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• Daimler Motor Company
  ...was a subsidiary of BSA from 1910 up until 1960, when it became part of [[Jaguar]] and the brand was used for their luxury models. It is now a subsidiary of ...any acquired a [[Knight Engine]] licence in 1908 to build [[sleeve valve]] engines for its automobiles.
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• Lincoln LS
  ...ivil action against General Motors - this was an official RPO code for two engines - the legendary LS6 454 producing 450 [[HP|horsepower]].) The car is, howev ...o the discontinuation of the [[Lincoln Continental|Continental]]), and the engines received a boost in power, with the addition of an electronic throttle cont
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• Coventry Climax
  | title = Legendary Car Engines: Inner Secrets of the World's 20 Best ...WK]], who produced over 1000 light cars with Coventry-Simplex two-cylinder engines between 1911 and 1915. Just before World War I a Coventry-Simplex engine w
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• Jaguar Mark V
  |Marque = [[Jaguar]] ...r production with slight changes, and is now unofficially known as the ''[[Jaguar Mark IV|Mark IV]]'' because it came before the Mark V.
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• World Sportscar Championship
  ...ther than Le Mans, despite the potential of the [[Jaguar C-Type|C-]] and [[Jaguar D-Type|D-Type]]s. ...d by a new Group 5 Sports Car class. These cars were limited to 3.0 L engines by the FIA (a move that some cynics believed was made to benefit the French
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• Carrera Panamericana
  ...sche 911|911]]s. Rarer cars included [[Saab 96]]s, [[Volvo PV544]]s, and [[Jaguar MkII]] saloons. ...underpinnings more closely related to modern [[NASCAR]] entries. Tuned V8 engines of more than 500PS are common, especially in the American cars, and the car
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• Jaguar X-Type
  |Image = [[Image:Xtype091.jpg|300px|Jaguar X-TYPE]] |Marque = [[Jaguar]]
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• BMW F10
  |Similar = [[Mercedes-Benz E-Class]]<br>[[Audi A6]]<br>[[Jaguar XF]] ...f straight 6 engines, completing the petrol engine range. [[Straight six]] engines offer superior refinement over their 4 cylinder counterparts, as well as be
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• Compression ratio
  ...est capacity. It is a fundamental specification for many common combustion engines. ...d combustion chamber when the [[piston]] is at the bottom of its [[stroke (engines)|stroke]], and the volume of the combustion chamber when the piston is at t
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• Iso Rivolta
  ...n cars of Iso. Starting in 1971, [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]] 351 Cleveland engines replaced the GM small block. The most well-known [[Gran Turismo]] of Iso Ri
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• Riley
  ...n the Riley Engine Company, also in Coventry. At first, he simply supplied engines for Riley motorcycles, but the company soon began to focus on four-wheeled ...der 10&nbsp;hp (7.5&nbsp;kW) car. Riley also began manufacturing aeroplane engines and became a key supplier in Britain's buildup for World War I.
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• Lanchester Motor Company
  ...irst production cars in 1900. These had two cylinder horizontal air cooled engines with two crankshafts rotating in opposite directions to give smooth running ...rent company, Daimler, was in decline and in 1960 was absorbed by [[Jaguar|Jaguar]], who used the Daimler name in the same way Daimler had used the Lancheste
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• Mercedes-Benz R107
  ...ents of the mid size Mercedes-Benz W114 model and mated them to the larger engines from the S-Class. The W 107 chassis is also referred to as "R 107" for "Rei ...e 380SEC. It was aimed at the same market as more exotic machines like the Jaguar E-Type and Citroën SM.
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• Alta Car and Engineering Company
  ...d 1952, as well as [[Grand Prix]] events prior to this. They also supplied engines to a small number of other constructors, most noteably the [[Connaught|Conn ...verstone Circuit|Silverstone]]. Over the next few years 1.5L and 2.5L Alta engines would find their way into a slew of British-built F1 hopefuls, the most suc
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• British Leyland
  ...the competition from yet more, previously LMC marques. Rover competed with Jaguar at the expensive end of the market, and Triumph with its family cars and sp :*Coventry Climax Limited (fork lift trucks and specialist engines)
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• Mitsuoka Viewt
  ...s a modification of the [[Nissan March]]/Micra, intended to resemble the [[Jaguar Mark 2]]. It, along with Mitsuoka's earlier [[Mitsuoka Galue|Galue]], encou ...and the cabin appears rounder. However, Mitsuoka have persisted with their Jaguar-style front and rear.
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• Nash-Healey
  .... It was expensive to build because of all the shipping involved. The Nash engines and other mechanical components came from the U.S. to Britain. The body was ...ssador|Ambassador's]] inline six-cylinder (252&nbsp;in³, 4130 cc, 140 hp.) engines, three-speed manual transmissions with [[Overdrive (mechanics)|overdrive]],
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• Gottlieb Daimler
  ...m Maybach]] were two inventors whose dream was to create small, high speed engines to be mounted in any kind of locomotion device. They designed in 1885 a pre ...im Maybach moved to work at the world's largest manufacturer of stationary engines of the time, the [[Deutz AG|Deutz-AG-Gasmotorenfabrik]] in [[Cologne]]. It
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• Spa 1000 km
  ...o 480&nbsp;km as a rule change required the use of [[Formula One]]-derived engines that last no longer. Due to the decline of the WSC, the "1000km" was discon | {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} [[Silk Cut]] [[Jaguar (car)|Jaguar]]
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• Horsepower
  The most-common definition of [[HP|horsepower]] for engines is the one originally proposed by James Watt in 1782. Under this system, o ...s was a minor issue in the days when measurement systems varied widely and engines produced less power, but has become a major sticking point today. Exotic c
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