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Motor Trend, which debuted in 1949, was the first publication to name a Car of the Year. The inaugural Motor Trend Car of the Year award recognized Cadillac's V8 engine in 1949 (76 years ago) (). [2] The earliest awards were given to the manufacturer or division, not for a specific vehicle.
Car of the Year (COTY) is a common abbreviation for numerous automotive awards. [ citation needed ] The "Car of the Year" phrase is considered to have been introduced by Motor Trend magazine in 1949 when the new publication named Cadillac as Motor Trend Car of the Year .
The car sold poorly and production for the final 1960 model year had ceased by November 1959. [ 70 ] In 1956, Ford tried to revive the Continental brand as a standalone line of ultra luxury automobiles , but abandoned the attempt after the 1957 model year, by which time around 3000 Mark II cars had been built.
The Rover Sixty and Rover Seventy-Five or Rover P3 series were 1.6 and 2.0-litre executive cars announced in the middle of February 1948 [2] and produced by the Rover Company until the summer of 1949. Two months after the announcement of the new cars "a new vehicle for agriculture" was announced, the Land Rover, with the engine of the new Sixty.
The 1949 Ford is a line of cars produced by Ford from the 1949 to 1951 model years. The successor to the prewar 1941 Ford , the model line was the first full-size Ford designed after World War II, becoming the first Ford car line released after the deaths of Edsel Ford and Henry Ford .
The Davis Divan is a three-wheeled convertible built by the Davis Motorcar Company between 1947 and 1949. The brainchild of used-car salesman Glen Gordon "Gary" Davis, it was largely based upon "The Californian", a custom three-wheeled roadster built by future Indianapolis 500 racing car designer Frank Kurtis for Southern Californian millionaire and racer Joel Thorne.
The Triumph Mayflower is a small, upscale family car built from 1949 until 1953 by the British Standard Motor Company and sold by their Triumph Motor Company subsidiary. It has a 1 + 1 ⁄ 4-litre engine and was noted for its razor-edge styling.
The BRM Type 15 was a Formula One racing car of the early 1950s, and the first car produced by British Racing Motors.The car was fitted with a revolutionary and highly complex supercharged 1.5-litre British Racing Motors V16 which produced considerably more power than any of its contemporaries.