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• Turbocharged Direct Injection
  ...ese TDI engines are widely used in all mainstream Volkswagen Group marques of [[automobile|passenger cars]] and [[light commercial vehicle]]s produced by '''TDI''' is a registered trademark of [[Volkswagen Group|Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft]].<ref name=VWAG/>
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• Gottlieb Daimler
  ...eration), in what is now the Federal Republic of Germany. He was a pioneer of [[internal-combustion engine]]s and [[automobile]] development. He invented ...next year, to a stagecoach, and a boat. They are renowned as the designers of this ''Grandfather Clock'' engine.
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• Hydrogen vehicle
  ...of power for locomotion. These vehicles generally use the hydrogen in one of two methods: combustion or [[fuel-cell]] conversion: ...timeframes in which such challenges may be overcome is unclear and a point of controversy.
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• Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche
  ...automobile engineer, and his nephew, Dr. [[Ferdinand Piech]], was chairman of [[Volkswagen]] from 1993 to 2002. ...s technical knowledge since his childhood. Father and son opened a bureau of automobile design, at Stuttgart in 1931.
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• Horsepower
  ...ly in the [[automobile|automotive]] industry for listing the maximum power of [[internal-combustion engine]]s. * [[#RAC horsepower|RAC horsepower]] is based solely on the dimensions of a piston engine
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• Volkswagen Rabbit
  |Power = 150 hp @ 5000 rpm<br>170 lb-ft of [[torque]] @ 3750 rpm ...'''", thus continuing Volkswagen's never ending saga of switching the name of its entry-level hatch for the North American market.
  16 KB (2,326 words) - 14:44, 17 December 2010
• General Motors Company
  ...e world's leading finance companies, GMAC Financial Services, which offers automotive, residential and commercial financing and insurance. GM's [[OnStar]] subsid ...nghai Automotive Industry Corp. of China, AVTOVAZ of Russia and Renault SA of France.
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• Karl Benz
  ...invention, but Benz patented his work first and, after that, patented all of the processes that made the [[internal combustion engine]] feasible for use ..., and ''[[DaimlerChrysler]]''. Before dying he would witness the explosion of automobile use during the 1920s, thanks to his inventions.
  20 KB (3,038 words) - 14:18, 12 December 2008
• Passenger vehicles in the United States
  ''Department of Transportation's definition of a ''passenger vehicle'', to mean a car or truck, used for passengers, exclu ...referred to as the "Big Three." The motor car has become an integral part of American life, with vehicles outnumbering licensed drivers.<ref name="BTS1"
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• Wilhelm Maybach
  ...s hailed in France, then the world centre for car production, as the "King of constructors". ...troduced in late 1902, the ''Mercedes'' model, built to the specifications of [[Emil Jellinek]].
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• Gasoline direct injection
  ...d via a [[common rail]] fuel line directly into the [[combustion chamber]] of each [[cylinder (engine)|cylinder]], as opposed to conventional [[fuel inje ==Theory of operation==
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• History of the automobile
  ...bile can be divided into a number of eras based on the prevalent method of automotive propulsion during that time. Later periods were defined by trends in exteri ==Eras of invention==
  34 KB (4,969 words) - 00:44, 29 March 2010
• Saab 9-5
  |Power = N/A hp @ N/A rpm<br>N/A lb-ft of [[torque]] @ N/A rpm ...is 0.29. There is also a [[station wagon]] version with a drag coefficient of 0.31, which was introduced in 2000.
  20 KB (2,827 words) - 06:09, 22 July 2010
• Rallying
  '''Rallying''', also known as '''rally racing''', is a form of [[auto racing]] that takes place on public or private roads with modified p ...were [[Panhard et Levassor]] and [[Peugeot]].<ref>Rose, Gerald: "A Record of Motor Racing 1894–1908" page 1. Royal Automobile Club 1909, reprinted in
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• Driverless car
  ...st all private cars requiring drivers, which are not in use and parked 90% of the time, would be traded for public self-driving taxis that would be in ne ...and the [[DARPA Grand Challenge]] from the USA. For the wider application of artificial intelligence to [[automobile]]s see ''[[smart car]]s''.
  32 KB (4,781 words) - 08:41, 21 August 2009
• Wankel engine
  ...ons]]. Its [[four-stroke cycle]] takes place in a space between the inside of an oval-like epitrochoid-shaped housing and a rotor that is similar in shap ...ing prototype in 1957. NSU then subsequently licenced the concept to other companies across the globe, who have continued to improve the design.
  38 KB (5,940 words) - 16:12, 25 December 2010
• Gas turbine
  ...ustion turbine''', is a [[rotary engine]] that extracts energy from a flow of combustion gas. It has an upstream compressor coupled to a downstream turbi ...energy given up to the turbine comes from the reduction in the temperature of the exhaust gas.
  31 KB (4,779 words) - 13:07, 29 October 2010
• Battery electric vehicle
  ...[[electric vehicle]]s whose main energy storage is in the chemical energy of batteries. ...enset trailer]]s or [[pusher trailer]]s are sometimes used, forming a type of [[hybrid vehicle]]. Batteries used in electric vehicles include "flooded" l
  56 KB (8,990 words) - 15:42, 24 September 2009
• Diesel Vehicles
  ...erature and pressure of a compressed gas, rather than by a separate source of ignition, such as a spark plug, as is the case in the gasoline engine. ...patent on February 23, 1893. Diesel intended the engine to use a variety of fuels including coal dust. He demonstrated it in the 1900 Exposition Unive
  49 KB (7,542 words) - 23:04, 16 August 2009
• Formula One
  ...s from 1.5 litres to 4.5 litres. The maximum power achieved in the history of the series was around 1200 bhp in racing trim, during the 1980s 'turbo era' ...m sponsors translating into extremely high monetary budgets for the [[List of Formula One constructors|constructor teams]], however, in recent years seve
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