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• Richard Teague
  ...ver, the company was not doing well following the purchase of struggling [[Studebaker]]. Moreover, sales of the luxury Packard collapsed during 1956. Teague desi Teague was responsible for the design of many AMC cars and Jeep vehicles. He developed the very characteristic and now legendary [[AMC Gremlin|Greml
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• Steering wheel
  ...ent of steering wheel rotation, to hinder [[motor vehicle theft]]; in most vehicles this is accomplished when the ignition key is removed from the [[ignition s Remote car audio controls are often included on the steering wheels of newer vehicles.
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• Jeep Commander
  ...g. [http://www.autoblog.com/2007/09/21/bad-brakes-cause-jeep-to-recall-28k-vehicles/] ...is the third company to produce a vehicle called the Commander, after the Studebaker Commander and the Scammell Commander.
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• Coupé utility
  ...s as a way to transport flowers and potted plants. Examples include the [[Studebaker Coupe Express]], or the [http://auto.howstuffworks.com/1941-chevrolet-serie ...miliar with the formal term "Coupé Utility", here follows some examples of vehicles using this body style.
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• Pininfarina
  ...Nash heavily advertised its link to the famous Italian designer, much as [[Studebaker]] promoted its longtime association with [[Raymond Loewy]]. As a result of ==Prototype and custom vehicles==
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• Cylinder block
  ...hevrolet]] 572 [[crate engine]] (9.4L), available for installation in most vehicles with sufficient space under the hood, both in a 620 hp (460 kW) street ver ...ze car|full-size]] and [[luxury car|luxury]] cars, rather than performance vehicles. Thus, they were commonly tuned and built for smoothness and low-end [[Powe
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• Pony car
  ...can]], and [[Studebaker]] with the sporty Daytona version of its compact [[Studebaker Lark|Lark]]. Other sporty bucket-seat compact cars that appeared during the ...a strong influx of young buyers with discretionary income and a taste for vehicles with a younger image than a standard [[sedan|sedan]], and Iacocca's marketi
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• Disk brake
  ...e fitted with practical [[4-wheel disc brakes|disc brakes]] was the 1963 [[Studebaker Avanti]]<ref name="cv">{{cite web ...tive for some time after a water crossing, an important factor in off-road vehicles). [[4-wheel disc brakes|Disc brakes]] are also more reliable than drum bra
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• Automatic transmission
  ...s of three-speed torque converter automatics for [[Ford Motor Company]], [[Studebaker]], and several foreign and independent makes. Some current [[Hybrid Cars|hybrid vehicles]], notably those of [[Toyota]], [[Lexus]] and [[Ford Motor Company]], have
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• Unsafe at Any Speed
  ...and glossy enamels which reflected sunlight or the light of oncoming motor vehicles into the driver's eyes. This problem, according to Nader, was well known by ...used by a number of independent manufacturers ([[Nash Rambler|Rambler]], [[Studebaker]]) used a pattern of "P N D L R" which put Reverse at the bottom of the qua
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• Compact car
  ...he world as a "''C-segment''" (between [[B-segment|B-]] and [[D-segment]]) vehicles. Compact cars usually have [[wheelbase]]s between 100 inches (2,540 mm) and ...modern compact class was greatly expanded between 1958 and 1960 when the [[Studebaker Lark]], [[Chevrolet Corvair]], [[Ford Falcon (North American)|Ford Falcon]]
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• Automatic gearbox
  ...ween set gear ratios. Even though CVTs have been used for decades in a few vehicles (e.g. [[Van Doorne's Automobiel Fabriek|DAF]] saloons and the [[Volvo 340]] ...automatics for [[American Motors Corporation]], [[Ford Motor Company]], [[Studebaker]], and several other manufacturers in the US and other countries. [[Chrysl
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• List of automotive superlatives
  ...o automobiles built after World War II, and lists superlatives for earlier vehicles separately. The list is also limited to production road cars that: ...use, and to transport people on public roads (no commercial or industrial vehicles are eligible);
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• Amphibious vehicle
  ...lthough they ''are'' part of ''amphibious assault''. Nor are Ground effect vehicles, such as Ekranoplans. The former don't offer any real land transportation a ...ody configurations or other unconventional designs such as screw-propelled vehicles which use auger-like barrels which propel a vehicle through muddy terrain w
  27 KB (4,252 words) - 07:44, 14 March 2010
• AMC
  ...of Time Magazine, was to announce that there would be no merger talks with Studebaker-Packard ''"at this time or in the foreseeable future."'' Romney disagreed By 1964, Studebaker production in the United States had ended (its Canadian operations closed i
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• History of the automobile
  {{See also|History of steam road vehicles}} ...ted in passing a law, the Locomotive Act, in 1865 requiring self-propelled vehicles on [[highway|public roads]] in the United Kingdom be preceded by a man on f
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• Flying car
  ...6 inches (6.25&nbsp;m). On the ground and in the air it was powered by a [[Studebaker]] engine. It could fly at 112 mph (180&nbsp;km/h) and drive at 56 mph (90&n A number of companies are developing vehicles. Few have demonstrated a full-sized vehicle capable of free flight.
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• Chevrolet Nova
  *[[Studebaker Lark]] ...ion (similar to the front part of the frame of GM's full-size, full-framed vehicles) replaced the earlier style. Although the front subframe design was a Chev
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• Preston Tucker
  ...ance police cars and motorcycles. After he was banned from driving police vehicles by the force (after using a blowtorch as a heater in one of the cruisers) h ...ry felt the vehicle was too fast and had already committed to other combat vehicles. However, the highly-mobile power-operated gun turret featured on the Tuck
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