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• Paul Bracq
  ...entrusted with the design of the most expensive and complex Mercedes-Benz automobile to date, the [[Mercedes-Benz 600|600]]. He also designed the 230SL Pagoda, ...Turbo|"Turbo"]] concept car won "Concept Car of the Year" by the ''[[Revue Automobile Suisse]]'' that year; the car repeated the feat in 1992 in the [[Bagatelle
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• Georges Paulin
  ...ges Paulin''' was a dentist, part-time automobile designer and hero of the French Resistance during the Second World War. He was born 1902 in a working class Between 1934 and 1938 he was the designer for French chassis maker Pourtout. Among his designs were a [[Panhard]] coupe, a [[Uni
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• Vittorio Jano
  '''Vittorio Jano''' (April 22, 1891 – 1966) was a famed Italian [[automobile]] designer from the 1920s through 1960s. ...he [[Alfa Romeo P2]]. The P2 was notorious, winning its first race, the [[French Grand Prix]], with driver [[Giuseppe Campari]] but killing driver [[Antonio
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• Luc Donckerwolke
  '''Luc Donckerwolke''', (born June 19, 1965) is a Belgian [[Automobile design|car designer]] currently Design Director of [[SEAT]]. ...ing, old cars, foreign cultures and learning languages. He speaks Italian, French, Spanish, English, German, Dutch and Swahili.
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• Robert Opron
  '''Robert Opron''' (* 1932) is a French automotive designer, who created many unusual vehicle designs from the 1960 Encased headlamps are standard practice in the automobile industry today. Swivelling ones are only slowly re-entering the luxury car
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• Tax horsepower
  ...'' or taxable horsepower was an early system by which taxation rates for [[automobile]]s were reckoned in some European countries, such as Britain, Belgium, Germ ...ea: British cars and cars in other countries applying the same approach to automobile taxation continued to feature these long thin cylinders in their engine blo
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• Henney Kilowatt
  ...in the automotive industry because of its affiliation with the [[Packard]] Automobile Company. Henney produced thousands of custom built limousines, ambulances, ==Designers and developers==
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• Raymond Loewy
  ...(November 5, 1893 - July 14, 1986) was one of the best known industrial designers of the 20th century. Born in France, he spent most of his professional car ...the Croix de Guerre. He boarded a ship to America in 1919, with only his French officer's uniform and forty dollars in his pocket.
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• Benz & Cie.
  ...riage, which is why Karl Benz is regarded by many as the inventor of the [[automobile]]. ...trol. The ''Motorwagen'' was patented on January 29, 1886 as ''DRP-37435: "automobile fueled by gas"''<ref>[http://home.arcor.de/carsten.popp/DE_00037435_A.pdf D
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• Alfa Romeo in motorsport
  ...com">{{Cite web|url=http://www.velocetoday.com/cars/cars_75.php|title=Alfa Designers|accessdate=2007-08-24|work=velocetoday.com}}</ref> In 1920 [[Giuseppe Campa ...ufacturers' Championship|Automobile World Championship]] in the history of automobile racing. Over 4 rounds the [[Alfa Romeo P2]] won the [[European Grand Prix]]
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• Three-wheeled car
  ...ree wheeled car''', also known as a '''tricar''' or '''tri-car''', is an [[automobile]] having either one [[wheel]] in the front for steering and two at the rear ...d in (but did not complete) a 1907 [[Peking-to-Paris]] race sponsored by a French newspaper, ''Le Matin''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pekingparisraid.co.
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• Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche
  ...t, Germany. His father, [[Ferdinand Porsche]] senior, was also a renowned automobile engineer, and his nephew, Dr. [[Ferdinand Piech]], was chairman of [[Volksw ...echnical knowledge since his childhood. Father and son opened a bureau of automobile design, at Stuttgart in 1931.
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• Radial engine
  During WWI, many of the French and other Allied aircraft flew with Bentley, Clerget, Gnome and Le Rhone [[ ...that had powered World War I aircraft were well appreciated. While British designers had produced the ABC radial in 1917, they were unable to resolve its coolin
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• Rotary engine
  ...War I to power aircraft, and also saw use in a few early motorcycles and [[automobile|cars]]. ...l, since an Adams-Farwell car is reported to have been demonstrated to the French Army in 1904. In contrast to the later Gnôme engines, the Adams-Farwell ro
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• Karl Benz
  ...ile engineer, generally regarded as the inventor of the gasoline-powered [[automobile]]. Other German contemporaries, [[Gottlieb Daimler]] and [[Wilhelm Maybach] ...reated the ''[[Benz Patent Motorwagen|Motorwagen]]'', the first commercial automobile, powered by a [[Internal combustion engine|gasoline engine]]. It had three
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• Lola
  Lola is one of the best-known names in [[automobile racing]]. A subsidiary of Lola is the rowing boat manufacturer Lola Ayling ...worth-powered car based on Lola's [[Formula 3000|F3000]] technologies, the French team built up a steady reputation in normally-aspirated F1 from 1987 on. Th
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• Internal Combustion Engine
  [[Image:Colorized car engine.jpg|thumb|A colorized [[automobile]] engine]] ...e of this before compression was already commonly used. It may have misled designers who tried to emulate the Carnot cycle in ways that were not useful.
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• WilliamsF1
  ...1|Renault]]: Williams won five of their nine constructors' titles with the French company. Along with [[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]], McLaren, and [[Renault F1 ...tween [[René Arnoux]] and [[Gilles Villeneuve]],<ref>''Grand Prix Results: French GP, 1979'' [http://www.grandprix.com/gpe/rr321.html ]. Retrieved 27 July 20
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• Telematics
  ...nce transmission of computer-based information. It was first introduced in French by Simon Nora and Alain Minc in ''L'informatisation de la Société'' (La D ...ent called the Digital Innovation Studio to train and develop professional designers in the automotive industry in the impact and application of ‘vehicle tele
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• Williams F1
  ...1|Renault]]: Williams won five of their nine constructors' titles with the French company. Along with [[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]], McLaren, and [[Renault F1 ...tween [[René Arnoux]] and [[Gilles Villeneuve]],<ref>''Grand Prix Results: French GP, 1979'' [http://www.grandprix.com/gpe/rr321.html ]. Retrieved 27 July 20
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