What Happened to American Cars? The History of American Automobiles

American cars: Because sometimes you just need a car that's bigger than your house.

$5 = $1400 today? Did you mean something else?

The government happened to our cars. We used to have the cars to back up our attitude and pride. Now we got a new kind of pride and the perfect cars to represent it.

*AI makes a mistake in the first sentance. France was the country that made the world love cars, they were first to see the potential of car sport.

😂didn’t knows the term Hold My Beer going that far back.

"Having Irish worker build a sports car is like asking a doctor fly an airplane"! Really? Just a poor statement from a poorly educated person.

ROCKEFELLER invented gasoline.

Worked a summer shutdown call at Ford LAP Louisville years ago--Actually had an Engineer say to me "we only make em to last for 100,000 miles" And then these mother fukers rant,,,,,BUY AMERICAN! morons

Old vehicles are best than today world modern vehicles sucks!! Wish keep make old vehicles easy to fix n replace engine, transmission n axle !!! More fun

At the time GM dropped Oldsmobile and Pontiac, Chevrolet was losing more money than any other division.

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I thought this would be very interesting.
Sadly to my dismay the language just got worse.
I was considering showing this to children for a type of history lesson.
Instead disqualified itself for such consideration.I would not even finish watching it.

The problem is the government sticking their nose where it doesn't belong with stupid regulations and green based stupidity. Now they are trying to make us buy the stupid electric car that only the fanatic ecologists want.

The simple answer is PROFIT over style, quality, comfort , etc. Want to buy a $50,000 F 150 truck for $72,000? Too bad, we'll charge you even more! Can say a scam?

The gas shortage of the 1970s was a contrived, planned out event, in order to make gas more expensive, make the rich richer, etc.

I heard that Ford had,intentionally,grossly underrated the advertised horsepower rating of the Model T (20 HP, Ha! More like 21 or 22!) for insurance purposes.

Caddilac is just another part of Government Motors, and anyone can make an armored car. Also thanks to nater ( the og da) we now have explosive devices in our cars for "saftey" and a deady belt, my uncle's gf was decapitated by a seatbelt where as my uncle flew threw the windshield and lived, I DONT TRUST all this saftey crap of it could save your live but the airbag can to many nasty things to the human body like break your nose and dislocate limbs. Oh such great safety measures 😂

Most other nations subsidies the auto industries for NATIONAL SECURITY REASONS, and do not overly regulate.

What happened? Government Regulation, and Ruinous Unions!!!

The VW Bug was as dangerous if not more so than the Corsair . Nadar was a nut who hated America , he never drove the car and was just a zealot .

Dosco, a steel mill in Atlantic canada, sent samples of sheet metal, and steel for car frames, chev, ford, and other American car companies, told the plant managers, that the steel would not rust fast enough, and adjusted,, that's why American cars in the 70s ended up in the scrap yards before 80.000 miles!

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$140.00/day would have been the equivalent pay with inflation, based on the date of the video.

That is INCORRECT. Carl Benz was the first person to utilize gasoline, in his internal combustion engines. It was/is a byproduct in the distillation process of kerosene making for lanterns, originally. The same process used today in oil refineries. Oil companies like John Rockefellers Standard Oil (then turned AMOCO, now BP) used to discard the gasoline in oil fields and rivers, because it was too volatile for use & storage, and had no practical use before the internal combustion engine. 😉

Outsourced all the work out of country.. now they are turds..

Unions poor quality production

Thomas Edison was a thief stealing from countless individuals

Freedom of speech is a beautiful thing. This video is not.

Omg...Buick invented turn signals.

...and BMW is still mastering this technology😂

So much fluff in the video. Just get to the point.

Suggest to delete this, too many ???

Ford...plastic radiators...it leaks...shocking.

These big V8 cars were abandoned when the oil crisis raged in the seventies.Smaller economical cars were preferred afterwards .

🇺🇸..inner cars builder's..all about the pockets for them not usa..

Well see they identify as lawn mowers now.

Like the one gentleman said the government got involved and also greed you cannot stop the troubles and the problems that greed causes and that's what ruined the American car industry and every car industry or every business is greed.

Yeah and Chevrolet use to mount there side gas tanks on there pick up trucks out side the frame rails....really smart. The reality is all cars if get it hard enough in the right place will erupt in flames. Bottom is the same old saying to build a safer car first make a safer driver

First gasoline-driven car invented by Carl Benz in 1886. Without his invention the rest would not have anything to work with.
Benz forever

AI generated nonsense, viewers beware. Watch something else in your valuable time.

Nothing happened to American cars, American people got a bad case of “Everyone else is better than syndrome.”

Poor DMC , he was a victim of his own ambitions. He and Preston Tucker might have done well together , in a parallel dimension .

Politics and greed

The Asian-Americans would no longer buy them.
I used to look in our company parking lot and rarely saw an Asian-American with a USA made car.

They got lazy and gave the market to the import makes . Former gm owner never again

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Whether it was Leo Coco Henry Ford Ford has never been a company that has been concerned about safety or quality they have always cared about one thing themselves and supporting very anti-family things homosexuality bisexuality LGBQ. Henry Ford himself got sued by the gentleman that provided the engines and drive trains for the first several years of the Ford vehicles they became very successful known as the Dodge Brothers DBI probably the only decent Ford ever made was the Dodge Brothers drivetrain Ford’s So dodge brothers went off and built a car for not much more money and light years ahead of anything that Ford had to offer and the rest is history Ward continued on to be a company that didn’t care about people cared only about profits and LGBTQ symbolism over substance