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• Airbag
  ...t belt starter interlock'' (mandatory equipment on the 1974 and early 1975 automobiles sold in the United States) were also deleted when airbags were ordered. The 1970s fleet of 10,000 airbag-equipped GM experienced seven fatalities. One is no
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• Dodge Magnum
  [[Category:1970s Automobiles]] [[Category:2000s Automobiles]]
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• Car body style
  * The first automobiles were designs adapted in large part from horse-drawn carriages, and had [[bo ...car]]s. However, this usage is rare nowadays. In North America during the 1970s this style was used in the [[Chevrolet Vega]] wagon and [[AMC Hornet]] wago
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• Porsche 928
  ...the future. Despite such fracas, the project was greenlighted in the early 1970s, and the development went ahead in earnest. ...clared that 'to drive the 928 is to love it - the standard by which all GT automobiles will be judged'. The sales were strong throughout the first few years of th
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• Passenger vehicles in the United States
  ...icles (PDF file)|accessdate=2006-06-08}}</ref> This relatively high age of automobiles in the US might be explained by unaffordable prices for comparable new repl ...hicles in operation in the US was 6.5 years and 1969 when the mean age for automobiles was 5.1 years.<ref name="Median age of vehicles">{{cite web|url=http://www.
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• Car classification
  ...ed], retrieved on 2008-06-30.</ref><ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/04/automobiles/04MILLION.html?_r=1&em&ex=1160020800&en=0e6a99c6df3961fe&ei=5087&oref=slogi Examples of American muscle cars from the 1960s and 1970s:
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• Plymouth Satellite
  [[Category:1960s automobiles]] [[Category:1970s automobiles]]
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• Sports car racing
  ...ave rise to the popular and spectacular [[Can-Am]] series in the 1960s and 1970s. ...another tough road race, remained part of the world championship until the 1970s and remained as a local race for many years afterwards.
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• Rover
  ...ree years after Starley's death in 1901, the Rover company began producing automobiles with the two-seater Rover Eight to the designs of Edmund Lewis who came fro ...d managerial problems that beset the British motor industry throughout the 1970s. In 1970, Rover combined its skill in producing comfortable saloons and th
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• Manifold vacuum
  Some AMC cars up into the 1970s and cars built before the 1960s used manifold vacuum to drive [[windscreen
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• Subaru 360
  ...cc engine mounted transversely at the rear. By contrast, most conventional automobiles at the time used water-cooled four-stroke engines with 4 or more cylinders ...ht fiberglass roof panel, the post war period saw a wholesale move towards automobiles with [[unibody]] frames. Many of the ideas came from engineers from the for
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• Ignition system
  ...tiple magnetos to provide redundancy in the event of a failure. Some older automobiles had both a magneto system and a battery actuated system (see below) running ...battery, and which was not maintained by an electrical system as on modern automobiles) to start the engine or for starting and running at low speed. The operato
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• Continuously Variable Transmission
  CVTs have been used in SCCA Formula 500 race cars since the early 1970s. ==New automobiles equipped with CVT==
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• Ford Courier
  [[Category:1970s automobiles]] [[Category:1980s automobiles]]
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• History of the automobile
  ===Early automobiles=== ====Steam automobiles====
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• Simca
  ...s General Agent in France, and in 1926 SAFAF (Société Anonyme Français des Automobiles Fiat) was founded. In 1928, SAFAF started the assembly of Fiat cars in Sure ...000 and the front engined [[Simca 1100|1100]] compact car. During the late 1970s Chrysler era, Simca produced the new [[Simca 180|160/180]] saloon, [[Simca
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• Lincoln Mark series
  [[Category:1950s automobiles]] [[Category:1960s automobiles]]
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• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
  ...with writing and enforcing safety, theft-resistance, and [[Fuel economy in automobiles|fuel economy]] standards for [[motor vehicle]]s, the latter under the rubri Since this era, automobiles have become far better in protecting their occupants in vehicle impacts. Th
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• Coupé utility
  ...roduced between 1957 and 1979 based on full-size, compact and intermediate automobiles by the [[Ford Motor Company]] for the North American market. Variations bas *1970s [[AMC Hornet|AMC Cowboy]]: Hornet-based coupe ute that never made it to pro
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• Shelby Mustang
  === Shelby Automobiles versions === ...ere are three different available superchargers, again installed by Shelby Automobiles or authorized Shelby Mod Shop, that can increase rated horsepower to 500 or
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• Buick Blackhawk
  ...such production Buicks as GS models of the late 1960s and Regals from the 1970s until he left General Motors Design to create his own company in 1989. [[Category:Concept automobiles]]
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• British Leyland
  ...an infamous monument to the industrial turmoil that plagued Britain in the 1970s. At its peak, BLMC owned nearly 40 different manufacturing plants across th *The Wolseley trademark is registered (UK 1490228) to MG Rover Group Ltd for automobiles only. It is believed that Nanjing Automotive may have purchased this from
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• Duesenberg
  Duesenberg Automobiles and Motors Company moved from New Jersey to a new headquarters and factory A 1970s Duesenberg was also created, based off a Cadillac and with modern styling,
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• Pony car
  ...in showrooms, attracting buyers who would ultimately purchase more mundane automobiles. For several years Ford explored various plans for reviving some equivalent The 1964 Mustang provided the template for the new class of automobiles.<ref>{{cite book | last = Gunnell | first = John A. | title = Mustang, Amer
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• Personal luxury car
  ...senberg Model SJ]] and [[Mercedes-Benz SSK]], extremely fast and expensive automobiles which eschewed both pure luxury and absolute sports performance in favor of The decline of the [[muscle car]] in the early 1970s coincided with a strong upswing in the personal luxury segment, as buyers s
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• Catalytic converter
  ...n internal combustion engine. First widely introduced on series-production automobiles in the US market for the 1975 model year to comply with tightening [[Enviro ...emissions. They also were used on spark ignition ([[gasoline]]) engines in automobiles up until 1981, when they were replaced by three-way converters due to regul
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• General Motors G-Series
  [[Category:1960s automobiles]] [[Category:1970s automobiles]]
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• Lincoln
  ...After the war, the company's factories were retooled to manufacture luxury automobiles. ...2 when Ford converted to war work, and was not revived after production of automobiles was resumed.
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• AMC
  ...auto market in the United States forced AMC to seek a partner in the late 1970s, which led to a tie-up with France's [[Renault]] in 1979. The arrangement l Under the leadership of [[George W. Romney]], Rambler automobiles were among the best-known products among consumers. This was because Romne
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• Cadillac Seville
  ...lems coupled with the then-lagging quality and reliability of all American automobiles caused nearly-irreparable damage to the [[Cadillac]] brand. ...gory:1980s Automobiles]] [[Category:1990s Automobiles]] [[Category:2000s Automobiles]]
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• Tires
  ...wide use in the United States, the largest market at that time, until the 1970s. This type of tire uses parallel carcass plies for the sidewalls and crosse ...own as '''radial tires''') are standard for almost all modern [[automobile|automobiles]].
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• List of Formula One constructors
  ...nd Lotus chassis were used extensively by other teams during the 1960s and 1970s and several quite competitive teams never built their own chassis. [[Rob Wa |align="left"| [[Automobiles Gonfaronnaises Sportives|AGS]] {{smaller|(Automobiles Gonfaronnaises Sportives)}}
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• Torque converter
  ...vor in subsequent years due to its extra complexity and cost. In the late 1970s lock-up clutches started to reappear in response to demands for improved fu
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• Seat Belt
  ...nation of the two above (two separate belts). Mainly used in the 1960s and 1970s. Generally superseded by three-point design. Most U.S. automobiles were sold with front seat belts standard in the 1964 model year. Rear seat
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• Carburetor
  ...duced in the late 1950s and first successfully commercialized in the early 1970s, is now the preferred method of automotive fuel delivery. The majority of m ...makes. Other similar designs are used on some European and a few Japanese automobiles.
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• Mazda Familia
  [[Category:1960s Automobiles]] [[Category:1970s Automobiles]]
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• Indianapolis 500
  ...indirectly connected to a history of success that would last into the mid-1970s. ...owing him to win the 1922 edition of the race. Miller then created his own automobiles, which shared the 'Miller' designation, which, in turn, were powered by sup
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• Straight-6 engine
  ...r. It originally intended to follow up with a V8 engine line in the early 1970s, but when the [[1973 oil crisis]] hit, BMW canceled its V8 plans and concen ...owered their high-end saloon and sports cars from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s.It was available in 1.6 L (98 cu in), 2.0 L (120 cu in), and 2.5 L (150 cu
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• Motor oil
  ...somewhat differently than reciprocating engine oils traditionally used in automobiles. Deposit control and corrosion are not significant issues when formulating ...ure failures of camshafts and other high pressure bearings in many antique automobiles.
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• Autobahn
  ...equently encountered hiding under camouflage waiting for speeders. In the 1970s and 80s, the West German government paid millions of Deutsche Marks to the ..., only have emergency bays. This may be due to the improved reliability of automobiles.
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• Chevrolet Corvair engine
  ...s would have made meeting the upcoming [[emissions]] requirements of the [[1970s]] difficult. Engine temperatures on lower performance Corvairs with the AIR ...rection of rotation was opposite to that of the Volkswagen (and most other automobiles). Otherwise, the [[ring gear]] of the Volkswagen [[differential]] had to be
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• Lotus
  ...company is famous for designing and building landmark race and production automobiles of extremely light weight and possessing legendary handling characteristics * [[Lotus Esprit]] - A mid-engined sports car, launched in the early 1970s. The Esprit shocked many at its launch - its geometric, laser-cut lines see
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• Automobile layout
  ...with a similar engine and transmission, allowing greater [[Fuel economy in automobiles|fuel economy]].<ref name="insideline" /> In front wheel drive cars the mass ...with a similar engine and transmission, allowing greater [[Fuel economy in automobiles|fuel economy]].<ref name="insideline" />
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• Manual Transmission
  ...not heard in the forward gears. The teeth on the forward gears of consumer automobiles are helically cut. When helical gears rotate, their teeth slide together, w ...the 1970s, 5-speed transmissions began to appear in low priced mass market automobiles and even compact pickup trucks, pioneered by [[Toyota]] (who advertised the
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• V8 engine
  ...], and [[Buchet]] among others. Some of these engines found their way into automobiles in small quantities. In 1905, [[Darracq]] built a special car to beat the w ...ll-size car]]s grew throughout the 1950s, 1960s, and into the early to mid-1970s. The increasing size of full-size cars meant smaller models of car were int
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• Citroën DS
  ...pler ID19 also had the same gearbox and clutch, manually operated. In the 1970s a five-speed manual and 3-speed fully-automatic were introduced, in additio ...nd separate [[Fender|fender]]s began to seem a little old fashioned in the 1970s.
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• Diesel Vehicles
  More diesel-powered automobiles may become available in North America after the introduction of [[Ultra Low ..., sold in many parts of the World, with other manufacturers joining in the 1970s and 1980s. The second car manufacturer was [[Peugeot]], prior to 1960.
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• Dodge Charger
  ...ed in the movie ''Cars'' and the Penske factory backed AMC Matadors of the 1970s which battled it out with Dodges and Plymouths. The AMC heritage line goes [[Category:2000s Automobiles]]
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• Petroleum
  ...cause the total amount of petroleum is finite, the dire predictions of the 1970s have merely been postponed. Others argue that technology will continue to a ...place high energy density liquid petroleum for transportation use; instead automobiles and other equipment must be altered to allow using electricity (in batterie
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• Corporate Average Fuel Economy
  ...ay 27, 2007 }}</ref> and intended to improve the average [[fuel economy in automobiles|fuel economy]] of [[automobile|cars]] and [[light truck]]s ([[truck]]s, [[v ...ed with lower traffic safety, intertwining the issues of [[fuel economy in automobiles|fuel economy]], [[road-traffic safety]], air pollution, and climate change.
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