The history of the automotive industry was different.Breakthroughs, ups and downs, luxury, asceticism, inventors whose brains changed the world. There is a place on the planet where these events took place. Its name is Detroit! This is where famous car brands were born. It was here that the war broke out between American, German and Japanese auto companies. And now everything is in the past.I want you to immerse yourself in this atmosphere of American cars, feel it and just get high.
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Dmitry Nazarov. The Fall of Detroit
Table of contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. Henry Ford
Chapter 2. William Durant
Chapter 3. Walter Chrysler
Chapter 4. Detroit in 1920s and 1930s
Chapter 5. Hunger March
Chapter 6. World War II
Chapter 7. The fat 1950s
Chapter 8. UAW
Chapter 9. Detroit Riot
Chapter 10. Germans and Japanese
Chapter 11. The Oil Crisis and UAW
Chapter 12. Vincent Chin
Chapter 13. Defeat
Afterword
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It’s impossible to imagine our modern world without cars.
Despite the fact that a car, in general, is just a pile of metal and a set of parts, no one thinks of it like that.
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But GM still exists today, it had become the second pivotal part, in the foundation of Detroit’s future. And so it appears on our list here.
While Durant and Chevrole were tinkering their products in garages, in 1911, some Walter Percy came to Buick, and his surname would become a household name. Chrysler. He came to work as a production manager for Buick cars.
