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• Giorgetto Giugiaro
  * [[American Motors Corporation|AMC]] *[http://www.italdesign.it Italdesign], Giugiaro's industrial design group
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• Gianni Agnelli
  ...ed 4.4% of Italy's GDP, 3.1% of its industrial workforce, and 16.5% of its industrial investment in research. ...er women during his marriage, including the film star Anita Ekberg and the American fashion designer Jackie Rogers,[5] the Agnellis remained married until his
  13 KB (2,048 words) - 20:38, 29 April 2010
• Lola
  ...n the second class (LMP2), including championship class victories in the [[American Le Mans Series]]. ...Le Mans with Ray Mallock Limited. It also earned several class wins in the American Le Mans Series in 2005 and 2006 with Intersport Racing, including a second-
  18 KB (2,879 words) - 10:15, 18 February 2010
• Straight-6 engine
  ...on, the straight-six can be scaled up to very large sizes for heavy truck, industrial and marine use, such as the 16 L (980 cu in) [[Volvo AB|Volvo]] diesel engi ...cal interference between valve and piston with catastrophic results. Some designers have experimented with installing the timing chain/gears in the middle of t
  36 KB (5,541 words) - 08:25, 24 May 2010
• Preston Tucker
  ...ton Thomas Tucker''' (September 21, 1903 – December 26, 1956) was an American [[automobile]] designer and entrepreneur. ...olis Motor Speedway]]. Having a heavy interest in the race cars and their designers, Tucker met [[Harry Miller]], maker of more [[Indianapolis 500]]-winning en
  27 KB (4,351 words) - 07:02, 3 January 2010
• Gottlieb Daimler
  ...tlieb Wilhelm Daimler''' (March 17, 1834 - March 6, 1900) was an engineer, industrial designer and industrialist, born in Schorndorf (Kingdom of Württemberg, a ...d, in the next year, to a stagecoach, and a boat. They are renowned as the designers of this ''Grandfather Clock'' engine.
  16 KB (2,424 words) - 12:03, 21 February 2009
• Rotary engine
  ..., had formed the Société des Moteurs Gnôme to build stationary engines for industrial use, having licensed production of the '''Gnom''' single-cylinder stationar ...almost exclusively on conventional in-line engines, many fighter aircraft designers preferred rotaries right up to the end of the war.
  24 KB (3,816 words) - 16:13, 25 December 2010
• V8 engine
  ...e use have gone up to and beyond 8.2 L (500 cu in) in production vehicles. Industrial and marine V8 engines can be much larger. ...to almost any size necessary. Large V8s are found in the larger truck and industrial equipment lines, however.
  50 KB (7,583 words) - 13:02, 24 May 2010
• Battery electric vehicle
  ...with battery-electric traction being limited to niche application such as industrial vehicles. ...otor companies have almost exclusively promoted their electric cars in the American market, where gas is comparatively cheap, and virtually ignored the Europea
  56 KB (8,990 words) - 15:42, 24 September 2009

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