What stages has the automobile shape gone through?

The shape of the automobile has gone through six types of evolution and development:

1, carriage-type body. The earliest automobile body shape, that is, the carriage carriages directly transplanted to the car. 1886, Daimler and Benz were tested 1.5 horsepower (1 British horsepower = 745.7 watts) and 0.85 horsepower single-cylinder gasoline engine, and successfully tested the first car.

2, box body. In 1915, the U.S. Ford Motor Company's Model T was changed from a canopy to a compartment, the compartment is rectangular, its shape is very similar to a large box, and equipped with doors and windows, people call this type of car for the "box car", which laid the groundwork for the future of the basic shape of the car.

3, beetle-type body. 1930s, in order to improve the speed of the car, began to apply the principles of aerodynamics to reduce the wind resistance coefficient. Sedan body height gradually reduced to 1.4 meters, the car width gradually increased. The cross-section of the body from the quadrilateral to oval, thus reducing the wind area.

4, boat body. 1950s, in order to create a comfortable, spacious ride, the emergence of the boat body of the sedan, and thus become the mainstream of contemporary sedan modeling. 1949, the Ford Motor Company's V8 sedan was the first to create a boat body shape. The important feature of the boat-shaped body is to begin to apply ergonomics to design the body, the ride position in the middle of the car where the vibration is minimized.

5, fish body. In order to overcome the boat-shaped body of the car's tail is too far back, in the car at high speeds will produce strong air vortex effect of this defect, people have developed like a fish spine fish car. 1952, the United States General Motors Corporation's "Buick" brand sedan created the era of the fish-body car.

6, wedge-shaped body. Although the "fish-shaped ducktail" model partially overcame the car at high speeds when the air lift, but did not fundamentally solve the problem of the lift of the fish-shaped body car. After a lot of searching and testing, designers finally found a new model - wedge.

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The current situation of automobile shape

The styling design of the car is undoubtedly very important, from the day of the birth of the automobile, people continue to improve it, with the obvious imprint of the times, it can be said that the history of automobile styling changes, but also the history of the evolution of automobile fashion, science and technology evolution history. With the progress of science and technology, the body shape of the car is more and more beautiful, more and more functions, more and more in line with the aerodynamic demand.

Now the car body design, can be said to be more and more mature, but basically based on the wedge-shaped body, fusion of other body appearance characteristics, become more practical, stylish, multi-purpose. With the progress of science and technology, the car's mechanical components such as engine, transmission and so on more and more miniaturization, electronic technology in the car on a large number of applications, the car body design is also more and more flexible and diverse.

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