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• Lancia Scorpion
  | Sports car ...'Lancia Monte Carlo / Scorpion''' was a [[MR layout|mid-engined]] [[sports car]] sold in the 1970s. A low-power version, the '''Scorpion''', was sold in
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• Lotus Elise GT1
  ...5''') was a [[race car]] developed for [[grand tourer]]-style [[sports car racing]] starting in 1997. ...tional exposure. [[Porsche]] was the first to start a new breed of racing car in 1996, with their purpose-built homologation special known as the [[Porsc
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• Glasspar G2
  .... It was built as both a production model (in limited numbers) or as a kit car. ...Major Ken Brooks, design a body for the [[hot rod]] Ken was building. The car consisted of a stripped down [[Willys]] [[Jeep]] chassis with a highly modi
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• Clutch
  ...rsh, jerky start. This kind of start is necessary and desirable in [[drag racing]] and other competitions, where speed is more important than comfort. In a [[automobile|car]] the clutch is operated by the left-most [[Automobile pedal|pedal]] using
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• Moskvich
  ...y Zavod imeni Leninskogo Komsomola'', which means ''Youth Communist League Car Factory''). ...nd always exceeded production, so people had to wait a long time for a new car. Until the 1980s all Moskvitch cars were compact rear-wheel drive sedans an
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• Touring car racing
  '''Touring car racing''' is a general term for a number of distinct [[auto racing]] competitions in heavily-modified street cars. It is notably popular in B ==Characteristics of a touring car==
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• Automobilwerk Eisenach
  ...o years he started to produce a motor car which he called the “[[Wartburg (car)|Wartburg]],” a licensed model of the French “[[Decauville]].” The co ...the factory suffered from reparations with removal of equipment. In 1919, car production resumed; but soon economic hardship forced a merger with [[Gotha
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• Mercury Comet
  ...in the Comet being classified as either a compact or an intermediate-sized car during the seventeen years that the Comet name was used. ...60 Edsel Comet. Following the Edsel's termination in the fall of 1959, the car received a new grille design before its March 1960 introduction.]]
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• Auburn
  ...A 2-speed [[planetary transmission]] was fitted. The angle-steel-framed car weighed 1500 lb (680 kg) and used [[leaf spring|half-elliptic spr ...h-priced luxury vehicles. He also put his own name on a front-wheel-drive car, the [[Cord L-29]].
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• Race car
  ...le sport, and it can further include motorboat racing and air racing. Auto racing began in France in the late nineteenth century and is now one of the world' ...t over the line was [[Émile Levassor]] but he was disqualified because his car was not a required four-seater.
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• Marmon
  ...tled upon. Marmons soon gained a reputation as a reliable, speedy upscale car. ...the '''Wasp''', winner of the first [[Indianapolis 500]] motor race. This car featured the world's first rear-view mirror.
  5 KB (681 words) - 05:39, 19 February 2007
• Chevron
  {{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}}'''Chevron''' was a manufacturer of [[racing car]]s, founded by [[Derek Bennett]], who remained in charge from 1965 to his d ...e for its proud Lancastrian nature - unlike the rest of the British racing car industry which tended to be based in an arc running from South West London
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• Carrera Panamericana
  The '''Carrera Panamericana''' was (and is again) a [[sports car racing]] event on open roads in Mexico, similar to the [[Mille Miglia]] and [[Targ ...l is eligible. The bulk of entries are provided by 1950s and '60s American stock cars; the most popular shape is the 1953 Studebaker Champion Regal Starline
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• Antônio Pizzonia
  {{Infobox racing driver | car number = 14
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• Ferrari 250 GTO
  The '''Ferrari 250 GTO''' was a [[supercar]] and auto racing [[automobile|car]] made by [[Ferrari]] in the early 1960s. It is widely considered to be the ...r International]]'' named the 250 GTO number eight on the list of [[Sports Car International Top Sports Cars|Top Sports Cars of the 1960s]]. Similarly, ''
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• SRT-4
  ...who had previously only considered owning [[Japan]]ese [[sport compact]] [[car]]s. ...numbers equal or better than sports cars costing 2-to-3 times as much. The car was also a huge sales and marketing success for Dodge, with sales of over 2
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• Mosler
  ...ic" brakes. Confronted with this test, Warren Mosler claimed that the test car was older and worn out. The Consulier GTP competed successfully in many rac ...cles, including electric cars, composite-bodied cargo vans, and small city-car commuter vehicles.
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• Bristol
  ...nsington in London. They claim to be the last wholly British-owned luxury car builder. The cars have only ever been made in very small numbers. The most ...will maintain any car they ever built. The vast majority of parts are in stock, and they will remanufacture or hand-make any other required parts.
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• Porsche 930
  | Supercar/Sports car ...ere - and included everything, from a Formula One project, to a new racing car, via a completely new model and suggestions that even a change of ownership
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• 1972 United States Grand Prix
  ...rrell Racing|Tyrrell]], five seconds ahead of [[Denny Hulme]]'s [[McLaren (racing)|McLaren]]. ...all the letters they had received begging them to continue, they would be racing in the following season.''
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