A list of significant automobiles
Tuesday, 24 March, 2009
- 1891 Panhard et Levassor A, the first motor car in series production
- 1908 Ford Model T, the first motor car in mass production
- 1912 Cadillac Model Thirty, the first motor car with both on board electrics and presently standard control layout
- 1922 Austin 7, the mass-produced vehicle with the Cadillac control system which moved the British empire
- 1939 Crosley 1A, the first American vehicle since the Ford Model T designed for a low retail price and low operating costs.
- 1942 Willys-Overland MB, the vehicle, very loosely based on the Austin 7, which introduced driving to significant numbers of Americans during WWII
- 1945 Volkswagen Type 1, a distinctive design, based on the Tatra, which kept western Europe on the road and formed the basis of the German “economic miracle” of the 1950s
- 1949 Citroën 2CV, a totally original design which kept the French empire on the road
- 1950 Nash Rambler, the first American “compact car” and with the amenities of a premium vehicle
- 1952 Cony 360, the first successful post-war Japanese motor vehicle and distinctively, appropriately small
- 1953 Iso Isetta, widely licensed tiny distinctive motor car
- 1959 Austin Seven/Morris Mini-Minor, introduced longitudinal front-wheel drive in a wholly original design
- 1965 Renault 16, the first hatchback or liftback
- 1974 Citicar, the first post-war, mass-produced electric car to sell in significant quantities
- 1998 Smart City Coupe, the most innovative motor car in forty years
- 2009 Tata Nano, available in U.S. specification before 2012.
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