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• Columbia
  ...turn of the Twentieth Century they were producing and selling hundreds of vehicles a year under Pope's Columbia brand name, while most [[gasoline engine]] aut ...ce the weight. Brakes on both rear wheels featured a bell, which rang when the vehicle reached a full stop. Top speed was about 15 miles per hour.
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• Industrias Kaiser Argentina
  ...n Córdoba Province as a joint venture with [[Kaiser Motors]] of the United States. ...oduction equipment which had been transferred. This model was discontinued in 1962.
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• Standard Steam Car
  ...is known to have been built; the company may have produced as many as five vehicles before folding. *David Burgess Wise, ''The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Automobiles''.
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• Knight Engine
  ...by Charles Yale Knight (1868-1940), that used [[sleeve valve]]s instead of the more common [[poppet valve]] construction. ...ous companies and receive a royalty payment on each vehicle produced using the engine.
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• Kissel Motor Car Company
  ...ident Archie Andrews forced the owners to file for receivership protection in November, 1930. ...atty Arbuckle and aviatrix Amelia Earhart. Kissel also produced from 1927, the sporty "White Eagle Speedster."
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• Owen Magnetic
  ...land, Ohio between 1916 and 1919 and finally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania in 1920 and 1921. ...based upon the same electromagnetic principle that turned the propeller of the U.S.S. Battleship New Mexico.
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• Minerva
  ...AME}} Models}}The '''Minerva''' was an important Belgian luxury automobile manufactured from 1902 until 1938. ...r]]. The 8 litre ''Kaiserpreis'' won the Belgian Circuit des Ardennes race in 1907.
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• Apollo (1962 automobile)
  ...ates [[sports car]]/personal [[automobile]] manufactured from 1962 to 1964 in Oakland, California. ...V8 engine|Buick]] engine, ninety units were produced before it was renamed the [[Vetta Ventura]] and made until 1966 by Vanguard Inc of Dallas, Texas.
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• Marquette
  ...hich was to be sold in [[Oldsmobile]] dealerships. The Marquette "arrived" in dealer showrooms on June 1, 1929. ...yling feature was its herring-bone patterned grille. Reviewers at the time the car was released described it either looking like a small Oldsmobile or sma
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• Antique vehicle registration
  ...]], [[Vintage car|vintage]], or historic. Both the specific term used and the definition of a qualifying vehicle vary from country to country, as well as ...a vehicle first registered before 7 January 1973 was actually manufactured in 1972 and is therefore exempt from tax.
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• Mors
  ...lle Mors]], in racing's technical and promotional benefits. By the turn of the century, automobile racing had become largely a contest between Mors and [[ ...rnier]] was able to win the highly significant [[Paris-Berlin race]], with the drive chain breaking immediately afterwards.
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• Detroit Electric
  ...but this was considered adequate for driving within city or town limits at the time. ...lic through its design which included the first use of curved window glass in a production automobile, an expensive and complex feature to produce.
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• White Motor Company
  ...otor Company''' was an American [[automobile]] and [[truck]] manufacturer, in existence from 1902 to 1981. ...n their father's very successful sewing machine manufacturing business and in 1901 they set up operations to build automobiles.
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• Apperson
  ...factured from 1902 to 1926 in Kokomo, Indiana. The company was founded by the brothers [[Edgar Apperson|Edgar]] and [[Elmer Apperson|Elmer]] Apperson sho ...tric lights, a novelty for the time, and used a modern cellular radiator. The 25 hp (18.6 kW) version weighed 1800 lb (816 kg) and so
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• Malcolm Bricklin
  ...the few Americans who has successfully introduced foreign cars in bulk to the American public from firms such as [[Subaru]], [[Fiat]] and [[Zastava]]. ....story?coll=orl-news-headlines-space|title=Orlando man's message: Buy made-in-U.S. products|publisher=[[Orlando Sentinel]]}}</ref>
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• Model year
  ..., to describe approximately when an automobile was produced, and indicates the coinciding base specification of that product. ...d there may be an additional delay to retool and retrain for production of the new model.
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• Allison Transmission
  ...lison unit to private equity firms The Carlyle Group and Onex Corporation, in a deal valued at $5.6 billion. ...ow known as the Allison Engineering Company, Allison produced bearings for the Liberty engine.
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• Biscúter
  ...ronunciation of Biscooter) was a [[microcar]] manufactured in Spain during the mid-20th century. ...domestic substitutes for hard-to-get imported products and technologies. The Biscúter, tiny, simple, and cheap even by microcar standards, was a produc
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• Amphicar
  ...ns Trippel]], creator of the war-time [[Schwimmwagen]] and manufactured by the [[Quandt Group]] at Lübeck and at Berlin-Borsigwalde. Its name is a combin ...ots in the water and 70&nbsp;mph (113&nbsp;km/h) on land. Later version of the engine were 1300cc and 1500cc with up to 75HP. Some Amphicar owners have fi
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• Firestone and Ford tire controversy
  ...e controversy''' was a period of unusually high tire failures on some Ford vehicles. ...tur, Illinois plant. This was one of the leading factors to the closing of the Decatur plant.<ref>Velasquez "Business Ethics" (pg. 296-299)</ref>
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• Stutz Motor Company
  ...hroughout its history, Stutz was known as a producer of exclusive cars for the rich and famous. ==Stutz Motor Company==
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• Cartercar
  ...ed in 1905 in Jackson, Michigan, in 1906 in Detroit, and from 1907 to 1915 in Pontiac, Michigan. ...hich was less than half the price that would be expended on grease packing in a regular geared transmission. <ref>Kimes, Beverly Rae. ''Standard Catalog
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• Chevrolet Beauville
  :''This article is about the 1955-57 station wagon. For the 1970-1995 van, see [[Chevrolet Van]].'' ...later resurrected as a full-size [[van]] option for the [[Chevrolet Van]] in 1970.
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• Three-wheeled car
  ...ut usually with rear drive. A variant on the 'one at the front' layout was the [[Scott Sociable]], which resembled a four-wheeler with a front wheel missi ...Exhibition.<ref name=Elvis/> A Conti 6 [[horsepower|hp]] Tri-car competed in (but did not complete) a 1907 [[Peking-to-Paris]] race sponsored by a Frenc
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• Marmon
  ...or]] as well as pioneering both the [[V16]] engine and the use of aluminum in auto manufacturing. ...llowed the next year, with pioneering [[V6]] and [[V8]] engines tried over the next few years before more conventional [[straight engine]] designs were se
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• Child safety seat
  ...d/or height to use a governmentally approved child safety seat when riding in a vehicle. Child safety seats provide passive restraints and must be prope After the first [[automobile]] was manufactured and put on the market in the early 1900s, many modifications and adjustments have been implemented to pr
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• Henney Kilowatt
  ...a period in which they had been out of favor<ref>"The History of Electric Vehicles: The Middle Years of Electric Cars (1930 - 1990)", About.com:Inventors, [http://
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• Automobile self starter
  ...he engine started, a crank could begin to spin along with the crankshaft. The operator had to pull away immediately, or else risk a broken wrist, or wors ...self-starter'''. He had invented the first self-starter in [[1899]], but the invention was impractical.
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• Merkur
  ...badge, was a script stating "FORD WERKE AG-Cologne, West Germany", stating the car's place of manufacture. ...l. The Scorpios were manufactured in Ford's Cologne plant and fitted with the [[Ford_Cologne_V6_engine#2.9|Cologne 2.9 L V6]].
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• Zastava
  ...sporting small arms, most of them based on Russian or German design, under the name Zastava Arms. * '''[[Zastava Florida In]]'''
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• Suicide Door
  ...although it is familiar to many English-speakers and often used openly in the custom-car trade. ...e edge. A door hinged at the front, in contrast, would be pushed away from the passenger and possibly torn off entirely.
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• Classic car
  [[Image:DirkvdM yank tank yellow.jpg|thumb|A '[[yank tank]]' or 'maquina' in Havana, Cuba]] [[Image:DirkvdM yank tank blue-red.jpg|thumb|Another 'yank tank' in Havana]]
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• Kaiser-Frazer
  ...dling assets of the former [[Graham-Paige]] Motor Company. The concern was the only new US automaker to achieve success after World War II if only for a f ...e market while the "Big Three" were still marketing their pre-war designs, the Kaisers and Frazers made quite an exciting entrance. Kaiser and Frazer woul
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• Graham-Paige
  ...e cars through the 1930's. No longer involved in automobile manufacturing, the company still exists as a successful real estate firm. ...r glass company eventually became part of the Owens Glass Co., now the "O" in L-O-F - [[Libby-Owens-Ford]].
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• Volkswagen Kübelwagen
  | {{{Weight - you get the point}}} ...Volkswagen 181]] named "Thing" in the US, "Trekker" in the UK and "Safari" in Mexico.
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• Lancia Scorpion
  | 3965 mm (156.1 in) | 1696 mm (66.8 in)
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• Mitsubishi Galant
  The '''Mitsubishi Galant''' is a mid-size [[Automobile]] manufactured by [[Mitsubishi]]. ...230 horsepower 3.8L V6. The Ralliart is powered by a 258 3.8L V6 and, like the V6 Sport, will shift through a 5-speed Sportronic automatic transmission. [
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• BMW Z3
  ...rg, South Carolina. The Z3 was replaced by the [[BMW Z4]] in late 2002 at the Paris Auto Show. ...stic rear window looked especially bad compared to the glass unit found on the much-cheaper 1999 [[Mazda Miata]].
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• Honda FCX Clarity
  |Length = 190.3 in |Width = 72.7 in
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• Honda CRX
  ...'''Honda CRX''', originally launched as the '''Honda Ballade Sports CRX''' in Japan, was a ...a Civic CRX'''. The name "CRX" and what it stands for is widely disputed, the more popular meaning is "Civic Renaissance Model X", although some believe
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• Automobile emissions control
  ...g decades and now they are ubiquitous in industrialised nations and common in most others. ...es in the number of vehicles in use, have meant that the overall reduction in pollution has been much slower.
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• Passenger vehicles in the United States
  ...g Three." The motor car has become an integral part of American life, with vehicles outnumbering licensed drivers.<ref name="BTS1"/> ...t own a car (the figure is even higher in Manhattan, over 75%; nationally, the rate is 8%).<ref name=2001summary />
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• Maserati Coupe
  |Length = 178.07 in (169.4 in, Spyder) |Width = 71.7 in (71.7 in, Spyder)
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• Lancia Montecarlo
  |Image = '''place image here in 300 pixels''' |Length = 3810 mm (150 in)-3965 mm (156.1 in)
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• Global Hybrid Cooperation
  ...of [[Electric Vehicles|electric motor]]s. General Motors has stopped using the "AHS2" name as of 2006, preferring to call it simply a "two-mode hybrid sys ...on engine and transmission where the flywheel is replaced with an electric motor.
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• Duesenberg
  ...esenberg''' was a United States-based luxury [[automobile]] company active in various forms from 1913 to 1937. ...n 10th place at the [[Indianapolis 500]] and a Duesenberg car won the race in 1924, 1925, and 1927.
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• Cadillac XLR
  ...g, interior, and suspension, and has a power-retractable aluminum hardtop. The engine is [[Cadillac]]'s 4.6&nbsp;L Northstar tuned for 320&nbsp;[[HP|hp]], ...t 4,745 in 18 months as of March 2005. 3730 were sold in the United States in all of 2005.
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• Coupé utility
  ...d, combines a two-door "[[coupé]]" cabin with an integral cargo bed behind the cabin—using a light-duty passenger vehicle-derived [[automobile platform| ...al models typically used a light-duty [[body-on-frame]] construction, like the heavy-duty body-on-frame construction used by [[pickup truck]]s. As light-d
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• Studebaker
  ...the Studebaker Corporation. While the company left the automobile business in 1966, Studebaker survived as an independent closed investment firm until 19 [[Image:Studebakerbrothers.jpg|thumb|275px|The Five Studebaker brothers]]
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• Mazda Mazda5
  ...as the Ford Ixion or Ford MAV. The second generation is sold worldwide as the Mazda5. As of March 31, 2005, 285,258 Premacy and Mazda5 models had been s The first generation Premacy was a 2-row, 4 or 5-passenger vehicle, while the second generation adds a third row of seats for up to 6 passengers. Both g
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