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• Alexandre Darracq
  ...s establishing an [[automobile]] business, Alexander Darracq was a man who didn't like driving cars or even being driven in them. For him, it was just pursui ...]] in 1904 and 1905. Racing success raised the image of the Darracq marque so that he was able to expand to England and form licensing partnerships and r
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• Reynard
  ...amaged) and started "networking" with young drivers early in their careers so that they would be favourably disposed towards Reynard later on. ...ually managed to make a profit - the 1985 Formula Ford car was a disaster, so the entire programme was sold on for a one-make series behind the Iron Curt
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• Hardtop
  ...s: '''detachable hardtops''', '''[[retractable hardtop]] roofs''', and the so-called '''pillarless hardtop''' body style. ..., although it was a cumbersome and laborious job. By the time of World War I some automakers offered a lift-off roof, typically with a wood frame, canva
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• Buick Grand National
  ...[[Buick GNX]]), so if you wanted the performance of the Grand National but didn't want it in black and/or preferred a much more subdued look, the T-Type was Grand Nationals were offered in any color, so long as it was black.
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• James May
  ...n in Bristol, one of four children; he has two sisters and a brother.<ref>"I never liked dolls much, and neither did my brother" — {{cite episode |url = http://domino.lancs.ac.uk/INFO/lunews.nsf/I/9FB3333B5AE07A36802576DD00494371
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• The Stig
  ...– which they wanted to call ''The Gimp''. "I just said 'no'," he laughs. "I didn’t want to be known as ''The Gimp''. Finally we settled on ''The Stig ...b |title=Unknown |last=Porter |first=Richard |quote=Some say...if The Stig didn't exist, it would be necessary to invent him, just one of the many paradoxes
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• Land Rover Series
  The '''Land Rover Series I''', '''II''', and '''III''' are off-road vehicles produced by the British ...d transfer gearbox to replace the Jeep unit. The result was a vehicle that didn't use a single Jeep component and was slightly shorter than its American insp
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• Toyota MR2
  ...kilometres or 5 years but however, the engine uses a free spinning design so when the belt breaks, the engine doesn't receive any damage. ...hafts and 16 valves. The intake camshaft timing was adjustable via the VVT-i system, which was introduced earlier on the 1998 SW20. Unlike its predecess
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• Preston Tucker
  ...ore Tucker could complete the deal and the Dutch government lost interest, so he completed the prototypes and opted to try to sell the vehicle to the U.S ...million in capital by March 1947. Tucker needed this money to get going, so he began raising money by selling dealership rights and floating a $20 mill
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• Sleeve valve
  ...that the system can be used at very high speeds with no penalty for doing so. A problem with high-speed engines which use poppet valves is that as engin ...t valves of the time typically leaked appreciably more than they do today, so that oil consumption was significant in either case.
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• Top Gear challenges
  ...n left the mountain by helicopter with the Discovery's keys in his pocket, so delaying its removal from the hill. ''Series Five, Episode Three'' ...n said the Toybota was best because it would have reached the finish if it didn't roll over at the last moment in a good time, but James bit back, saying tha
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• Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche
  ...igns were focused on compact street cars, and racecars. Austro Daimler was so strongly tied to the local royalty that the Austrian insignia became the tr Ferry remarked later that in fact, "One could say that I was already born with the automobile." For example, on the Christmas Eve of
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• Top Gear test track
  ...he track is also used for testing cars reviewed on the show or drag races. So far, five [[Formula One]] drivers have driven the "Reasonably-priced car" o .... Furthermore, some cars aren't listed on the website (like the M5). So, I have been assuming the times that were written on the wall in the show are
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• Pickup truck
  ...or of Ford, saying, "Why don't you build people like me a vehicle in which I can take my family to church on Sunday, and my pigs to town on Monday?" ...some capable of over five times that much. The bed is usually constructed so as to accommodate a 4 ft x 8 ft sheet of plywood. Most are [[FR layout|fron
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• Jeremy Clarkson
  ...two Paddington Bear stuffed toys for each of their children. These proved so popular that they started selling them through the business with sufficient ...'s Record. "501s - Levi's flagship brand - in particular suffered from the so-called Jeremy Clarkson effect', the association with men in middle youth. |
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• Fuji Speedway
  ...ut the track was run in a clockwise direction. The reason that banking was so horrific, was that at the end of the straight we went over a blind crest at ...schedule ten years later, it went to [[Suzuka Circuit|Suzuka]] instead. F1 didn't return to Fuji until 2007.
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• Lincoln
  ...ny), left the [[Cadillac]] division of [[General Motors]] during World War I and formed the Lincoln Motor Company to build Liberty aircraft engines. Aft ...Zephyr featured an all-new 4.4 liter (267ci) V12 producing 110bhp, and was so successful in spite mechanical shortcomings that it almost became a brand n
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• Battery electric vehicle
  ...which may bode well for the future of both pure electric vehicles and the so called "plug-in [[Hybrid Cars|hybrid]]". ...ets 0.52&nbsp;kWh/mi (assuming 36.4&nbsp;kWh per U.S. gallon of gasoline), so battery electric cars vehicles are relatively efficient. When comparisons a
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• Lincoln Mark series
  ...le's drivetrain and forebears also came from Lincoln; thus causing many to think of the Mark II as a Lincoln. ...era window" featured the title of the car with a fake diamond dotting the "i" in "Diamond". Today these editions are considered quite collectible as an
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• Renault F1
  ...tter Jabouille won the race, the first driver in a turbo-charged car to do so, while Arnoux and [[Gilles Villeneuve]] were involved in an extremely compe ...prove the car's handling. This eventually proved too unreliable and heavy, so Renault returned to a more conventional development route.
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