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  • '''Per "Pelle" Helmer Petterson''' (born July 21, 1932) is a Swedish car designer and sailor. In the automotive world, he is probably best known [[Category:Swedish automobile designers]]
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  • '''Steve Mattin''' is a British automobile designer and former Director of Design for [[Volvo]], succeeding [[Peter Ho ...e Mattin quit his job for [[Volvo]] on the 27th of March 2009 according to Swedish newspapers, among them [[Teknikens Värld]]. He is replaced by his predeces
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  • ...e the force one wants the maximum area at the minimal pressure. Racing car designers have achieved low pressure in two ways: first, by using a fan to pull air o ...d by Lotus. In 1968 and 1969, [[Tony Rudd]] and [[Peter Wright (racing car designers)|Peter Wright]] at [[British Racing Motors]] (BRM) experimented on track an
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  • ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...rom the other '''323'''s. The bodyshape was designed by former [[Porsche]] designers. The '''Lantis''' was on the [[Mazda C platform#CB|CB]], a minor update of
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  • In 1940, the United States implemented automobile design [[Headlight#Automotive Headlights|legislation]], concerning sealed b ...r. This technology was first brought to public attention in 1997, with the Swedish [[moose test]].
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  • Automobile [[suspension (vehicle)|suspension]]s have many variable characteristics, wh ...ntry to high-speed corners. To compensate for this unavoidable effect, car designers often bias the car's handling toward less corner-entry understeer (such as
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  • .... V8 engines are rarely less than 3.0 L (183 cu in) in displacement and in automobile use have gone up to and beyond 8.2 L (500 cu in) in production vehicles. In ...a straight-6 design. [[De Dion-Bouton]] introduced a 7,773 cc (474 cu in) automobile V8 in 1910 and displayed it in New York in 1912. It was produced only in sm
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