Ever wonder where your honda civic came from and how it turned into a fast POS. most people nowadays drive a 2012 kia soul. The first ever car started as a metal box with a wooden bench and 3 wheels pretty easy and simple. A while later Ferdinand Porsche debuted a radical hybrid car that generates electricity from two small engines. This is when cars started to charge their own battery. The most popular car came with Henry Ford (with that hard name, he was destined to make cars), the “Model T,” this was the first vehicle to be mass-produced in 1908. Henry wanted to make a “bang for your buck” The result would be that he would make more money overall The assembly line and hard work resulted in 15 million Model Ts. His plan was a W.
Before any of his evil acts, Adolf Hitler, yes him, contributed to the company; he helped invent the Volkswagen Bug, a car that literally looked like a bug, creating a new, and more modern era of cars. Hitler had the same idea as Ford, wanting to make a car that everyone could have and buy for a cheap price, weird of him being so nice huh. Unfortunately, only 600 cars were made before the factories had to switch to work for war (because of hitler himself). Later on, the Beetle makes a comeback with mass production and people associating the car with hippies, becoming very popular in the ’60s. Much like the beetle. The first ever Jeep was invented during the war, the Army was looking for a reliable vehicle to “handle tough military duty”. They created a car with 4-wheel drive. Selling over 700,000 models, this car carried the war.
Advancing into the second goated era, the racing era, Enzo Ferrari, another tuff name, created the first kind of sports car, wallahi. We all love sports cars, the car he made looked like a little futuristic buggy straight out of a movie. Most of the advancements made in this time period were for speed and agility like Toretto did to the Chevrolet 1950 fleetline. Holy niche reference. On a tragic day in 1955, the Mercedes 300 SL crashed at the Le Mans F1 race, killing 83 people and injuring120 . This event made car companies rethink about the safety features on cars for the driver and others. Four years later, to keep drivers from flying out of windows in a crash, Volvo invented the modern 3-point seatbelt for vehicles.
In 1964, the Ford Mustang came out, surprising everyone with its shape and shining paint making any car fan fall in love. Beating up the European cars, Henry Ford II, like his father, wanted a nice, cheap but reliable car, like something going to Wawa for some snacks in. Selling 1 million units in under 2 years. The same amount of snacks I got from wawa in the last month, the car was the jackpot! This era is what most people call the “classic” or “American muscle” era (the best era). It was a fight between Ford, Buick, GM, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, and Chevy to see who could make the freshest vehicle. These cars were built with big block engines, large cams, blowers, and dual exhaust, and were meant to sound tuff; it was a beautiful era for car lovers. These cars took speed and made it into power with the big question being, “which car has the most horsepower?” These cars were very heavy and fast, made entirely out of metal.
Moving into the good old ages of the ’90s and the 2000s, the cars from these years were lame and boring; this is when most of America got lazy, and convenient and switched to automatic transmission. Since the switch most tallwood students dont know how to drive with a manual transmission. Only every 2 in 13 people know how to drive a stick shift at tallwood highschool. Polypropylene is a sort of hard plastic—long story short, this plastic is easier to make, so car companies were pumping it out and making all their cars with this material to mass-produce vehicles. They were treating that plastic like peasants. This era was focused on quantity and electricity like any company nowadays. After a while a man by the name of Martin Eberhard (indeed he did not have a tuff name) invented a car company, “Tesla.” Tesla has more futuristic vehicles (which most of them look super ugly). Focusing on proving that electric vehicles can be just as proficient as gas powered vehicles. Teslas are powered by electricity and nothing else kinda like people addicted to coffee; these cars are like a salad for the environment and they reduce air pollution, but there are some flaws. Charging the car takes a majority of your time. No keys and no ignition; if the car breaks down, you are cooked and you will have to take it to the dealer which can be annoying. It lowkey would ruin my day. These cars are meant to be the “future” with features like self-driving, an iPad, automated lane assistance, and parking assistance being the big ones so you can be a fat chud and barely do any driving. Cars have gone a very long way since 1886—from fat buggies powered by a single-stroke engine to cars that can power themselves and take you on a road trip to Wyoming without you having to lift a finger. This is just to show how much the human race depends on vehicles and how they affect our daily lives from almost 2 decades of service.
