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The history of the car starting January 29, 1886, when the engineer Karl Benz in Mannheim presents the service patent his creation - a primitive vehicle with three wheels, but with an internal combustion engine. A 0.8 hp engine, which allows a top speed of 18 km per hour. At the same time in Stuttgart Gottfried Daimler creates his own car with four wheels, which resembles alogamaxa, suffered metatropes.Tin time nobody could imagine the future developments, says history professor at the University of Karlsruhe Kurt Mozer: "It was a spectacular invention but no one imagined how it goes. Everyone wanted to perfect it, but did not know: to invest more in better comfort or speed? What would call the market? "Says Professor Mozer. The principle of mass production the car was a luxury item - until 1908, when the American Henry Ford introduced the Model 'T'. For the first time the car is mass produced product. And for the first time a U.S. industry more than doubles the wages and also reduces the hours. It was a prototype of the modern consumer society. 15 million cars of type 'T' Ford will sell by 1927, although this model was rather awkward, says Marcus Neumann, former Ford: "It is a car very simple and same time very complicated. Compared to modern cars do not offer many amenities and also wants a lot of maintenance. Every 600 km should be changing oil every three hundred kilometers like grease, "says former partner Fornt.Kai in Germany the market starts to move, but the car remains a luxury. The shift to mass production will be done by the Austrian engineer Ferntinarnt Porsche, which plans a "people's car", "Folksvagken" germanika.To in 1938 founded an entire city for a new car. The current propaganda of the time the tone: "Today, on 26 May 1938, Germany is turning its attention to a small village east of Hanover. Near Falerslempen where born lyricist of the national anthem, we are the impressive facilities Folksvagken. Here we built a new factory, which speaks once the whole world, "said the current. From the "Beetle" in ecological engines The plant was not built ever, because of the war. The facilities were destroyed. But in 1945 the town was renamed Wolfsburg and the engines get back in front. In 1949 the production reaches 50,000 'Folksvagken. " This is the famous "Beetle" with four-cylinder air-cooled engine, a car that was to become a symbol of postwar economic thafmatos.Apo dozens of manufacturers in the wars now have three left across Germany : Folksvagken group with subsidiaries Aounti and Porsches, the EIA and EM BE Daimler Group. The engineers look for new solutions, environmentally friendly. What would say today about all the pioneer Karl Benz? The disengoni his Utah Bench, believes that he would agree: "and he was trying to build a vehicle that fits the man and to respect nature. I think you liked today's developments, "says Ms. Utah Bents.Oso for Gottfried Daimler, and he could now feel vindicated for all-except one: a prediction that went down in history, that" ruled to be sold more than one million cars around the world .... " Sometimes, even geniuses can be wrong.
