Search results

• Airbag
  ...t belt starter interlock'' (mandatory equipment on the 1974 and early 1975 automobiles sold in the United States) were also deleted when airbags were ordered. The 1970s fleet of 10,000 airbag-equipped GM experienced seven fatalities. One is no
  22 KB (3,645 words) - 03:53, 25 July 2009
• Dodge Magnum
  [[Category:1970s Automobiles]] [[Category:2000s Automobiles]]
  13 KB (1,959 words) - 14:16, 6 October 2009
• Car body style
  * The first automobiles were designs adapted in large part from horse-drawn carriages, and had [[bo ...car]]s. However, this usage is rare nowadays. In North America during the 1970s this style was used in the [[Chevrolet Vega]] wagon and [[AMC Hornet]] wago
  28 KB (4,458 words) - 17:48, 31 March 2010
• Porsche 928
  ...the future. Despite such fracas, the project was greenlighted in the early 1970s, and the development went ahead in earnest. ...clared that 'to drive the 928 is to love it - the standard by which all GT automobiles will be judged'. The sales were strong throughout the first few years of th
  13 KB (2,138 words) - 05:38, 20 December 2010
• Passenger vehicles in the United States
  ...icles (PDF file)|accessdate=2006-06-08}}</ref> This relatively high age of automobiles in the US might be explained by unaffordable prices for comparable new repl ...hicles in operation in the US was 6.5 years and 1969 when the mean age for automobiles was 5.1 years.<ref name="Median age of vehicles">{{cite web|url=http://www.
  36 KB (5,274 words) - 05:18, 25 May 2010
• Car classification
  ...ed], retrieved on 2008-06-30.</ref><ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/04/automobiles/04MILLION.html?_r=1&em&ex=1160020800&en=0e6a99c6df3961fe&ei=5087&oref=slogi Examples of American muscle cars from the 1960s and 1970s:
  20 KB (2,933 words) - 14:27, 22 September 2009
• Plymouth Satellite
  [[Category:1960s automobiles]] [[Category:1970s automobiles]]
  14 KB (2,038 words) - 07:18, 10 July 2010
• Sports car racing
  ...ave rise to the popular and spectacular [[Can-Am]] series in the 1960s and 1970s. ...another tough road race, remained part of the world championship until the 1970s and remained as a local race for many years afterwards.
  33 KB (5,280 words) - 05:56, 24 December 2009
• Rover
  ...ree years after Starley's death in 1901, the Rover company began producing automobiles with the two-seater Rover Eight to the designs of Edmund Lewis who came fro ...d managerial problems that beset the British motor industry throughout the 1970s. In 1970, Rover combined its skill in producing comfortable saloons and th
  14 KB (2,071 words) - 11:44, 18 December 2010
• Manifold vacuum
  Some AMC cars up into the 1970s and cars built before the 1960s used manifold vacuum to drive [[windscreen
  12 KB (1,914 words) - 14:54, 31 March 2010
• Subaru 360
  ...cc engine mounted transversely at the rear. By contrast, most conventional automobiles at the time used water-cooled four-stroke engines with 4 or more cylinders ...ht fiberglass roof panel, the post war period saw a wholesale move towards automobiles with [[unibody]] frames. Many of the ideas came from engineers from the for
  14 KB (2,039 words) - 00:54, 10 December 2010
• Ignition system
  ...tiple magnetos to provide redundancy in the event of a failure. Some older automobiles had both a magneto system and a battery actuated system (see below) running ...battery, and which was not maintained by an electrical system as on modern automobiles) to start the engine or for starting and running at low speed. The operato
  19 KB (3,009 words) - 09:08, 14 June 2009
• Continuously Variable Transmission
  CVTs have been used in SCCA Formula 500 race cars since the early 1970s. ==New automobiles equipped with CVT==
  20 KB (3,147 words) - 19:04, 27 September 2009
• Ford Courier
  [[Category:1970s automobiles]] [[Category:1980s automobiles]]
  15 KB (2,108 words) - 05:17, 22 July 2010
• History of the automobile
  ===Early automobiles=== ====Steam automobiles====
  34 KB (4,969 words) - 00:44, 29 March 2010
• Simca
  ...s General Agent in France, and in 1926 SAFAF (Société Anonyme Français des Automobiles Fiat) was founded. In 1928, SAFAF started the assembly of Fiat cars in Sure ...000 and the front engined [[Simca 1100|1100]] compact car. During the late 1970s Chrysler era, Simca produced the new [[Simca 180|160/180]] saloon, [[Simca
  10 KB (1,465 words) - 04:57, 10 November 2007
• Lincoln Mark series
  [[Category:1950s automobiles]] [[Category:1960s automobiles]]
  20 KB (3,161 words) - 21:54, 1 April 2010
• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
  ...with writing and enforcing safety, theft-resistance, and [[Fuel economy in automobiles|fuel economy]] standards for [[motor vehicle]]s, the latter under the rubri Since this era, automobiles have become far better in protecting their occupants in vehicle impacts. Th
  30 KB (4,277 words) - 16:23, 2 July 2010
• Coupé utility
  ...roduced between 1957 and 1979 based on full-size, compact and intermediate automobiles by the [[Ford Motor Company]] for the North American market. Variations bas *1970s [[AMC Hornet|AMC Cowboy]]: Hornet-based coupe ute that never made it to pro
  11 KB (1,676 words) - 04:40, 22 September 2010
• Shelby Mustang
  === Shelby Automobiles versions === ...ere are three different available superchargers, again installed by Shelby Automobiles or authorized Shelby Mod Shop, that can increase rated horsepower to 500 or
  27 KB (4,019 words) - 10:03, 1 July 2010

View (previous 20 | next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)