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A show car, sometimes called a dream car, is a custom-made automobile created specifically for public display, rather than sale. They are shown at auto shows and other exhibitions. An auto show, or motorshow, is a public exhibition of current Automobile models debuts Concept cars or out-of-production classics

Show cars generally fall into one or more of three categories:

Cars intended to preview an upcoming new production model or redesigned model, either to assess or to whet the public appetite. Such preview show cars may be thinly disguised or slightly retrimmed versions of the eventual production model, painted in bold or unusual colors or fitted with unusual trim to attract attention.
Cars intended to assess the public reaction to a type of model, or a particular styling theme or feature. A prominent example was the 1938 Buick Y-Job, a custom-built Buick created by General Motors styling chief Harley Earl for his own use; although it was never produced, it contained features such as hidden headlights that later became GM styling features. Year 1938 ( MCMXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The 1938 '''Buick''' Y-Job is claimed to be the first Concept car in history Buick (ˈbjuːɪk is a Marque of automobile sold in the United States, Canada, China, Taiwan, Qatar, and General Motors Corporation ( GM) ( is a multinational automobile manufacturer founded in 1908 and headquartered in the United States. Harley J Earl ( November 22, 1893 – April 10, 1969) was an automotive stylist and engineer and industrial designer Hidden headlamps are an automotive styling feature that conceals an Automobile 's Headlamps when they are not in use Such cars typically are not intended for production themselves, but may become the basis of a production model if demand is high enough. The Dodge Viper is notable example of the latter. The Dodge Viper is a V10 -powered Sports car manufactured by the Dodge division of Chrysler LLC.
Styling exercises built to reward successful designers, letting them blow off steam with a design more exciting than workaday, "cooking" sedans and trucks. This article is about the semi-truck For the North American use of the word see Pickup truck. Such exercises also serve to draw attention to the manufacturer's more ordinary products.

History

The creation of show cars dates back to at least the 1920s, but reached its zenith in the United States in the 1950s, when most of the major U. The 1920s is sometimes referred to as the " Jazz Age " or the " Roaring Twenties " when speaking about the United States and Canada The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The 1950s Decade refers to the years of 1950 to 1959 inclusive S. automakers began to exhibit wild, fanciful dream cars. The preeminent dream car maker was GM, which displayed its work at a series of traveling Motorama shows, mounted at tremendous expense, but with considerable value in publicity. Motorama was an Auto show staged by General Motors from 1949 to 1961. In the 1960s American show cars became substantially more mundane, slight variations on typical production models (with a few exceptions, like Chevrolet's Mako Shark prototype), and the practice of building them fell on hard times during the 1970s, when automotive whimsy was a low priority compared to safety, emissions control, and fuel economy. The 1960s decade refers to the years from the beginning of 1960 to the end of 1969 The XP-755 Mako Shark show car was designed by Larry Shinoda under the direction of GM Design head Bill Mitchell in 1961 as a concept for future This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. Safety engineering is an applied science strongly related to Systems engineering and the subset System Safety Engineering Automobile emissions control covers all the technologies that are employed to reduce the Air pollution -causing emissions produced by Automobiles Exhaust emissions Fuel economy in automobiles is the amount of Fuel required to move the Automobile over a given Distance. The practice was revived in the 1980s, and remains strong today both in the U. The 1980s was the decade spanning from January 1 1980 to December 31 1989. S. and abroad.

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