The Big Test

Duration: 0:13:00

Creator: General Motors Company

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Demonstrates the wide variety of vehicle testing required to bring a modern automobile to market by visiting General Motors (GM) Proving Ground facilities across the United States and Canada, as well as GM's overseas automotive testing facilities. Traces how a new car design is conceived and developed and the testing which is needed to prove the design's reliability, safety, durability, performance, serviceability, and low emission levels. Discusses the importance of safety efforts in three areas--the car, the road, and the driver. Includes a brief look at some early 1920s Proving Ground vehicle tests in Michigan.

Complete Record: , Demonstrates the wide variety of vehicle testing required to bring a modern automobile to market by visiting General Motors (GM) Proving Ground facilities across the United States and Canada, as well as GM's overseas automotive testing facilities. Traces how a new car design is conceived and developed and the testing which is needed to prove the design's reliability, safety, durability, performance, serviceability, and low emission levels. Discusses the importance of safety efforts in three areas--the car, the road, and the driver. Includes a brief look at some early 1920s Proving Ground vehicle tests in Michigan.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.