Honda Civic (US), National Museum of American History : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Honda Civic (US), National Museum of American History / Scarlet Sappho
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-継承 2.1 |
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| 説明 | The National Museum of American History is probably my favorite museum on the National Mall, in part because there is no other museum like it. I am making it my final sight of my visit to the nation's capital, before I head back to Dulles Airport and on to California.This 1970s Honda Civic is part of a section that deals with the evolution of American automobile culture. And a small Japanese compact definitely belongs here - due to the oil crisis of the 1970s, American consumers started taking interest in small, fuel efficient cars, and Japanese manufacturers were ready to deliver when US domestic automakers only had high-profit gas guzzlers for sale. The Civic was extremely simple, with very few if any power equipment, and due to its resulting light weight (about 1,500 pounds), got fuel economy close to 40 miles per US gallon. Between the economy and the reliability, Honda and other Japanese automakers established a foothold in America that they have refused to concede ever since.This particular example is from Southern California and still bears its old California license plates; it is a shout-out to yet another development in the US automotive culture, where cars, formerly representing the ultimate in individual mobility and freedom, instead started to become headaches, between air pollution and traffic jams. Los Angeles was notorious for both in the 1970s (and still is today), and this has led a shift back toward public transportation in recent years, even in "car-happy" Los Angeles. Nevertheless, the US is far more car-dependent than other industrialized nations. And speaking of air pollution, this particular Honda Civic was designed with clean air in mind. As the US started enacting tough vehicle emissions standards, most cars adopted the use of catalytic converters, which in return requires using unleaded gasoline to avoid fouling the catalyst. But Honda's solution, CVCC (Compound Vortex Controlled Combustion), could meet the requirements without catalytic converters, allowing the Civic to run on then-plentiful leaded gasoline, a huge plus in an era of gasoline rationing. But as emissions standards continued to evolve and unleaded gasoline became the norm, Honda adopted catalytic converters by the 1980s. |
| 撮影日 | 2013-01-23 14:02:32 |
| 撮影者 | Scarlet Sappho |
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| 撮影地 | Washington, District of Columbia, United States 地図 |
| カメラ | NIKON D5000 , NIKON CORPORATION |
| 露出 | 0.125 sec (1/8) |
| 開放F値 | f/6.3 |
| 焦点距離 | 22 mm |