By Julian David

Bocanegra Fontecha Automobile History

• Invented and perfected
 When Were
Cars
Invented?
In 1901, by Wilhelm Maybach for
Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft
• Its thirty-five-horsepower
engine
• And it achieved a top speed
of fifty-three miles per hour.
Oldsmobile.
Sold for
$650 USD
• In 1908 Henry Ford
introduced the Model T
The United States had a far
greater need for automotive
transportation than the
nations of Europe.
• Mass production, lower
price more volume
• In 1913, the United States
produced some 485,000 of
the world total of 606,124
motor vehicles.
Model N

“Car for the

great multitude.”
• Ford’s mass production
techniques were quickly
adopted by other American
automobile manufacturers.
• Automobile manufacturers
dropped from 253 in 1908
to only 44 in 1929
• with about 80 percent of owned by
Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler.
The automobile
industry had played a
critical role in
producing military
vehicles and war
matériel in WWI and
WWII
• Rise of
Japanese
Automakers

In 1980 Japan
became the
world’s
leading auto
producer
2000’s cars