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• Nürburgring
  ...nbsp;km/h or 95.3 mph) in the [[Ferrari 156]] "Sharknose" Formula One car. Even 40 years later, the highest performing road cars have difficulty brea ...car Championship]] for decades. The [[24 Hours Nürburgring]] for [[touring car racing]] was added in 1970.
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• Custom auto
  ...d hot rod culture. Here's a picture of a '32 Ford Roadster, a contemporary car, but one built on the style of those first hot rods. The basic performance ...s played with as a form of street-running self-expression, the drag racing car, the customized work of art; there was just the hot rod, the amateur automo
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• Spark plug
  ...construction varies depending on the use of the spark plug. Most passenger car spark plug wires snap onto the terminal of the plug, but some wires have sp ...n belief that plugs are properly gapped as delivered in their box from the factory is incorrect, as proved by the fact that the same plug may be specified for
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• List of automotive superlatives
  **Current production car - {{convert|6165|mm|1|abbr=on}} - 2010 [[Maybach 62]] **Production car - {{convert|6248|mm|1|abbr=on}} - 1964 [[Mercedes-Benz 600]] Limousine
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• Bernie Ecclestone
  ...s took a knock when he collided with [[Bill Whitehouse]] and landed in the car park on the outside of the track. Eventually, commercial pressures and the ...e moved to the [[Vanwall]] team; Salvadori moved on to manage the [[Cooper Car Company|Cooper]] team. Lewis-Evans suffered severe burns when his engine ex
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• AMC
  ...y the merger of the [[Nash-Kelvinator Corporation]] and the [[Hudson Motor Car Company]]. At the time, it was the largest corporate merger in U.S. history In January 1954, [[Nash-Kelvinator Corporation]] acquired the [[Hudson Motor Car Company]] (in what was called a merger) to form '''American Motors'''. When
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• Williams F1
  ...' Champions|Drivers' title]] with the team. After Senna died in a Williams car in a crash at the [[1994 San Marino Grand Prix]], Frank Williams, Patrick H ...Formula One season|1978 season]], Patrick Head designed his first Williams car: the FW06. Williams signed Australian [[Alan Jones (racing driver)|Alan Jon
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• WilliamsF1
  ...' Champions|Drivers' title]] with the team. After Senna died in a Williams car in a crash at the [[1994 San Marino Grand Prix]], Frank Williams, Patrick H ...Formula One season|1978 season]], Patrick Head designed his first Williams car: the FW06. Williams signed Australian [[Alan Jones (racing driver)|Alan Jon
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• Jeep Wagoneer
  ...rson point of view'''''. This section should include information about the car's '''acceleration figures''', '''handling''', '''braking''', etc. There were few other changes for 1964, except for the option of factory-installed air conditioning.
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• Toyota Supra
  ...Toyota also stopped using the prefix ''Celica'' and began just calling the car ''Supra''.<ref name="OSS">{{cite web|url=http://www.toyota.com/html/shop/ve Along with this name and car Toyota also included its own logo for the Supra. It is derived from the ori
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• General Motors Company
  ...orldwide organization, while paying special attention to consumer demands. Car buyers no longer wanted the cheapest and most basic model—they wanted sty ...e lay-offs hit Flint, Michigan, a strike began at the General Motors parts factory in Flint on June 5, 1998, which quickly spread to five other assembly plant
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• Straight-6 engine
  In 1959, [[Saab Automobile|Saab]] had an experimental car with two transverse [[straight-three engine]]s bolted together—the [[Saab ...nder [[William Lyons]] and his staff were on fire watch duty in the Jaguar factory in Coventry, and had nothing better to do than design a new engine.<ref nam
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• Pontiac Grand Prix
  ...d to cars in the [[personal luxury car]] market segment and the [[mid-size car|mid-size]] offering, slotting below the large [[Pontiac Bonneville|Bonnevil ...rson point of view'''''. This section should include information about the car's '''acceleration figures''', '''handling''', '''braking''', etc.
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• V8 engine
  ...on more powerful [[muscle car]]s, [[pony car]]s, [[sports car]]s, [[luxury car]]s, [[pickup truck]]s, and [[SUV]]s. However they are often optional on veh ...ostly limited to [[rear-wheel drive]] sports cars, [[muscle car]]s, [[pony car]]s, luxury cars and [[light trucks]]. The shorter and occasionally narrower
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• La Macchina
  |aka = "The Car" or "The Machine" ...language is used in the naming of this car in homage to the great Italian car-makers and designers of the past, including [[Ettore Bugatti]] who, though
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• Diesel Vehicles
  ...id, or even by piezo-electric actuators (found on experimental diesel race car engines). Different car makers refer to their common rail engines by different names, e.g. DaimlerC
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• Automotive lighting
  ...amber or white) and rear (red) on either the left or the right side of the car. This function is used when parking in narrow unlit streets to provide park Sequential turn signals were factory fitted to [[Ford Thunderbird]]s built between 1965 and 1971, inclusive, to
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• Off-roading
  ...ries. It is generally suitable for any four wheel drive vehicle, even with factory [[tire]]s and equipment. The term greenlane refers to the fact that the rou ...make sure that the vehicles on the road are not too much higher than their car counterparts.
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