Evolution of Cars

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  • First Car Ever Envented.

    First Car Ever Envented.
    In that year, German inventor Karl Benz built the Benz Patent-Motorwagen. Cars did not become widely available until the early 20th century. One of the first cars that was accessible to the masses was the 1908 Model T, an American car manufactured by the Ford Motor Company. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_automobile

  • First Car With Radio.

    First Car With Radio.
    In 1930, Paul and Joseph Galvin, along with William Lear, developed the first automobile dashboard radio and named it the "Motorola," or motorized Victrola—and demonstrated the 5T71 prototype (pictured, below right) in a Studebaker http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2399878,00.asp

  • First Automatic Car.

    First Automatic Car.
    These developments in automatic gearbox and fluid coupling technology eventually culminated in the introduction in 1939 of the General Motors Hydra-Matic, the world's first mass-produced automatic transmission. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_transmission

  • First Car With Electronic Fuel Injection

    First Car With Electronic Fuel Injection
    The 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196 Formula 1 racing car engine used Bosch direct injection derived from wartime aero engines. Following this racetrack success, the 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300SL, the first production sports car to use fuel injection, used direct injection. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_injection

  • First Car With Air Bag.

    First Car With Air Bag.
    In the early 1970s, Ford and General Motors began offering cars equipped with airbags, initially in government fleet purchased Chevrolet automobiles. GM's Oldsmobile Toronado was the first domestic vehicle to include a passenger airbag. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbag

  • First Car With Cup Holders.

    First Car With Cup Holders.
    The cup holder as we know it today came to us in 1983 alongside another innovation: the mini van. The first cup holders “sunk into the plastic of the dashboard” were installed in the Dodge Caravan and Plymouth Voyager. It would be a decade, though, before cup holders came standard in essentially every car. https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2013/03/08/when-did-cars-get-cup-holders/

  • First Car With GPS System.

    First Car With GPS System.
    1991: Toyota introduced GPS car navigation on the Toyota Soarer. 1992: Voice assisted GPS navigation system on the Toyota Celsior. 1995: Oldsmobile introduced the first GPS navigation system available in a United States production car, called GuideStar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_navigation_system

  • First Car With Wifi.

    First Car With Wifi.
    The 2015 Chevrolet Corvette, Impala, Malibu and Volt will be the first to come optionally equipped with OnStar 4G LTE. The new system will eventually be offered on most GM vehicles -- from the Chevrolet Corvette sports car to the Cadillac XTS luxury sedan. http://www.autotrader.com/car-tech/got-wifi-cars-with-wifi-hot-spots-keep-drivers-connected-226747