A period of American history that can appropriately be known as the Automobile Age is melding into a brand new Age of Electronics. In 1980, 87.2 p.c of American households owned one or more motor automobiles, 51.5 p.c owned a couple of, and absolutely 95 percent of home automobile sales were for replacement. Americans have turn out to be actually auto-dependent. The period of the yearly restyled street cruiser ended with the imposition of federal requirements of automotive safety (1966), emission of pollution (1965 and 1970), and power consumption (1975); with escalating gasoline prices following the oil shocks of 1973 and 1979; and especially with the mounting penetration of each the U.S. and world markets first by the German Volkswagen …œBug… (a modern Model T) and then by Japanese gas-environment friendly, functionally designed, properly-constructed small vehicles.
The Ford Motor Company tremendously outpaced its competitors in reconciling state-of-the-artwork design with moderate price. Cycle and Automobile Trade Journal known as the 4-cylinder, fifteen-horsepower, $600 Ford Model N (1906-1907) …œthe very first occasion of a low-cost motorcar driven by a gasoline engine having cylinders sufficient to offer the shaft a turning impulse in every shaft flip which is nicely built and supplied in massive numbers.… Deluged with orders, Ford put in improved manufacturing equipment and after 1906 was capable of make deliveries of 100 vehicles a day. In Japan, automobile manufacturing was very restricted before World War II. Only a handful of corporations had been producing autos in restricted numbers, and these had … Read More