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• Alternative Fuel Vehicles
  * Bi-fuel NGVs offer a driving range similar to that of gasoline vehicles ...sel power in the type of vehicles most people are accustomed to owning and driving.
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• Monaco Grand Prix
  ...That first race was won by [[William Grover-Williams]] (a.k.a. "Williams") driving a [[Bugatti]]. The event was part of the pre-Second World War [[European Ch ...naco Grand Prix was won by [[William Grover-Williams]] (a.k.a. "Williams") driving a [[Bugatti]] [[Bugatti Type 35|Type 35B]] painted in what would become the
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• British Grand Prix
  ...rix was won by the French team of [[Louis Wagner]] and [[Robert Sénéchal]] driving a [[Delage|Delage 155B]]. The second British Grand Prix was held at Brookla | [[McLaren]]-[[Techniques d'Avant Garde|TAG]]
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• The Stig
  ...y-Priced Car" feature on the show. In addition, The Stig carries out other driving and personal appearance duties when the need arises. The Stig has also appe ...thors=Smith, Emma |url=http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/driving/article586470.ece?token=null&offset=0 |title=The backroom boy who put Top G
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• Rallying
  ...ts. Rallies may be won by pure speed within the stages or alternatively by driving to a predetermined ideal journey time within the stages. ...ry and exit points of towns along the way; road books and route notes; and driving over long distances on ordinary, mainly gravel, roads, facing hazards such
  38 KB (5,921 words) - 23:23, 6 July 2010
• Aptera
  ...“wingless,” a nod to their light-aircraft-inspired design and construction techniques,<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/200 | url = http://blog.google.org/2008/07/driving-plug-in-technology-with.html
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• Off-roading
  '''Off-roading''' is a term for driving a specialized vehicle on unpaved roads, such as sand, gravel, riverbeds, mu ...sometimes only be traveled by vehicles designed specifically for off-road driving (such as heavy-duty [[truck]]s and equipment, [[SUV]]s, ATVs, snowmobiles,
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• Car handling
  Since only the brakes on the driving wheels can easily be inboard, the [[Citroën 2CV]] had additional dampers o The stability control of some cars may not be compatible with some driving techniques, such as power induced over-steer. It is therefore, at least from a sporti
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• De Lorean DMC-12
  ...s|Lotus]]. Chapman replaced most of the dubious material and manufacturing techniques with those currently being employed by Lotus. The original [[Giorgetto Giug ...steel (a dented or bent panel is stretched and a shrinking hammer or other techniques must be used to unstretch the metal), let alone stainless. Furthermore, it
  38 KB (5,968 words) - 07:56, 11 December 2010
• Petroleum electric hybrid vehicle
  ...ngine is smaller and may be run at speeds providing more efficiency. Other techniques may be used to recover or reduce waste energy (such as regenerative braking ...peed records, and also won the Exelberg Rally in 1901 with Porsche himself driving. Over 300 of the Lohner-Porsche carriages were sold to the public. As a ser
  48 KB (7,153 words) - 16:31, 25 September 2009
• Custom auto
  ...cars were "chopped, tubbed, raked, and hopped-up." These basic customizing techniques continued to become more elaborate until custom cars were being designed fr ...eds were being sown for modern custom trends. After World War II, the hard-driving economy fueled a new generation of automotive enthusiasts, these early styl
  49 KB (8,295 words) - 17:09, 18 April 2010
• Straight-6 engine
  ...riented in either a vertical or an inclined plane with all the [[piston]]s driving a common [[crankshaft]]; in vehicles where this engine is installed incline ...lems that were difficult to eliminate without modern computer aided design techniques. The length of the straight-six was not a major concern in the older [[FR l
  36 KB (5,541 words) - 08:25, 24 May 2010
• History of the automobile
  ...f the first [[sports car]]s, the Raceabout expressed the exuberance of the driving public, as did the similarly-conceived [[American Underslung]] and [[Hispan ...he first mass-produced [[front-wheel drive]] car, built with [[monocoque]] techniques.
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• Lincoln
  ...ast as much by being a successful "halo" brand for the Ford Motor Company, driving more buyers to either Mercury or Ford vehicles. ...vides case studies to oppose "bean counting" and "focus groups" management techniques such as McNamara's to actually "sensing" the public's needs and the changes
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