What is the automobile?

The car It is a self-propelled vehicle, powered by a gasoline, diesel, gas, alcohol, or electric engine.

Its name comes from a mixture of the Greek "auto" and the Latin "mobilis". We generally understand how car the urban vehicle; but it also includes trucks, buses, vans, motorcycles and any free-moving traction vehicle.

The car It was invented by Karl Friedrich Benz, in Mannheim Germany, in the year 1886, using the engine that Nikolaus August Otto invented. Gottlieb Daimler and Maybach, continued with the beginnings of the automobile.

In its beginnings the automobiles they were consuming too much fuel, and their top speed was about 20 kilometers per hour. In those days gasoline or benzine was sold in pharmacies.

The industrial career led Fiat to use the assembly line. By 1910, Henry Ford adapted it to an industrial scale, in this way it was placed at the top of the manufacture of automobiles.

In its beginnings, the car it was mounted on a chassis, and had rear wheel drive; with the exception of trucks, heavy duty vans and some

automobiles, today the chassis has been changed for a sheet metal monocoque, (on the one hand to lighten the car and on the other hand, to lower the cost).

The car It started with one or two cylinder engines, and later the number of pistons has increased; Today, the four-cylinder is the most widely used in the world, and large engines correspond to the range of caris it luxury or premium.

There are carIt is front, rear and integral wheel drive. Spreading the front-wheel drive, (by reducing the cost of manufacture in cares and for having lower fuel consumption). Becoming like this caris elite or premium carit is rear-wheel drive or integral.