The Invention Of The Automobile Industry

The automotive industry in the United States began in the 1890s and rapidly evolved into the largest in the world. However, the United States was overtaken as the largest automobile producer by Japan in the 1980s, and subsequently by China in 2008 ( "2013 production statistics".). The U.S. is currently second among the largest manufacturer in the world by volume, with approximately 8-10 million automobiles manufactured annually (World Motor Vehicle Data 2007). General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler, all based in Metro Detroit dominated the automobile industry.

The automobile has had a profound impact on the United States. It has brought us

There’s hardly a person alive in America today that hasn’t ridden in an automobile of some sort at some point in their life. We’re all connected to each other by roads crisscrossing roads and highways all across country, and yet few people understand how we got to this point. They simply accept their magic metal box will work when they put the key in to start their car. Long ago, this country once had a great love affair with the American Automobile, and it was a turbulent, passion filled, amazing ride.

Karl Benz invented the first automobile in 1866; it has changed the world in how we commute every day. From riding in carriages to now cutting our time travel whether it is riding a bus or our on car. It has become more of a necessity in today's world to have a car because its something that we choose to have in our daily life that it is a choice that is high on the priority list to own. As to wealthier people the type of car you drive puts in a different class. Where some get the choice of car that they want others have a certain budget on what to look for. The way an automobile symbolizes today, changed in society, and how a car has become a collection.

Not too long ago Americans were sold an idea that has influenced the way we live our lives today. With an incredible marketing team and the majority of the population having some sort of disposable income, the idea of the automobile was a hit. A personal vehicle that could get you almost anywhere, at any time was flying off the shelves. The American dream was born with what seemed to be the ultimate piece of technology that gave people the freedom to travel wherever and whenever. With this technology came a paradigm shift within the design and planning of cities and neighborhoods alike, steering away from the idea of walking or biking places. With the affordability of the car it was easy to drive where ever the destination maybe. This created

For many people cars are just ways of transportation, a tool to get them from point A to point B. To others they are a way

Since the development of the steam engine people had been interested in creating self-powered vehicles, this manifested during the industrial revolution as the train. However, as time went on people became interested in creating a vehicle that wasn’t confined to tracks. The earliest attempts were moderately successful but served little practical purpose. Automobiles first began to truly spread with the invention of the electric motor which created cheaper, more powerful, and safer automobiles. Still the automobile still had numerous problems and were mainly in the hands of the rich. It was the development of the internal combustion engine and the assembly line that was truly able to create a practical vehicle that could be used by all and

In the beginning, man’s only form of transportation was his own feet. Later, to comfort his journey on foot, was the invention of footwear. Through envy of the speed of other animals he would learn to tame these animals. People who live in the desert ride atop camels. The people who live in the frigid climates travel by dogs. Some people from places like India ride elephants. But the must widely used form of transportation by animal power was by horse. Man would soon develop boats and ships to travel long distances over water and time would flow like the rivers and hundreds of years later, in the late 1700s steam power became the new craze. Steam power got the wheels turning amongst many inventors who

Contrary to popular belief Henry Ford did not invent the automobile, or the assembly line.

The USA has an active automobile industry, and this is attributed to the availability of a market for the cars. “In 2015, the auto sales record were broken in the USA, a new record of 1,641,913 vehicles were sold up from 1,507,229 in 2014. Ford Motor Co. was among the top sellers with their sales standing at 237, 606” (Automotive News, 2016). The quality of automobiles in the USA has been improving thanks to the policies adopted by the government and the competition between players to produce quality vehicles.

Over the years, the U. S. auto industry's market has been experiencing fluctuations due to many reasons including: price, quality and foreign competition. General Motors Corporation (GM) which had been the leading car and truck manufacturer had been experiencing declining market share and facing stiff competition from both U.S manufacturers and foreign imports such as the Asian auto producers that included Toyota, Honda and Nissan. The main reason for increased foreign competition was that foreign cars were more fuel efficient, smaller, less expensive, and often more reliable than their American counterparts.

In 2011, U.S. sales of new vehicles reached 12.7 million units, the best result since 2007.1 Sales for 2012 were projected to reach 13.8 million units, close to what many experts considered a nonbubble sales volume of around 14–15 million cars.2 In terms of local manufacturing volume, the U.S. was third in the world with a record low of 5.7 million new motor vehicles produced in 2009. During the same year, Japan built 7.9 million cars and China 13.7 million. Just a decade earlier, however, in 1999, the U.S. dominated the global car industry, manufacturing more than 13 million new vehicles, more than Japan and China combined at the time.3 Recent volume increases in China were mostly driven by first-time buyers, government incentives, rural subsidies, and reduced sales tax for fuel-efficient vehicles. While the Chinese market was growing at an impressive rate of 40% annually,4 major U.S. carmakers were still struggling at home.

The financial crisis starting in 2008 and the following recession hit hard the US auto sector. Traditional car makers had to realise that substantial changes were needed in order to maintain their strong position in the

Although Ford’s industry that he built was the best and really what launched this whole craze and really kicked it off. It was not the only automotive industry that has made risks that paid off big time. As a matter of fact the blueprint for the modern automobile was perfected in Germany and France in the late 1800s, so we weren’t even the one who perfected the modern automobile.

The characteristics of the global motor vehicle industry are a boom in certain places and a bust in others all due to economic conditions in different nations. Four years after tow of Detroit Michigan’s big three went into bankruptcy American car makers are going “full throttle” with sales in August hitting an annual rate that if substantiated can take them back over 16 million and that is a rate that was last hit before the economic crisis and 80% higher than 2009 when GM and Chrysler went into bankruptcy. The opposite is happening in Europe being in its sixth year slump now and with a weak economy, high petroleum prices and an aging