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• Étienne Lenoir
  ...gess, "Lenoir: The Motoring Pioneer" in Ward, Ian, executive editor. ''The World of Automobiles'' (London: Orbis Publishing, 1974), p.1181.</ref> which was ...o, p.9"/> This succeeded in attracting the attention of ''tsar'' Alexander II, and one was sent to Russia, where it vanished.<ref name="Georgano, p.9; Wi
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• Duesenberg
  ...James Anthony Murphy|Jimmy Murphy]] became the first American to win the [[French Grand Prix]] when he piloted a Duesenberg to victory at the [[Le Mans]] rac ...in production of passenger vehicles. Although the Duesenberg brothers were world-class engineers, they were unable to sell their [[Duesenberg Model A|Model
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• Rolls-Royce Camargue
  ...esigner [[Sergio Pininfarina]] — the Camargue was Rolls-Royce's first post-war production model not to be designed in-house. ...n markets. It was named after a renowned breed of horses from the southern French province of Camargue.
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• Packard
  ...on the designs of current automobiles. By 1899, the brothers were building vehicles in their native Warren, Ohio. The company, which they called the Ohio Autom ...it was considered the most modern automobile manufacturing facility in the world and its skilled craftsmen practiced over eighty trades.
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• Radial engine
  ...Jacob Ellehammer used his experience constructing motorcycles to build the world's first air-cooled radial engine, a 3-cylinder engine which he used as the ...before World War I, but the Germans seemed to lose faith in the type under war conditions, or it may have been that insistence on standardization ruled ou
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• Classic car
  The Club keeps an exhaustive list of the vehicles they consider Classics, and while any member may petition for a vehicle to ...o "the functionally traditional designs of the earlier period" (mostly pre-war). They tended to have "removable", fenders, trunk, headlights, and a usual
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• Hardtop
  ...nter, although it was a cumbersome and laborious job. By the time of World War I some automakers offered a lift-off roof, typically with a wood frame, can ...30s, detachable hardtops with metal roofs began to appear. After World War II, the availability of new types of plastic and fiberglass allowed lighter, e
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• Buick
  In pre-World War II China, one in five cars were Buicks. ...GMNZ plant in Petone, outside Wellington. However, at the end of World War II, the Buick name was not revived.
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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
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• Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche
  ...ing labors, the company manufactured automobiles and, eventually, became a world powerhouse for producing sport cars. By those years, a newspaper expressed that "in the automobile world, the name Porsche deserves a monument." <ref>http://content3.eu.porsche.com
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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 Although small cars had been made in the United States before World War II, the compact class was introduced in 1950 when [[Nash Motors|Nash]] introdu
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• Four Wheel Drive
  ...gine]] simultaneously. While many people think exclusively of [[off-road]] vehicles, powering all four wheels provides better control on slick ice and is an im ...etrain wear. The [[Four Wheel Drive|AWD]] term is now being used to market vehicles which continuously drive all four wheels, but it is just a marketing term.
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• Rallying
  ===Pre-war era=== ...nterest and entries from leading manufacturers. Prizes were awarded to the vehicles by a jury based on the reports of the observers who rode in each car; the j
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• Citroën DS
  ...fter the punning initials in French) was an [[automobile]] produced by the French manufacturer [[Citroën]] between 1955 and 1975. Citroën sold nearly 1.5 ...rom World War II 10 years earlier, and a submodel, the ID (another pun: in French, ''Idée'', or ''Idea''), was introduced in 1957 to appeal to more cost-con
  31 KB (4,913 words) - 09:44, 12 December 2010
• Suspension (vehicle)
  ===Horse drawn vehicles=== ...of light one-horse vehicles to avoid taxation, and steel springs in larger vehicles. These were made of low-carbon steel and usually took the form of multiple
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• Car body style
  ...urists will insist that a sports car by definition is limited to two-place vehicles. In vehicles with a separate frame or [[chassis]], the term ''bodywork'' is normally app
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• Motor Racing
  ...is a [[motorsport]] involving the [[racing]] of [[car]]s. It is one of the world's most watched televised sports. ====Paris-Rouen. World's first motor-race====
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• Lincoln Continental
  ...lines superb. This car is often rated as one of the most beautiful in the world. ...tion was suspended, to be re-started in 1946 to 1948. Like the other post-war Lincolns, however, the Continental had similar bits of trim added to make i
  35 KB (5,074 words) - 20:28, 9 August 2010
• Indianapolis 500
  ...rry Arminius Miller setting himself up as the most competitive of the post-war builders. His technical developments allowed him to be indirectly connected ...ed until 1919 when the name "Liberty Sweepstakes" was used following World War I in 1919 only. The race went back to "International Sweepstakes Race" in 1
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• Nürburgring
  |Record_class2 =[[World Sportscar Championship|WSC]] ...st, most dangerous, and most demanding purpose-built racing circuit in the world.
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