In the early 1920s, more than half of the vehicles registered in the world were Fords, and most of those were Model Ts.
The MG TC was one of the first British cars to go into production after the Second World War and it quickly ran away with sales compared to its closely related pre-war versions.
Although very much a pre-war design, the Volkswagen Beetle didn’t really get going until 1946.
In a similar vein to the Volkswagen Beetle, Citroën’s 2CV recognised the need for an affordable car in the post-war world.
Australia was a burgeoning market in the late 1940s, yet it took until the Holden FX was launched in 1948 for the country to have its own entirely domestically produced car.
It stuck with the rear-engined design inherited from the 356 and retained an air-cooled motor all the way to the introduction of the 996 generation in 1998.
The two-seat Elan was very much the sort of car drivers expected of Lotus, so the Elan +2 was something quite different when it arrived in 1967.
Italian supercars often only just scrape into four-figure production runs, yet the De Tomaso Pantera found 7158 buyers in its three decades on sale.
Gone were the shark-like lines of the earlier cars and in came smoother looks. The C4 was also a much better built car, with Chevrolet even pausing production in 1982 to sort out quality issues.