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• Automatic headlight dimmer
  ...hicles during nighttime driving, and to switch back to high beam after the vehicles had passed. ...ick]], [[Pontiac]] and [[Chevrolet]] models began offering this feature in 1953. Cars with the Autornic Eye were easily identified by a periscope-like phot
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• Packard Caribbean
  ...96; color:#fff; border-bottom:1px solid #999;" | [[Image:Packard Caribbean 1953 Red.jpg|300px]] | 1953-56
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• Lloyd (Germany)
  ...and was owned by the Norddeutsche Lloyd shipping company. The factory was in Bremen. Many of the products of the company and its successors were badged ...[[Borgward]] group after the purchase of Hansa by [[Carl F. W. Borgward]] in 1929, and car production ceased.
  5 KB (774 words) - 08:52, 4 December 2010
• Lea-Francis
  ...'' and '''[[Graham Ingoldsby Francis]]''' started the business in Coventry in 1895. ...Singer]] company. In 1919 they started to build their own cars from bought in components.
  5 KB (653 words) - 00:30, 21 February 2007
• Minerva
  ...r]]. The 8 litre ''Kaiserpreis'' won the Belgian Circuit des Ardennes race in 1907. A certain [[Charles Rolls|Charles S Rolls]] was a Minerva dealer in England selling the 2.9 litre 14hp. The most important market for the const
  3 KB (552 words) - 05:40, 19 February 2007
• Audi Nuvolari Quattro
  ...car]] created by German automobile maker [[Audi]]. This vehicle was first introduced at the 2003 [[Geneva Motor Show]]. It was what Audi planned to become the v ...ed at 600 hp (441 kW). It could accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in about 4.1 seconds. [[Torque]] on the Nuvolari Quattro was rated at 750 Nm.
  3 KB (361 words) - 17:30, 22 January 2007
• Buick Skylark
  ...division of [[General Motors]]. The model was made in six production runs. In each production, the car design varied quite dramatically. This was due to ...the Apollo name continued for the rest of that year on the X-body sedans. In 1976, the Skylark name totally replaced the Apollo name and was used for al
  12 KB (1,806 words) - 06:18, 17 December 2010
• Armstrong Siddeley
  ...o Coventry-based companies, [[Armstrong-Whitworth]] and [[Siddeley-Deasy]] in 1919. ...glish bodies. This company merged with [[Wolseley Motor Company|Wolseley]] in 1905 and made stately Wolseley-Siddeley motorcars. They were used by Queen
  8 KB (1,066 words) - 08:13, 27 July 2007
• Hispano-Suiza
  ...iod. Today they are part of the French SAFRAN Group, while the Spanish arm in 1946 was taken over by Enasa, the maker of [[Pegaso]] trucks and sport cars ...es''' (''Spanish-Swiss Car Factory''), but this company also went bankrupt in December 1903.
  5 KB (853 words) - 00:47, 3 March 2010
• Packard Clipper
  [[Image:1946packclip.jpg|thumb|300px|In 1946, Packard applied Clipper styling and name to all its post-war models]] Certain [[automobile|vehicles]] come in different trim levels or body styles. Features and major options should be
  13 KB (1,780 words) - 18:16, 31 October 2008
• Jowett
  ...cles were made before an improved version with wheel steering was launched in 1913 and a further 36 were made before the outbreak of the First World War ...nance and braking was on all four wheels. Production was briefly suspended in September 1931 when fire swept through the works.
  7 KB (1,109 words) - 06:26, 19 February 2007
• Hino Motors
  ...mpany has been the leading producer of medium and heavy-duty diesel trucks in Japan. It is owned by [[Toyota]]. ...It produced its first motor vehicle in 1913, the Model TGE "A-Type" truck. In 1937 TG&E merged its automobile division with that of Automobile Industry C
  4 KB (691 words) - 00:24, 2 August 2008
• Biscúter
  ...elling for the pronunciation of Biscooter) was a [[microcar]] manufactured in Spain during the mid-20th century. ...ond World War made very small, economical cars popular in many countries. In Spain the situation was complicated by General Francisco Franco's authorita
  4 KB (687 words) - 07:04, 19 February 2007
• Lancia Appia
  |Production = 1953-1963<br/>98,027 units |Length = 3865 mm (152.2 in)
  12 KB (1,683 words) - 14:02, 14 November 2008
• Lanchester Motor Company
  ...in charge and the engine moved further forward to a conventional position in the sporting side valve 5.5 litre six cylinder Forty. ...ty was finally replaced by the Thirty with straight eight 4.4 litre engine in 1928.
  6 KB (893 words) - 06:21, 19 February 2007
• Morris
  ...tion of the company into larger corporations, the ''Morris'' name remained in use as a marque until 1984. ...rger car, the 2-seat and 4-seat [[Morris Cowley (1915)|Morris Cowley]] was introduced.
  7 KB (1,021 words) - 07:12, 16 June 2007
• Henney Kilowatt
  ...a period in which they had been out of favor<ref>"The History of Electric Vehicles: ...ide Batteries, was also a participant in the development of the Kilowatt. (In 1974, National Union Electric was purchased by AB Electrolux of Sweden .)
  7 KB (1,077 words) - 09:28, 21 August 2009
• List of Mitsubishi engines
  ...milies were introduced using the letter "A" to denote that all the engines in the family had an [[alloy]] [[cylinder head]]. Their latest engines, howeve ...bishi's smallest powerplants, most commonly found in their earliest models in the 1960s:
  10 KB (1,554 words) - 07:12, 11 January 2010
• Straight-8 engine
  ...ed in a straight line along the [[crankcase]]. The type has been produced in [[side valve]], [[overhead valve]] and [[overhead cam]] configurations. .... However, [[crankshaft]] [[torsional vibration]], present to some degree in all engines, is sufficient to require the use of a [[harmonic damper]] at t
  12 KB (1,791 words) - 12:04, 24 May 2010
• Glas
  '''Hans Glas GmbH''' is a former German automotive company, which was based in Dingolfing. ...h steam engine). During the summer periods about 16 people worked for him. In 1905 Andreas Glas' company built their first sowing machines. He then had s
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