FRONT-WHEEL DRIVE MINI COOPER S 2002 ISSUE. Until now, the main trend of the world design was the desire to create a car that did not create one. The designers were looking for new shapes, the designers designed new components and assemblies, engineers have developed advanced technological processes… In the end, the car dealers were flooded with futuristic concept cars, which, according to the plans of producers in a few years was to fill the city streets. But more recently, designers have adopted another principle of creating new cars, which on the basis of the stage model of yesteryear.
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Ask car enthusiasts about which meaning is embedded in “tree” — the emblem of the famous French firm Citroen and you will get a variety of answers. And, maybe one out of ten say that the sign shows a pair of teeth of the herringbone gear, the production of which had been established by company founder andré citroën.
Oddly enough, but until 1963, the famous Creator of the most prestigious racing cars, Lamborghini Ferruccio engaged in production… tractors. The reason for such a radical change it was a youthful fascination with the designer — in the distant postwar years he was engaged in the conversion of the serial “Fiats” in sports cars.
Firm history John North Willis began with the acquisition in 1908 of a small automobile company Overland, which became known as Willys-Overland. The new firm first specialized in the production sports cars with 4-cylinder engines and planetary transmissions, however, soon created cars with a 45-horsepower motors and WILLYS OVERLAND SIX SIX. In 1913 the company sold about 35 thousand cars entered if the number of the leading automobile companies of America.
This prestigious car developed by specialists of the Japanese company Toyota Motor Co. Ltd. was first shown to the public at the motor show in Tokyo in 1999 as a promising concept car. The history of the brand LEXUS, used Toyota firm for the most prestigious cars began more than a decade ago when this Japanese firm began to produce a purely export model badged LEXUS. The first such machine — LS400 — appeared on the automotive market of the United States in 1988. In 1997 Тоyota LEXUS released the second generation with a more powerful engine.
The signing of the agreement between Ford Motor company and the government of the USSR on may 31, 1929, was the basis for the establishment at the time the giant automobile plant in Nizhny Novgorod, where shortly after the American licenses were issued trucks FORD-AA and cars FORD-A. In the late 30-ies of the GAS has mastered production of the SUV GAZ-61, and then, in 1941, the GAZ — 64 and, finally, in 1943, the famous jeep of the great Patriotic war, the GAZ-67B.
Ulyanovsk automobile plant, since 1954, specializiruetsya on the issue of AWD cars, buses and vans. In 1972, the plant mastered the production of all-terrain vehicle UAZ-469 (UAZ-3151) used in the army, and agriculture. New market requirements have prompted designers and manufacturers to create new, modern model of the SUV called the UAZ-3160. This car has received a more powerful engine, center differential, spring suspension of the front wheels and a metal body.
English automobile firm Triumph, founded in 1901 in Coventry Austrian immigrant Siegfried Betmenom until 1923 was manufacturing motorcycles. The first car company became TRIUMPH 10/12НР with engine capacity of 1393 cm3, for the first time in England equipped with brakes with hydraulic operation In 1928 there was a slight SUPER SEVEN with engine capacity of 747 cm3, 1932 — SCORPION 12/16НР with a 6-cylinder engine working volume of 1203 cm –3.
The Gorky plant is always focused on cars of the middle class—is simple, durable, adapted to conditions of Russia. In this series are milestone cars like the GAZ-M1 (“Emka”), the GAZ-M20 “Pobeda” and a long string of cars under the name “Volga” — GAZ-21, GAZ-24, GAZ-З1029, GAZ-3110..
The French company Bugatti (1909-1956) belonged to the most famous automobile manufacturers, which account for was the creation of the most prestigious cars. The founder of the company – the legendary E. Bugatti, who designed a lot of cars, among which are both racing, and unique cars with racing engines.