Automotive Evolution The Design of the First Car That Changed History

... first-time new car buyers. The Jeep Renegade has those cool, rally ... In order to design muscle cars (especially their headlights), you have to ... For a few centuries there were different variations of steam powered vehicles that were early prototypes for the modern car, but the first ... The first car designs were simple and practical, with little emphasis on aesthetics. Cars were seen as mechanical workhorses designed to transport people ... He then began designing a motor carriage with a four-stroke engine based on Nicolaus Otto's patent. Benz designed his engine and the body for ... Engines were the first technology that influenced car designs, but ... Computers became invaluable as great time savers that freed designers from ... In the first of a monthly column on automotive design, Gautam Sen and Avik Chattopadhyay trace the earliest inventions, from da Vinci's ... The design of cars was influenced by the Great Depression that followed World War II. Automobile brands transitioned from Art Deco to more ... Karl Benz invented the first gas-powered car, which he received a patent for in 1886. Benz's first car had three wheels, looked much like an ... This beautifully produced, lavishly illustrated book presents a detailed history of the automobile—but describes cars entirely in terms of design ... More remarkably, this was the first time a woman had been responsible for designing a vehicle in the Art Car series. The design is readily understood as an ...