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• Maserati Tipo 151
  | [[Endurance Racing|Endurance]] [[Race Car]] ...ducing 430 bhp and now renumbered as 151/1. The car came back again to the factory in preparation for 1964 when there was a massive change to the frame, the m
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• Bean Cars Ltd.
  ...he 1147 cc 4 cylinder engine was linked to a separate 3 speed gearbox. The car in chassis form initially cost £400 but this was reduced to £245. A four ...verhead valve six cylinder [[Henry Meadows|Meadows]] engine. However, this car was to only last a year with 500 being made. In chassis form it cost £365.
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• Tornado
  ...k axle. Only one was made and still belongs to the original builder of the car. ...in 2 states of tune. This model was available either in component form or factory finished and was praised for having lively performance combined with good r
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• Panther Westwinds
  ...], like the resurrected [[Stutz Blackhawk]] in the United States, became a car for top celebrities to be seen in. Another Panther was the infamous [[Panther 6]], one car was officially built and another copy constructed later (before Panther col
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• Aixam
  ...s-Bains. It was founded in 1983 to make [[microcars]] in the old [[AROLA]] factory after that company failed. In 1992 they started making a range of standard * Mega Monte Carlo (sports car)
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• Wartburg
  {{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}}The '''Wartburg''' was a [[automobile|car]] manufactured in East Germany. It had a three-[[cylinder|cylinder]] [[two- The marque goes back to 1898 when a car made by [[Automobilwerk Eisenach]] was named the Wartburg. The name was dro
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• Santana Motors
  '''Santana''' is a Spanish car factory that has been building [[Land Rover]] vehicles under license until 1983.
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• Valerio Colotti
  ...wed by employment with [[Maserati]] (1953-1957), until the company dropped factory works racing. In 1958 he started his own company, known as '''Tec-Mec''' ( ...isted by [[Giorgi Scarlatti]], attempted at the tipo F/415 [[Formula One]] car, mostly based on the [[Maserati 250F]], in which Colotti had been deeply in
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• State Limousines of Israel
  ...d to the highest bullet-proofing classes B6+ and B7. Analysts estimate the car to be worth $750-850 thousand dollars before taxes (around $1 million w/ ta ...he manufacturer's official data, the standard A8 Security has an original, factory-produced, protected passenger compartment, proof against bullets and hand g
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• Eisenacher Motorenwerk
  ...ion of EMW became [[VEB Automobilwerk Eisenach]] and build the [[Wartburg (car)|Wartburg]]. Motorcycle manufacture ended in the 1950's and was replaced by
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• Pinky Lai
  ...strial Design. After answering an advertisement from Ford of Germany for a car designer, in 1978, he ended up receiving a two year scholarship on transpor ...Lagaay]] (also from BMW). Since then, he worked in all the models from the factory, from the [[Porsche Boxster|Boxster]] to the [[Porsche Cayman|Cayman]], and
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• Clan
  ...1971 and 1974, but since then several efforts have been made to bring the car back to production. ...The car was available in either kit of fully built versions. Although the car received good reviews and achieved some competition success, it was expensi
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• ASA
  ...Bizzarrini]] and manufactured by the [[Bizzarrini]] company in Milan (in a factory owned by the De Nora Electrochemical Group) from 1962 to 1969. This small, high-efficiency "[[dream car]]" featured an [[Overhead cam|OHC]] 1032 cc [[four-cylinder]] engine d
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• Concours d'Elegance
  ...s d'Elegance is much more demanding than that of a neighborhood or general car show. Trained judges examine the vehicle thoroughly and in its entirety and ...e (or nickel) plating and mechanical restoration far exceeding that of the car when new.
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• Remote Keyless Entry
  ...ms the appropriate function. Newer systems implement encryption to prevent car thieves from intercepting and spoofing the signal. ...two ways by either providing confirmation of successfully (un-)locking the car through a light or a horn signal. Usually the system offers an option to ea
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• Zavod Imeni Likhocheva
  ...are priced at the equivalent of models from [[Maybach]] and [[Rolls-Royce car|Rolls-Royce]], but are largely unknown outside the CIS and production rarel ...with the help of the U.S. A.J. Brandt Co., changed its name to Automotive Factory No. 2 '''Zavod Imeni Stalina''' ('''ZIS''' or '''ZiS'''). After Nikita Khru
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• Elfin Cars
  ...}}'''Elfin Cars Pty Ltd''' has been an Australian manufacturer of [[sports car]]s and [[motor racing]] cars since 1957. Elfin Sports Cars was purchased in ...d designer and builder of racing and sports/racing cars as '''Elfin Sports Car Company'''.
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• De Tomaso Sport 1000
  ...and heat exchanger for the electrical system. The car was retained by the factory until 2004. ...e 15-inch wheels as the Sport 2000. This car, as well, was retained by the factory until De Tomaso's liquidation in June of 2004.
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• Dietrich-Bugatti
  ...he notice of the [[Baron de Dietrich]]. de Dietrich managed an automobile factory in Niederbronn in Alsace, France, and contracted Bugatti to develop new mod In 1904, Ettore Bugatti and Émile Mathis designed a new car, the '''Type 5''' or '''Hermes'''. It was a prototype of a more-modern mode
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• Porsche 936
  ...tered in numerous endurance races and sportscar championships, both by the factory and privateer teams, and achieved considerable success. ...ion from other vehicles in the Group 5 class, and the team to beat was the factory Renault-Alpine organisation, with their A442. But the 936 was thoroughly de
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