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  • ...te, its factories dismantled and sent to Germany while a large part of the engineers either killed or sent to Germany as slave workers. After the Warsaw Uprisin
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  • '''August Horch''' (October 12, 1868 - February 3, 1951) was a German engineer and [[automobile]] pioneer, the founder of the manufacturing firm [[Category:German engineers|Horch, August]]
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  • ...th, a statue was built in his memory which later would be destroyed by the German attacks during World War II. [[Category:French automotive engineers]]
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  • ...known as '''AMG''' (initially known as '''Aufrecht Melcher Großaspach''' (German)), is the high performance division of the [[Mercedes-Benz]] car company. M ...haft mbH (AMG Engine Production and Development, Ltd.), by former Mercedes engineers Hans Werner Aufrecht and Erhard Melcher, in a town called Großaspach, near
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  • '''Siegfried Samuel Marcus''' (18 September 1831 – 1 July 1898) was a German-born Austrian inventor and [[automobile]] pioneer. ...oric Mechanical Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
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  • {{List of Borgward Models}}'''Borgward''' was a German [[automobile]] manufacturer founded by [[Carl F. W. Borgward]] (November 10 One of the top engineers at Borgward was Dipl. Ing. [[Hubert M. Meingast]] between 1938 and 1952.
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  • '''Felix Heinrich Wankel''' (August 13, 1902 – October 9, 1988) was a German mechanical engineer and the inventor of the [[Wankel engine]]. During World War II, he developed seals and rotary valves for German air force aircraft and navy torpedoes. After the war, he was imprisoned by
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  • ...of competing with the French [[Bugatti]], the Italian [[Ferrari]], and the German [[Porsche]]. The headquarters of the company were located in the Pays de Lo
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  • In 1952 the Soviet owners handed the company over to the German Democratic Republic, and it became a state-owned company. By that time BMW ..., introduced in 1966, used a bigger engine. Many new ideas proposed by the engineers were not accepted by the state authorities. Finally, in 1988 four-stroke en
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  • ...f their own-made parts, the company is recognized as a manufacturer by the German government. This is a similar business model to the one employed by [[Gemba Tucked away in the German town of Pfaffenhausen is the small independent company '''RUF Automobile'''
    7 KB (1,116 words) - 08:13, 10 December 2010
  • ...ly every legally licensable part from Ferrari and even had several Ferrari engineers on staff. Many pointed out suspicious similarities between Ferrari and Saub | [[1993 German Grand Prix|GER]]
    35 KB (4,336 words) - 05:09, 19 February 2007
  • ...chrysler.de]</ref><ref>[http://german.about.com/library/blfam_geramABC.htm german.about.com]</ref> [[Category:American automotive engineers]]
    8 KB (1,226 words) - 06:48, 30 April 2010
  • ...the limits of taste, but still serve as a landmark of a time of pioneering engineers, set free by large budgets and barrier-free design briefs. ...h, the company did not soley focus on performance-based upgrades, like its German rivals Gemballa and RUF. A technological advance was the DINFOS system, an
    5 KB (722 words) - 15:09, 15 October 2008
  • Various scientists and engineers contributed to the development of [[internal combustion engine]]s: *1862: German inventor [[Nikolaus Otto]] was the first to build & sell the engine. He de
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  • ...27 March 1998 in Zell am See), mainly known as '''Ferry Porsche''', was an German-Austrian technical automobile designer and automaker-entrepreneur. He opera ...gen Beetle|Beetle]] was designed by Ferdinand Porsche senior and a team of engineers (that included Ferry Porsche).
    24 KB (3,572 words) - 20:28, 7 August 2009
  • ...orsepower]]" or "[[HP|hp]]" in the press releases or media coverage of the German, French, Italian, and Japanese automobile companies. Companies of the Unit This unit (German: ''Pferdestärke'' = horse strength) is no longer a lawful unit, but is sti
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  • ...actures military and sporting small arms, most of them based on Russian or German design, under the name Zastava Arms. ...released as [[Yugo 45]]. It was styled by Zastava with some help from Fiat engineers. Technically it was related to the [[Fiat 127]] but keeping much of the Fia
    11 KB (1,780 words) - 14:18, 3 June 2010
  • ...The Audi R10 project costs Audi €70 Million per year.<ref>''Sport Auto'' (German car magazine), ISSN 1158-2111, April 2006 issue</ref> This is the most ambi ...06 [[12 Hours of Sebring]] was overweight at 935&nbsp;kg, meaning that the engineers did not have the ability to play around with the weight ballasts (which wou
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  • ...timately concerned with issues such as fuel consumption and emissions, SVO engineers opted to pass over the venerable [[Ford Boss 302 engine|Boss 302]] in lieu ...odyear Eagle "Gatorback" tires were standard as well (originally shod with German Goodyear NCT tires, and later Gatorbacks). The rear disc brakes, the five l
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  • The brand [[Artega]] was created by a team of engineers at Paragon, a German electronics supplier.The '''Artega GT''' was conceived by [[Fisker Coachbui
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