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  • '''Daimler''' may refer to *[[Gottlieb Daimler]], German engineer and automobile inventor in the 1880s
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  • The [[Daimler Motor Company]] has produced two vehicles called '''The Double Six''': * [[Daimler Double Six (1927)]], a historically important vintage-era car famously bodi
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  • ...changed its name from Deasy to Siddeley-Deasy when J D Siddeley joined the company from [[Wolseley]] and Deasy left following disagreement with his Chief Engi ...grew rapidly using [[Rover|Rover]] [[chassis]] and [[Daimler Motor Company|Daimler]] and [[Aster|Aster]] engines. During World War I, Siddeley-Deasy grew to h
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  • '''Mulliners of Birmingham''' was a British [[Coachbuilder|coachbuilding]] company. ...arly contract was gained from [[Calthorpe cars|Calthorpe]], then a booming company, leading to probably the entire output going to them and eventual close fin
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  • ...ong means twin dragons. In 1991 it started a technology partnership with [[Daimler-Benz]] (now [[DaimlerChrysler]]). Later, it purchased United Kingdom-based ...hai Automotive Industry Corporation]]) took a 51% stake of SsangYong Motor Company.
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  • {{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}}'''Vanden Plas''' is the name of a company of [[coachbuilder]]s for specialist and up-market automobile manufacturers. ...ian firm was exhibiting at the [[London Motor Show]] alongside the British company.
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  • ...], which had been founded by [[Gottlieb Daimler]] and [[Wilhelm Maybach]]. Daimler had died in 1900 and Maybach had left in 1907. ...e companies founded separately by Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler, becoming Daimler-Benz AG]]
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  • |Marque = [[Daimler Motor Company]] ...Show in January 2004. The Daimler Corsica prototype is owned by the Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust, who have recently commisioned the work required to complete
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  • ...'' KBE (15 November 1896 – 13 September 1967) was a captain of the British motor industry. ...ter the War he worked in a manufacturing plant for [[Daimler Motor Company|Daimler]] engines.
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  • ...tomaker company, from 1899 until 1934. It was subsidiary of the German ''[[Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft]]'' (DMG). In 1890, [[Eduard Bierenz]] was appointed as Austrian retailer. The company sold so well that also it began manufacturing the automobiles after uniting
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  • ...greatest number of Knight powered vehicles and in 1925 purchased Stearn’s company which brought Stearns-Knight under WillysOverland control. * [[Daimler Motor Company|Daimler]]
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  • ...een under [[PSA Peugeot Citroën|PSA]] ownership for 40 years. The combined company now uses the Panhard name. ...more than Benz, due to the ready acceptance of automobiles by the French. Daimler began producing cars in small series circa 1890/91.
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  • ...Saturn Vue]] PHEV), [[Daimler Buses North America]] (Orion VII), [[Venture Vehicles]] [[VentureOne]] and [[Th!nk]] ...ticle.jhtml?articleID=211200115&cid=NL_ADLeu</ref>, [[Modec]] and [[Allied Vehicles]] <ref>http://www.alliedvehicles.co.uk/</ref>.
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  • ...; pinyin: Běi ​jīng ​qì​chē​gōng​yè​ jìn​chū​kǒu ​gōng​sī​) is the holding company of Chinese automobile and machine manufacturer Beijing Automotive Import & BAIC is aiming to unveil several own-brand vehicles in 2010 and wants to double overall sales to 2 million a year by 2011.<ref>
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  • ...els}}'''Puch''' was a manufacturing company located in Graz, Austria. The company was founded in 1889 by the industrialist [[Johann Puch]] and produced [[aut ...eiermärkische Fahrradfabrik AG"'' (en: "First Styrian Bicycle AG"). Puch's company became successful through innovation and quality handicraft, rapidly expand
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  • :''See [[Autocar Company]] for the [[Brass Era car|Brass Era]] [[automobile]] of the same name.'' |title=Drive On!: A Social History of the Motor Car
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  • {{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}}'''Lanchester Motor Company''' was a car manufacturer based at Armourer Mills, Montgomery Street Birmin The company was started by [[Frederick Lanchester]], one of the most influential automo
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  • ...text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background:#ddb;" | [[Daimler Motor Company]] The '''Daimler Super Eight''' was a luxury car that is built by [[Daimler]].
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  • ...ler]]. For the two direct descendants of Daimler's original company, see [[Daimler-Benz]] and its successor [[DaimlerChrysler]] '' ...marque of the British '''Daimler Motor Company''', based in Coventry. The company was a subsidiary of BSA from 1910 up until 1960, when it became part of [[
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  • ...the British Leyland Motor Corporation formed when it merged with [[British Motor Holdings]], later to become [[British Leyland]] after effectively becoming ...which still remains today as the headquarters of the LEX leasing and parts company.
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  • ...ag first achieved international fame when it produced a number of SS troop vehicles for the Nazi regime of 1930s Germany. ...tives and in 1871 changed their name to Hannoversche Maschinenbau AG. Road vehicles followed when in 1905 they received a contract for Steam waggons for the Ge
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  • ...ased [[Magna|Magna International]], and was previously part of the [[Steyr-Daimler-Puch]] conglomerate. ...assembly facility. The company's vehicle assembly capacity reached 200,000 vehicles a year.
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  • ...Marchienne-au-Pont, Belgium between 1898 and 1928. before making cars the company had made railway locomotives and rolling stock. ..., live rear axle and the option of electric lighting were to establish the company as one of the finest makers of sporting cars in Europe. In 1906 there came
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  • ...ce and reliability issues, West Riding cancelled an order for a further 25 vehicles. ...t entrance and a front engine (other operators were favouring rear-engined vehicles).
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  • ...[[BMW AG]]. He is acknowledged by [[BMW AG]] as an indirect founder of the company. ...active as a technical designer with [[Daimler Benz]] until 1912. Rapp left Daimler-Benz to head a branch of [[Flugwerk Deutschland GmbH]].
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  • The '''Stutz Motor Company''', later reborn as '''Stutz Motor Car of America''', was a producer of [[luxury car]]s. Production began in ==Stutz Motor Company==
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  • ...g:0; background:#996; color:#fff; border-bottom:1px solid #999;" | [[Image:Daimler-ds420.jpg|300px]] ...text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background:#ddb;" | [[Daimler Motor Company]]
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  • ...ttp://www.kunaicho.go.jp/kunaicho/koho/kohyo/goryosha.html|title=Goryō new vehicles - the Imperial Household Management Division|accessdate=2009-11-14|date=200 Five vehicles were originally ordered, but due to the individual cost for each, only four
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  • ...a and India. However, due to the worldwide attention on Global Warming the company also plans to sell the Loremo across the European Union. ...[Geneva Auto Show]] the company has demonstrated its concept car which the company says will become a 157 MPG (1,5 l/100 [[km]]) [[turbodiesel]] car. Two diff
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  • ...hicle) Models}}:''This article is about the Ariel motorcycle and motor car company, for the modern sports car manufacturer see [[Ariel Ltd]].'' ...ured in Birmingham, England. Car production moved to Coventry in 1911. The company name was reused in 1999 for the formation of [[Ariel Ltd]], a sports car pr
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  • ...mobile" is a retronym for "horseless carriage," the original name for such vehicles, which is still in use today. Such very old vehicles present special challenges to today's collectors. Replacement parts must n
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  • ...'''Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung (IAA)''' is the world's largest [[motor show]]. ...annually in Frankfurt, Germany and is known in English as the '''Frankfurt Motor Show'''.
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  • ...text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background:#ddb;" | [[Daimler Motor Company]] Certain [[automobile|vehicles]] come in different trim levels or body styles. Features and major options
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  • ...text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background:#ddb;" | [[Daimler Motor Company]] Certain [[automobile|vehicles]] come in different trim levels or body styles. Features and major options
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  • ...text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background:#ddb;" | [[Daimler Motor Company]] Certain [[automobile|vehicles]] come in different trim levels or body styles. Features and major options
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  • ...'''Premier Automotive Group''' (PAG), was a group within the [[Ford Motor Company]] which was formed in 1999 to oversee the business operations of Ford's hig Ford's [[luxury vehicles|luxury car]] division [[Lincoln]] was part of the Premier Auto Group as wel
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  • In 1930 [[Harold Sinclair]], working with the [[Daimler|Daimler company]], devised a transmission system using a fluid coupling and [[epicyclic gea ...mover, which is typically an [[internal combustion engine]] or [[electric motor]]. The impellor's motion imparts both outwards linear and rotational motion
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  • ...'British Leyland Motor Corporation''' (BLMC), was a vehicle manufacturing company formed in the United Kingdom in 1968. Ultimately it would become nationalis ...ed in 1968 by the merger of [[British Motor Holdings]] (BMH) and [[Leyland Motor Corporation]] (LMC), encouraged by the Wilson Labour Government (1964&ndash
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  • The company was started in 1903 as [[Lee Stroyer]], but two years later following the d }}</ref>, a former [[Daimler Motor Company|Daimler]] employee, who saw a need for competition in the nascent [[piston engine]]
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  • ...ce the engine was running, a concept that is now being revived in [[hybrid vehicles]]. By [[1920]], nearly every car had a self-starter. ...id assembly pulls the pinion gear away from the ring gear, and the starter motor stops. Modern starter motors have a "bendix"&nbsp;&mdash; a gear and integ
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  • ...celebrate the grand [[automobile]]s of the prewar period. At the time, the vehicles covered by the Club were considered too modern to be of any interest by suc Times have changed, of course, and the vehicles eligible for CCCA membership are now some of the most highly valued cars in
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  • ...ad Cannstatt, a city district of Stuttgart). Daimler died in 1900, and the company moved in 1903 to Stuttgart-Untertürkheim after the original factory was de The company started as a petrol engine producer, but after the success of a small numbe
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  • ...le]].” The company was the third to manufacturer cars in Germany after ''[[Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft]]'' and ''[[Karl Benz|Benz & Cie]]'', which later merg During World War I the company produced trucks and guns. Afterwards the factory suffered from reparations
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  • ...02.1961 || [[Mazda|Toyo Kogyo]], Co. Ltd.|| JP || gasoline 1-200 PS land vehicles |26.10.1961 || [[Daimler-Benz]] AG|| BRD || gasoline 50 PS upwards
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  • ...dom from 1919 to 1967. The company also produced aero-engines and military vehicles, the latter continuing long after car production ceased. ...products were stationary engines, carburettor bodies and motorscooter. The company's founder T.G. John was approached by Geoffrey de Freville with designs for
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  • ...oured vehicles, and, for a while, of impressive [[sport car]]s. The parent company, [[Enasa]], was created in 1946 based on the old [[Hispano-Suiza]] factory, ...bus market. Therefore Pegaso became one of the leading European industrial vehicles makers, with significant export activity both to Europe and Latin America;
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  • ...tish motor car builder, a hobby he eventually turned into a successful car company, and is considered one of the "big three" English car engineers, the others In 1925 Lanchester founded a company called Lanchester Laboratories Ltd. This was to carry out industrial resear
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  • ...e. These were fitted to the world's first motorcycle, motorboat and, after Daimler's death, to a new automobile introduced in late 1902, the ''Mercedes'' mode ...g large luxury vehicles, branded as [[Maybach]]. This continued until the company joined the German war effort in 1940, ceasing automotive production in favo
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  • ...tish motor car builder, a hobby he eventually turned into a successful car company, and is considered one of the "big three" English car engineers, the others ...y of Frederick Lanchester FRS., LL.D.| journal =[[The Motor (magazine)|The Motor]]| volume = nbr 3463| pages = Page 38 - 39| date = 2 November 1968}}</ref>
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  • ...e parts manufacturer, developed the common rail fuel system for heavy duty vehicles and turned it into practical use on their ECD-U2 common-rail system mounted ...l error for Fiat as the new technology proved to be highly profitable. The company had little choice but to sell, however, as it was in a poor financial state
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  • ...s-Benz]] and [[Peugeot]]". Production of Tatra cars ceased in 1999 but the company still produces a successful range of primarily all-wheel-drive 4x4, 6x6, 8x ...nd in 1897 he bought a Benz automobile. Using the Benz for inspiration the company made its first car, the Präsident which was exhibited in 1897 in Vienna. O
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  • ...umbered W198, the road version of 1952 was based (somewhat loosely) on the company's highly successful competition-only sports car of 1950, the Mercedes-Benz ...ls introduced at either the [[Frankfurt Motor Show|Frankfurt]] or [[Geneva Motor Show|Geneva]] shows. The 300SL was best known for both its distinctive ''gu
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  • ...Mercedes-Benz]] 300 SEL 6.3''' started out as a private venture in 1966 by company engineer Erich Waxenberger, which culminated in the world's first "Super Sa Surprisingly, the rather conservative company went ahead and produced this car from 1968 onwards, in order to make better
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  • ...g Three." The motor car has become an integral part of American life, with vehicles outnumbering licensed drivers.<ref name="BTS1"/> ...nsed drivers since 1972 at an ever increasing rate, while light trucks and vehicles manufactured by foreign marques have gained a larger share of the automotiv
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  • ...d possibly also at Longbridge, in 2006. On September 18, 2006 [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]] bought the rights to the Rover name from BMW for approximately £6 m ...manufactured by ''Starley & Sutton Co'' of Coventry, England in 1883. The company was founded by [[John Kemp Starley]] and William Sutton in 1878. Starley ha
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  • ...nion changed ownership a couple of times, first passed into the hands of [[Daimler-Benz]] in 1957, and was finally purchased by the [[Volkswagen Group]] in 19 ...ey always used [[two-stroke cycle|two-stroke]] engines and, from 1931, the company was a pioneer in [[front-wheel drive]] and transverse mounting. The most we
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  • ...John Goss]] and [[Armin Hahne]] won the [[James Hardie]] [[Bathurst 1000]] motor race in Australia. Jaguar did consider a luxury [[Daimler Motor Company|Daimler]] version, without the flying buttresses, but this vehicle was not put into
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  • ...litre 1910 [[Vauxhall Motors|Vauxhall]] 20 hp (15 kW) and 27/80PS [[Austro-Daimler]] (designed by [[Ferdinand Porsche]]).<ref name="Georgano"/> ...]], [[runabout]], or raceabout, there was [[Apperson]], [[Kissel Motor Car Company|Kissel]], Marion, Midland, National, [[Overland Automobile|Overland]], [[St
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  • ...-economical adversities of the postwar years and the designing labors, the company manufactured automobiles and, eventually, became a world powerhouse for pro ...o the local royalty that the Austrian insignia became the trademark of the company.
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  • ...n attempt to avoid confusion with the 5 Olympic rings). The trademarks and company names of the member companies - [[Horch]], [[Audi]], [[DKW]] and [[Wanderer ...u), which was the main opponent of [[Mercedes-Benz]] in 1930s [[Grand Prix motor racing]]. The [[Silver Arrows]] of these two teams dominated not only 1930s
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  • ...sells the world's [[motor vehicle]]s. In 2008, more than 70 million motor vehicles, including [[car]]s and [[commercial vehicle]]s were produced worldwide.<re |title=World Motor Vehicle Production by Country: 2007-2008
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  • ...offered from 1988 to 1995 as an extension of [[Daimler-Benz]]'s commercial motor vehicle range. The MB100 was eventually replaced by the [[Mercedes-Benz Vit Certain [[automobile|vehicles]] come in different trim levels or body styles. Features and major options
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  • ...] (as Jaguar was then known) used engines produced by the [[Standard Motor Company]]; a 1.5 litre 4-cylinder and two 6-cylinder engines of 2.5 and 3.5 litres. ...ped with a 4.2L XK6 engine. The 4.2 variant was also used in some military vehicles with relatively few modifications. The length of time the XK engine has rem
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  • ...States based brand of luxury [[automobile]] built by the '''Packard Motors Company''' of Detroit, Michigan, and later by the [[Studebaker-Packard Corporation] ...ir native Warren, Ohio. The company, which they called the Ohio Automobile Company, quickly introduced a number of innovations in its designs, including the m
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  • ...]] to the five metre long (LWB) variants of the [[Mercedes Sprinter]] van. Vehicles larger than this are classified as trucks (or lorries in British English). ...second stage manufacturers to make box vans, ambulances, campers and other vehicles. Second stage manufacturers also modify the original manufacturer's body to
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  • ...es [[vehicle manufacturer]]s and importers, allows or blocks the import of vehicles and safety-regulated vehicle parts, administers the [[vehicle identificatio ...adopt its (or any other) vehicle safety regulations at that time. However, vehicles meeting the ECE safety standards were legal to import into the United State
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  • ...nclined plane with all the [[piston]]s driving a common [[crankshaft]]; in vehicles where this engine is installed inclined versus vertical, it is sometimes ca ...vo AB|Volvo]] diesel engine and the 15 liter [[Cummins]] ISX used in heavy vehicles.<ref>Nunney, p. 4</ref> The largest are used to power ships, and use fuel
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  • ...house by VWCV Special Business Unit, a subsidiary of Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles. ...turer of motorhomes for VW. When the [[Westfalia]] company was bought by [[Daimler AG|DaimlerChrysler]] in 2001, VW decided to build and design their own camp
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  • ...injection was used on production aircraft during WWII, with both German ([[Daimler Benz]]) and Soviet ([[KB Khimavtomatika]]) designs. The first automotive di During the late 1970s, the [[Ford Motor Company]] developed a stratified-charge engine they called "ProCo" (programmed comb
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  • ...automobile use have gone up to and beyond 8.2 L (500 cu in) in production vehicles. Industrial and marine V8 engines can be much larger. ...ar]]s, [[pickup truck]]s, and [[SUV]]s. However they are often optional on vehicles which have a V6 or straight-6 as standard engine. In many cases, V6 engines
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  • ...ral times by the [[Lincoln (automobile)|Lincoln]] division of [[Ford Motor Company]] for a line of [[luxury car]]s. For most of its lifetime, the Continental ...They sold to a selection of the world's richest men, but the [[Ford Motor Company]] lost money on each one sold. some of the original owners were Elvis, the
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  • ...gy collaborations with DaimlerChrysler AG and BMW AG of Germany and Toyota Motor Corp. of Japan, and vehicle manufacturing ventures with several automakers ...mobile|Oakland]]. In 1909, General Motors acquired the Rapid Motor Vehicle Company of Pontiac, Michigan, the predecessor of GMC Truck. A Rapid became the firs
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  • ...s its beginnings to Hungarian [[Ányos Jedlik]], inventor of the [[electric motor]], and [[Gaston Planté]], who invented the lead-acid battery in 1859. {{See also|History of steam road vehicles}}
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  • ...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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  • ...technology. These early systems were generally used on exotic performance vehicles, such as the early [[V8]] powered [[Chevy Corvette|Corvettes]], or for raci ...fuel tank and adjust the injector calculations "on the fly". Flexible fuel vehicles have a single fuel tank where a blend of both fuels can coexist.
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  • ...controversial bustle-backed body intended to evoke [[Daimler Motor Company|Daimler]]s of a past era. ...laced by a body style not much different from Eldorado's, or from other GM vehicles for that matter. The result was just bland, and customers stayed away in dr
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  • * '''The Top Gear team (Britain) take on the hosts of D MOTOR (Germany) in a series of car challenges to decide the best motoring country ===Amphibious vehicles===
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