Cars of the Future, 1956
With the end of the Second World War, the American Automobile industry was booming. In fact, the 1950s have been nicknamed the Era of the Automobile. Families have more money coming in and they were also moving to the suburbs. Vehicles were a symbol of status and prosperity and everybody wanted one.
Vehicles were also a symbol of modernization and that’s the main reason why many of them were designed to look like airplanes. The photo shows models posing next to a collection of General Motors’ cars in 1956.