This blog is not intended for commercial purposes. It’s only a personal compilation of models and manufacturers from all over the world, from the beginning of the automotive history, up to the present days. A free car history lesson in images
1955 to 1957′s are the second generation of Chevrolet Bel Air models.
Chevrolet’s Bel Airs came with features that are usually found on lower model ranges but also with interior carpets, full wheel covers and chrome window moldings, chrome spears on front fenders and chrome headliner bands on hardtops.
Yhe 1955 model came with a modern, overhead valve high compression V8 engine (4,340 cc). This type of engine was considered so good that it remained in production for decades. Read the rest of this entry »
A first look at the all-new 2013 Chevy Malibu. A revolutionary new touch console puts all the information where you need it and seamless integration with your USB devices.
The Chevrolet Corvette returns to the famed German track – the Nurburgring – to test the 2012 ZR1 model. This year’s test run eclipses the time set in 2008 by more than six seconds.
We were recently let into a studio for a first look at the all-new 2012 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1, and had them fire up the ZL1′s 550-horsepower LSA supercharged V-8 for good measure. Read full story here: www.motortrend.com Also find Motor Trend on: twitter.com facebook.com
In the 50 years since US insurers organized the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, car crashworthiness has improved. Demonstrating this was a crash test conducted on Sept. 9 between a 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air and a 2009 Chevrolet Malibu. In a real-world collision similar to this test, occupants of the new model would fare much better than in the vintage Chevy. “It was night and day, the difference in occupant protection,” says Institute president Adrian Lund. What this test shows is that automakers don’t build cars like they used to. They build them better.” The crash test was conducted at an event to celebrate the contributions of auto insurers to highway safety progress over 50 years. Beginning with the Institute’s 1959 founding, insurers have maintained the resolve, articulated in the 1950s, to “conduct, sponsor, and encourage programs designed to aid in the conservation and preservation of life and property from the hazards of highway accidents.” A decade after the Institute was founded, insurers directed this organization to begin collecting data on crashes and the cost of repairing vehicles damaged in crashes. To lead this work and the Institute’s expanded research program, insurers named a new president, William Haddon Jr., who already was a pioneer in the field of highway safety. In welcoming Dr. Haddon, Thomas Morrill of State Farm said “the ability to bring unbiased scientific data to the table is extremely valuable.” This scientific approach, ushered in by …
