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• Station wagon
  ...just '''''estate''''', British usage) or a '''break''' (French usage) is a car body style similar to a sedan, but with an extended rear cargo area. ...ear window (over the normal trunk area of the vehicle). Unlike a hatchback car, which otherwise meets this description, a station wagon is the full height
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• Automobile platform
  ...laces like the [[Nissan FM platform]]-mates [[Z-car|Nissan 350Z]] [[sports car]] and [[Infiniti FX]] [[SUV]]. [[Volkswagen A platform]]-mates like the [[
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• Autolatina
  Volkswagen had 51% of the company and Ford 49%; Volkswagen managed the Car Division, and Ford the Truck Division. This resulted in the two companies sharing [[badge engineering|badge engineered]] models. These included:
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• Platform
  ...in unusual places like the Nissan FM platform-mates [[Nissan 350Z]] sports car and [[Infiniti FX]] [[SUV]]. Volkswagen A platform-mates like the [[Audi T
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• Li Nan
  ...am mandated by the government of the People's Republic of China on foreign car manufacturers interested in entering the Chinese market.
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• Carsharing
  '''Carsharing''' is a model of car rental where people rent cars for short periods of time, often by the hour. The term '''carsharing''' is also used for [[carpooling]] or [[ride sharing]] in some places.
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• Badge Engineering
  ...n be problematic for car companies, and even detrimental. Having a single car sold under multiple identities may hamper overall sales, and can make marke ...ives from the pot metal trademark emblems fastened onto the outside of the car or onto the dashboard.
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• Rolls-Royce Silver Dawn
  Sharing the same body as the [[Bentley Motors Limited|Bentley]] Mark VI, a mere 761 Only the later [[Rolls-Royce car|Rolls Royce]] models offered an [[automatic transmission]], but it rendered
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• Bentley Blower
  ...ompany, producing the famed '''"Blower"''' [[supercharged]] version of the car. The 4½ Litre was an evolution of the 3 Litre, sharing that car's basic chassis, including its semi-elliptical suspension at all four wheel
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• Ford Shelby Cobra
  The '''Ford Shelby Cobra''' is a concept car that the [[Ford Motor Company]] unveiled at the 2004 [[North American Inter ...eam: "That's the formula [...] It's a massive motor in a tiny, lightweight car."
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• Lotus M90
  | Concept Car ...that it was the initial design for the MKI [[Toyota MR2|MR2]], but, though sharing an engine, it bears very little resemblance to the mid-engine roadster.
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• Aintree Motor Racing Circuit
  ...and a round of the Formula 1 World Championship, whilst driving a British car, a [[Vanwall]]. The 1957 Grand Prix also took the title of Grand Prix de Eu ...ate 1990s. A limited amount of motor sport continues today in the form of car sprints, track days and motorcycle racing on the Club Circuit.
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• Rolls-Royce Phantom V
  ...V was in production from 1959 until 1968, based on the [[Silver Cloud]] II sharing its V8 engine and the automatic gearbox of [[General Motors Corporation|Gen
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• Lea-Francis
  They branched out into car manufacture in 1903 and motor cycles in 1911. Lea-Francis built cars, under From 1922 Lea-Francis had a tie up with [[Vulcan|Vulcan]] of Southport sharing manufacturing and dealers. Vulcan supplied bodies to Lea-Francis and in ret
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• Rolls-Royce Silver Seraph
  ...pped making Rolls Royce models in 2002 but continued with [[Bentley]]. The car had a base price of £155,175 in the UK and $220,695 in the US. It was seco ...lls-Royce was externally identical to the contemporary [[Bentley Arnage]], sharing both its platform and body shell. Paint was available in one and two-tone f
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• Classic car
  '''Classic car''' is a term frequently used to describe an older [[automobile|car]], but the exact meaning is subject to ...e broader "antique car club" faction, are very inclusive. Almost any older car in fine condition becomes a classic. The other extreme are the "[[Concours
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• Ferrari P4/5
  ...he owner James Glickenhaus preferred the styling of Ferrari's 1960s [[race car]]s, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari_P P Series].<ref name="superc ...ure oriented supercar as they were excited by the opportunity to build the car, not just design it.<ref name="supercars"/><ref name="pininfarina"/>
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• Alfa Romeo Alfasud
  ...ered one of Alfa Romeo's most successful models. A common nickname for the car is ''’Sud''. ...s built at a new factory at Pomigliano d'Arco in southern Italy, hence the car's name, ''Alfa Sud'' (Alfa South) and developed by Austrian [[Rudolf Hrusch
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• General Motors Vectra
  | European D-Segment car ...in 1995, and replaced the [[Vauxhall Cavalier|Cavalier]]. From launch the car was available as a saloon, hatchback or estate.
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• Mercury Comet
  ...in the Comet being classified as either a compact or an intermediate-sized car during the seventeen years that the Comet name was used. ...60 Edsel Comet. Following the Edsel's termination in the fall of 1959, the car received a new grille design before its March 1960 introduction.]]
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