The History of American Vehicles

You are about to know the thrill of seeing something that has never been seen before. You are about to enter a beautiful, exciting and wonderful New World. The world of 1960, for the first time in

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, you will see not one, not two, but three completely new ones. types of Ford cars for 1960, a wonderful new world of Ford since Henry Ford began experimenting with engines and rose to the leadership of the new automobile industry in the late 19th century. The United States has been a major producer of motor

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at times. It wasn't too subtle and the automobiles themselves were rarely small, but the United States embraced the automobile more than any other nation, building impressive highways to service the vast number of machines rolling off the assembly lines.

The US embraced the automobile as a god on wheels. I got behind the wheel and soon it seemed like no one was walking anywhere anymore. Personal mobility meant that people could be anywhere they wanted in just a few minutes, so they moved further away and cities became sprawling conations of hundreds of square miles and trips became longer. and vast tracts of land were given over to places simply to park cars and, even more, to highways linking everywhere Americans would want to go. The country that gave us the shopping center also gave us the parking and the convenience of driving by.

A whole new culture centered around the motor vehicle emerged and it seemed like almost anything could be done in a car, including going out to dinner or going to the movies. Drive-ins became a major feature of American life, a right of passage for newly independent teenagers. Drivers and their dates As the United States highway system began to develop in the 1920s, long-distance road trips became more common and the need for inexpensive overnight accommodations near major highways led to the growth of the motel, literally the motorist's hotel on the At the time Henry Ford was building his first automobiles, so was Ransom.

The first antique cars looked and were actually horse-drawn carriages without the horse. General Motors bought Oldsmobile in 1908 and during its 107-year

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, the company produced 35 million automobiles when it was eliminated. by GM Oldsmobile was the oldest surviving American automobile brand and one of the oldest in the world after Dimler in Persia, but it is Henry Ford whom the world knows, as the father of American motorsport in his old age would come out of the reproduction of his first automobile, the quadricycle, and drove his wife Clara around their Fairlane estate. The impact was felt not only in the creation of automobiles, but also in the economy, production management and engineering.

He discovered that the more cars he built, the cheaper he could sell each one and thus was born. economy of scale the price of Ford's Model T fell each year as more and more were made in 1918 half of all cars in the United States were Model T Henry Ford was a pioneer of welfare capitalism who needed to reduce high Worker turnover and efficiency meant hiring and retaining the best people, so Ford announced a five-dollar-a-day program in 1914, which more than doubled the daily minimum wage for skilled workers. Ford claimed that with this voluntary change the labor turnover in its plants went from huge to so small that it simply stopped bothering to measure it when Ford started paying $5 a day and also a 40-hour work week, he was criticized for other industrialists and by Wall Street, but it showed that paying people more would allow Ford workers to afford the cars they were producing and it was good for Ford was able to build hundreds of cars a day.

Production line and mass production soon became common expressions and his influence would forever change almost every industry on the planet. A Sunday afternoon walk with the family became a national pastime for some families. It became a ritual. A habit. It was possible to travel quite long distances to visit family and friends, even if you actually took the road. For quite a while and at times the roads were not very good either, the sheer volume of traffic in the early days meant that many existing roads became impossible almost as soon as the rain started bouncing along the local, state and federal agencies were forced to invest heavily in building a road network capable of withstanding the sudden onslaught of automobiles, a never-ending task that seems destined to last as long as cars continue to be driven, larger

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simply made things worse, even if employed in the construction process itself, the first world war was the first world war. first major conflict in which gasoline-powered vehicles had played a major role, and in return, the development of vehicles like the truck was greatly accelerated once their usefulness became evident.

Larger, more complex road-building machines were designed that did the work of 10 or even 100 men. Hard-surfaced roads were developed, roads that would not turn into muddy quagmires in the rain and would not become rock-hard and dusty in the rain. the heat of summer. Various systems have been developed over the centuries to reduce washouts, bogging and dust in cities including cobblestones and even wooden pavements McAdam bound with tar was applied to roads in the late 19th century in cities such as Paris. Asphalt was patented by Edgar Pernel Hully in 1901 and is a mixture of tar and aggregates such as granite chips compacted with a steamroller.

Adding small amounts of Portland cement resin and pitch modified the tar. Other roads were made of concrete, but as speeds increased, some surfaces offered better grip when wet or dry than others, while extreme temperatures caused some to melt or crack as oil production increased, a byproduct called ash. Felt became available in quantity and replaced tar thanks to its reduced temperature sensitivity. Highways linked towns, villages, and cities in all directions across the United States. The automobile and specifically the Ford Model T was not just about personal mobility, it was about bringing home groceries. home doctors and a whole new mechanics industry.

Service shops, gasoline and oil supplies grew to provide the vital supplies the automobile needed. For the first time, Americans were able to travel more than a few miles from home at low cost. They were able to wander. and explore their own country in their own cars were able to visit the great national parks reserved for the people but which few people have been able to reach or explore the weekend getaway hunting and fishing or simply a day trip to the countryside with the family became not only a possibility but a reality and the vehicle used for these idyllic moments was inevitably a Ford Model T.

People made jokes about them, but in the 19 years that they were in production, more than 15 million of them were built. Tin Lizzies, a record that took the Volkswagen Beetle 27 years to beat 45 years later, another famous American brand to see three centuries is Buick, which built a closed car years before Ford Buick was the mainstay of what would become General Motors despite its history and technical superiority from a century ago. Buick nearly died in the disastrous first decade of the 21st century. Hollywood comedians, but of course the automobile played a pivotal role from the beginning in that other favorite film of the American public: by 1927, the Model T had reached the end.

Due to its development and more sophisticated cars were needed, Henry Ford himself ordered the first of the new model A, unlike the Model T, which was only available in black, the model A was sold in four colors but not black and, although it was only in production. Over the course of just over 4 years, nearly 5 million Model A's were built. Ford was not only a visionary engineer and businessman, but he also had a keen eye for a promotion and, over the years, set out to mark the milestones of your company invariably with a replica. Tricycle available, unfortunately the original quadricycle, the first Ford, had to be sold to finance what was later lost in the road works of history, but it was this car, the Ford Model 18, but usually called simply Ford V8, that would arrive to define.

American automotive variations of the 8-cylinder engine would become nearly universal throughout the US automobile industry. The big, loud engines would become the basis for generations of automobiles, millions of vehicles, and a national obsession with what would become known. as "muscle cars" Mr. Ford was present as The number 1 and 3 million V8s left the factory. Lal was a very different car brand; It was not built from scratch by a visionary engineer, but was created to fill a gap in the market by General Motors CEO Alfred P. Sloan. Helisa could handle rough road but was meant to be a luxury car Sloan put the company nameplates in price order Chevrolet was the entry level brand and then came Oakland Oldsmobile Buick and Cadillac Cadillac prices skyrocketed in the 1920s and the lasal was intended to fill the gap between it and Buick a mediocre seller the name disappeared only 13 years later similarly Ford produced the Lincoln as a luxury brand for rich people that would not be seen anywhere As common as a Ford this was a luxury for passengers at least by now professional drivers could be hired to cope with the increasingly dense traffic, but they often worked in a small, cramped and spartan cabin, while their passengers enjoyed all the luxurious features of the time.

Soon Ford's dream of having a car at every entrance to every town and city became a reality. coming true, this announcement goes even further than yours, this is a great day for me, that my daughter graduates as an honor student. Oh Dad, Oh Ellen, just a moment, look here, well, how do you like it? You don't mean dad, who is really Mine is all yours and here are the keys. Oh dad, come on girls, let's go for a ride here, mother, oh, a new Ford and what a lovely color and what a spacious seed, and now Ellen, you too hold the key to style leadership.

V8 Performance visit your nearest Ford dealer to take a ride in the quality car in the low price field so as not to be left behind. GM's creative marketing people were also busy, it seems that everyone is ready and enters the spacious trunk with the suitcases carefully, that is grandma's gift. Rex, you will go too and your 1940 Chevrolet will take you to your destination easily, safely and with maximum comfort and economy, and that also describes the 1940 Chevrolet 4 with its larger, more spacious body and its refined action driving system knee, The Ride Royal. of Chevrolet's 175 important modern features, reasons why Chevrolet was first again that same year 1940, while much of the rest of the world was in the grips of World War II, the United States was celebrating its Take On The World Fair in Flushing Meadows in New York.

The first future-based exhibition with an opening motto of a new day and allowing more than 44 million visitors to catch a glimpse of the World of Tomorrow, it's no surprise that transportation was a big part of both what it was the fair as what he did. It covered 5 square kilometers and the new vehicles were both a great attraction for visitors and a headache for the organizers. The Ford Building, which covered almost 30,000 square meters, was just one of the places where the US motor industry was showcased. Inside, visitors were exposed to the evolution of the automobile from its beginnings to the present day, In less than four decades in Ford's case, the main entrance hall is a symphony of color and a fascinating introduction to what follows.

Here is an overview of the automobile era, beginning with the first Ford automobile. built in 19003 and reaching today's Ford, the luxurious Mercury Lincoln ZR and Lincoln, style leaders for the road of tomorrow and dominate the centerpiece was Ford's production cycle, a 30 m turntable that weighs more than 150 tons and floats in more than 70,000 liters of water. Animated models were used to reveal how the automobile industry distributes employment across many sectors of society and in areas far removed from actual automobile manufacturing factories. The automobile industry distributes employment through its suppliers to raw materials once outside the showroom. Visitors were invited. to travel what was called the highwayof tomorrow, we would call them flyovers and take them for granted.

General Motors was a conglomerate of automobile brands started in 1908, it would become the world's largest corporation and was the world's best-selling automobile manufacturer for 77 years. consecutive years from 1931 to 2008 when I lost this epithet to Toyota Over the years GM has produced cars called Cadillac Elmore Oakland Buick Chevrolet duu GMC Holden Hummer Oldsmobile opal Pontiac Sab Saturn and voxo at its peak General Motors employed 350,000 people and operated 150 factories Across six continents, the 1940 Oldsmobile hydromatic marked another momentous step in the evolution of the automobile. It was the first mass production car to be equipped with an automatic gearbox.

Cadillac began working on a gearless transmission in 1932, but Oldsmobile introduced the hydromatic because it produced more cars than Cadillac. At that time and to protect Cadillac's reputation, if the market rejected the new transmission once the US had committed itself to World War II, many industries switched to manufacturing not only weapons but also airplanes, trucks and ships. What our modern combat force needed, which the US built over 150,000 battle tanks, a quarter of a million cannons, more than two and a half million machine guns and two and a half million military trucks. The war, as in World War I, spurred engineering advances at a much greater rate than in peacetime, and mass advances as well.

Production that came directly from the motor industry was applied to munitions factories and much of the industrialized United States became war machines making war machines. The United States also built more than 3,000 military aircraft and Henry Ford's magic worked here too. The B24 Liberator heavy bomber was the most produced American aircraft in history, with over 18,000 built. Ford opened Willow Run, the world's largest factory outside the USSR, in August 1942. There, on the world's largest assembly line, 428 B-24s were built per month. The Army requested 135 companies.functional prototypes of a four-wheel drive reconnaissance vehicle setting a deadline of only 49 days working without pay the independent designer KL Propst He drew up the plans for the Bantam prototype in 2 days he estimated the total cost of the vehicle and submitted a bid in 5 days complete with The plans the Army chose were Overland Willies with Ford as the second supplier to build what became known as the Jeep after the war.

Thousands of Army surplus vehicles were spread around the world and on weekends, groups of us Jeep fans would take their little Hardy vehicles to In the desert, these weekend warriors became rampaging Ridge Runners eager to Putting their jeeps and themselves to the test in some pretty difficult terrain without the safety equipment of today's cars, Hardy's passengers risked being thrown not only from their seats but also out of the vehicles and when things they got hot, a period of reflection didn't mean a seat on the sidelines but a seat in the middle of the action wet or muddy, it didn't matter in Jeep, going back to the old cry, they went that way post-war.

Reconstruction was tough, but in the 1950s people were looking toward a bright new future, and the auto industry responded in kind: new factories and new workers produced new cars that seemed to get bigger and bigger at the time. American cars became irrelevant to the rest of the world. Around the world and vice versa, they were too large for many European cities and roads and their styling was too bold for countries still recovering from the debilitating effects of World War II. In Detroit, no one seemed to care that they were working hard to meet local demand in the In the 1950s, the area had the highest median income and highest homeownership rate of any major U.S. city. , four out of every five cars in the world were made in the US, half of them by GM, no other car company had the capital or know-how to enter the global car business GM's main US rival, Ford , was half its size, the largest foreign automaker, Volkswagen was slightly larger than GM's German subsidiary, Opel had only had one model, the Beetle, and Toyota wasn't even in the Horizon, it made 23,000 cars in 1955 in Japan compared to the 4 million made by GM in the US, but the volumes of cars being made and sold meant that despite the millions spent on improving roads, traffic jams began to decline. average speeds for routine trips.

The US solution was to cut larger and larger roads. across the countryside like fat black snakes linking homes and offices, schools, stores and factories, divided roads with four or more lanes in each direction that were once considered more than enough encouraged more travelers and within a few years would be clogged up to practically paralyze. Great new paths they did. It means people from peripheral areas could travel more easily to find work. Rural people could now work in industry as well as on the lands their ancestors had farmed. Farmers who were previously isolated from their markets could now drive there easily, saving valuable daylight hours; better transportation meant schoolchildren.

They could attend schools further from home than their parents and grandparents. Rural one-room schools and single teachers were replaced by large modern schools with teams of specialist teachers, which meant greater challenges for growing minds and teachers, but also better resources for out-of-town residents. discovered that owning a car meant being able to access another American invention that probably would not have happened without the Motorcar: the shopping center with many outlets, all in one convenient location and with easy access and parking right outside, a completely new method of Purchases evolved and spelled the death of Nell for older outlets, far from the avalanche of changes bought and wrought by the automobile, General Motors hosted an annual automobile show from 1949 to 1961.

Motor Arma attempted to boost sales with displays of concept car prototypes and others Special models of some of the armored vehicles are shown here, all of them complete and with hand-made vehicles that have survived more than half a century to the present day. The Buick xp300 was a 1951 design exercise and the name arose from its experimental state and the 300 horsepower delivered by its supercharged V8 engine that took the car to over 200 km per hour looking half a century ahead of its time. Buick ran on methanol had a heat-treated aluminum body seat adjustment with push-button power windows and power outlets the 1951 lasaber exhibited very advanced ideas made of aluminum and magnesium, had a modern automatic gearbox, a rain-activated pop-up roof , a dual supercharged fuel-injected V8 engine and built-in hydraulic jacks that were rumored to cost up to a million dollars, equivalent to 10 times more than today. was used as a personal car for years by GM's chief designer Harley o GM's experimental turbine engines were converted into a thin-tip, fiberglass-reinforced plastic Delta wing vehicle for Firebird 1 4 years later, in 1956, the more refined four-passenger Firebird 2 appeared using the first regenerative gas turbine that allowed the use of air conditioning and power steering.

The Firebird 3 was built in 1958. A two-passenger turbine car. It had a single joystick controller that replaced the steering wheel and pedals. The Buick Centurion appeared at the 1956 Motorama. Its body was made of fiberglass and its cabin was inspired by an airplane. The bubble roof was more stylish than practical, but rising rear fins would appear on production cars. Three years later, a 325-horsepower V8 engine was installed and a television camera was decades ahead of its time. What was behind the car to a small television screen on the dashboard when the doors were opened, the seats automatically slid back to provide better access to the red leather and brushed metal interior.

The Buick Skylock was produced in six production runs, each design varying due to changes. Technology and tastes presented at Mark Buick's 50th anniversary. The Skylock was one of three special convertibles produced in 1953. Of the three, the Skylock had the largest production run with 1,690 units. Chief designer Harley Earl convinced GM that they needed a two-seat sports car because returning soldiers were bringing home MGS Jaguars and Alpha Romeos with their special projects team. It all started the Opel project in 1951. The result was the hand-built Corvette ex1 122 prototype that was first shown at the 1953 Motor Armor at Walor Historia in New York.

Production began 6 months later with both heaters. and a radio as extra-cost options, the Corvette was rushed into production to capitalize on the enthusiastic public reaction to the concept car, but it didn't have enough power and the project was nearly cancelled. The six-cylinder engine and two-speed automatic gearbox won the concept few friends. The car was used as a test mule for the V8 engine that was installed in 1955. It is now in a museum in Atlantic City; in contrast, cars that sold in high volume were a bit more common. Getting there is a real pleasure when you drive a Chevrolet, the most attractive. driving a car on the highway try a nice shiny new nine passenger boville for shopping or hauling a full load of kids to a picnic, you name it, the bville fits the bill or step up to a Belair Sport long coupe and low, truly distinctive Chevrolet in design and performance.

You'll like Chevy, get up and go, it's as exciting to drive as it is attractive to look at, and how easily the new Chevrolet handles a little lady, a big truck, how well it corners on a bumpy road. Cadillac's identity as an American automotive icon was unmistakable in 1957, the cars celebrating the good life with voluptuous styling and extensive chrome trim packed with real engineering creativity that reached into the luxury stratosphere: the 1957 Cadillac Eldorado broam, which It was $13,750, one of the most interesting Cadillacs of the 1950s, this one low-slung and pillarless. The sedan featured center-opening doors and a brushed stainless steel-covered roof, one of Harley's favorite touches, while standard quad headlights were an industry first.

The '57 Chevy was available in three models, the upscale Air B, the mid-range 210, and the 150 in two. Pickup and convertible bodies The car's image is often used in toys, graphics, music, movies, and television, as typical of American automobiles of the 1950s. Chevrolet dictated a number of changes that increased the cost of the car, including which include a new dashboard and air ducts in the headlights. The pods that resulted in the distinctive chrome headlights that helped make the '57 Chevy a classic. 14-inch wheels gave the car a lower stance, and a wide grille made it appear wider from the front.

The famous '57 Chevy tailfins duplicated the wide appearance from the rear. The Chevrolet Impala became the best-selling car in the United States when full-size models dominated the market competing against Ford's Galaxy 500 and the Plymouth Fury. The Impala was introduced in 1958 as a new luxury sport trim package created for model-exclusive Belair Coupes and convertibles. its six taillights that distinguish it from cheaper models this classic style would become its trademark from 1958 to 1965 it was Chevrolet's most expensive passenger model the Cadillac Eldorado was part of the Cadillac line from 1953 to 2002 the range of Older American luxury automobiles Eldorado models were always near the top of the Cadillac line and were among the most extravagantly styled vehicles of their time.

The Dorado had its own rear styling with tall, thin, pointed tail fins, which contrasted the thick, bulbous fins common at the time. of El Dorado pointing the way forward was a four-door hardtop with hinged rear doors that cost more than the Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud of the same year featured air suspension the first Memory power SE and even small perfume bottles the Convertibles were the vehicle of choice for celebrities, movie stars, and beautiful people of the 1950s. In 1960, the American automobile industryhad consolidated into the big three General Motors, Ford and Krisler and American Motors. These companies not only dominated the domestic market, but were supreme globally in 1960.

American companies built 93% of the automobiles sold in the United States and 48% of global sales were from American-owned subsidiaries in countries from all inhabited continents, but imported cars led by Volkswagen and followed by Fiat, Renault, Datson and Hillman began to make their way. in the rich American market by supplying the only type of car that the United States did not make the little guys the growing presence of imports Disturbed Detroit and the big three responded with their own modest cars GM produced the Corvair Ford the Falcon and the Kryler the Valiant then increased Increase the production of so-called Muscle Cars, powerful elegant sports models, like the Mustang, the best and new models of a beautiful and wonderful New World that is worth more from any point of view and from all points of value, the 19 60 Ford They open up a whole new and wonderful world of elegant style and built for people's comfort and now the most sought after car in the world.

The best ofine cars. The last wish was the wonderful new world dream of the 1960 Thunderbird. Finally, the car everyone was waiting to see in the new size. Ford the Falcon, the new Falon, you are the new sports Falcon, the cheapest car in the world. Here you have total comfort for six adults in a car that will give you up to 30 m per gallon. A new car with a new size and price. It is the easiest car in the world to own the Ford Falcon. You can see these cars in the showroom of your four dealerships, now the Falcon, the Thunderbird and the 1964.

There is a big, wonderful world of new Forsa proportions for you. More machines on the production line made work easier, but the motor industry was still a large employer of labor with automobile factories the end of a supply line that included thousands of workers across the country. Cuba is famous for preserving its pre-1959 American automobiles, which have been kept in operation by any means possible since then. the Cuban Revolution the arrival of new cars was stalled by a US trade embargo if the 1950s had been the decade of Dazzle the 1960s began by lowering the brightness the Cadillac 60 special first appeared in 1938 and, like many American model names, remained For a long time, throughout the 1950s, the Cadillac 60 Special appeared as an enlarged and optional version of the series 62.

The 6.4 L engine provided a suspension 325 horsepower pneumatic with freeon filled shocks. It was optional on the 60 special. The 1960 model saw new shorter tail fins. and a cleaner side molding design, as well as a rear grille design shared with the El Dorado's wheelbase, remained at 130 inches on a 225-inch long car and the $622 price was the same as in 1959 Also new for 1960 was a vinyl roof covering as standard changes. They were made for the 1960 Buick, which lost the brand's huge CED delta-shaped fins and sloping quad headlights, a more subdued grille had concave vertical bars and quad headlights that were now side by side.

The rear fins were integrated into the overall profile and their top line extended to the windshield. General Motors needed to counter Ford's Thunderbird and decided it should look like a Rolls-Royce with a Ferrari twist. The result was the 1963 Buick Rivier. It was a styling milestone, a mix of curves and sharp lines. The engineering of the Riviera was new from the ground up. Independent. The rear suspension and disc brakes were scrapped due to maintenance and reliability issues, so special bushings gave the 1963 Riviera a smooth ride and aluminum finned brake drums were specified. Ford's revolutionary Mustang was initially based on the Falcon introduced in April 1964.

The Mustang is Ford's most successful launch. From the Model A, the prototype was a mid-engine two-seat Roadster using a German V8 engine for broader appeal, it became a four-seat car with individual front seats and a rear bench. Cadillac had a big year in 1965, making 200,000 cars in the economy series 62 a fixture from 1940 was renamed Cal Eldorado and the 60 specials were officially Fleetwoods as the series 75. A body change gave the 65 a lower silhouette long with flat fins, although a hint remained: a new straight black bumper with vertical lights, the pairs of headlights changed to vertical with a wider grille, although Cadillac's V8 remained unchanged, the slightly lighter 65, They offered the best power-to-weight ratio in the luxury market, a fully adjustable steering column and dual-range turbo hydromatic transmission were installed and all models came with a new sonically balanced exhaust system.

The 1965 potential of 800 cars per day was an all-time high and the 3 millionth Cadillac was built. The Pontiac Lamar was a compact. and mid-size model sold from 1962 to 1981. In 1964, the Lamar became available with a new performance package designated as the GTO. The GTO option was priced just under $300 more and included a larger V8 from the Pontiac full-size line offering 325 or 335 horsepower, a 4-speed manual transmission with floor shift, and heavy-duty suspension at In the late '60s, the Pontiac GTO was the ultimate muscle car available as a two-door hardtop or convertible, nothing rivaled the GTO's new energy-absorbing Endura bumper, which was molded and colored. coded to form the car's clean new nose and hidden headlights so popular few realized there were actually options, the steering transmitted road shock and had little feel and some sheet metal wasn't the strongest , but in the treacherous jungle of muscle cars, the new GTO remained one. of the beaked cats, the Chevrolet Camaro was designed as a competitor to the Ford Mustang and shared its platform and major parts with the Pontiac Firebird Automotive.

The media asked Chevrolet product managers what a Camaro is and were told it was a ferocious little animal that eats Mustangs. debuted in September 1966 and was available as a 2 plus2 two-door coupe or convertible with a 250 cubic inline 6-cylinder engine or V8 between 32 and 396 cubic meters used in the SS facelift of the original 1967 body, created from unique way. This season-only styling was carried over from the 1970 model when production problems delayed the redesigned next-generation Camaro. The super sport or SS added about $300 to a Camaro and included a stiffer suspension and larger tires, power front disc brakes, and a non-working hood. a new hood with its functional rear-facing intake rear had trouble dropping power.

Smart owners addressed the problem with traction kits, but fewer than 14,000 were actually built. The 1970s proved to be a decade of tumultuous change for the automobile industry in the United States, caught first in the economic turmoil of high interest rates. High inflation and price controls and then in the energy crisis of 1973 and 79, the automotive industry suffered the brunt of the changes brought to the American economy, in addition to the domestic economic situation, American automobile manufacturers also faced a market modified international with more competition from foreign manufacturers in the decade. It started badly with a crippling strike by the United Auto Work Union during 1970, as a result of which production of the four major manufacturers, General Motors, Ford Chrysler and AMC, fell by 1 million vehicles, 10% below the figures In 1969, in addition to the strike, automakers faced a buying public that increasingly focused on safety and fuel economy, two aspects that had previously not featured much in design criteria: performance had been the main focus of automobile marketing in America, exemplified by muscle cars like the Mustang Camaro and Firebird, but everything changed in the 1970s.

The oil crisis of '73 tailpipe emissions control standards increasingly better and very affordable Japanese and European imports and stagnant local innovation dealt the American industry one blow after another, ironically, large sedans staged a comeback in the years between the energy crisis with badges like Cadillac and Lincoln in scene. In its prime years in the late 1970s, small high-performance cars from BMW, Toyota, and Nissan took the place of America's big-engined cars, but near-monopoly conditions in the American car market led to complacency and assumption that American leadership in technology and marketing was previously unassailable. American companies had largely resisted innovation in automobile design and manufacturing, preferring to make money by increasing the size and weight of their vehicles.

Vehicles adding extras such as air conditioning, power steering and sophisticated sound systems that compensated with increasingly larger engines were European manufacturers who developed disc brakes, rack and pinion steering and diesel engines and took the lead in building vehicles safer and more efficient, and the mass production techniques on which the American industry depended so much stifled innovation because it was too expensive to introduce fundamentally new models on the basis of two oil companies. crisis Imports of Japanese cars into the United States soared in the 1980s, to the dismay of both American companies and labor unions seizing nearly a quarter of the American market and as American automakers pressured the government American to limit imports of Toyota and Nissen from Japan. began building car plants in the US in 2005, these Japanese transplants would produce 4 million cars a year, a quarter of US production and more than GM.

American auto companies tried, unsuccessfully, to design a competitive small car if the 1980s were a decade of Fear that the 1990s represented a false dawn with oil at $18 a barrel. American companies thought they had the answer to the Japanese threat. Sports utility vehicles such as pickup trucks, SUVs enjoyed a 25% import tariff and escaped government rules to increase fuel efficiency. 1 to 4 million with 60% of the Big 3's sales and almost all of their profits coming from SUVs, but as fuel prices rose, SUV sales plummeted and demand for smaller vehicles returned to increase, but Detroit had none to sell.

The Cadillac CTS is a mid-size luxury sports sedan and later also a pickup truck, launched in 2002 and credited with revitalizing the Cadillac brand, it marked a return to rear-wheel drive cars and was the first Cadillac to Offered with a manual transmission since 1988, sales were a vast improvement over its predecessors and the CTS received North American Car of the Year in 2002, perhaps proving that poetry and motion were not a dead art in USA. The Chevrolet SS concept car was introduced in 2003, but was never approved for official production. Four-seat sports sedan Rear doors are almost invisible The SS used a 430-horsepower all-aluminum 6L V8 engine that offers on-demand displacement The system that effectively shuts down a large portion of the engine when full power is not required The system saves some fuel but significantly reduces emissions The attached suspension The SS Air aluminum chassis was tuned for performance rather than comfort and emphasized its sporty characteristics The chassis features driver-adjustable shock absorbers to change the ratio of Damping The SS driver could tune the chassis for a softer ride during the week and dial up more performance for track use on the weekends.

Powerful fenders house 21-inch front and 22-inch rear aluminum wheels and the SS also includes side gills through the fascia's dual exhaust and brushed stainless steel panel surrounding the sporty round. taillights design is a mix of styles and stylistic features of sports carsmodern and sports cars from the heyday of the American auto industry General Motors went bankrupt in the global financial crisis in the first decade of the 21st century the United States government rescued the company with $50 billion by financing a bankruptcy restructuring during mass layoffs, plant closings and billions of dollars in debt eliminated, but while the past is where we come from, it is the future that we will live in.

The Chevrolet vault is a viable add-on. Hybrid electric vehicle during the first 40 Mi. The Vault is powered by lithium-ion batteries, but when the batteries run low, a small gasoline engine recharges them, extending the volt range to over 300 Mi. Unlike most hybrid electric cars, the Volt is powered solely by its electrical energy. engine, although slightly older, the Highwire hydrogen-by-wire or fuel cell propulsion prototype is a long way from series production, although in 2003 GM said it was confident it could produce a commercially viable model by 2010, the Car runs on hydrogen fuel cells to create electricity and uses a drive-by-wire control system.

The car's power system and single-choice electric motor are integrated into a flat, skateboard-like chassis that lowers the car's center of gravity. With the propulsion and energy storage systems in the scooter, the passenger compartment can be a four-door sedan minivan or even interchangeable, all using the same propulsion system. The ride-by-wire system allows you to operate the controls from either front seats the high-wire fuel cell produces 94 KW of power continuously and up to 129 KW briefly During the periods hydrogen is supplied from three tanks in the chassis and the electric motor gives the 1800 kg vehicle a speed maximum of 100 mph.

Hydrogen, the most common element in the universe, is almost certainly the key to the energy needs of the future, but the vehicles that use it will be too. They look nothing like the cars that have come from America over the last century. The wonderful thing about American roads is the freedom it gives us. Just get in your car and start driving to feel the American road. What magnificent views open before you. We as we travel along it have come a long way from the quadricycle and the Model T in the short years our entire way of life has changed we have accomplished much but the achievements to come will eclipse our own the American Highway stretches ahead of us all of us towards a new horizon we are all walking that path all moving towards an even better tomorrow