how many models of cars existed by 1948?

Answer 1

Ford Porsche Lancia Pontiac Chevrolet Dodge Plymouth Buick Oldsmobile Alfa Romeo MG Triumph Mercury Rambler Austin Healey Chrysler Hudson Studebaker Crossley Lincoln Nash Fiat Ferrari DKW BMW VW SAAB Kaiser Frazier Peugeot Citroen and Hudson And that is just the manufacture of cars that comes to mind in 60 seconds. Now how many cars trucks convertables and other heavy truck each made. Government regulations were non existent in 1948 there was lots more different cars and manufactures then

Answer 2

. That is IMPOSSIBLE to say here ! And do you mean in the whole world, not just the US of A? Makes AND models? jeeeeze.
Check out the Inventors site:
"...Of the thousands of auto companies that have produced cars in the United States in the hundred years of the auto industry in this country, only three survive.
Benz in Germany was the first to put an automobile into production, a three-wheeler he built in 1885. Just when his first delivery took place is not clear. It seems likely that it took place in spring of 1886. In the United States there were tinkerers, but no industry until 1896.
As early as 1769, Nicolas Cugnot fitted a wagon with a steam engine, fired it up and ran it across a field in France, thereby becoming, as far as we know, the first person to make and operate a powered vehicle. Incidentally, Cugnot's machine did not handle well and he ran it into a wall, the world's first auto accident. Legend has it he was arrested for his trouble and so might also be credited with the world's first moving violation.
The first internal combustion engine was built in 1860 by Ettienne Lenoir in France, but it ran on illuminating gas and was quite different from the modern engine. But in 1876 in Germany, Nikolous Otto patented the four-stroke gasoline engine -- the type used today.

So the automobile was born in Europe. But it quickly took on an American character after the United States industry began in 1896. " etc. .

Answer 3

A lot .