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  • ...rn October 3, 1959) is an [[automobile]] designer, currently head of the [[Fiat]], [[Lancia]], and Commercial Vehicle Styling Centre in Turin, Italy. Step ...]]. He is best known for the design of the 2001 [[BMW MINI]]. He moved to Fiat in July 2002, working on the [[Maserati MC12]] and [[Ferrari F430]]. He al
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  • ...of the Italian Football Association and later chairman of Italian carmaker Fiat from early 2003 until his death from lung cancer aged 69. ...he had served as chairman. Umberto Agnelli was in the process of restoring Fiat's balance sheet after the company's balance sheet, market share, and share
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  • ...August 1866 – 16 December 1945) was an Italian entrepreneur, who founded [[Fiat]] car manufacturing in 1899. ...ed and propelled Fiat to the international arena. He was still active with FIAT at the start of the Second World War, but died soon after it ended in 1945
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  • ...n June 30, 1956 at the age of only 24, before his namesake automobiles [[Fiat Dino]] and [[Dino (cars)|Dino]] were produced. [[Category:Ferrari people]]
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  • ...T racing activities, and in 1977 he advanced to become a senior manager of FIAT. Throughout the 1980s, Montezemolo occupied a number of positions in the huge FIAT empire, including managing director of the Cinzano drinks company and direc
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  • ...'. They were in the region of 3 metres in length, but had seating for four people, putting them outside the [[microcar]] category. ...time a supermini, the [[Fiat Uno]]. The replacement for the 126, the '''[[Fiat Cinquecento]]''' was presented in 1991 as a true city car. At only 3.20&nbs
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  • ...zavod'') to produce the copy of [[Fiat 600]]—a car for the ordinary people. ...ighboring Melitopol'). The body of earlier models 965 was similar to the [[Fiat]] 600. The redesigned 966 looked more like a [[NSU|NSU]] [[NSU Prinz|Prinz]
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  • ...r a ''Bargain Basement'' heading and included the Mini, [[Citroen 2CV]], [[Fiat 126]] and [[Renault 4]]. The [[Fiat 500]] and [[Mini]] were successful mass production mini-cars in Europe, goi
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  • ...talian industrialist and principal shareholder of [[Fiat]]. As the head of Fiat, he controlled 4.4% of Italy's GDP, 3.1% of its industrial workforce, and 1 ...randfather [[Giovanni Agnelli]], the founder of the Italian car industry [[Fiat]].
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  • Born in San Giorgio Canavese (Piedmont), Jano began his career at [[Fiat]] in 1911 under [[Luigi Bazzi]]. He moved with Bazzi to [[Alfa Romeo]] in [[Category:Ferrari people|Jano, Vittorio]]
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  • ...evac, 86 miles (138 km) southeast of Belgrade. It is most known for its [[Fiat]]-based automobiles, which began assembling in 1955 for Eastern European ma ...loped few new models such as Yugo Florida and continues to manufacture the Fiat 128 based range of cars for the various Balkan states.
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  • |Image = [[Image:Fiat Multipla.jpg|300px]] |Marque = [[Fiat]]
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  • ...瑞汽车; English pronunciation: [ˈʃɛɹiː]) is an [[automobile]] manufacturer in People's Republic of China. In Pinyin it is "Qirui" and its English translation sh ...es in their cars beginning in 2007. Under this plan, Chery will provide [[Fiat]] with 100,000 engines a year. [[DaimlerChrysler]] entered a joint venture
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  • ...introduced foreign capitals through various channels to establish Nanjing Fiat Company, initiating the production of saloon cars. At the meantime, it carr ...ed into four integrated production bases of Yuejin, Nanjing-Iveco, Nanjing-Fiat and Soyat.
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  • ...urin, the fourth son of Angela, a tailor, and Carlo Frua, an employee of [[Fiat]], the centre of coachbuilding in northern Italy. ...at Farina, already a leading Turin coachbuilder employing several hundred people. That was where Frua had his first contact with his pupil and lifelong fri
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  • ...ny carmakers such as [[Renault]], [[Toyota]], [[Honda]], [[Volkswagen]], [[Fiat]], [[Volvo]], [[Subaru]] and [[Mercedes-Benz]] use the safety cell for thei ...est dummies look perfectly fine. This comes to show that if there are real people, they would be able to survive the crash. Best still when you look in the c
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  • *[[Fiat Panda]] *[[Fiat Seicento]]
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  • ...is small in relation to other car plants with a work force of around 2,500 people; the plant's weekly output is equivalent to that produced in a day at some ...own as Sevel (''Société Européenne de Véhicules Légers SpA'', owned 50% by Fiat, 25% by Automobiles Peugeot and 25% by Automobiles Citroën). As a result o
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  • ...om/article/rbssAutoTruckManufacturers/idUSL525547520090105 Great Wall says Fiat claim dismissed in China] reuters.com, Mon Jan 5, 2009 12:40pm EST</ref><re [[Category:Motor vehicle manufacturers of the People's Republic of China]]
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  • ...reign cars in bulk to the American public from firms such as [[Subaru]], [[Fiat]] and [[Zastava]]. Bricklin went on to import [[Fiat X1/9]]s (rebadged as [[Bertone]]s). In the 1980s, he formed Yugo America, I
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  • ...nation is presently pending. The Pininfarina Group employs more than 3,000 people in subsidiary company offices throughout Europe, as well as in Morocco and :1959 [[Fiat]] 1800/2100
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  • |Similar = Fiat Panda ...ersion 1.1c, through to the luxurious GS which took over from the VP . For people wanting something more sporty there were none other than 2 sporty versions
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  • A '''van''' is a vehicle used for [[transport]]ing goods or groups of people. It is generally a rather box-shaped vehicle on four wheels, about the same ...sh English speakers will generally refer to a passenger [[minivan]] as a ''people-carrier'' or ''MPV'' (multi-purpose vehicle), and a larger passenger van as
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  • ...en blurred. Over time, the common usage of each term evolves. For example, people often call 4-passenger sport coupés a "sports car", while purists will ins ...': Designed to carry fewer people than a full-size bus, generally up to 16 people in multiple rows of seats. Passenger access in normally via a sliding door
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  • ...ella]]'s [[Ferrari 512]]S raced through small mountains villages while the people were sitting or standing right next to or even on the road. Porsche, on the *1907 : [[Felice Nazzaro]], [[Fiat]]
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  • ...rld as '''[[Lada]]''' was set up in the late 1960s in collaboration with [[Fiat]]. ...variations of their first car, the model [[VAZ-2101]], based on the 1966 [[Fiat 124]] and introduced in 1970, are still the cars most associated with its [
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  • ...in 2007. Most of large global companies are present in Brazil; such as [[Fiat]], [[Volkswagen Group]], [[Ford]], [[General Motors]], [[Nissan]], [[Toyota ...]]. Volkswagen's most famous car was the small, beetle-shaped economical "people's car", with a rear-mounted, air-cooled engine. It was designed in the 193
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  • ...tbelt Pretensioners|seat belts]], according to some experts. However, some people contend (backed up by the theory of risk compensation) that the perception * '''[[Fiat]]''': Electronic Stability Program (ESP) and Vehicle Dynamic Control (VDC)
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  • * [[Fiat Cinquecento]] In Europe, the first superminis were the [[Fiat 500]] of 1957 and the [[Mini|Austin Mini]] of 1959. Today, superminis are s
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  • ...n the mechanics of the [[Fiat 127]] and [[Fiat 128]], under licence from [[Fiat]], and a modified [[Autobianchi A112]] body style. The Yugo entered the Uni ...00 cc engine. Some of the most successful models were those based on the [[Fiat 128]] model, marketed under different names: Zastava 128, Zastava 311, Zast
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  • ...(2004). They are also purpose designed to be utilitarian base model MPVs / people carriers, for a range of such vehicles.
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  • ...consisted of 30-minute magazine format programmes presented by a number of people, including [[Angela Rippon]], [[Noel Edmonds]], [[William Woollard]], and l *2000 &ndash; [[Fiat Multipla]] (Overall); [[BMW M Coupe|BMW Z3 M Coupé]] (Driver's Car of the
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  • |Similar = [[Chevrolet Chevette]]<br>[[Fiat 147]] ...d the car's suspension to make the VW lower (and than less unstable). Some people also changed the 5,90 x 14 original tires to 175/80-14 radial tires.
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  • |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/the-mild-one-how-james-may-became-the-most-indemand-presenter-on-b ...ing test on his second attempt, and justified this by saying "All the best people pass the second time".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uktv.co.uk/dave/item/aid/5
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  • ...sales leader for 75 years. Founded in 1908, GM today employs about 327,000 people around the world. With global headquarters in Detroit, GM manufactures its ...them. Thanks to consumer financing, easy monthly payments allowed far more people to buy GM cars—while Ford was moralistically opposed to credit. During th
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  • ...te a letter to the managing director of Ford, saying, "Why don't you build people like me a vehicle in which I can take my family to church on Sunday, and my ...as called a ''coupe utility- coupe'', because it was designed to carry two people, and ''utility'' because the farmer could use the back section to carry sto
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  • * '''Historic [[People Carrier]] Racing Championship''' ''Series Five, Episode Five'' ===Convertible people carrier===
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  • ...f> An Alfa Romeo engineer also stated that it is faster.<ref>{{cite video |people=Mr.Domenico Martino (engineer> |date2=2008-01-21 |month2= |year2= |title=Me *'''RECALL ALERT:''' On January 22, 2009, Fiat issued a recall alert affecting 7,912 MY 2008 Alfa Romeo 8Cs, [[Maserati Gr
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  • ...World Champions|World Championship]]. A total of 79 people entered but 24 people were not counted. | align="center"| FIAT
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  • ...al music' to mean only from a specific historical period, even though many people use the term to mean any orchestral work. * [[Fiat]] (''by application'')
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  • | Aux1 = [[Mazda RX-8]] • [[Fiat Panda]] | Aux1 = • [[Fiat Barchetta]] • [[Mercedes-Benz SL-Class|Mercedes-Benz SL600]] • [[Mazda
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  • ...ction of MPG, MPG can be a misleading indicator of fuel efficiency gains. People intuitively take the difference in MPG when comparing two cars. This leads ...vely than [[Miles per gallon]], which can be misleading. For example, many people incorrectly believe that the improvement from 34 to 44 MPG saves more gas t
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  • ...hree-seater benches can be purchased, turning the Viano into an eight seat people carrier. *[[Citroën C8]] | [[Citroën C8|FIAT Ulysse]] | [[Lancia Phedra]] | [[Peugeot 807]]
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  • ...commercial vehicles— the notable exceptions being the Maestro, Montego and Fiat Croma passenger cars. Fuel consumption was about fifteen to twenty percent ..., Renault's DCi, GM/Opel's CDTi (most of these engines are manufactured by Fiat, other by Isuzu), Hyundai's CRDi, Mitsubishi's D-ID, PSA Peugeot Citroën's
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  • ...fast forward to year 2006. Chrysler, now partnered with (of all people) [[Fiat]] (as of June 2009), thankfully chose to revive the Challenger for 2008 as
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  • ...nds Prix have been held all over the world, and with new races in Bahrain, People's Republic of China, Malaysia and Turkey since 1999, its scope is continual ...d by a major car company), such as those of [[Alfa Romeo]], [[Ferrari]] ([[FIAT]]) or [[Renault Sport|Renault]]. Companies such as [[Coventry Climax|Climax
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  • ...mits of dusty highways thronged with spectators and open to other traffic, people and animals; there were numerous crashes, many injuries and eight deaths. T ...dling, braking and suspension. This kept costs down and allowed many more people to afford the sport using ordinary family cars, so entry lists grew into th
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  • ...ay, in 1883, but without success),<ref name=georgano/> Italy (where [[Fiat|FIAT]] started in 1899), and as far afield as Australia (where [[Pioneer (Austra ...aveled more than 80 kilometres (50 mi) from Mannheim to Pforzheim, to make people aware of the potential of the vehicles her husband, [[Karl Benz]], manufact
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  • ...lly for retail sale to consumers, for their personal use, and to transport people on public roads (no commercial or industrial vehicles are eligible); * 1911 Fiat S76 28.3 Litres
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  • ...for autogas to be simply referred to as ''gas''. This can be confusing for people from countries where petrol is called ''gasoline'', as they often use the a Currently, a number of [[automobile]] manufacturers&mdash;[[Citroën]], [[Fiat]], [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]], [[Hyundai Motor Company|Hyundai]], [[Genera
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  • ...dual exhausts, this results in the typical V8 ''burble'' sound that many people have come to associate with American V8s, In all-out racing cars it leads t ===Fiat===
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  • * Episode 8: The people of Babylon for the invention of [[toll road]]s. [[Jeremy Clarkson]], [[Jam | Aux2 = [[Smart car]] and [[Fiat 500]] on the [[Oodnadatta Track]]
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  • ...ver at the wheel of an American car, European makers such as the Italian [[Fiat]] or French [[Peugeot]] companies soon developed their own vehicles to try Many people promote and share information about the Indy 500 and its memorabilia collec
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  • Most people do not require fast recharging because they have enough time (6 to 8 hours) * People can take responsibility for their own energy production with renewables. Th
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  • ...ich point they become seriously uncool. The presenters also consider the [[Fiat Panda]] to be way beyond Seriously Uncool because James May owns one. ...n the seventh series. At the other end of the scale, James May's car — the Fiat Panda — was placed several metres to the left of the "uncool" side, on a
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