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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 (75 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.
Motor Trend is an American automobile magazine. It first appeared in September 1949, [3] and designated the first Car of the Year, also in 1949. [4] [5]Petersen Publishing Company in Los Angeles published Motor Trend until 1998, when it was sold to British publisher EMAP, who then sold the former Petersen magazines to Primedia in 2001.
Pages in category "Cars introduced in 1949" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 1949 Ford; A.
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 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 Lincoln Cosmopolitan is a full-size luxury car that was sold by Lincoln from the 1949 through the 1954 model year. [1] All Lincolns were manufactured at Lincoln Assembly, Dearborn, Michigan, while some were sent in "knock-down kits" to regional factories at Maywood Assembly, Maywood, California or St. Louis Assembly, St.Louis, Missouri, and assembled locally.
This was partly because Frazer had warned Kaiser not to tool up to produce 200,000 cars for the 1949 model year, realizing they could not compete against the new cars from the Big Three coming out that year. Kaiser did not heed the warning, saying, "The Kaisers never retrench." [10] A total of 58,000 cars