The American dream is really composed of 3 basic factors, 1-Wealth, 2-Image, 3-Freedom . The classic American car has expressed the particularly American tension between the lure of freedom and the obligations of utility. The journey of the American car follows the rise and fall of American manufacturing, the suburbanization of the country, the birth of the hippie and the yuppie, the emancipation of women, and many more fateful episodes and eras, including the car’s unintended consequences: trial lawyers, energy crises, and urban sprawl. The American car drove history through rises and falls. In the end though the car is what fulfilled the American dream. The American dream is about wealth, self image, and freedom, the manufacturing and stigma that is the american car …show more content…
The car industry built America while America was building it. The Car industry also allowed american to achieve a tool and toy for a relatively cheap price. This tool provided Americans with the freedom to travel wherever they may please, freedom. In America, the 19th century had been the great age of independence, of the individual who depends upon his own wits, his own skills and luck, the humble car extended the reach of this independence that many Americans held as an important quality of life. Cars were symbols of individual freedom and created an individual distinctive identity to live by. The car gave people a certain kind of mobility that could reach the end of the closing of the frontier. The car allowed control of space like no other form of transportation. The car allowed americans to drive with no particular place to go, freedom of