An Observation on Automotive Design Changes by the World War II

Automobiles have been changed by multifariousfactors according to the times and regions, andthese changes worked as reasons for today'sdiversity of automotive designs. However, furtherestimation for future automotive design directionrequires insights from the past ones. This study is purposed to get implications fordirections of future automotive design changethrough observing typical automobiles withtechnological and regional reasons to clarify designchanging factors from the WWII. The paper has been reviewed automotive designchanges of typical types with times and regions bydeducting common factors from them. And thechanging factors have been analyzed from majorautomobiles in chronological order. It can be concluded automotive design changingfactors can be classified into European factors andAmerican factors as vehicle technology andproduction technology each. And additionally can beclassified as commercial factors for Japanese cases. The automotive design changing factors can begrouped into five paradigms by which automobileshave been changed so far.