BG Steyr

Cars

Introduction
I want to talk about cars. I have divided my report in three parts. The History of
automobiles, the different types of cars and drivers and finally the problems and dangers
of cars in our world.

The History of automobiles
The first gas powered car was independently from each other invented by Carl Benz and
Gottlieb Daimler in Germany in the year 1886. In the beginning the production was
made by hand, but an American named Henry Ford changed this. He got famous
because of his partly automatically production and his first car – the model T. Already in
1909 there were 131000 cars produced in America. In 1920 already 8,1 millions car
were driving in the USA. Soon there were also produced large cars for transporting
things and also militaries used cars and for example the first tanks were nothing more
than cars with a heavy amour plating.

Nearly every year new and more efficient and better technologies improved the cars and
their power which is specified in horsepower. Since the seventies scientist also tried with
success to decrease the dangerous exhaust gases that are produced by cars. For the
great masses cars got affordable in the fifties, when the mass-production allows low
prices (example: VW-Beetle). The automobile industry was since its beginning in a
strong upward trend and today it is one of the most important factors in most of the
industrialised countries. Today some companies have taken a leading position in the
automobile section like Mercedes (that has fused with Chrysler), the VW concern and
Ford.
1995 the world car production reached over 50 million cars – 72 percent were personal
cars.

The types of cars and drivers
Today cars are a very important part of our daily lives. I don´t think that our world could
exist without any cars. We use automobiles when we drive to school, in our holidays, go
shopping or transport something. The main works they do for us is transporting anything
and anybody to any nearly any destination we want.

If you buy a car you have many possibilities to choose between, because nowadays a
car is more than just a medium to bring you from place A to place B. A car is for many of
us some kind of status symbol – some persons love their car more than anything else
and clean it every day. It is not easy to generalise the types of car drivers, but I want to
list up some typical car driver types for you.

The sporties:
They like fast cars with a huge amount of horsepower, to drive fast and often aggressive
and to show their cars in public. Most of them are young and want to impress others, but
some of them are also real car freaks who simply like cars.

The big ones:

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For them a car is a sign of social and financial status. They like big, precious and
important looking cars and they also like to show their status symbol in public.

The economics:
This group buys the car with the least gas consumption and with the best price-
performance level. They buy a car not because of the design or the power, but because
of their personal needing. They also try to minimise the environment damage.

The minimalists:
For the members of this group a car is not very important it just has to bring them to their
destination. They don’t invest a lot of money, because they don’t care very much about
their car.

The problems and dangers of cars
The main dangers of cars are accidents on the streets, which occur in the time of too
many, too fast and too powerful cars more often than ever before. Everyday some
hundred people all over the world die and some thousands are badly injured because of
car accidents that are mainly caused by drunkards behind the control, risky
manoeuvres, self-overestimation and human fail. In the least accidents the technique of
the car is to blame. In the last years automobile manufacturers have highly improved the
safety in cars for example with the airbag, the side bounce protection and many
technical details, so we can only minimise crashes if everyone of us keeps the traffic
rules.

The problems of the automobiles are the high environment pollution because of the gas
output of hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxide. The enormous mass of cars on our world
makes this fact to a real problem. Here the automobile-industry has also done made a
great advancement. In the last 8 years the fuel consumption has been reduced by one
third and the emissions by nearly fourty percent. And also the cars themselves are today
mainly produces of recyclable materials than can be reused in new cars.

Famous british cars:
Bentley, R. R. and Jaguar

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