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... . The FB was the first Holden with acrylic paintwork. It incorporated upgraded brakes, heavier front coil springs and a reworked interior. The range included six models (the Business sedan was dropped). Holden may have produced its 750,000th car, and even be manufacturing left-hand-drive versions for shipment to Hawaii, but it now faced a serious competitor. A Serious Challenge By Ford By 1959 Ford knew that the Zephyr, despite being a very good car, was never going to challenge the Holden for market leadership. But Ford had a new rival for it, the Falcon. When Robert MacNamara became President of Ford in 1960, he immediately set the Company on the course of producing a new mass market family car. The resulting Ford Falcon was to become immediately popular ...

... established in 1920 called the Toyo Cork Kogyo Co Ltd. In 1921, the president of the company, Jujiro Matsudo, father of the 1977 president, directed the company's efforts into machinery production until, in 1923, the devastating Kanto earthquake levelled Tokyo, destroying all means of transport- which were at the time cattle, carts and wagons. Impressed by the efficiency of the Model T Ford trucks which were drafted in to help in the relief work, Matsudo seized the opportunity of adapting the technology his company had been using to produce machinery into the manufacture of motor cycles. Exhaustive studies of British and German motor cycles resulted in the Toyo Kogyo technicians developing their own engine, a two-stroke 250cc unit, which was installed in an effective, although short-lived, machine ...

... ", which remained in production as an AC power-unit until well into the 1950s. Designer Weller also invented a slipper chain-tensioner for the overhead camshaft drive of the lightweight six-cylinder motor- and by the early 1970s it was being used on cars and motorcycles all over the world as the "Weller Tensioner". The AC 3000 spelt the end of the seven-litre Ford V8-engined model. The company claimed they were having difficulty getting the special body panels from Frua in Italy and also that the energy crisis would sound the death knell for the big American-type engine. The AC 3000 used the ubiquitous Ford three-litre V6, but unlike the other specialist manufacturers, the Thames Ditton firm put the motor transversely behind the (two) seats, ...

... Convertible. 1968 Chev Chevelle at NASCAR. Roger Penske Racing Trans-Am Comaro. 1969 Chevrolet Impala Custom 2 Door. 1971 Chevrolet Vega. 1971 Chev Vega. 1973 Prototype two-rotor Wankel Rotary Corvette. 1973 Chevrolet Corvette. 1973 Chevrolet Corvette. Production of Little cars got off to such a lively start that Durant decided to base Chevrolet manufacture in Flint too, instead of building a big Ford-style plant in Detroit. The necessary total production capacity was achieved by setting up assembly plants around the country. Chevrolet manufacture was moved to Flint in August 1913 and put under the control of the executive who was running Little. Louis Chevrolet was overseas when some of these changes were made and on returning he saw that a merger between the Little and Chevrolet product lines seemed inevitable. Finding ...

... Range Rover was a unique vehicle, combining excellent off-road abilities and refined around town manners- it quickly becoming a status-symbol of the affluent that remains to this day. Interestingly, it remains as the only vehicle to have been exhibited in the Louvre as a work of art. However not everything to come out of the UK was golden. BMC were losing market share to the Ford Cortina and Holden Torana, and realised they needed a new mid sized car to replace their rapidly aging designs. And thus evolved the Marina, although using the word "evolve" is overstating it a little. Using running gear dating back to 1948, designers reasoned that the "all new" Marina would be accepted by the public by way of knowing its technology was tried and tested. ...