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• Liquidpiston
  ...ficiency Hybrid Cycle Engine”, Proceedings of the ASME Internal Combustion Engine Division 2006 Spring Technical Conference.</ref> This cycle consists of com [[Category:Piston engine configurations]]
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• Crossplane
  ...gines have uneven [[firing order|firing patterns]] within each [[cylinder (engine)|cylinder]] bank, producing a distinctive ''burble'' in the [[exhaust]] not ...a [[balance shaft]] for smoothness. But without balance shafts, flatplane designs have the least [[flywheel]] effect of any V8s, which allows them to be more
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• Flat engine
  ...rees from straight up is a flat engine, as is one in which the [[cylinder (engine)|cylinder]]s are arranged in two banks on either side of a single [[cranksh ...s into boxer engines which do not share crank pins in this way, and [[flat engine#180° V-engines|180° engines]] which do.
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• U engine
  ...bank" engine, although these terms are sometimes used also to describe [[V engine]]s. ...rankshaft), and this is therefore a far more common design today when both engine forms are produced from the same basic design.
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• Drive-by-wire throttle
  ...y necessity of the [[Hybrid Synergy Drive]] system, which assigns complete engine control and regenerative/friction braking decisions to a [[Hybrid Cars|hybr ...th [[fuel cell]] applications, futuristic designs for such a car have been proposed, including a car whose entire functional driving components are concentrate
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• Pistonless rotary engine
  ...otary pistons'''. An example of a pistonless rotary engine is the [[Wankel engine]]. ...produces a Wankel model airplane engine, refer to it as a ''wankel rotary engine''.
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• Formula Holden
  ...F1 designer [[Gary Anderson (F1 designer)|Gary Anderson]]) and TAFE Shrike designs. ...Tasman Cup (Australia versus New Zealand) summer series. It has also been proposed to be used for an Asian series based in China. With numbers dropping and th
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• Roadway noise
  ...session</ref> than any other noise source, and is constituted chiefly of [[engine]], [[tire]], aerodynamic and braking elements. In other Western countries ...eloped complex mathematical models to allow the study of alternate roadway designs, traffic operations and noise mitigation strategies in an arbitrary setting
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• Flying car
  ...5&nbsp;m). On the ground and in the air it was powered by a [[Studebaker]] engine. It could fly at 112 mph (180&nbsp;km/h) and drive at 56 mph (90&nbsp;km/h) Several designs (such as the Convair flying car) have flown, none have enjoyed commercial s
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• Alvis Cars
  ...lubrication, unusual for the period. Some have suggested that de Freville proposed the name Alvis as a compound of the words "aluminium" and "vis" (meaning 's The original 10/30 side-valve engine was developed progressively becoming by 1923 the famous overhead-valve 12/5
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• Duesenberg
  ...charged form it boasted a whopping 265 horsepower (198 kW), [[straight-8]] engine with [[dual overhead camshaft]]s, and was capable of a top speed of 119 mph Only the chassis and engine were displayed at the 1928 New York Car Show, since the interior and body o
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• LaSalle
  ...in GM products began to shift out of the plan as the products improved and engine advances were made. ...President of the newly created Art & Colour Studios that still guide GM’s designs to this day.
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• Internal Combustion Engine
  [[Image:4-Stroke-Engine.gif|framed|right|[[Four-stroke cycle]] (or Otto cycle)<br />1. intake<br /> ...acting on pistons, rotors, or even by pressing on and moving the entire [[engine]] itself.
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• Wankel engine
  ...ngine''', though this name is also applied to several completely different designs. The engine was invented by German engineer [[Felix Wankel]]. He began its development
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• Four Wheel Drive
  ...with a drivetrain that allows all four wheels to receive power from the [[engine]] simultaneously. While many people think exclusively of [[off-road]] vehic ...driving conditions (via gearing) to prepare the fluid for operation. Older designs used manually operated locking devices.
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• Lotus Esprit
  | Engine ...orgetto Giugiaro]]'s "folded paper" designs. Originally, the name Kiwi was proposed, but in keeping with the E naming format of Lotus tradition, the name was c
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• Amphibious vehicle
  ...iculated vehicle|articulated]] body configurations or other unconventional designs such as screw-propelled vehicles which use auger-like barrels which propel ...ork only as a displacement hull when in the water – only a small number of designs have the capability to raise out of the water when speed is gained, to achi
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• Aptera
  ...e presented for completeness and to avoid confusion with earlier, outdated designs. ...t of 0.055 to 0.06, and would have sported a 12 horsepower (9 kW) [[diesel engine]] and a 24 horsepower (18 kW) permanent magnet DC motor. The design also c
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• Preston Tucker
  ...rmored car|armored combat car]], powered by a Miller-modified Packard V-12 engine. ...the U.S. Navy. Interestingly, Harry Miller would later take some of the designs from the Tucker Combat Car to [[American Bantam]] where he was involved in
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• Petroleum electric hybrid vehicle
  ...aste energy (such as regenerative braking and shutting down the combustion engine). ...ut of use. In the [[import scene]], hybrid was often used to describe an [[engine swap]]. Some have also referred to [[flexible-fuel vehicle]]s as ''hybrids'
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