How is a passenger car born? Who and how comes up with it, tests it, improves it before it hits the production line? Why do cars become obsolete? What laws does their beauty obey? The book you are holding in your hands will answer these and many other questions. It will introduce you to the ideas and technology of modern automotive industry, with interesting facts from the history of the automobile. The author of the book, a Ukrainian writer, candidate of technical sciences, chairman of the press auto club of the State Traffic Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR, invites you on an exciting journey through the Zaporozhye automobile plant “Kommunar”. He will show you many interesting things that can only be seen there, and will tell you about the work of designers, designers, and test drivers.