15 cars that impacted America

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America's car culture is the stuff of legend around the world - but what are the cars that made it so?

Journalist and Reuters deputy editor-in-chief Paul Ingrassia, in his book "Engines of Change: A History of the American Dream in Fifteen Cars," explores what he says were the most influential cars in American history - not the best or the fastest or the most stylish, but those that had the greatest impact upon how we live.

Left: The Pontiac GTO, which was the signature car of General Motors in the 1960s and came to embody the ideal of muscle cars.

Credit: Pontiac