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• Carroll Shelby
  ...hstar engine#L47|L47 Aurora]]'' V8, but was poorly supported by the ailing GM division. [[Category:car designers|Shelby, Carroll]]
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• AMC Hornet
  ...until the 1976 [[Dodge Aspen]]//[[Plymouth Volare]], while [[Ford]] and [[GM]] both declined to offer one at all. The new wagon offered a hatch opening ...s and Gucci emblems on the door panels. Having famous name-brand interior designers would soon be a common theme with AMC models.
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• AutoVAZ
  AvtoVAZ designers proved that they had some original ideas when the VAZ-2121 [[Lada Niva|Niva [[GM-AvtoVAZ]], a joint-venture with [[General Motors Corporation|General Motors
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• Volkswagen Brasilia
  ...razil's president Rudolf Leiding, made a challenge for the company's major designers. He wanted to recreate the Beetle but with a Brazilian flair and with the B ...e a comparative test between the VW Brasilia and it's main competitor, the GM Chevette, in March 1980.
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• Airbag
  [[Ford]] built an experimental fleet of cars with airbags in 1971. Then, GM who had also been experimening with airbags, built a fleet of 1000 1973 mod ...ld to the public. The standard front shoulder belts were deleted in 1970's GM cars equipped with airbags but lap belts were still used for side impact an
  22 KB (3,645 words) - 03:53, 25 July 2009
• Dodge Durango
  ...version of the Durango which uses the shared [[General Motors Corporation|GM]]/[[DaimlerChrysler]] Advanced [[Hybrid Cars|Hybrid]] System 2. It is expe ...on [[Dodge Dakota]] on which it was based (during the late 1980s, Chrysler designers proposed building an SUV version of the Dakota pickup; this was shelved whe
  16 KB (2,126 words) - 02:18, 2 November 2010
• Straight-6 engine
  ...0]] as part of the modular straight-four, straight-five and straight-six [[GM Atlas engine]] line. ...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
• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
  ...auto market was an oligopoly, with just three companies ([[General Motors|GM]], [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]], and [[Chrysler Corporation|Chrysler]]) cont | title = GM Exec Slams Higher Mileage Standards
  30 KB (4,277 words) - 16:23, 2 July 2010
• V8 engine
  ...rse FWD and transverse AWD engine configurations in larger cars, such as [[GM Premium V engine|Cadillacs]] and [[Ford Yamaha V8 engine|Volvos]]. These en }}</ref> In 2010 GM will introduce a 4.5 litre Duramax diesel V8 with a 72° angle in which the
  50 KB (7,583 words) - 13:02, 24 May 2010
• General Motors G-Series
  ...and offering long wheelbase and v8 power to buyers for the first time. GM designers moved the headlights down to a new grille, added longer, rectangular tail l
  22 KB (3,166 words) - 06:40, 30 June 2010
• Jeep Grand Cherokee
  ...drive vehicles and light duty trucks/vans, has spread beyond its use with GM (and [[Ford]]] with their 1973 to 1978 [[Ford LTD|LTD]]s and Lincolns). ...-badged Jeep product since AMC came up with the concept; the AMC engineers/designers behind the project, who later became Chrysler employees after the 1987 buyo
  31 KB (4,376 words) - 02:42, 19 December 2010
• Battery electric vehicle
  ...te configurations for a mass market. However, at the end of their programs GM destroyed its fleet, despite offers to purchase them by their drivers. Ford ...ic vehicle conversion|conversion]] and building of BEVs by hobbyists. Some designers point out that a specific type of electric vehicle offers comfort, utility
  56 KB (8,990 words) - 15:42, 24 September 2009
• Custom auto
  Probably the most famous custom car designers are George Barris and Ed Roth. Barris was one of the pioneer customizes and ...far more popular than expected, and inspired a host of imitations, both at GM and its competitors.
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