What was the “car culture” of the 1950s

1950's car culture was innovations in the design and safety of the automobiles that gave  birth to many highly-priced classic cars and changed the American manufacturing industry from war-related items to consumer-related goods.

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1950 the era after the “Second World War” save many drastic reforms in the culture of America. It saw diffusion of new music’s along with many other inventions of which one is the introduction of new automobiles. The companies switched their production to consumer-related goods rather than war-related goods. It was assessed that 1 out of 6 American was indirectly or directly employed in automobile sector. United States became the largest manufacturers of automobiles in the world.  

The era after the war begun with 25 million registered automobiles of which most were in a very poor condition but soon the companies were able to produce 8 million cars by 1958. As a result of its, US expanded it's National Highway System and interstate highway to avoid traffic jams and allow the traffic to move smoothly. Some popular cars sold at that time were Volkswagen and Chevrolet with drastic rear-end styling. Ford too came with a redesigned body  in its automobiles.  

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Grade: High school

Subject: History

Chapter: Car Culture

Keywords:

Second World War, America, automobiles, consumer-related, indirectly ,directly, 8 million, 1958, it's National Highway System ,interstate highway, Volkswagen, Chevrolet

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