Evolution Of Cars

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Cars have gone through many changes throughout the years. We have seen car designs from the 40’s land boats, all the way to the exotic styles we see today. People tend to look past the fact that cars are not only just a form of transportation, but also a passion and an art style, that has been carried down throughout the years. Cars are a way for an artist to express themselves through time, and hard work. If we really want to try and inform people on how much work goes into one car, we need to go back to some of the most iconic cars in history. While car aerodynamics have not always been very successful and efficient (1960 land boats), car companies seem to learn from their mistakes, however sometimes it does not always happen immediately. …show more content…

Not only were the engines of cars not able to supply the car with that amount of power, but the cars were just tall boxes, and didn’t necessarily go with the wind. I had found that cars didn’t actually start reaching highway speeds until the Ford Model A.(The Model T’s predecessor) At this time, the Model A’s top speed was said to be about 65, however realistically could barely reach modern highways speeds, and even so would be considered extremely slow. In Serra, Jonah. "The Evolution of Car Design From 1910 to Now,” it is stated that car companies didn’t really start looking into making cars aerodynamically efficient, and didn’t worry about power output and fuel consumption until about 1910. Although cars at this started to take into consideration that air flow might have a thing or two to do with speed, for the most part, people tended to think larger engines means more speed. Which in some cases can be true. However, it wasn’t until about 1910 like I said before, that the light bulb clicked for aerodynamic efficiency. However, once the year of 1910 came around, car designs started to drastically changed, and manufacturers started to notice that air flow might actually have something to do with

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