[00:01.72]By the 1950s, cars with much more interesting

[00:05.07]designs were being produced.

[00:06.95]Some of the car companies,

[00:08.59]like Cadillac, based their designs on airplanes

[00:12.38]In the 1960s,

[00:14.26]the American public became bored

[00:16.10]with the choices offered

[00:17.46]by American car companies.

[00:19.78]Around this time a lot of stylish

[00:22.05]but cheaper cars were coming out of Europe,

[00:24.54]made by companies like BMW and Mercedes.

[00:28.29]American-made cars stopped being as popular

[00:31.45]and the rule of the American car was ending.

[00:35.80]Today cars are a very important part

[00:37.87]of American culture.

[00:39.75]Wherever you go in America

[00:41.98]you can find highways,

[00:43.09]multi-storey car parks,drive-in cinemas

[00:46.75]and drive-through fast food food restaurants,

[00:49.38]all built to suit the needs of car owners.

[00:52.78]Motor cars have changed America and the world.

[00:56.89]Cars, buses and taxis make our lives

[01:00.22]so much simpler.

[01:01.80]Traveling from place to place

[01:03.93]is now so much cheaper and easier.

[01:06.60]Roads now connect the biggest cities

[01:08.77]to the smallest towns

[01:10.67]so it's possible to go anywhere at anytime.

[01:14.02]And it all began with the American Model T Ford

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