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• Ford Bronco
  ...made [[SUV]]s and broke ground on creating an entirely new market for cars in the US. The Bronco was produced as a mid-size SUV until 1977 without any ma ...ries number beginning in U and sequence number starting at 73200 and being in increments of 10. These were produced from August 1965 to August 1966 and
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• Honda Prelude
  ...inued upon the release of the fourth-generation [[Acura Integra]] in Japan in late 2001. ...ennial competitor has been the [[Toyota Celica]], another I4-powered coupe introduced several years prior to the Prelude. Throughout the 1980s, it was challenged
  19 KB (3,003 words) - 15:41, 25 August 2009
• Lincoln Continental
  ...ime, the Continental nameplate referred to the four-door Lincoln flagship. In 1981 the Continental's reign as the Lincoln flagship ended when the Town Ca ...ready for Edsel's March 1939 vacation. The design, allegedly sketched out in an hour by Gregorie working from the [[Lincoln-Zephyr|Lincoln Zephyr]] blue
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• Land Rover Series
  ...of these vehicles ''ever made'' are still in use today- a claim first made in the 1992 brochure and repeated many times since, being much publicised when ...g — many body parts are interchangeable between brand-new models and vehicles nearly 30 years old. Differences, however, are significant. The principal d
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• Chevrolet Small-Block engine
  |Image = '''place image here in 300 pixels''' ...''' 400 cu in (6.6 L)<br>'''262:''' 262 cu in (4.3 L)<br>'''305:''' 305 cu in (5 L)
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• Holden
  ...ian automotive manufacturer with ties to [[General Motors]]. It is an icon in the region. ...formed General Motors–Holden's Ltd. In 1998, it was renamed Holden Ltd and in May 2005, it became known as GM Holden Ltd.
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• Limited Slip Differential
  .... In an [[automobile]], such limited slip differentials are sometimes used in place of a standard differential, where they convey certain dynamic advanta ...manding use however, such as driving [[off-road]], or for high performance vehicles, such a state of affairs is undesirable, and the LSD can be employed to dea
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• Toyota Soarer
  ...eries). In 1991, the third generation (Z30 series) Toyota Soarer premiered in Japan. The Z30 series Soarers were also known as the [[Lexus SC#First Gener ...Z40 series Soarer were discontinued and the Lexus SC 430 became available in the Japanese market.
  22 KB (3,246 words) - 01:03, 12 January 2009
• Mercury Cougar
  ...leading big cats on leashes were a feature of Cougar and Mercury ads back in their 1970s heyday. ...000 Mustang sales in less than 3 years, Mercury desperately wanted to cash in on some of the action - hence the Cougar. Mercury successfully combined ma
  40 KB (5,984 words) - 21:00, 12 October 2010
• Pontiac Grand Prix
  ...ize]] offering, slotting below the large [[Pontiac Bonneville|Bonneville]] in the company's lineup. ...d-model year 2006, the Grand Prix is Pontiac's largest automotive offering in production, superceeding the recently cancelled [[Pontiac Bonneville]] prog
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• Passenger vehicles in the United States
  ...g Three." The motor car has become an integral part of American life, with vehicles outnumbering licensed drivers.<ref name="BTS1"/> ...re than half of all households do not own a car (the figure is even higher in Manhattan, over 75%; nationally, the rate is 8%).<ref name=2001summary />
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• Chevrolet Silverado
  |Length = 205.6-248.8 in |Width = 79.9 in
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• Cadillac Seville
  ...automotive paradigm of "bigger equals better" was no longer in full effect in the marketplace. ...ille was to be simultaneously the smallest and the most expensive Cadillac in the line-up, turning Cadillac's traditional marketing and pricing strategy
  27 KB (3,861 words) - 20:49, 9 August 2010
• Toyota Supra
  ...r ''Supra''.<ref name="OSS">{{cite web|url=http://www.toyota.com/html/shop/vehicles/supra.html|work=Toyota.com|title=Official Toyota Supra Web Site|accessdate= ...name="OSS"/> and in 2002 Toyota officially stopped production of the Supra in Japan.
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• MG
  ...ver]] went bankrupt in the spring of 2005. MG cars have resumed production in January 2007 under new owners [[Nanjing Automobile Group]]. ...ver as GM, guiding the company through its best years until his retirement in 1969.
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• Straight-6 engine
  ...sesses both primary and secondary mechanical [[engine balance]], resulting in relatively low manufacturing cost combined with much less vibration than en ...vo AB|Volvo]] diesel engine and the 15 liter [[Cummins]] ISX used in heavy vehicles.<ref>Nunney, p. 4</ref> The largest are used to power ships, and use fuel
  36 KB (5,541 words) - 08:25, 24 May 2010
• Buick Regal
  |Length = 107.8 in (2738 mm) |Width = 73.1 in (1857 mm)
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• Sports car racing
  ...ces emphasise endurance (races are typically anywhere from 2.5 to 24 hours in length), reliability and strategy over pure speed. Longer races usually inv ...ers have in many cases been very similar to the cars that were raced, both in engineering and styling. It is this close association with the 'exotic' nat
  33 KB (5,280 words) - 05:56, 24 December 2009
• Fuel injection
  ...is then converted to mechanical work by the engine based on the gas laws. In modern automotive applications, the fuel metering task is only one of sever ...table difference is that a carburetor performs several important functions in one single component: it measures engine load, calculates the amount of fue
  33 KB (4,922 words) - 12:15, 4 June 2009
• Suspension (vehicle)
  ...ight compromise. It is important for the suspension to keep the road wheel in contact with the road surface as much as possible, because all the forces a ...their siege engines, with little success at first. The use of leaf springs in catapults was later refined and made to work years later. Springs were not
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