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History of american vehicles

Tue, 7-9-2010

	History of american vehicles

America's first automobile race was run on Thanksgiving Day in 1895. The course was about 90 kilometres long, from Chicago to Evanston, Illinois and back It showed dramatically that the automobile was a practical means of transportation within the grasp of the ordinary citizen.

Charles&James Dureya are considered to have been the first Americans to make and market a successful gasoline automobile in 1893. Their second car was the winner of the 1895 Chicago race mentioned above. The $2,000 prize money helped The Dureyas to establish the Dureya Motor Wagon Company.

The Olds Motor Vehicle Company established a factory in Detroit, Michigan in 1899. The success of the Olds operation did much to establish detroit as the "Motor Capital of the World".

Although Olds was the first company to produce cars in quantity, Henry Ford in considered the founder of modern automobile powered automobile in Detroit in 1896. In 1903 he formed the Ford Motor Company. Ford's methods were soon adopted by other manufacturers, and they have been used ever since. Nearly every automobile on the high-ways today is a mass-produced, standardized automobile.