Acoountable to the surprise of the audience, the winner of the car class “ultra-retro-compact” became a Soviet car ZAZ-965 “Zaporozhets” from Kiev Alexei Martynenko. Keeping the car from the podium, he immediately established another record by selling it to some American millionaire in 365 thousand euros!
Little micro-car BMW ISETTA. This has happened more than once. Crest of the economic crisis, the Great depression or the post-war ruin — and instead of the heavy limousine with big motors car company suddenly started to produce a compact and inexpensive cars that are in high demand from impoverished buyers. The result is a miniature sidecar pulled from the verge of bankruptcy that created them, car companies, and they, in turn, pulled out of the crises and the country’s economy.
First domestic FWD. What vehicle did not invent tireless automakers! Their drawings were cars with engines at both the front and rear, with the leading front wheels and rear wheel drive and the most advanced authors with a drive to all four wheels…
This Japanese car belongs to the group of mid-size AWD SUV-crossover which production was designed primarily for the American market. In the standard version it is designed for five people, but as an option, the buyer is offered a seven-seat version.
The first domestic locomotive ВЛ19. In the late 1920-ies in our country began the so-called industrialization, whose main objective was to lift the industry to the level of the leading industrial powers of the world. A special role in this process was given to the reconstruction of the railway transport, which was in a deplorable condition — effect like the effects of the Civil war and the growing shortage of qualified personnel that led to the stagnation in the development of railway equipment.
The sale of this American car-SUV began in our country in 2008, and the first presentation of the car took place in the United States two years earlier under the motto All-new for 2007 Tahoe, which roughly translates to “a brand new 2007 Tahoe”. The machine is third-generation all-wheel drive vehicles of this type. From its predecessor Tahoe inherited V-shaped eight-cylinder engine, automatic transmission and the signature all-wheel drive system Autotrac. However, the front torsion bar suspension instead of spring appeared the Stoics, became more rigid frame and optimized suspension point of the engine.
Polnoprivodnyj car crossover FORD KUGA is equipped with a turbodiesel capacity of 136 HP and restituendo manual transmission multi-plate clutch in the rear wheel drive and electric power steering with variable settings from light duty to heavy Comfort Sport. In the base Trend machine is equipped with four airbags, stabilization system, air conditioning, power accessories, CD radiogram and the device, heating of mirrors, and the complete Titanium crossover in addition to the above has dual-zone climate control, Korotchaevo interior trim alloy wheels and light sensors and rain.
The family car “MOSKVICH-2140”. The car “Moskvich” 2140 index was put into production in December 1975. Its direct predecessor is called the car “Moskvich-408”, descended from the conveyor of the Moscow plant of small cars (MZMA) in 1964, the exterior of which, so different from a car design index 400, 401, 402, 407 and 403, became the basis for all future models until 1986, when AZLK went from rear-wheel “classics” on the issue of front-wheel drive “Muscovites” index 2141.
It just so happened that the global automotive industry, in practice, that any modernization of the car leads to growth of its technical characteristics, increasing the size, mass, engine power and maximum speed. As a result, for ten years, the once compact machine gradually moves from one size class to another.
