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• Straight-12 engine
  ...so some Russian firms built straight-12s for use in boats in the 1960s and 1970s.
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• Platform
  ...m to be shared among a number of vehicles was the Ford Fox platform of the 1970s. In the 1980s, [[Chrysler]]'s K-cars all wore a badge with the letter, "K"
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• Bizzarrini
  ...[[Ferrari]] engineer, [[Giotto Bizzarrini]], the company built a number of automobiles before failing in 1969. The marque has been revived on a number of [[conce ...sign|ItalDesign]], was a forerunner of Giugiaro's radical designs from the 1970s, including the [[Lancia Stratos|Stratos]].
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• Automobile platform
  ...be shared among a number of vehicles was the [[Ford Fox platform]] of the 1970s. In the 1980s, [[Chrysler]]'s [[Chrysler K platform|K-cars]] all wore a ba
  1 KB (213 words) - 01:34, 21 February 2007
• Dashboard
  ..., [[odometer]], and [[fuel gauge]]. One of the safety enhancements of the 1970s was the widespread adoption of padded dashboards. In the 1990s, driver's [ Lawn mowers, farm tractors, and earlier automobiles sometimes have little more than a steering wheel and ignition switch.
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• Drum brake
  ...ter screw that moves the [[brake]] shoes toward the drum. In the 1960s and 1970s brake drums on the front wheels of cars were gradually replaced with [[disc [[Category:Automobiles]]
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• Pontiac EDAG Solstice Hardtop Concept
  ...orts wagon" concept gives some utility, like the Volvo 1800ES of the early 1970s. [[Category:Concept automobiles]]
  3 KB (357 words) - 11:34, 31 May 2009
• Torsion beam suspension
  ...ear [[suspension]]s were pioneered on the [[Volkswagen Golf]] in the early 1970s, and remain common on compact cars and [[minivans]]. [[Category:Automobiles]]
  4 KB (590 words) - 22:44, 16 June 2010
• Maserati Merak
  [[Category:1970s Automobiles]] [[Category:1980s Automobiles]]
  4 KB (519 words) - 23:33, 6 August 2007
• White Motor Company
  ...machine manufacturing business and in 1901 they set up operations to build automobiles. In the 1970s, White started the [[Western Star]] division to sell trucks on the west coa
  5 KB (683 words) - 10:16, 13 October 2008
• Automatic headlight dimmer
  ...fered its [[Automatic]] Beam Control dimmer throughout the 1960s and early 1970s.
  3 KB (379 words) - 03:35, 25 May 2010
• List of supercars
  ...he category is a subjective one, however, and the inclusion of some of the automobiles listed may be somewhat controversial —depending upon the opinion of the r ...ower, exclusivity, rarity, and extravagant styling. For this reason, some automobiles that may have one or more of these attributes—but are notably lacking in
  10 KB (1,383 words) - 19:08, 15 December 2010
• REO Motor Car Company
  ...s [[REO Speed Wagon]], an ancestor of the [[pickup truck]], from which the 1970s rock and roll group REO Speedwagon took its name, although incorrectly pron ...EO again, but resigned in 1934. In 1936 REO abandoned the manufacturing of automobiles to concentrate on trucks.
  5 KB (837 words) - 08:19, 14 June 2007
• FR layout
  ...German vehicles from [[BMW]] and [[Mercedes-Benz]]. The oil crisis of the 1970s and the success of small [[FF layout|FF]] cars like the [[MINI]], [[Volkswa [[Category:Automobiles]]
  3 KB (505 words) - 17:00, 18 July 2006
• Fender skirts
  ...> However, by the 1970s, fender skirts began to disappear from mass market automobiles. Fender skirts remained for some time longer on a few cars, particularly la
  3 KB (486 words) - 03:15, 1 November 2010
• Mopar
  ...erical combustion chambers) still serves as the pinnacle of power in Mopar automobiles.
  4 KB (529 words) - 02:14, 8 August 2008
• Puch
  ...ny was founded in 1889 by the industrialist [[Johann Puch]] and produced [[automobiles]], bicycles, mopeds, and motorcycles. ...However with the collapse of the empire following the War, the market for automobiles shrank and production was discontinued.
  5 KB (731 words) - 05:16, 19 February 2007
• Mercedes-Benz C111
  ...m/110051426262/1970s-mercedes-c111-show-car-damaged-during-attempted-theft 1970s Mercedes C111 show car Damaged During Attempted Theft] [[Category:Concept automobiles]]
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• Matra
  ...n it went into car production by buying [[Automobiles René Bonnet]]. Matra Automobiles produced racing cars and sports cars, and was very successful in racing. ...rsified in media, weaponry, high technologies, aeronautics and formerly in automobiles and records production and distribution. Matra was privatized in 1988, with
  7 KB (1,014 words) - 06:51, 20 February 2007
• Hardtop
  Before the mid-1920s 90% of automobiles had open tops, with rudimentary (if any) weather protection provided by a [ ...ting a hardtop look without actually omitting the pillar. Some mid to late 1970s models continued their previous two-door hardtop bodies, but with fixed rea
  9 KB (1,359 words) - 18:12, 14 October 2009

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