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• Straight-12 engine
  ...so some Russian firms built straight-12s for use in boats in the 1960s and 1970s.
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• Platform
  ...m to be shared among a number of vehicles was the Ford Fox platform of the 1970s. In the 1980s, [[Chrysler]]'s K-cars all wore a badge with the letter, "K"
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• Bizzarrini
  ...[[Ferrari]] engineer, [[Giotto Bizzarrini]], the company built a number of automobiles before failing in 1969. The marque has been revived on a number of [[conce ...sign|ItalDesign]], was a forerunner of Giugiaro's radical designs from the 1970s, including the [[Lancia Stratos|Stratos]].
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• Automobile platform
  ...be shared among a number of vehicles was the [[Ford Fox platform]] of the 1970s. In the 1980s, [[Chrysler]]'s [[Chrysler K platform|K-cars]] all wore a ba
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• Dashboard
  ..., [[odometer]], and [[fuel gauge]]. One of the safety enhancements of the 1970s was the widespread adoption of padded dashboards. In the 1990s, driver's [ Lawn mowers, farm tractors, and earlier automobiles sometimes have little more than a steering wheel and ignition switch.
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• Drum brake
  ...ter screw that moves the [[brake]] shoes toward the drum. In the 1960s and 1970s brake drums on the front wheels of cars were gradually replaced with [[disc [[Category:Automobiles]]
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• Pontiac EDAG Solstice Hardtop Concept
  ...orts wagon" concept gives some utility, like the Volvo 1800ES of the early 1970s. [[Category:Concept automobiles]]
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• Torsion beam suspension
  ...ear [[suspension]]s were pioneered on the [[Volkswagen Golf]] in the early 1970s, and remain common on compact cars and [[minivans]]. [[Category:Automobiles]]
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• Maserati Merak
  [[Category:1970s Automobiles]] [[Category:1980s Automobiles]]
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• White Motor Company
  ...machine manufacturing business and in 1901 they set up operations to build automobiles. In the 1970s, White started the [[Western Star]] division to sell trucks on the west coa
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• Automatic headlight dimmer
  ...fered its [[Automatic]] Beam Control dimmer throughout the 1960s and early 1970s.
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• List of supercars
  ...he category is a subjective one, however, and the inclusion of some of the automobiles listed may be somewhat controversial —depending upon the opinion of the r ...ower, exclusivity, rarity, and extravagant styling. For this reason, some automobiles that may have one or more of these attributes—but are notably lacking in
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• REO Motor Car Company
  ...s [[REO Speed Wagon]], an ancestor of the [[pickup truck]], from which the 1970s rock and roll group REO Speedwagon took its name, although incorrectly pron ...EO again, but resigned in 1934. In 1936 REO abandoned the manufacturing of automobiles to concentrate on trucks.
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• FR layout
  ...German vehicles from [[BMW]] and [[Mercedes-Benz]]. The oil crisis of the 1970s and the success of small [[FF layout|FF]] cars like the [[MINI]], [[Volkswa [[Category:Automobiles]]
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• Fender skirts
  ...> However, by the 1970s, fender skirts began to disappear from mass market automobiles. Fender skirts remained for some time longer on a few cars, particularly la
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• Mopar
  ...erical combustion chambers) still serves as the pinnacle of power in Mopar automobiles.
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• Puch
  ...ny was founded in 1889 by the industrialist [[Johann Puch]] and produced [[automobiles]], bicycles, mopeds, and motorcycles. ...However with the collapse of the empire following the War, the market for automobiles shrank and production was discontinued.
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• Mercedes-Benz C111
  ...m/110051426262/1970s-mercedes-c111-show-car-damaged-during-attempted-theft 1970s Mercedes C111 show car Damaged During Attempted Theft] [[Category:Concept automobiles]]
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• Matra
  ...n it went into car production by buying [[Automobiles René Bonnet]]. Matra Automobiles produced racing cars and sports cars, and was very successful in racing. ...rsified in media, weaponry, high technologies, aeronautics and formerly in automobiles and records production and distribution. Matra was privatized in 1988, with
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• Hardtop
  Before the mid-1920s 90% of automobiles had open tops, with rudimentary (if any) weather protection provided by a [ ...ting a hardtop look without actually omitting the pillar. Some mid to late 1970s models continued their previous two-door hardtop bodies, but with fixed rea
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• Overdrive
  ...wo different things. An overdrive is a device which was commonly used in [[automobiles]] to allow the choice of an extra-high overall [[gear ratio]] for high spee ...ndered the overdrive a complex and obsolete solution to economy gearing in automobiles, and very few cars are fitted with them today, although they still appear o
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• Autobianchi
  ...[[Fiat]] and [[Pirelli]] with a proposal to form a new company to produce automobiles. Thus, the Autobianchi company was born, with the agreement signed by the t === Into the 1970s ===
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• Giorgetto Giugiaro
  He initiated the "folded paper" era of the 1970s where the cars were designed with straight lines and sharp edges. As well a * [[Bugatti Automobiles SAS]]
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• Model year
  The practice of identifying revisions of automobiles by their "model year" is strongest in the United States. Typically, comple ...h US owned subsidiaries dominate the domestic automarket. In the 1960s and 1970s, many new models were traditionally introduced at the London or Paris motor
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• Zastava
  ...s (138 km) southeast of Belgrade. It is most known for its [[Fiat]]-based automobiles, which began assembling in 1955 for Eastern European markets. The firm also During the 1970s and '80s, Zastava sold its compact cars in North and South America and West
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• Dino
  ...list of [[Sports Car International Top Sports Cars|Top Sports Cars of the 1970s]]. ''[[Motor Trend|Motor Trend Classic]]'' placed the 206/246 at number sev ...ngine; he died on June 30, 1956 at the age of only 24, before his namesake automobiles Fiat Dino and Dino were produced.
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• Volga
  ...e venerable GAZ-24 platform, right down to the central body shell. In the 1970s, Volga also introduced a convertible "24" model which had a limited, but ve [[Category:Soviet automobiles]]
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• Landyacht
  ...led with 3 or 4 speed automatic transmissions, excessive [[Fuel economy in automobiles|fuel consumption]], and emphasis on ride comfort at the expense of handling After the oil crises of the 1970s and 1980s, American automakers never fully recovered from the decline in po
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• LaSalle
  Prior to the LaSalle, automobiles essentially followed a set pattern, with design changes set by engineering ...0s and 1970s General Motors issued Motorama cars and proposed new consumer automobiles under the design name LaSalle. 1955 saw two Motorama dream-cars, the LaSall
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• Buchmann
  ...uchmann''', an accomplished mechanic, specialised in enhancing performance automobiles, such as Porsche's 911, 928 and 924, and the Mercedes S-Class. Buchmann lau The company was launched in the mid-1970s, when demand for modified luxury cars was at its highest. As Buchmann found
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• Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow
  [[Category:1960s Automobiles|Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow]] [[Category:1970s Automobiles|Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow]]
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• AMC Rebel
  [[Category:1960s Automobiles]] [[Category:1970s Automobiles]]
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• Moskvich
  ...was sold with price near the price of Morris Mini car. The 1960s and early 1970s were the glory days, when the cars were exported to many countries througho [[Category:Soviet automobiles]]
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• Tatra T603
  [[Category:1950s automobiles]] [[Category:1960s automobiles]]
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• Cadillac Deville
  ...elifts. 2000 DeVilles also featured the first production LED tail lamps in automobiles, a feature now becoming increasingly commonplace on luxury and family cars. [[Category:1940s automobiles]]
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• Effects of the automobile on societies
  ...obs and make the [[automobile]] available to the working classes. From the 1970s onwards, promotion of the [[automobile]] increasingly became a trait of the *[[Automobiles]]
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• Compact car
  ...are defined based on interior volume index or [[seating capacity]], except automobiles classified as a special vehicle such as those with only two designated seat ...ould make comparisons with the popular [[Volkswagen Beetle]]. In the early 1970s, the domestic [[automaker]]s introduced even smaller [[subcompact car]]s th
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• DKW
  == Automobiles made before WWII == == Automobiles made after WWII ==
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• Semi-automatic transmission
  In standard mass-production automobiles, the gear lever appears similar to manual shifts, except that the shift sti ...]] transmissions on their medium and large saloon and estate models in the 1970s; the Citroen GS and CX models had the option of 3 speed, semiautomatic tran
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• Talbot
  ...combined in 1938 to form [[Sunbeam-Talbot]]. Production of Sunbeam Talbot automobiles ceased during World War II and resumed again in 1946, and the Talbot name w ...and name (used as the marque) gradually replaced the Rootes brands as the 1970s progressed.
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• Straight-8 engine
  ...Bouton]], [[Bi-Autogo|Scripps-Booth]], and [[Cadillac V8 engine|Cadillac]] automobiles by 1914, no straight-8 engines were used in production cars before 1920. ...er 4 feet (1.2 m) long, resulting in the long hood (bonnet) found on these automobiles.
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• Mercury
  ...l different looking models such as the Cougar and Marquis. But in the late 1970s to the early 1980s the brand was joined at the hip with Ford again and its ==List of Mercury automobiles==
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• Plymouth Valiant
  ...e cars Chrysler took 40% of the total American compact market in the early 1970s. They also enjoyed considerable success in foreign markets, where they were ...was becoming more box-like with each facelift. The result was that for the 1970s, [[Chrysler Australia]] developed the whole car locally, particularly from
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• Virgil Exner
  ...rge W. and Iva Exner as a baby. Virgil showed a strong interest in art and automobiles. He studied art at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, but in 1928 dro ...nberg]] failed, but he was instrumental in the revival of [[Stutz]] in the 1970s.
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• Malcolm Bricklin
  ...rds far ahead of anything the United States government was imposing in the 1970s. The SV-1 was manufactured in New Brunswick, Canada, an area not known for ...h a manufacturing plan to offer a luxury sedan at a lower price than other automobiles offered in the United States.
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• Chevrolet El Camino
  [[Category:1950s Automobiles]] [[Category:1960s Automobiles]]
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• Mercury Montego
  [[Category:1960s Automobiles]] [[Category:1970s Automobiles]]
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• Formula Three
  ...unit based on the [[Ford Anglia]]<ref>Gauld, Graham, "Ford", in ''World of Automobiles'' (London: Orbis, 1974), Volume 6, p.696</ref> with a special 2-[[valve]] [ ...rabham faded from F3 to concentrate on Formula One, F3 constructors of the 1970s included [[Alpine]], [[Lola Cars|Lola]], March, [[Modus Developments|Modus]
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• Alpine
  ...se cars and consequent customer demand, he founded the Societe Anonyme des Automobiles Alpine in 1954. The firm was named [[Alpine]] after his Coupe des Alpes suc Through the 1970s [[Alpine]] continued to campaign the [[Alpine A110|A110]] and later, the [[
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• Carsharing
  ...ong metering of costs provides a cost incentive to drive less. With owned automobiles many expenses are sunk costs and thus independent of how much the car is dr The early 1970s saw the first whole-system carshare projects. The [[ProcoTip]] system in Fr
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