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• Donnet
  {{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}}'''Donnet''' was a French car maker founded as Donnet-Zedel in 1924 and continuing in business until 1936 ...in 1928 and the Zedel part of the name dropped. Donnet also bought another factory at Nanterre, Seine from [[Vinot et Déguingand]] which although small had r
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• Mound Road Engine
  ...2002, with production shifting to the [[Mack Avenue Engine Complex]]. The factory had been home to Chrysler's production of [[Chrysler LA engine|large-displa ...t were manufactured at [[Warren Truck Assembly]] before shipping them to [[Car dealership|dealership]]s.
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• Bizzarrini
  ...ore failing in 1969. The marque has been revived on a number of [[concept car]]s in the 2000s. ...e '''[[Bizzarrini P538|P538]]''', in 1966. The 1968 '''Manta''' [[concept car]], designed by [[Giorgetto Giugiaro]] of [[Italdesign|ItalDesign]], was a f
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• GAZ-M20 Pobeda
  ...GAZ-M20 Pobeda''' or '''Pobyeda''' (Russian:ГАЗ-М20 Победа) is a passenger car produced in the Soviet Union by [[GAZ]] from 1946 until 1958. It was also l ...he USSR, and the design was licensed to the Polish [[FSO car factory|FSO]] factory in Warsaw, where it was built as the [[Warszawa|Warszawa]] beginning in 19
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• Russo Baltique
  ...}}[[Image:Russo-balt1909stamp.jpg|thumb|right|Stamp with a 1909 Russo-Balt car.]] ...ay car factory RBVZ in Riga, Latvia and after the 1917 revolution a second factory was opened in Saint Petersburg, where they built armoured cars on chassis p
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• Armstrong Electric
  ...rough 1902. The Maple Street factory used by Armstrong to build its first car will be again used for automobile manufacture in 2006 when [[AC Cars]] begi
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• Transparent Factory
  ...opened in 2002. The original German name is '''Gläserne Manufaktur''' (''factory made of glass'', literally ''vitreous manufactory''). Both the German and E The main purpose of the factory is the assembly of Volkswagen's luxury sedan, the [[Volkswagen Phaeton|Phae
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• Warszawa
  ...obeda]], built under license. The Warszawa was the first new-design Polish car built after the Second World War. Warszawas were popular as taxis because o
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• Giacinto Ghia
  After seeing his factory eradicated (1943) he died of heart failure. [[Category:car designers|Ghia, Giacinto]]
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• Léon Bollée
  The Bollée family, all car makers, created three brands: ...n Bollée by Hurtu & Diligeon, only the prototypes were made at the Le Mans factory.
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• Oltcit
  ...ME}} Models}}The '''Oltcit''' (IPA: /olt.'sit/) is a Romanian [[Automobile|car]] developed in co-operation with [[Citroën]] of France in the 1980s. It is The car's name comes from the region of Oltenia in Romania, with 'cit' being an abb
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• Hansa
  ...-Lloyd company, in the Bremen suburb as Hastedt, had been established as a car and truck makers since 1905. ...e factory was conveniently located opposite to his own [[Goliath|Goliath]] factory on Föhrenstrasse in Bremen Hastedt. The range of trucks of Hansa-Lloyd was
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• Bugatti Type 52
  ...] racing car for children. Over 250 examples were produced at the Molsheim factory between 1927 and 1930, and the cars were frequently used both as playthings ...n) when it was found that even children had difficulty with leg room. The car was 130 in (3300 mm) long overall with a 625 mm (24.6 i
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• Westfield SEight
  ...the powerplant - a V8 engine. In kit form they are only available from the factory as a rolling chassis, unlike other Westfield kits which can be bought in co ...i (fuel injected) versions, which are currently the option provided in the factory built vehicles, and TVR Power engines of 4.2 litres. On the whole the V8 is
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• Erwin Komenda
  ...[[car body|bodies]] for the [[VW Beetle]] and various [[Porsche]] [[sports car]]s. ...h better design. During that period Mercedes also developed a streamlined car with [[monocoque]] construction. In October 1931, Komenda resigned his mos
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• Abingdon
  ...assembled [[Automobile|car]] built in small numbers in 1922 and 1923 in a factory in Tyseley, Birmingham. It used an 11-9 hp 1490 cc 4 cylinder [[Dorma
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• Haynes-Apperson
  '''Haynes-Apperson Company''' was a manufacturer of [[Brass Era car|Brass Era]] [[automobile]]s in Kokomo, Indiana from 1896 to 1905. It was th ...ory open 24 hours a day, and two shifts of workers were needed to keep the factory running at capacity.
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• Carl F. W. Borgward
  ...eptember 23, 1938, the ''Carl F. W. Borgward Automobil- und Motorenwerke'' factory is opened in Sebaldsbrück near Bremen. After Kristallnacht, Borgward joine When the factory was destroyed by bombing in 1944, half of the workers were prisoners of war
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• Durant Motors
  ...price point was planned, but never realized; also planned was the "Eagle" car line but it never made it off the drafting tables. ...opping the [[Mason Truck]] and Flint automobile lines and top-selling Star car in April of 1928. In 1929 Locomobile went out of production.
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• Gutbrod
  '''Gutbrod''' was a German [[automobile|car]] manufacturer. The firm was founded by [[Wilhelm Gutbrod]] in 1926. It ori ...ster Scherenberg came from Mercedes and went finally back to Mercedes. The car was produced first in a carburettor version with 26 hp and later also with
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• Bugatti Type 53
  ...1926. Cappa's associate, Antonio Pichetto, handled the development of the car while working at Bugatti. ...t [[Shelsley Walsh]] in June, 1932. Modern tests, however, have shown the car to be quite tractable at speed, and Bugatti's drawings for the Type 53 do s
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• Argyll
  {{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}}'''Argyll''' was a Scottish [[motor car]] marque manufactured from 1899 to 1932, and again from 1976 to around 1990 ...lexandria built for the company by now named '''Argyll Motors Ltd.''' This factory was never used to capacity, and the company began to decline after Govan's
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• Standard (Gutbrod)
  ...1950 until 1954. The car was produced by [[Wilhelm Gutbrod]]'s motorcycle factory, and its first model, the [[Standard-Superior]], was designed by [[Josef Ga
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• Moskvich
  ...vod imeni Leninskogo Komsomola'', which means ''Youth Communist League Car Factory''). ...nd always exceeded production, so people had to wait a long time for a new car. Until the 1980s all Moskvitch cars were compact rear-wheel drive sedans an
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• Barley Motor Car Co.
  {{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}}'''Barley Motor Car Co.''' was a manufacturer of automobiles in Kalamazoo, Michigan. It manufa ...new company was called '''Barley Manufacturing Co.''' and he reopened the factory at Streator, Illinois and continued to produce the Halladay for a few years
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• Automobilwerk Eisenach
  ...ich later merged to become [[Mercedes-Benz]]. His son Gustav took over the factory that at the end of the 19th century employed 1,300 workers, being one of th ...osses and also, the license to build Decauville motorcars was revoked. The factory started to build cars under the new name, '''Dixi''' (Latin, “I have spok
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• Chenard & Walcker
  ...et Walcker''' was a French automobile manufacturer, from 1901 - 1946. The factory was in Asnières. The 2-litre car of 1922 was the winner of the very first [[24 Hours of Le Mans|Le Mans 24 H
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• Commer
  .... In 1909 the first bus was made. With the outbreak of First World War the factory turned to the manufacture of military vehicles for the British Army and by ...ese in favour of mainstream Renault models and switching production at the factory to production of Renault truck and bus engines in the early 1990s.
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• SeAZ
  * [http://en.seaz.ru/ Serpukhov Motor-car Factory]
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• Yenko Chevrolet
  ...', located in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, was one of largest custom [[muscle car]] shops of the late 1960s and early 1970s. [[Don Yenko]], son of the dealer ...odify [[Chevrolet Corvair|Corvair]] coupes as Stingers for the rest of the car's production run. The last Stinger was a 1969 coupe, after which Corvair p
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• Alta (vehicles)
  ...eek company, for the British racing car and engine manufacturer see [[Alta Car and Engineering Company]]''. ...rently according to Greek law). Powered by a [[Heinkel]] 200cc engine, the car was based on the German [[Fuldamobil]] (also produced by [[Attica|Attica]]
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• Chenard
  ...et Walcker''' was a French automobile manufacturer, from 1901 - 1946. The factory was in Asnières. The 2-litre car of 1922 was the winner of the very first [[24 Hours of Le Mans|Le Mans 24 H
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• Ettore Bugatti
  ...|Type 10]] in the basement of his home. In 1913, Bugatti designed a small car for [[Peugeot]], the [[Peugeot Bébé#Type 19|Type 19 "Bébé"]]. ...mpany lost control of the property. During the war, Bugatti planned a new factory at Levallois in Paris and designed a series of new cars.
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• AV Monocar
  ...s and was based on a design bought from [[Carden|Carden]] and built in the factory that they had previously used. At the peak they had 80 employees. ...Pattern Works out of wood, plywood or even compressed paper. The complete car only weighed about 550 pounds. Engines were rear mounted, air cooled a
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• Mors
  {{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}}The '''Mors''' automobile factory was an early car manufacturer, and one of the first to take part in [[automobile racing]], b ...rward given the quality of the roads and racetracks at the time. With this car, [[Henri Fournier]] was able to win the highly significant [[Paris-Berlin r
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• Zimmer
  '''Zimmer Motor Car Company''' is a small car manufacturer localized in the EUA, with 1,400 owners. ...ing Company. The product was manufactured housing, houses constructed in a factory. The company grew and prospered. By the mid 1980's the company had sales of
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• Industrieverband Fahrzeugbau
  ==Car Production== IFA cars were based on the pre war designs of [[DKW]] and made in a factory in Zwickau. The '''F8''' had a two cylinder 684 cc engine and the '''F
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• Streamline Cars Ltd
  ...treamline Cars Ltd''' was the company responsible for making the '''Burney car'''. ...e [[wheelbase]]. The cars were rear engined with twin radiators. The first car used an [[Alvis Cars|Alvis]] front wheel drive chassis effectively turned b
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• Abarth 1000 Pininfarina Record
  |Class = Land Speed Record Car ...was a vehicle designed and built in 1960 to participate in the [[Abarth]] factory's attempts to set a number of international and world speed records. The 10
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• Hillman
  ...ge featuring a 9.76 litre 6 cylinder engine or a 6.4 litre four. A smaller car, the 9 hp of 1913 with a 1357 cc side valve four cylinder, was the first to ...when the Hawk with a 2576 cc (later 3181 cc) side valve straight six. This car was later rebodied and sold as a Humber.
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• Peugeot Type 19 "Bébé"
  Peugeot manufactured only the short car ("Type 19"), but with great success, using their already established BéBé The Peugeot BéBé had the smallest car engine ever produced at the time, with its 855cc.
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• PSA Peugeot Citroën
  ...is period, PSA lost its traditional competitive footing in the [[executive car]] market and has never recovered. ==The Ryton-on-Dunsmore factory==
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• Ferruccio Lamborghini
  ...erruccio Lamborghini''' (April 28, 1916- February 20, 1993) was an Italian car maker and the founder of the [[Lamborghini]] brand. ...odel, the [[Lamborghini Miura|Miura]], was a ground-breaking and legendary car that started the genre of the [[mid-engine design|mid-engined]] [[supercar]
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• Trojan (Racing team)
  The car producer Trojan Limited founded by [[Leslie Hounsfield]] in 1914 in Purley ...s had been produced. Also in 1962 Trojan acquired the [[Elva|Elva]] sports car business and started to make the Mk IV Elva Courier.
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• Clyno
  ...ritish car manufacturing in the 1920s becoming the country's third largest car manufacturer. Based in Pelham Street, Wolverhampton, England they made in e ...ers for a combination machine with Vickers machine gun. With the growth in car sales motor cycle production ceased in 1923.
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• Troll
  {{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}}The '''Troll''' was a small car made by Troll Plastik & Bilindustri of Lunde, Norway from 1956 to 1958. It was the first real attempt at car production in Norway, but only five cars were ever built. Trolls are Norweg
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• Davrian
  ...on''' and series production started with the cars being available in [[kit car|kit]] form. A variety of power units were offered including [[Mini]], [[Vol ...apitalised for this and unfortunately went into receivership in 1982. This car was subsequently relaunched as the '''Corry''' and the earlier more basic v
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• Karosserie Baur
  ...lding top for luxury automobiles about the time BMW was building the first car with the BMW name. ...3 series TC1 was built with full factory authorization, and covered in the factory warranty. The roll-bar version or "Top Cabrio" (TC) continued with the E30
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• HUMVEE
  ...ruck produced by [[AM General]] for use of the United States Military. The car can do heavy off-roading and gained popularity during the Gulf War leading ...hut down the brand. The last Hummer to leave the factory, an H3 for rental car company [[Avis]], was completed on May 24, 2010.
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• Henry Meadows Limited
  ..., they expanded into petrol engines in 1922 and in the 1930s built a large factory in Fallings Park, Wolverhampton.
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• Maserati Tipo 151
  | [[Endurance Racing|Endurance]] [[Race Car]] ...ducing 430 bhp and now renumbered as 151/1. The car came back again to the factory in preparation for 1964 when there was a massive change to the frame, the m
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• Bean Cars Ltd.
  ...he 1147 cc 4 cylinder engine was linked to a separate 3 speed gearbox. The car in chassis form initially cost £400 but this was reduced to £245. A four ...verhead valve six cylinder [[Henry Meadows|Meadows]] engine. However, this car was to only last a year with 500 being made. In chassis form it cost £365.
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• Tornado
  ...k axle. Only one was made and still belongs to the original builder of the car. ...in 2 states of tune. This model was available either in component form or factory finished and was praised for having lively performance combined with good r
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• Panther Westwinds
  ...], like the resurrected [[Stutz Blackhawk]] in the United States, became a car for top celebrities to be seen in. Another Panther was the infamous [[Panther 6]], one car was officially built and another copy constructed later (before Panther col
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• Aixam
  ...s-Bains. It was founded in 1983 to make [[microcars]] in the old [[AROLA]] factory after that company failed. In 1992 they started making a range of standard * Mega Monte Carlo (sports car)
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• Wartburg
  {{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}}The '''Wartburg''' was a [[automobile|car]] manufactured in East Germany. It had a three-[[cylinder|cylinder]] [[two- The marque goes back to 1898 when a car made by [[Automobilwerk Eisenach]] was named the Wartburg. The name was dro
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• Santana Motors
  '''Santana''' is a Spanish car factory that has been building [[Land Rover]] vehicles under license until 1983.
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• Valerio Colotti
  ...wed by employment with [[Maserati]] (1953-1957), until the company dropped factory works racing. In 1958 he started his own company, known as '''Tec-Mec''' ( ...isted by [[Giorgi Scarlatti]], attempted at the tipo F/415 [[Formula One]] car, mostly based on the [[Maserati 250F]], in which Colotti had been deeply in
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• State Limousines of Israel
  ...d to the highest bullet-proofing classes B6+ and B7. Analysts estimate the car to be worth $750-850 thousand dollars before taxes (around $1 million w/ ta ...he manufacturer's official data, the standard A8 Security has an original, factory-produced, protected passenger compartment, proof against bullets and hand g
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• Eisenacher Motorenwerk
  ...ion of EMW became [[VEB Automobilwerk Eisenach]] and build the [[Wartburg (car)|Wartburg]]. Motorcycle manufacture ended in the 1950's and was replaced by
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• Pinky Lai
  ...strial Design. After answering an advertisement from Ford of Germany for a car designer, in 1978, he ended up receiving a two year scholarship on transpor ...Lagaay]] (also from BMW). Since then, he worked in all the models from the factory, from the [[Porsche Boxster|Boxster]] to the [[Porsche Cayman|Cayman]], and
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• Clan
  ...1971 and 1974, but since then several efforts have been made to bring the car back to production. ...The car was available in either kit of fully built versions. Although the car received good reviews and achieved some competition success, it was expensi
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• ASA
  ...Bizzarrini]] and manufactured by the [[Bizzarrini]] company in Milan (in a factory owned by the De Nora Electrochemical Group) from 1962 to 1969. This small, high-efficiency "[[dream car]]" featured an [[Overhead cam|OHC]] 1032 cc [[four-cylinder]] engine d
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• Concours d'Elegance
  ...s d'Elegance is much more demanding than that of a neighborhood or general car show. Trained judges examine the vehicle thoroughly and in its entirety and ...e (or nickel) plating and mechanical restoration far exceeding that of the car when new.
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• Remote Keyless Entry
  ...ms the appropriate function. Newer systems implement encryption to prevent car thieves from intercepting and spoofing the signal. ...two ways by either providing confirmation of successfully (un-)locking the car through a light or a horn signal. Usually the system offers an option to ea
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• Zavod Imeni Likhocheva
  ...are priced at the equivalent of models from [[Maybach]] and [[Rolls-Royce car|Rolls-Royce]], but are largely unknown outside the CIS and production rarel ...with the help of the U.S. A.J. Brandt Co., changed its name to Automotive Factory No. 2 '''Zavod Imeni Stalina''' ('''ZIS''' or '''ZiS'''). After Nikita Khru
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• Elfin Cars
  ...}}'''Elfin Cars Pty Ltd''' has been an Australian manufacturer of [[sports car]]s and [[motor racing]] cars since 1957. Elfin Sports Cars was purchased in ...d designer and builder of racing and sports/racing cars as '''Elfin Sports Car Company'''.
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• De Tomaso Sport 1000
  ...and heat exchanger for the electrical system. The car was retained by the factory until 2004. ...e 15-inch wheels as the Sport 2000. This car, as well, was retained by the factory until De Tomaso's liquidation in June of 2004.
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• Dietrich-Bugatti
  ...he notice of the [[Baron de Dietrich]]. de Dietrich managed an automobile factory in Niederbronn in Alsace, France, and contracted Bugatti to develop new mod In 1904, Ettore Bugatti and Émile Mathis designed a new car, the '''Type 5''' or '''Hermes'''. It was a prototype of a more-modern mode
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• Porsche 936
  ...tered in numerous endurance races and sportscar championships, both by the factory and privateer teams, and achieved considerable success. ...ion from other vehicles in the Group 5 class, and the team to beat was the factory Renault-Alpine organisation, with their A442. But the 936 was thoroughly de
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• Anadol
  ...ayii]] in Istanbul between 1966 and 1986 and was Turkey's first production car. The Anadol was discontinued in 1986 when the factory turned to making a version of the [[Ford Taunus]].
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• Ranger (GM)
  ...sse SA from Biel-Bienne Switzerland also produced Rangers from 1970 to the factory's end in August 1975.
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• Lăstun
  ...'''Lăstun''', also named '''"Dacia 500"''', was a cost-effective Romanian car for urban transport built between 1986 and 1992. It featured a two cylinder ...g point of excellent fuel economy, there was very little market for such a car assembled in such a manner, and the last few were sold in 1992.
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• Kieft
  ...that built [[Formula 3]] racing cars and some road going sports cars in a factory in Derry St, Wolverhampton. ...rs, failed he bought the designs and used them as a base for his own 500cc car. Several of these were sold and some competition success resulted. Publicit
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• Humber
  ...ers to become part of the [[Rootes Group]]. The range focused on [[luxury car|luxury]] models, such as the [[Humber Super Snipe]]. ...n factory produced a more expensive range known as Beeston-Humbers but the factory closed in 1908 after financial problems. Before the First World War a wide
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• Lancia LC2
  {{Racing Car Infobox | |Notable Entrants = [[Martini Racing]]<br>[[Mussato Action Car]]<br>[[Dollop Racing]]
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• Ogle Design
  * 1959 The company became involved in transport design and small scale car production. ...en]] took over as Managing Director and Chief Designer of the company, and car production ceased.
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• King
  ...Detroit from 1911 to 1923, and in Buffalo in late 1923, with an additional car built in Detroit in 1896. ...l]] served as a form of [[oil pump]].<ref>Georgano, p.824.</ref> The first factory was rented and located at 1559 West Jefferson, but soon outgrew that and mo
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• Darracq
  ...t of the substantial profit he had made from selling his Gladiator bicycle factory, Alexandre Darracq began operating from a plant in the Parisian suburb of S ...lgenon Lee Guinness who set many records over the next few years until the car was retired in 1909 with a broken piston. This V8 Special(see full story at
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• NUMMI
  ...2010. The closing was seen as inevitable for months, amidst protests from factory workers to keep the plant open and in spite of Toyota holding out for as lo [[Category:Car Factory]]
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• H. J. Mulliner
  ...ounded H.J. Mulliner & Co. in 1900 in the Mayfair area of London where the factory was set up. This was probably the premises previously occupied by Mulliners ...]] cars. In 1907, as well as the Northampton works, a new sales office and factory was opened in Long Acre, London. Business boomed during the 1920s with orde
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• Automobiles L. Rosengart
  ...began production of the Rosengart automobile. He bought the old Bellanger factory at Neuilly. ...- surviving as the vastly facelifted LR4 and Vivor long after the British car had been consigned to history.
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• Zaz
  ...ozhskiy avtomobil'nyi zavod'') to produce the copy of [[Fiat 600]]&mdash;a car for the ordinary people. ...hown an unbeaten accessibility and popularity among Soviets, becoming the "car for pensioners and intellectuals".
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• Hotchkiss et Cie
  ...and in 1903 they went on to make complete engines. Encouraged by two major car distributors, Mann and Overton of London and Fournier of Paris, Hotchkiss d The first Hotchkiss car, a 17 CV (13 kW) four-cylinder model, appeared in 1903 followed by a the 40
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• Gray-Dort Motors Ltd.
  .... During this period, they also built bodies for the locally built Chatham car. ...roduced two cars the first year, a Model 4 roadster, and a Model 5 touring car.
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• Moon Motor Car
  '''Moon Motor Car''' was a United States [[automobile]] company, in business c. 1905 - 1930. Moon went out of business at the start of the Great Depression; the Moon factory was purchased by [[Ruxton|Ruxton automobile]].
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• Lotus Elise GT1
  ...e-115''') was a [[race car]] developed for [[grand tourer]]-style [[sports car racing]] starting in 1997. ...tional exposure. [[Porsche]] was the first to start a new breed of racing car in 1996, with their purpose-built homologation special known as the [[Porsc
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• Dick Thompson
  ...until the 1970s, Thompson raced for several notable racers, including the factory Corvette team for [[John Fitch]] and [[Briggs Cunningham]].<ref name=vintag ...e to the track in his [[MG Cars|MG]] [[MG T-type#TD|TD]], and co-drove the car to an eighth place finish.<ref name=vintageracecarjournal /> He caught Corv
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• Sir Henry Royce
  '''Sir Henry Royce''' (March 27, 1863 - April 22, 1933) was a pioneering car manufacturer, who with [[Charles Rolls|Charles Stewart Rolls]] founded the ...gistered. The company was re-registered in 1899 as Royce Ltd and a further factory opened in Trafford Park, Manchester.
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• Peerless
  ...known for building high-quality, precision luxury automobiles. Peerless' factory was located at 9400 Quincy Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio [http://maps.yahoo.com Just as the car was ready to be shipped back to Cleveland, the Board of Directors pulled Pe
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• Carlo Maria Abate
  ...also for [[Scuderia Centro Sud]], [[Scuderia Ferrari]] and the [[Porsche]] factory team. In 1959 he won the [[Mille Miglia]] with G. Balzarini. ...f>[http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/driver/2/Carlo-Mario-Abate.html Ultimate Car Page]</ref>
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• Anzani
  ...don was also added as well as licensed production by other makers. Another factory at Monza, Italy was added in 1914. In 1920 Anzani turned to motor racing and built a small car with one of his 750 cc two cylinder engines, air cooled of course, which wo
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• Métallurgique
  ...400 rpm. The cars got a distinctive V front radiator in 1906. For 1908 the car range included the 60/80 and the 40hp which was a smaller version of the 60 After the First World War car production restarted with the 26hp, which gained Adex 4 wheel brakes, the 2
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• Loremo
  ...m "Loremo" is an abbreviation for ''LOw REsistance MObile''. Initially the car was conceived for emerging markets such as China and India. However, due to ...the company says will become a 157 MPG (1,5 l/100 [[km]]) [[turbodiesel]] car. Two different Loremo models are currently waiting in the pipeline to be pr
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• Bugatti Prototypes
  The [[V16|16-cylinder]] '''Type 45''' racing car and similar '''Type 47''' "Grand Sport" were to become a new generation of ...answer. The first 56 was used as Ettores personal runabout at the Molsheim factory.
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• Trojan
  ...rear wheels. Solid tyres were used, even though these were antiquated for car use, to prevent punctures and very long springs used to give some comfort. ...nning down. This arrangement would continue until 1928 when Leyland wanted factory space for truck production. During the nearly seven years of the agreement
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• Abarth Monoposto da Record
  |Class = Land Speed Record Car ...o set a number of international and world speed records for the [[Abarth]] factory. The Monoposto da Record was one of the last in a line of record cars built
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• Morris
  ...GENAME}} Models}}The '''Morris Motor Company''' was a British [[automobile|car]] manufacturing company. After the incorporation of the company into larger ...First World War the orders were maintained and, from mid-1915 a new larger car, the 2-seat and 4-seat [[Morris Cowley (1915)|Morris Cowley]] was introduce
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• Glasspar G2
  .... It was built as both a production model (in limited numbers) or as a kit car. ...e, was building small fiberglass boat hulls in his Costa Mesa, California, factory and he convinced Ken that fiberglass was the ideal material for the hot rod
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• Bugatti Type 35
  ...ped radiator, and is regarded by many as the most-beautiful pre-war racing car. ...ek. Bugatti organized the [[Targa Florio]] as a special spotlight for this car, and it claimed victory there for five consecutive years, from 1925 through
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• Jaguar XKR GT3
  {{Racing Car Infobox | The '''Jaguar XKR GT3''' is an FIA GT3 Class Race Car created by Apex Motorsport, a company specializing in Le Mans Endurance Rac
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• RUF CTR - 1987-1993
  ...in less than five seconds, and on to a top speed of 211 mph - a production car record at the time. RUF revelled in the publicity gleaned from the production car world record, and on the back of which took 28 orders for RUF CTRs.
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• Automotive spoiler
  ...reasing lift or decreasing drag that may cause unpredictable handling in a car at speed. Spoilers are often fitted to race and high-performance sports car ...ose of reducing the amount of lift naturally generated by the shape of the car.
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• Lola T70
  {{Racing Car Infobox | The '''Lola T70''' was built for sports car racing, popular in the mid to late 1960s. Developed by [[Lola Racing Cars]]
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• Ruxton
  ...rtford, Wisconsin, also built a limited number of Ruxtons; it produced the car’s transmission and running gear for its duration. == A car designed to sell to an automotive company ==
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• Arnolt
  The first was the Arnolt-[[MG]], a four seater Bertone bodied car based on the MG TD chassis and XPAG 54[[hp]] engine. The Arnolt MG was desi ...acement of the TD by the TF), so Arnolt began looking for a larger engined car.
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• Alejandro de Tomaso
  | [[Cooper Car Company|Coop]] | [[Cooper Car Company|Coop]]
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• Porsche 360
  | [[Race car]] | Mid-engined racing car
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• Albrecht Goertz
  ...ica. He eventually moved to Los Angeles and worked at a car wash and in a factory making aircraft engines. In 1938 Goertz rented a garage and showroom and mo ...while driving it he accidentally encountered [[Raymond Loewy]], the famous car designer. Loewy invited Goertz to his office, sent him to college to learn
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• Talbot
  ...and by 1910 50 to 60 cars a month were being made. A Talbot was the first car to cover 100 miles (160 kilometres) in an hour in 1913. ...nt than engineering - the existing models were simply rebadged. The French factory was bought by [[Anthony Lago]] who used [[Talbot-Lago]] as a brand afterwar
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• Apollo (1910 automobile)
  ...d. The famous designer of [[two-stroke engine]]s, [[Hugo Ruppe]], was the factory founder's son; in 1920 Apollo took over his air-cooled [[MAF]] cars. Durin
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• Lotus 340R
  | shipped with 178Bhp with factory kit to 192Bhp{{{ and Torque rating}}} ...sports car]] maunufactured by [[Lotus|Lotus Cars]] in 2000 at their Hethel factory.
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• Guy Motors
  ...cylinder models are thought to have been made. In an attempt to enter the car market futher they bought the [[Star Motor Company]] in 1928 but it failed Guy Motors' factory was closed in 1982.
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• Bentley Mark VI
  ...2, it was also the first car from [[Rolls-Royce Limited|Rolls-Royce]] with factory [[coachwork]].
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• Park Ward
  ...the ''Coupe Napoleon.''<ref>{{citeweb|url=http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/car/973/Bugatti-Type-41-Royale-Park-Ward-Limousine.html|title=Bugatti Type 41 R ...form [[Mulliner Park Ward]]. Operations were centralised in the Willesden factory and a range of bodies produced for the [[Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud|Silver Cl
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• Opperman
  ...Bond Cars Ltd|Bond]] decided to build his own four wheel [[microcar]] at a factory in Elstree, Hetfordshire. ...built it as a kit when it could be had without engine for £170. A complete car cost £400. The body was made in fibreglass mounted on a steel tube chassis
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• BMW V12 LM98
  {{Racing Car Infobox | ...ion and a [[BMW]] powerplant. In 1995 [[McLaren Cars]] entered into sports car racing using their [[McLaren F1 GTR]] in [[grand touring series]] like the
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• Mercury SYNC
  '''Mercury SYNC™''' is a factory-installed, in-car communications and entertainment system developed by [[Ford Motor Company]] ...rd on the [[Lincoln MKZ]] and [[Lincoln MKX]] and is widely available as a factory-installed option on [[Mercury]] and [[Ford]] products. When offered as an o
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• Hispano-Suiza
  ...d then Spanish-French automotive and engineering firm best known for their car, engine and weapon designs in the pre-World War II period. Today they are p ...and became '''Fábrica Hispano-Suiza de Automóviles''' (''Spanish-Swiss Car Factory''), but this company also went bankrupt in December 1903.
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• Berkeley
  ...an attempted merger with [[Bond Cars Ltd|Bond Cars]] come to nothing. The factory was later used by Kayser Bondor to make women's underwear, but it has now b .... It was mounted transversely and drive the front wheels via a chain. The car had all round independent suspension by coil springs and in spite of the ti
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• Monica
  ...nly 8 production cars (as well as 22 prototypes) were completed before the factory closed in 1974, a victim of the 1973 oil crisis.
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• Glas
  ...ed with this vehicle, that he also wanted to produce a motorscooter in his factory. Production started in July 1951 ...2,000 workers produce 1,300 cars of the 5th, 6th and 7th series as well as car bodies for [[Rolls-Royce Limited|Rolls-Royce]].
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• Ruston & Hornsby
  ==The Ruston-Hornsby car== ...d War I they attempted to diversify and one outcome was the Ruston-Hornsby car. Two versions were made, a 15.9 hp with a Dorman 2614&nbsp;cc engine and a
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• Oakland
  ...brand of automobile manufactured between 1907-1909 by the '''Oakland Motor Car Company''' of Pontiac, Michigan and between 1909 and 1931 by the Oakland Mo ...clockwise. This design by [[Alanson Brush]] (inventor of the [[Brush Motor Car Company|Brush Runabout]]) lasted one year and was replaced by a more standa
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• Minerva
  ...he founded ''Société Anonyme Minerva Motors'' in Berchem (Antwerp). Volume car production started in 1904 with a range of two, three and four cylinder mod ...at GBP105 the small 636 cc single cylinder ''Minervette'' was the cheapest car on the market, followed by the Netherlands and France.
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• Mathis
  Originally, Émile Mathis was a leading car dealer in Strasbourg, Alsace, handling [[Fiat]], [[De Dietrich]] and [[Panh ...d models, soon became one of the biggest competitors - the original Mathis factory closed down in 1935. The last models featured a V-shaped windscreen. Matfor
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• Armand Peugeot
  ...powered tricycle at the 1889 World Fair in Paris. They created their first car in their workhouse which is located in eastern France. ...et up his own company, Société Anonyme des Automobiles Peugeot. He built a factory at Audincourt, dedicated to the manufacture of cars with an internal combus
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• Porsche Panamericana
  {{Concept Car Infobox | ...celebrate [[Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche]]'s ( ferry) 80th birthday. The car was based upon the recently-released [[Porsche 964]], in Carrera 4 guise, a
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• Swallow Sidecar Company
  ...nted coachbuilder Cyril Holland to produce a more fashionable body for the car. These Austin Seven Swallows proved popular at a time of economic hardship ...tre of the British car industry. In 1928 they moved into an old ammunition factory in Holbrook Lane, Coventry.
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• Horch
  ...henbach (Vogtland) in March, 1902, where it produced a 20 hp four-cylinder car with a shaft drive. Horch cars were considered much advanced and superior ...our-cylinder engine. In March of the following year, he introduced his new car at the Frankfurt Fair.
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• Ford Sync
  '''Ford Sync''' is a factory-installed, in-car communications and entertainment system developed by [[Ford]] and Microsoft Sync is standard on Lincoln products and widely available as a factory-installed option on Ford and Mercury products. When offered as an option, i
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• Abarth Record Bertone
  |Class = Land Speed Record Car ...to come of this project was the '''Abarth Record Bertone'''. Building the car on the chassis of a [[Fiat 600]], Abarth commissioned a special streamlined
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• Porsche RS Spyder
  ...]], marks Porsche's return to the [[24 Hours of Le Mans]]-type of [[sports car racing]] since the its last entry and overall win there was with the [[Pors ...entered by [[Penske Racing]] and driven by a team of [[Porsche Junioren]] factory drivers. At the Laguna Seca race the sole RS Sypder of [[Lucas Luhr]] and [
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• Stutz Motor Company
  ...ter reborn as '''Stutz Motor Car of America''', was a producer of [[luxury car]]s. Production began in 1911 and continued through 1935. The marque reapp ...[Indianapolis 500]] that year and placed 11th, earning it the slogan, "the car that made good in a day". The next year, the founder, [[Harry Stutz|Harry
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• Rootes
  ...in 1919 by [[William Edward Rootes, 1st Baron Rootes|William Rootes]] as a car sales company, Rootes grew and took over other companies, and became one of ...Following the war, the plant was the main focus of the company's passenger car operations. Rootes also sponsored satellite manufacturing operations around
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• GAZ
  The factory's first model was the medium-priced [[Ford Model A]], sold as NAZ A at firs ...stands for ''Molotovets'' ('of Molotov's fame'), it was the origin of the car's nickname, ''Emka'' (Эмка).
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• De Dion-Bouton
  ...condition and has been a regular entry in the [[London to Brighton Veteran Car Run]]. ...for other automobile companies with an estimate of 150 makes using them. A factory was opened in Brooklyn, New York in 1900 making De Dion cars.
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• Zust
  {{List of Zust Models}}'''Zust''' (originally '''Züst''') was an Italian car manufacturing company operating from 1905 to 1917. ...ed). Due to financial problems, Brixia-Zust closed down in 1912, the Milan factory was sold and production of Zust cars concentrated in Brescia where producti
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• Herbert Austin
  ...ter-2>Lambert (1968), Chapter 2: Experimental Cars</ref>. The Broad Street factory was not large enough so Austin bought a bigger one in Aston, Birmingham.<re ...ne Company and listed for sale in 1900. In 1901 [[Vickers]] bought out the car interests of Wolseley to form the [[Wolseley Motor Company|Wolseley Tool &
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• Lotus Cortina
  The '''Lotus-Cortina''' was a high-performance [[automobile|car]], the result of collaboration between [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]] and [[Lo ...nd folcans in period. The Lotus Twincam Motor was never installed from the factory in a four door shell.
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• De Tomaso Mangusta
  ...8 made it tail heavy and prone to sliding. Giorgetto Giugiaro designed the car, which is easily recognised by its [[Gull-wing doors|gull wing]] style door ...ngusta name was revived in the late 1990s and early 2000s when the concept car [[De Tomaso Bigua]] became the [[Qvale Mangusta]], after a dispute between
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• De Tomaso
  [[automobile|car]]-manufacturing company. It was founded by the Argentinian-born [[Alejandro ...various prototypes and racing cars, including a [[Formula One|Formula 1]] car for Frank Williams's team in 1970.
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• Fabryka Samochodów Osobowych
  '''Fabryka Samochodów Osobowych''' ('''FSO''') (literally translated as ''Factory for Passenger Automobiles'') is a Polish automobile manufacturer, located i ...la, to produce [[automobile]]s for post World War II Poland. The first FSO car was the [[FSO Warszawa|''Warszawa'']], manufactured under the Soviet [[GAZ-
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• Lincoln Versailles
  The '''Lincoln Versailles''' was the first [[mid-size car]] from [[Ford Motor Company]]'s [[Lincoln]] division. It was sold from 1977 ...was also given some genuine firsts. The Versailles was the first American car to use halogen headlights and the first to use clearcoat paint, which would
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• Porsche 935
  ...ship for Makes]] with [[Jacky Ickx]] and [[Jochen Mass]] partnering in one car and [[Rolf Stommelen]] and [[Manfred Schurti]] in the other. As in Group 5 ...6]], which ran in the 4.0&nbsp;L class as a [[turbocharger|turbocharged]] car with a penalty factor of 1.4. Weight was 970&nbsp;kg (2136&nbsp;lb).
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• Morgan Aero 8
  ...ar]] designed and currently built by the [[Morgan Motor Company]] in their factory in Malvern Link, Great Britain (an area of Malvern in Worcestershire). ...ag]] transmission. All Aero 8's are built by hand in Morgan's Malvern Link factory., where they are able to produce up to 9 cars a week.
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• Adler
  The Adler factory produced bicycles, typewriters, and motorcycles in addition to cars. Befor ...ylinder engine producing 58 hp (43 kW). Thanks to a streamlined body, this car could run at 125 km/h (78 mph).
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• Enzo Ferrari
  ...tal works, took both he and his brother Alfredo Jr. to Bologna, to watch a car race. After seeing that and other races Enzo Ferrari decided that he wanted He started to wark at the CMN, a small car factory converted at the end of the war. His tasks included test driving, which he
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• Ferdinand Porsche
  ...ge extent on the [[Volkswagen|Volkswagen (Beetle)]] design (sometimes, the car type also is mistakingly called "bug", though that insect is rather flat an After five years with Bela Egger, Porsche joined the local carriage factory Jakob Lohner & Co. He felt attracted to the nascent automotive industry and
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• Mercedes-Benz CLK-GTR
  == Racing car== Within 128 days, a car dedicated only to racing was developed. The CLK GTR was built around a carb
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• Volkswagen Group
  ...ond World War in 1945, the British Army took control of the bomb-shattered factory and restarted Beetle production for the difficult post-war years which Germ ...Group' in non-German speaking markets, and is currently the fourth largest car-manufacturer in the world. In 2005 VW sold more than 5.2 million vehicles,
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• Anhui Jianghuai Automobile
  ...ember 1999. The company was previously known as Hefei Jianghuai Automobile Factory, which was founded in [964. The JAC's [[Flagship car|flagship model]] is the [[JAC Refine]]<ref>[http://apps.ah.gov.cn/ahnews/sh
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• Honda Civic Si
  ...'''Honda Civic Si''' is a sport compact / hot hatch version of the compact car [[Honda Civic]] built by the Japanese automaker [[Honda]]. The Si model nam The [[USDM]] car featured a 91&nbsp;hp engine on 13 inch steel wheels.[http://autobytel.espn
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• Lamborghini
  ..., 1916 - February 20, 1993) as a spin-off from his very successful tractor factory, ''Lamborghini Trattori S.p.A.''. Lamborghini and his wife Mariah Geneser, ...actors because he was not able to drive cars. Lamborghini went back to his factory, had his Ferrari's clutch dismantled and realized that the clutch manufactu
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• Chang'An
  ...a]], and [[Ford Mondeo|Mondeo]]s. The company is currently building a new factory in Nanjing to build [[Mazda]] cars. The company's own self-branded vehicle * [http://www.chincarforums.com/forum/ China Car Forums] (in English)
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• Rolls-Royce 20 HP
  ...''Rolls-Royce 20 HP''' built between 1922 and 1929 was Rolls-Royces "small car" for the 1920s and was produced alongside the 40/50 [[Rolls-Royce Silver Gh ...arly cars had 3 speed gearboxes with the change lever in the centre of the car but this changed in 1925 to a four speed unit with traditional right hand c
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• Jaguar D-Type
  | Sports Car ...completion. Production is thought to have included 53 customer D-types, 18 factory team cars, and 16 XKSS versions.
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• Lotus M90
  | Concept Car ...otus M90''' (sometimes referred to as the '''Lotus X100''') is a [[concept car]] that was developed by [[Lotus Cars|Lotus]] using many [[Toyota]] parts. R
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• Avanti
  ...reportedly stated that his company was not interested in building "an ugly car" like the Avanti.
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• Ligier
  ...power-to-weight ratio. The final SMs were also produced in the [[Ligier]] factory in Vichy. The 1973 energy crisis caused such a decline in the market for th ...Prost]] and [[Renault F1|Renault]] had later victories with an all-Renault car and Michelin tyres.</ref>.
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• Jowett
  {{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}}'''Jowett''' was a car marque from Bradford, England from 1906 to 1954. ...a further 36 were made before the outbreak of the First World War when the factory was turned over to munitions manufacture. Two tiller steerers still survive
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• Simca
  ...while the [[Simca 1307]] and [[Simca Horizon]] won the coveted [[European Car of the Year]] titles in 1976 and 1978, respectively. Simca vehicles were al ...) company was founded in 1935 when Henri Pigozzi bought the former Donnet factory in the French town of Nanterre.<ref name=Beaulieu/> The first cars produced
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• Martini Racing
  == Sports car racing == ...tini Racing was then formed to enter two [[Porsche 907]] in several sports car races in 1969.
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• Saturn
  ...utomobile]]s in 1990, largely in response to the success of Japanese small-car imports in the United States. Saturn's headquarters and primary manufacturi ...ice. Customer satisfaction with dealer service is among the highest of any car brand in the U.S. The company also won praise for its environmentally-consc
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• Leyland
  ...n 1907 when they took over Coulthards of Preston. They also built a second factory in the neighbouring town of Chorley which still remains today as the headqu ...e, they also produced the [[Trojan Utility Car]] in the Kingston on Thames factory from 1922 to 1928.
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• Allard
  {{List of Allard Models}}The '''Allard Motor Company''' was an English car manufacturer founded in 1936 by [[Sydney Allard]]. The company, based in Pu ...y featured a large American [[V8]] engine in a small, light British sports car body, giving a high power-to-weight ratio and foreshadowing the more famous
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• De Tomaso Vallelunga
  ...chnology, and the [[spyder|spider]] version was first shown as a [[concept car]] at the [[Turin Motor Show]] in 1963. It entered production (by [[Ghia]]) ...Motor Company]] with 104&nbsp;hp (78&nbsp;kW) at 6200&nbsp;rpm. The small car weighed just 585&nbsp;kg (1290&nbsp;lb) and had an [[independent suspension
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• Westfield Megabusa
  The '''Westfield Megabusa''' is a [[Lotus]] Seven based car with a [[Suzuki]] Hayabusa 1300 cc engine and six-speed sequential gearbox. *Available as: Factory built, Complete kit (less engine gearbox wheels and tyres) and Starter kit
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• Hanomag
  ...but in 1931 a new crisis came when the banks withdrew a loan facility. The factory was mortgaged to Hannover City and the Vereinigte Stahlwerke trust and the For 1932 new small car, the 1.1 Litre, renamed the Garant in 1934, was announced and sold well all
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• William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield
  ...e at this stage in fairly advanced development of an overhead camshaft 8hp car, which Morris launched as the first [[Morris Minor (1928)|Morris Minor]] in [[Category:car designers|Morris, William, 1st Viscount Nuffield]]
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• Cold air intake
  ...ry goal is to increase the appeal of a car by changing the appearance of a car's engine bay and creating an attractive intake [[noise (environmental)|nois ...The power gained by this method can vary depending on how restrictive the factory airbox is. The placement of the filter is usually directly in the engine c
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• Chery Automobile
  ...In 2001, Chery began exporting its cars to Syria, becoming China's first car exporter. Chery also received its ISO-9001 certification. In September 20 ...eering]] (known for their racing car chassis expertise) is aiding Chery in car design and quality. [[Ricardo Consulting Engineers]] is also devolping a [
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• Austro-Daimler
  ...turing the automobiles after uniting with [[Eduard Fischer]]'s engineering factory. The works were located at Wiener-Neustadt. By this subsidiary ''DMG'' beca ...act car]] (8 hp, 45 km/h). In 1905 he built the company's first [[armoured car]], which had 30 hp. Also, the company produced engines for both trucks and
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• Aston Martin DBR1
  The '''Aston Martin DBR1''' was a [[sports car|sports]] [[racing car]] built by [[Aston Martin]] starting in 1956, intended for the [[World Spor | url=http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/car/637/Aston-Martin-DBR1.html
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• Fisher Body
  ...ne of the top coachbuilders in the United States, building their signature factory, Fisher Body 21, in 1919. At the time, the company had more than 40 buildin ...rd in Detroit. The brothers also mounted a bid to take-over [[Hudson Motor Car Company|Hudson Motors]], but their tender offer fell short of its market va
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• Vulcan
  ...g'''. The six-cylinder model grew to 6 litres in 1908. In 1912 a new small car, the 10/12 of 1.8 litres with two cylinder [[Aster]] engine was added, the ...sign of things to come a 30 cwt truck was also offered. During the war the factory concentrated on munitions. In 1916 the Hampson brothers left the company an
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• Porsche 718
  ...arga Florio, along with countless national hillclimb, endurance and sports car championships worldwide. ...relatively small capacity allowed the 718 to enter into the 'small sports car' class, as defined by the European motorsports governing body, the FIA.
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• Glasspar
  ...t began building small fiberglass boats hulls in his Santa Ana, California factory. Glasspar built boats in ranges from car toppers to twenty foot models and everything in between. Just prior to 1969
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• Kaiser-Frazer
  ...drive design while the Frazer was an upscale conventional rear wheel drive car. The production costs and time available prevented the front wheel drive de ...and Frazer continued at odds until Frazer left the company in 1951 and the car with the Frazer nameplate was dropped at the end of a short 10,000 unit pro
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• Lamborghini Miura
  ...M]] at [[24 hours of Le Mans|Le Mans]]. [[De Tomaso]] had produced a road car with this layout, the [[De Tomaso Vallelunga|Vallelunga]], but otherwise ca ...eder Don Antonio Miura, whose bulls have a proverbial attack instinct. The car was named in honor of Miura and of bulls (not bullfighting as is commonly m
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• Lea-Francis
  They branched out into car manufacture in 1903 and motor cycles in 1911. Lea-Francis built cars, under ...mile race on the roads of Northern Ireland in the hands of legendary race car driver, Kaye Don. The race was watched by a record 250,000 spectators, and
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• Personal luxury car
  ...d satisfaction of its owner and driver above all else, the personal luxury car sometimes sacrifices passenger capacity, cargo room, and fuel economy in fa ...distinguished on the performance end from [[grand tourer|GT]] and [[sports car]]s by their greater emphasis on comfort and convenience; on the luxury end,
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• Marathon Motor Works
  ...else, though, because the company's own newsletter drily remarked that the car "should move, but don't." ...in the latter year, and 1909 saw a two-model lineup, roadster and touring car, powered by 35 HP 4-cylinder engines. Both were open bodies (tops were opti
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• Tatra
  ...anged its name to Tatra. One source claims that Tatra is the "third oldest car maker in the world after [[DaimlerChrysler|Daimler Mercedes-Benz]] and [[Pe ...Benz automobile. Using the Benz for inspiration the company made its first car, the Präsident which was exhibited in 1897 in Vienna. Orders were obtained
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• Remote keyless system
  ...is a misnomer since the fob acts as an electronic key. Locking it in the car is just as much of a problem as doing the same with a mechanical key.) ...433.92&nbsp;MHz in Europe. Modern systems implement encryption to prevent car thieves from intercepting and spoofing the signal.
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• Audi R8 LMS
  {{Racing Car Infobox | *[http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2009/04/factory-supported-audi-r8-lms-to.html Factory Supported Audi R8 LMS to Compete at the 24h of Nurburgring]
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• Zastava
  ..., and Yugo had disappeared from most Western markets by 1993. In 1999, the factory came under NATO bombing during the Kosovo War missions. ...y signed a new agreement with [[Fiat]] - under the name [[Zastava 10]] the factory will produce a version of the 2003 [[Fiat Punto]] for the Balkans. It is sc
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• Ultima
  ...example to great success, but Ted Marlow, an early customer, modified his car for road use. ...models for the European market - cars built to a very high standard by the factory. For these cars, the sky is the limit when it comes to price - anything can
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• Fender skirts
  ...a Century of Progress" ''Popular Mechanics'', October 1985, page 59.</ref> Factory production of fender skirts began with the 1932 [[Graham-Paige]]<ref>{{cite As of 2009, the last car produced with common fender skirts was the 1999-2006 [[Honda Insight]], alt
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• DAF Trucks
  ...managing director of a brewery. [[Huub van Doorne]] had repaired Huenges's car several times. Huenges was so pleased with his work that he offered to lend ...ed its name to ''Van Doorne's Aanhangwagen Fabriek'' (Van Doorne's Trailer Factory), abbreviated DAF.
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• Siam di Tella
  ...el pump in place of the unreliable electrical unit supplied to the British car's buyers<ref name=Autocar196708>{{cite journal|journal =[[Autocar]]| volume
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• Robin Hood Engineering
  ...g Ltd''' based in Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire, is a British [[kit car]] manufacturer. ...nts to build cars, the Robin Hood policy of "One kit + one donor vehicle = car on the road" has obviously been an invaluable selling point.
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• Saleen S7
  ...leen, Incorporated]] and is currently being built at Saleen's headquarters factory in Irvine, California. It is constructed with a unique hybrid of a steel s ...o [[turbochargers]] and power output was increased to 750 hp (559 kW). The car was designed to be a Twin Turbo setup from the beginning, however.
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• Standard Motor Company
  ...don Dealer, Charles (later Sir Charles) Friswell agreed to take the entire factory output. In 1907 Friswell became Chairman of the company and worked hard rai ...0 aircraft including the [[Royal Aircraft Factory BE12]], [[Royal Aircraft Factory R.E.8]], [[Sopwith Pup]] and [[Bristol F.2 Fighter|Bristol F.2-B]] in a new
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• Autobianchi A112
  | [[Supermini car|Supermini]] ...[Lancia Y10]]. Over 1.2 million units were produced in Autobianchi's Milan factory.
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• Moskvitch 2141 Aleko
  ...ьный завод имени Ленинского Комсомола"''), is a Russian mid-size hatchback car manufactured by [[Moskvich]]. ...gth and 10 cm in width, and to increase wheelbase 15 cm. Prototypes of the car were named series "3-5". On these cars the mechanical layout was planed to
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• Pietro Frua
  ...ne 28, 1983) was one of the leading Italian coachbuilders and [[automobile|car]] designers during the 1950s and 1960s. During World War II car-styling work was scarce and Frua had to turn to designing children’s cars
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• Invicta
  ...e Ltd|Blackburne]] engined ''12/45'' was announced in 1932. It was a large car with its 118 inch wheelbase and proved too heavy for the available power ne Car production seems to have finished in 1935. Noel Macklin went on to found [[
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• Custom car
  ...ission]] and to make it look "unique", unlike any car that might have been factory finished,always a personal "styling" statement by the re-styler/re-builder. ...ear axle, often from [[Jaguar]]. Only rarely was the grille of one make of car replaced by another; one exception was that the 1937 [[Buick]] grille was o
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• Austin Rover Group
  ..., Morris, Riley and Wolseley marques now effectively dead, the new, leaner car business was rechristened as the ''Austin Rover Group''. ...he was dismissed in 1979. Secondly, Edwardes began a ruthless programme of factory closures and sell-offs. The biggest casualties of this were the [[MG|MG]]
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• Reynard
  ...0, [[Formula Vauxhall Lotus]], [[Formula 3]], [[Formula 3000]] and [[Champ Car]]. ...mula Ford 2000 in the late seventies) to progress in March 1994 to [[Champ Car]] racing and even collaborate with [[British American Racing]] from 1999 in
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• Porsche 930
  | Supercar/Sports car ...ere - and included everything, from a Formula One project, to a new racing car, via a completely new model and suggestions that even a change of ownership
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• Nikasil
  ...for Mecury Marine Racing, Kohler Engines, and as a repair replacement for factory-chromed snowmobiles, dirt bikes, ATVs, watercraft and automotive V8 liners/ [[Porsche]] started using this on the 1970 [[Porsche 917|917]] race car, and later on the 1973 [[Porsche 911#911 Carrera RS (1973 and 1974)|911 RS]
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• Cartercar
  ...hat Carter wasn't to be the thing? It had the friction drive and no other car had it. How could I tell what these engineers would say next?<ref>Pelfrey, ...-2000 annually that Durant had predicted. The GM board decided to use the factory instead to produce the [[Oakland]].
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• MG
  '''Modern Gentleman''' (formerly '''Morris Garages''') is a British [[sports car]] manufacturer founded in 1924, although no cars have been made since [[MG ...and a search for a permanent home led to the lease of part an old leather factory in Abingdon, Oxfordshire in 1929, gradually taking over more space until pr
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• Ariel (vehicle)
  ...is about the Ariel motorcycle and motor car company, for the modern sports car manufacturer see [[Ariel Ltd]].'' ...mpany name was reused in 1999 for the formation of [[Ariel Ltd]], a sports car producer.
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• Monteverdi
  {{List of Monteverdi Models}}'''Monteverdi''' was a Swiss brand of [[luxury car]]s created in 1967 by [[Peter Monteverdi]] (1934 - 1998) and based in Binni ...as a manufacturer. The factory was converted into a museum, the Monteverdi Car Collection, which opened in 1985.
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• Continental Mark II
  The '''Continental Mark II''' was a [[automobile|car]] produced by the then newly formed ''Continental Division'' of the [[Ford ...ncoln Continental]] of the 1940s, which had been possibly the most notable car of the '40s. Ford, often regarded as producers of many competent cars but f
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• Maserati Shamal
  | [[Sportscar|Sports Car]] ...mal" appears on either side of the central pillar in chrome lettering. The car has alloy wheels, a small rear spoiler and a blacked-out grille with chrome
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• Maudslay Motor Company
  ...not sell very well and in 1902 they made their first engine intended for a car which was fitted to chain drive chassis. The three cylinder engine, designe Private car production stopped with the outbreak of war. Five and six ton lorries had b
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• Nanjing Automobile Group
  ...n''' (Chinese: 南京汽车集团有限公司) (Yuejin Motor Group Corporation, China's oldest car maker, founded in 1947) is a state-owned enterprise with 16,000 employees. Car brands owned by NAC:
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• Osella
  {{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}}'''Osella''' is an Italian racing car manufacturer and former [[Formula One]] team based in Volpiano near Turin, ...would rise to [[Formula Two]] in 1975 achieving some success with its own car (the Osella FA2); [[François Migault]] scored one point.
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• Ferrari 333 SP
  {{Racing Car Infobox | ...ri's official return to [[sports car racing]] after a 20 year absence. The car was built to compete in the [[International Motor Sports Association|IMSA]]
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• De Lorean
  ...tive model it produced – the stainless steel [[De Lorean DMC-12]] [[sports car]] featuring [[gull-wing door]]s – and for its brief and turbulent history ...shot to worldwide fame in the ''Back to the Future'' movie trilogy as the car transformed into a time machine by eccentric scientist Doctor Emmett L. Bro
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• Porsche 911 GT1
  ...etition in the GT1 class at the [[24 Hours of Le Mans]] and sold as a road car for homologation purposes. The roadgoing version was labeled the '''911 GT1 ...with the 911, its floorpan was taken from the Porsche 956|956/962 Group C car. In addition, the GT1 featured a water cooled, twin-turbocharger|turbocharg
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• Lancia Delta S4
  {{Racing Car Infobox | ...ing]] and [[turbocharging]] to reduce turbo lag at low RPM. Officially the car produced 550 horsepower (410 kW). Independent figures show the S4 could acc
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• Beaumont
  The Beaumont car grew out of the 1964-65 [[Acadian|Acadian]] Beaumont model, which was base Beaumonts were also made in a factory in Arica, '''Chile''' for the local market, and the Canadian-made cars were
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• Autobianchi Primula
  | [[Supermini car|Supermini]] ...ed via the Wayback Machine)''</ref> Primulas were built in the Autobianchi factory in Desio<ref name="registro">{{cite web|url=http://www.autobianchi.org/ita2
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• Ferrari FXX
  ...nd of 2006. Ferrari's sister company, [[Maserati]] has developed a similar car, the [[Maserati MC12#MC12 Corsa|MC12 Corsa]]. ==The Car==
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• Duncan Hamilton
  ...Internationales ADAC Eifelrennen ([[Hersham and Walton Motors|HWM]]-[[Alta Car and Engineering Company|Alta]]).<ref name="results"/> He also took part in numerous sports car races and contested the [[24 Hours of Le Mans]] nine times, most famously i
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• RUF BTR - 1983-1993
  ...scratch by RUF, from a bare un-marked shell from Porsche, or the existing car of the customer could be modified. This opened up a large market for RUF, a In 1977, Porsche had unveiled the 930, which had taken the performance car world by storm with its awesome forced-induction powerplant. RUF chose the
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• AC
  ...h specialist [[automobile]] manufacturer and one of the oldest independent car marques in Britain. ...to Ferry Works, Thames Ditton, Surrey in 1911 and grew into a substantial car manufacturer. [[Selwyn Edge|S F Edge]], who had been behind [[Napier & Son]
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• Prodrive
  ...Warwick provides road car design and engineering consultation for various car manufacturers. ...to [[touring car]]s, running BMW's [[BMW M3|M3]], in the [[British Touring Car Championship]]. They were the outright 1988 champions, and class champions
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• Lloyd (Germany)
  ...ated in 1908 and was owned by the Norddeutsche Lloyd shipping company. The factory was in Bremen. Many of the products of the company and its successors were ...group after the purchase of Hansa by [[Carl F. W. Borgward]] in 1929, and car production ceased.
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• Rolls-Royce Silver Seraph
  ...pped making Rolls Royce models in 2002 but continued with [[Bentley]]. The car had a base price of £155,175 in the UK and $220,695 in the US. It was seco A total of 1,570 Silver Seraphs were produced before the car was ceased production. It was indirectly replaced by the [[Rolls-Royce Phan
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• ATESSA
  In the new system, as with a normal FWD car, the gearbox contains a differential that drives the front wheels. However ...set up to provide slight oversteer in handling, and in fact the harder the car is cornered the LESS the 4wd system engages the front wheels. This promotes
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• AJS
  ...r Clyno, but in 1929 Clyno went under.<ref name="wolver"/> AJS returned to car making in 1929 with the Nine powered by a 1018 cc side valve [[Coventry-Cli ...s between December 1931 and May 1932. Assembly took place in the Stockport factory used by [[Willys Overland Crossley]]. Motorcycle production moved to Plumst
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• Lamborghini Diablo
  ...lkswagen Group which produced the final and most powerful iteration of the car: the VT 6.0. ...he driver's seat molded specifically for the buyer, a rear wing spoiler, a factory fitted luggage set (priced at $2,600) and an exclusive Breguet clock for th
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• Triumph
  ...off and they soon started making their own and in 1907 expanded into a new factory in Priory Street taking over the premises of a spinning mill. Major orders ...ncis]] to whom they paid a royalty for every car sold. Production of this car and its immediate successors was on a moderate scale but this changed with
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• BMW Z8
  | Sports Car The '''BMW Z8''' was a car produced by German automaker [[BMW]] from 2000 to 2003. It was given the E5
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• De Tomaso Pantera
  ...aly from 1971 through 1996. The word "Pantera" is Latin for "Panther". The car was designed by famed stylist, [http://www.tom-tjaarda.net Tom Tjaarda] and ...uld accelerate to 60&nbsp;mph (97&nbsp;km/h) in 5.5 seconds according to ''Car and Driver''.
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• Limited Slip Differential
  ...ventional open diff. This is also the best for FWD cars, as it allows the car to turn in on throttle release, instead of ploughing forward. <ref name="wh ...r when using a 2 way LSD if they lift the throttle suddenly, expecting the car to settle like a conventional open diff.
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• Farbio
  ...s new range of supercars badged 'Arash Cars' including his AF10 and racing car projects. Arash is renowned for his collection of supercars from Lamborghin ...to make appearances in the UK. Arash turned his mind to a more marketable car and hired a stylist fresh out of school to help him develop a compact super
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• Delage
  ...inning important races until the onset of World War I in 1914 when the new factory in nearby Courbevoie was converted to military production.
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• Karrier
  '''Karrier''' is a marque of car and commercial vehicle, the origins of which can be traced back to Clayton ...b|title=Rootes-Chrysler resource site|url=http://www.rootes-chrysler.co.uk/car-history/spacevan.html}}</ref>, although the vehicles took on Renault badges
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• White Motor Company
  Today, only about 150 White [[steam car]]s are known to remain from the 10,000 that were made. ...the Autocar nameplate following its acquisition. Diamond T and [[REO Motor Car Company]] became the [[Diamond REO]] division, which was discontinued in th
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• Corvette XP-700 concept
  | [[Concept car|concept]] | [[Sports car]]
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• Alpine
  {{List of Alpine Models}}:''Alpine is also the name of car models produced by [[Sunbeam Alpine|Sunbeam]] and [[Chrysler Alpine|Chrysle '''Alpine''' was a French manufacturer of [[racing car|racing]] and [[sports car]]s which used [[rear engine|rear mounted]] [[Renault]] engines. The proper
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• Alfa Romeo Alfasud
  ...ered one of Alfa Romeo's most successful models. A common nickname for the car is ''’Sud''. ...s built at a new factory at Pomigliano d'Arco in southern Italy, hence the car's name, ''Alfa Sud'' (Alfa South) and developed by Austrian [[Rudolf Hrusch
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• Brooklands Circuit
  ...Flares were used to mark the upper boundary of the track. Edge drove his car for the full duration, with the drivers of the other two cars taking the mo ...as sold to [[Vickers-Armstrong]]s in 1946 for continued use as an aircraft factory. New aircraft types including the Viking, Varsity, Viscount, Vanguard and V
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• Alvis Cars
  ...duced aero-engines and military vehicles, the latter continuing long after car production ceased. ...Alvis' evolved. In 1921, the company changed its name and became the Alvis Car and Engineering Company Ltd. and moved production to Holyhead Road, Coventr
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• Giovanni Agnelli
  ...1866 – 16 December 1945) was an Italian entrepreneur, who founded [[Fiat]] car manufacturing in 1899. ...30th to third place among Italian industrial companies. The first [[Ford]] factory was opened four years after Fiat was founded and Agnelli visited several ti
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• Noble
  ...h, South Africa. Once the body shell is completed, it is sent to the Noble factory where the engines, suspension etc are added. ...ity, but a rigid feel. This is achieved by having no anti-roll bars on the car (with the exception of the hardcore M400). This allows suspension to be mad
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• Lanchester Motor Company
  {{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}}'''Lanchester Motor Company''' was a car manufacturer based at Armourer Mills, Montgomery Street Birmingham, Great B The first Lanchester in 1895 was designed as a car not a [[horseless carriage]] and led to the first production cars in 1900.
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• BMW M
  ...GmbH''' (previously: '''BMW Motorsport GmbH''') is a subsidiary of German car manufacturer [[BMW]] AG established in May 1972 with just eight employees. ...rim, aerodynamics and exterior styling. The objective of BMW M is to sell factory production sports cars that are comfortable enough for everyday use while o
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• Ginetta Cars
  ...the open car and a BMC axle replaced the Ford one at the rear. On test the car reached 120 mph with a 1500 cc engine. The series III version of 1966 added ...ord V8 and MGB engines respectively. The G12 was a mid-engined competition car.
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• Star Motor Company
  {{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}}The '''Star Motor Company''' was a British car and commercial vehicle maker based in Wolverhampton and active from 1898 to ...ar Engineering Ltd. The early vehicles were heavily influenced by existing car makers and the 1898 '''3.5''' was essentially a single cylinder Benz and of
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• Napier & Son
  ...ing green]]. Production reached 250 cars in 1903, overwhelming the Lambeth factory, so a move was made to Acton, north west London. By 1907 1200 people were e ...uild engines from other companies' designs: initially a V12 Royal Aircraft Factory model and then [[Sunbeam Arab]]s. Both proved to be rather unreliable, and
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• Mercury Comet
  ...in the Comet being classified as either a compact or an intermediate-sized car during the seventeen years that the Comet name was used. ...60 Edsel Comet. Following the Edsel's termination in the fall of 1959, the car received a new grille design before its March 1960 introduction.]]
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• Marcos
  {{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}}'''Marcos''' is a British [[sports car]] manufacturer. ...mill in Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire in 1963 and in 1971 to a purpose built factory at nearby Westbury.
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• Albion Motors
  ...ton (both of whom had previously been involved in [[Arrol-Johnston]]). The factory was originally on the first floor of a building in Finnieston Street, Glasg The '''Albion Motor Car Company Ltd''' was renamed '''Albion Motors''' in 1930.
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• REO Motor Car Company
  The '''REO Motor Car Company''' was a Lansing, Michigan based company that produced [[automobile ...Nova Scotia, to Vancouver, British Columbia, in a 1912 REO special touring car, mechanic/driver [[Fonce V. (Jack) Haney]] and journalist Thomas W. Wilby m
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• Matra
  ...loirat family. The name Matra became famous in the 1960s when it went into car production by buying [[Automobiles René Bonnet]]. Matra Automobiles produc ...eel-drive - which was based on the [[Simca 1100]] pick-up bodyshell. This car remained in production into the '80s, after Simca's takeover by [[Peugeot]]
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• Ferrari 550 Maranello
  ...Maranello''' and '''550 Barchetta''' were 2-seat [[Gran Turismo]] [[sports car]]s. Introduced in 1996, the 550 was an upmarket [[FR layout|front-engined] ...[[Ferrari Testarossa#F512M|F512M]] left the company with only the [[exotic car|exotic]] [[Ferrari F50|F50]] and V8 [[Ferrari F355|F355]] as [[MR layout|mi
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• Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona
  | [[Sportscar|Sports Car]] ...model's official name and as such should not be used when referring to the car in any true manner.
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• Chrysler Crossfire
  The '''Chrysler Crossfire''' is [[Chrysler]]'s sporty car model. Introduced in 2003, it is based on the previous generation [[Mercede No hybrid or alternative fuel Crossfires were made from the factory.
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• Chrysler Airflow
  ...from 1934 to 1937. The Airflow was the first full-size American production car to use [[streamlining]] as a basis for building a sleeker automobile, one l ...oque ([[unibody]]) construction to both strengthen the construction of the car while reducing its overall weight, and thus increasing the power output by
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• Car classification
  ...ehicles fall into multiple categories or do not fit well into any. Not all car types are common in all countries and names for the same vehicle can differ ...P]] classifications are shown. Car rental companies often use the [[ACRISS Car Classification Code]]. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (U
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• Famous Cars
  * [[Green Monster (car)|Green Monster]], name of a series of [[piston]] and jet engine [[drag raci * ''Moby Dick'', nickname for the [[Porsche 935]] factory model of 1978
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• Dacia Nova
  ...''' (<small>Romanian pronunciation:</small> [ˈdat͡ʃia]) was a [[automobile|car]] manufactured by Romanian auto marque [[Dacia]]. ...his is the reason for the car looking slightly outdated when it exited the factory's gates for the first time, in 1995.<ref>[http://www.romaniancars.ro/dacia-
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• Rolls-Royce Phantom I
  ...e heads, the large engine produced excellent power to pull the large heavy car. The engine used a 4¼&nbsp;in (107.9&nbsp;mm) bore and long 5½&nbsp;in ( UK models were built at Rolls' Derby factory, while US Phantoms were built in Springfield, Massachusetts.
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• Honda F1 Racing
  ...60s, but has since switched to a more environmentally friendly livery. The car entry for the 2006 season was the RA106 with the RA806E V8 Honda Engine, co ...' by the motoring press. Unfortunately this was the last truly competitive car that Honda produced for F1 in the 1960s; the following year's Honda RA301 o
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• Puch
  ...[cylinder (engine)|cylinder]] [[Puch Voiturette]] began and in 1909 a Puch car broke the world high-speed record with 130,4 km/h. In 1910, Puch even produ ...erted into a Mauser machine pistol assembly plant. In 1943, an underground factory for the [[Steyr-Daimler-Puch]] company was built in Gusen.
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• Supertouring
  ...ouring.co.uk on 9 December 2008</ref> The FIA organised a [[World Touring Car Championship|World Cup]] for the category each year from 1993 to 1995, and Super Touring replaced [[Group A]] as the norm in nearly every touring car championship across the world, but escalating costs, and the withdrawal of
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• BMW Z1
  ...t is uncertain whether examples have been independently imported since the car's launch. There is at least one in Sarasota, FL. ...e colors ''swimming pool blue'' and ''oh-so-orange'' were reserved for the car's designers, Bez and Lagaay.
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• Block heater
  ...eater''' is an electric heater that heats the [[engine]] of a [[automobile|car]] to ease starting in cold weather. They are connected to normal AC power o ...imes found in public or private parking lots, especially in [[multi-storey car park]]s. Some parking lots cycle the power on for 20 minutes and off for 20
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• Mercedes-Benz 300SL
  :''This article is about the car produced from 1952 to 1963, for other cars with the same name, see [[Merced | [[sports car]]
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• Mercer
  ...d a vacant brewery in Hamilton, New Jersey, and brought Walter and his car factory there in 1906. However, Walter found himself deeply in debt by 1909, so the
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• Mitsubishi Galant
  ...the Galant recieves a significant mid-cycle facelift fore and aft. The new car will be officially unveiled at the 2008 [[Chicago Auto Show]]. The updated ...reased and 250 staff at its factory are being laid off. This is 15% of the factory staff.
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• Vanden Plas
  In the 1930s the company became less dependent on one car maker and supplied coachwork to such as [[Alvis Cars|Alvis]], [[Armstrong S ...mer came along. [[Austin Motor Company|Austin]] wanted to produce a luxury car and approached Vanden Plas. In 1946 Vanden Plas became a subsidiary of the
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• Smart forfour
  ...nds in conjunction with [[Mitsubishi|Mitsubishi Motors]]. This is the same factory that produced [[Volvo 340]] cars in 1970s and 1980s. To save production cos ...rson point of view'''''. This section should include information about the car's '''acceleration figures''', '''handling''', '''braking''', etc.
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• De Tomaso Biguà
  | [[sportscar|sports car]] The '''De Tomaso Biguà''' was a sports car produced by [[De Tomaso]]. At first, It was known as the Biguà but later r
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• Acura
  '''Acura''' is a brand name used by the Japanese car maker [[Honda]] in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Hong Kong and China s ...]. Some would even call it the only true supercar to hail from Japan. The car's meticulously engineered quality and sterling reliability were icing on th
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• Frederick Lanchester
  ...a successful car company, and is considered one of the "big three" English car engineers, the others being [[Harry Ricardo]] and [[Henry Royce]]. ...amo]], which Lanchester used to light the Company’s office and part of the factory.<ref name=rolt/>
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• Alfa Romeo Alfetta
  The '''Alfa Romeo Alfetta''' was an executive [[saloon car]] and [[fastback]] [[coupé]] produced from 1972 until 1984 by [[Alfa Romeo ...yout to the marque. Clutch and transmission were housed at the rear of the car, together with the differential for a more balanced weight distribution, as
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• Alfa Romeo in motorsport
  ...ame [[Alfa Corse]] or [[Autodelta]]) and private entries. The first racing car was made in 1913, three years after the foundation of A.L.F.A., the [[A.L.F ...with an [[Alfa Romeo RL|RL]] and [[Antonio Ascari]] took second. Sivocci's car was painted with the green cloverleaf on a white background that was to bec
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• Hot Rod
  ...adster]];" it was used in the 1950s and 1960s as a derogatory term for any car that did not fit into the mainstream. Other sources indicate that the term ...opular Hot Rodding]]. There are also television shows such as [[My Classic Car]], and [[Horsepower TV]]. Hot rods are part of American culture, although t
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• Smart Roadster
  ..., combined with smart’s elitist marketing and the sheer radicalness of the car’s conceptual and aesthetic design resulted in poor sales. Production proj ...ce, new marketing initiatives were introduced and further revisions to the car’s chassis were made. There was the very real possibility of the company d
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• Holden Drover
  ...J-Series was sold as the [[Suzuki]] [[Suzuki Jimny|Jimny]] and was a [[kei car]]. It was produced with both 550 cc and 660 cc 3-cylinder engines for domes ...0, mainly for Japanese domestic market consumption where it suited the Kei car category. Still powered by the LJ50 engine also used in its predecessor, th
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• RUF
  ...is. When a chassis arrives, RUF builds their own independent work into the car. Because RUF installs many of their own-made parts, the company is recogniz ...overall charge of the company, and chose the Porsche 911 as a development car to show the capability of his company. The rest, as they say, is history. .
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• Tickford
  '''Tickford''' is an automobile engineering, coachbuilding and [[car tuning|tuning]] company famous for the 140mph Tickford [[turbocharger|Turbo ...ear quarter-panel. By the late 1930s 450 people were employed producing 30 car bodies a week. In 1942 the company ceased family ownership and became “Ti
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• Effects of the automobile on societies
  ...bject of much controversy. Proponents on one end of the spectrum claim the car is a marvel of technology that has brought about unprecedented prosperity, ...bile and industries sprang up, such as [[service station]]s, motels, and [[Car insurance|automobile insurance]], that were completely reliant upon the aut
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• Delahaye
  In 1901, the ''Société des Automobiles Delahaye'' constructed a factory in Paris, where they continued to manufacture automobiles and [[truck]]s. I ...n 1938; doubly humiliating the Nazis by having a Jewish driver in a French car beat their vaunted, state of the art, Mercedes-Benz [[Silver Arrows]]. This
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• Triumph Spitfire
  ...[[Giovanni Michelotti]]. The codename for the vehicle was the "Bomb". The car was largely based on the [[Triumph Herald]] small saloon, and throughout it ...g axle arrangement. This ended up being the most controversial part of the car: it was known to "tuck in" and cause violent over steer if pushed too hard,
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• Audi RS4
  | Compact executive car, Sports car ...of the Audi A4, a sports-focused compact executive car produced by German car manufacturer - Audi. It slots above the Audi S4 as the fastest, sports-focu
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• Smart formore
  ...ysler's factory in Juiz de Fora, Brazil, rather than the French Smartville factory. ...rson point of view'''''. This section should include information about the car's '''acceleration figures''', '''handling''', '''braking''', etc.
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• Audi R15 TDI Plus
  {{Racing Car Infobox | ...than in the R10, resulting in a more neutral weight balance that gives the car better agility around the corners than its predecessor.
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• Jordan Motor Car Company
  ...ising executive from Thomas B. Jeffery Company of Kenosha, Wisconsin. The factory produced cars until 1931 using parts from other manufacturers. Jordan cars Jordan Motor Car established its plant east of downtown Cleveland at 1070 East 152nd Street
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• Excelsior Motor Company
  '''Excelsior''', based in Coventry, was a British bicycle, motorcycle and car maker. They were Britain’s first motorcycle manufacturer, starting produc ...otor Company Ltd, production moved to Birmingham and the Lower Ford Street factory in Coventry sold to Francis-Barnett<ref name=Automobile>{{cite journal
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• Chiribiri
  ...or Gnome ET Rhone. This enabled Chiribiri to open a ‘flying school’ at the factory, training pilots who flew in the Great War. ...owner, commissioned the construction of 100 examples of the ‘Siva’ economy car, but the financial side failed so Chiribri carried on alone.
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• RUF CTR-3
  All the panels on the car are made from carbon fiber, with the exception of the bonnet and doors, whi ...o each individual customer's needs - no two CTR-3s are likely to leave the factory the same.
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• SRT-4
  ...who had previously only considered owning [[Japan]]ese [[sport compact]] [[car]]s. ...numbers equal or better than sports cars costing 2-to-3 times as much. The car was also a huge sales and marketing success for Dodge, with sales of over 2
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• Duesenberg
  ...uesy" to finish in 10th place at the [[Indianapolis 500]] and a Duesenberg car won the race in 1924, 1925, and 1927. 1923 saw the only use of the Duesenberg as the [[pace car]] at the Indianapolis 500. In 1921, [[James Anthony Murphy|Jimmy Murphy]] b
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• Lola
  ...}'''Lola Racing Cars''' (also '''Lola Cars International''') is a [[racing car]] engineering company founded in 1961 by [[Eric Broadley]] and based in Hun ...has recently announced that it is going ahead with a programme to build a car to the 2008 Formula One rules, although no obvious customer for this exists
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• Holden Racing Team
  ...e [[Calder Park Raceway|Calder Park]] Round of the 1988 Australian Touring Car Championship. ...rming [[Holden Special Vehicles]]. It was a logical step to form a touring car team to create a marketing link between the Special Vehicles division and t
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• Plymouth Superbird
  ...d driver such as Richard Petty or Cale Yarborough win the Daytona 500 in a car made by your company? ...er Buddy Baker was able to do with his outrageous '69 Charger Daytona race car, such as set NASCAR records by reaching an unheard-of 200 MPH speed record
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• Frederick W. Lanchester
  ...a successful car company, and is considered one of the "big three" English car engineers, the others being [[Harry Ricardo]] and [[Henry Royce]]. ...amo]], which Lanchester used to light the Company’s office and part of the factory.<ref name=rolt/>
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• Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft
  ...nd the company moved in 1903 to Stuttgart-Untertürkheim after the original factory was destroyed by fire, and again to Berlin in 1922. Other factories were lo ...er and Maybach worked for Otto.) Daimler and Maybach continued to advocate car manufacturing and as a result even left the DMG company for a short period.
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• Auto Union
  ...acing]]. The [[Silver Arrows]] of these two teams dominated not only 1930s car racing, but set records that would take decades to beat. For example, it to [[Image:Auto-union-type-d.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Auto Union Type C/D Hillclimb car; note the dual rear wheels on each side]]
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• Lexington
  ...rowing use of the automobile. The group enticed the infant Lexington Motor Car Company to relocate from Lexington to a new plant at 800 West 18th Street i Lexington's first plant expansion was in 1915. A factory building was erected just north of the office. Also built at the same time
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• Gabriel Voisin
  ...her sons home to Neuville-sur-Saône, where they settled near her father's factory. ...competition. After 1945, he turned his attention to designing a minimalist car for the masses, the Biscooter, thousands of which were produced under licen
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• Autobianchi
  ...ith the biggest being the short-lived [[Autobianchi A111]], a small family car. Autobianchis were priced higher than Fiat models of similar size and the b ...fferential (final drive) that has become prevalent in its cars today. This car competed with the [[Innocenti]]-built [[Mini]], which was the inspiration f
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• Toyota GT-One
  {{Racing Car Infobox ...'''Toyota TS020''') was a [[racing car]] initially developed as a [[racing car]] for [[grand tourer|grand touring]] style rules, but later adapted into a
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• Cooper Car Company
  {{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}}The '''Cooper Car Company''' was founded in 1947 by [[Charles Cooper]] and his son [[John Coo ...ehind the driver -- was merely a practical matter at the time. Because the car was powered by a motorcycle engine, they believed it was more convenient to
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• FISA-FOCA war
  ...Spain|King Juan Carlos]] without FISA's sanctioning or the support of the factory teams. ...[[Williams FW07|Williams FW07B]]-[[Cosworth]]. However, the lack of major factory team attendance, the resulting poor fan support and limited media coverage
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• Carrera Panamericana
  The '''Carrera Panamericana''' was (and is again) a [[sports car racing]] event on open roads in Mexico, similar to the [[Mille Miglia]] and ...this feat. It was contested by a handful of amateurs and several American factory teams.
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• Shelby CSX
  |Class = [[Compact car|Compact]] ...cial line of [[Shelby Mustang]]s for the [[The Hertz Corporation|Hertz]] [[car rental]] company. Shelby repeated this trick in 1988 with the creation of
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• Ford Escort ZX2
  ...rson point of view'''''. This section should include information about the car's '''acceleration figures''', '''handling''', '''braking''', etc. ...eate their own performance model, the ZX2 S/R. Meant to compete with cheap factory performance compacts such as the Honda Civic Si or the Dodge Neon ACR, Ford
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• Porsche 917
  ...take up the challenge, the CSI allowed the participation of 5 litre sports car manufactured in quantities of 50 in the Sport category, which was called [[ ...way, they decided to conceive, design and build 25 versions of a whole new car for the Sport category with one underlying goal: to win its first overall v
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• Bristol
  ...nsington in London. They claim to be the last wholly British-owned luxury car builder. The cars have only ever been made in very small numbers. The most ...expects a Bristol to outlast its owner, and Bristol Cars will maintain any car they ever built. The vast majority of parts are in stock, and they will re
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• Ford Model A (1903-1904)
  |Body Style = 2-seat [[runabout (car)|runabout]]<br>rear-entry 4-seat [[tonneau]] The original '''Ford Model A''' was the first car produced by [[Ford Motor Company]], beginning production in 1903. Dr. Ernst
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• Toyota E120 series
  ...the same length wheelbase as the original 1983 [[Toyota Camry|Camry]]. The car was powered by a 1.8-liter [[DOHC]], 16-valve engine rated at 130-hp. For t In 2005, the 30 millionth Corolla rolled out from the factory to the showroom.
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• Tatra T603
  |Body Style = 4-door, 5-seat [[RR layout]] [[sedan (car)|saloon]] The '''Tatra 603''' is a large rear-engined luxury car manufactured by [[Tatra]] in the former Czechoslovakia.
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• Callaway C16
  | sports car ...o market a supercharger package that will bump the 430 hp from the regular/factory LS3 to 580 hp. [http://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/23/2008-callaway-corvette-i
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• De Tomaso Guarà
  ...ed on the [[Maserati]] Barchetta Stradale prototype from 1991, a true race car from which a few conversions finally made it onto the public roads. The thi Image:Barchetta2.jpg|A factory sanctioned image of the Barchetta in profile.
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• Hudson
  {{List of Hudson Models}}The '''Hudson Motor Car Company''' made Hudson and other brand [[automobile]]s in Detroit, Michigan ...'s Department Store, who provided the necessary capital. One of the chief "car men" of the early company was Roy Chapin, Sr, a young executive who had wor
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• Buick Park Avenue
  ...ue's is 1975's introduction model, the Electra Park Avenue Deluxe. It was factory-built to include all optional extra features. This special model was expen The Buick Park Avenue is a full-size car, to be manufactured by GM Shanghai for 2008. The vehicle will be loosely ba
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• Porsche 959
  ...triumph had been to harness turbocharging efficiently and safely in a road car. ...Car for the Future. A car that would beat all comers on road and track. A car that would form the very essence of Porsche DNA. And it was to be called th
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• Lancia Montecarlo
  |Class = Sports Car The '''Lancia Montecarlo''' is a [[MR layout|mid-engined]] [[sports car]] which was produced by [[Lancia]] in Italy from 1975 to 1982.
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• Alvis Firebird
  |Class = [[Touring car]] The '''Alvis Firebird''' was a British touring car made between 1935 and 1939 by [[Alvis|Alvis Ltd]] in Coventry.
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• Diesel Particulate Filter
  ...acturer [[PSA Peugeot Citroën]] in early 2005. Slow adoption by the German car industry sparked local protests in March 2005. Despite costs, the device wi ...ansit buses, and the filters are installed as "retrofit" devices (i.e. not factory fitted).
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• Saab 9-1X
  ...ab Automobile]]. It would be based on the [[Saab 9-X Biohybrid]] [[concept car]] shown at the 2008 [[Geneva Auto Show]], and expected to compete with othe ...2009-08-24}}</ref> Saab intends to build the vehicle at their Trollhättan factory.
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• Daewoo Tico
  The '''Daewoo Tico''' is a city car produced by the Korean automaker GM [[Daewoo]] from 1991 to 2001. The Tico was based on the 1988 [[Suzuki Alto]]. The car was equipped with a three-cylinder 796 cc S-TEC engine and had a five-speed
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• Jaguar XJ220
  | One-off [[Concept Cars|concept car]] (1988)<br>Production car 1991-1994 (281 units) | Sports Car
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• Engine control unit
  ...alve opening.<ref>{{citeweb|title=WHAT'S NEXT; A Chip-Based Challenge to a Car's Spinning Camshaft|author=Ian Austen|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/full ...gine management system, one can use the appropriate software to adjust the factory equipped computer. By doing so, it is possible to retain all stock functio
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• Zastava Koral
  {{dablink|For other car models also commercialized under the marque Yugo, see [[Zastava]].}} ...means of [[Malcolm Bricklin]], who wanted to introduce a simple, low cost car to that market. The most American units sold in a year peaked at 45,000. <r
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• Coachbuilder
  ...tom coachbuilding (in the traditional sense of putting a bespoke body on a factory supplied separate chassis) practically impossible. Many coachbuilders went Coachbuilding survives among low-production companies such as [[Rolls-Royce (car)|Rolls-Royce]], [[Ferrari]], [[Bentley]] and [[Corvette]] because of its lo
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• List of supercars
  ...page contains a list of [[automobiles]] generally regarded as [[supercar (car classification)|supercar]]s. The category is a subjective one, however, an Although a completed car had been shown to potential customers for a few months, the Carbontech Redb
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• William C. Durant
  ...In order to accomplish this, he sought out the purchase of Buick, a local car company with few sales and large debts.<ref name="MackinacNews"/> In 1904, Durant began executing his vision of building the car industry, starting from virtually nothing. He utilized his sales skills an
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• MG Rover
  ...MG Rover Models}}'''MG Rover''' was the last British-owned mass-production car manufacturer in the British motor industry. The company was formed by the d ...h was formed in 1968 as the end of a chain of mergers between many British car firms including Rover and the owners of MG, the [[Nuffield Organisation]].
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• Coupé utility
  The '''coupé utility''' [[Car body style|automobile body style]], also known colloquially as the '''ute'' ...n the smaller truck chassis while the ute became entrenched as a passenger car derivative, although exceptions do apply.
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• KTM X-Bow
  ...was developed in partnership with Kiska Design, Audi and the Italian race car company [[Dallara]]. The X-Bow uses a [[turbocharger|turbocharged]] [[Audi] ...tp://www.autocar.co.uk/News/NewsArticle/AllCars/228128/ KTM X-Bow gets own factory] [[Autocar|autocar.co.uk]] retrieved on December 19 2007</ref>
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• Citroën SM
  ...st, trailing its stablemate [[Citroën GS]], and won the 1972 [[Motor Trend Car of the Year]] award in the US in 1972. The standard wheels are made out of steel with stainless trims, but a factory option was available for lightweight wheels made of composites. These wheel
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• Cylinder block
  ...han 5.9&nbsp;L (360 cubic inches) of [[engine displacement|displacement]]; factory engine sizes reached a peak of 8.2&nbsp;L (500 cubic inches) in [[Cadillac| ...eeded a bigger V8 than the smaller [[mid-size car|mid-size]] and [[compact car]]s. Before that, manufacturers normally had only one V8 engine line. A good
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• Franz Josef Popp
  ...nce with production targets, Popp effectively began to take on the role of factory manager. Popp ensured that [[Max Friz]], a very talented young engineer at ...d towards creating a link with Knorr Bremse AG, and from 1919 onwards, the factory started manufacturing Knorr brakes for the Bavarian Railway. In 1922, Popp
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• Spyker
  ...GT Championship]], and the [[12 hours of Sebring]]. Spyker also supplies a car to Swiss Spyker distributor, Speedy Garages, running under the name Speedy
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• Frazer Nash
  ...e parent company '''AFN Limited''' remained as a Porsche distributor after car making ceased. AFN also worked with the Bristol Aeroplane Company to set up ==Car Models==
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• Lexus SC
  * Car cover - dealer option ...rts convertible, the '''SC 430''', at the Paris Motorshow in 2000, and the car entered production the following year. Power was provided by a 4.3&nbsp;L 3
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• Willys
  ...nd, Ohio and assumed continued production of the [[Stearns-Knight]] luxury car as well. ...uto engineers Owen Skelton, Carl Breer and Fred Zeder get to work on a new car - the Chrysler Six.
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• Cadillac Northstar LMP
  ...to not only survive Le Mans, but also to beat the dominant [[Audi R8 (race car)|Audi R8]]s. GM would therefore turn to [[Riley Technologies|Riley & Scott ...heel arch. The air cooling ducts were also relocated from the side of the car, and instead placed inside the wheel wells, allowing for air exits from the
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• GAZ 3110
  ...ds. Externally all except the door panels were re-styled and replaced, the car received new front and rear designs which saw the return of chrome finishes ...-560 and ZMZ-561. Moreover beginning in 2001, following the upgrade at GAZ factory itself, the -3110 now received modern acrylic paintwork, which drastically
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• Reasons Not to Buy a Hybrid Car (yet)
  ...of a new Hybrid as well as investigate if you can qualify for Solo-driving car pool lane stickers [only the most efficient vehicles qualify for this]. ''O ...ute to lower maintenance costs and resulting faster break-even of a Hybrid car. There is of course the risk of a Hybrid vehicle component breakdown, which
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• Glockler 356
  {{Racing Car Infobox | ...so used a 1,488 cc Porsche engine, but due to modifications by the Porsche factory, it put out 86 h.p. The first two Glockler-Porsches weighed under 1,000 lbs
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• Vauxhall
  '''Vauxhall Motors''' is a UK car company. It is a subsidiary of [[General Motors Corporation|General Motors] ...ompany built pumps and marine engines. In 1903 the company built its first car, a five-horsepower model steered using a tiller, with two forward gears and
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• Karl Benz
  ...ccelerator (car)|speed regulation]] system known also as an [[Accelerator (car)|accelerator]], [[Ignition system|ignition]] using [[Electrostatic discharg ...He then moved to Mannheim to work as a draftsman and designer in a scales factory. In 1868 he went to [[Pforzheim]] to work for a bridge building company ''G
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• Hummer H3
  ...is the smallest of the three [[Hummer]] models, and though the H3 concept car was a [[Trucks|pickup truck]], the final vehicle is a conventional [[Sport The H3 is built at [[General Motors|GM]]'s Shreveport, Louisiana factory. Export versions will also be produced at the [[General Motors]] South Afri
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• Mercedes-Benz R171
  ...ince 1997. The name was chosen to reflect the company's intentions for the car - that it be Sportlich (sporty), Leicht (light), and Kurz (short). There ha ...new model also took design cues from the Mercedes-Benz Vision SLA concept car, presented in 2000.
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• Chrysler Sunbeam
  ...rnment grant with the aim to keep the Linwood plant running, and the small car was based on the larger [[Hillman Avenger]] also manufactured there. After ...rson point of view'''''. This section should include information about the car's '''acceleration figures''', '''handling''', '''braking''', etc.
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• Pegaso
  ...company, [[Enasa]], was created in 1946 based on the old [[Hispano-Suiza]] factory, under the direction of the renowned automotive engineer [[Wifredo Ricart]] Pegaso built about a hundred high-end [[Pegaso Z-102|'''Z-102''']] [[sports car]]s in the 1950s. The cars were in many ways advanced for the time, as they
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• Melkus RS 1000
  ...[gullwing doors]]. 101 cars were made between 1969 and 1979 in the Dresden factory. ...rson point of view'''''. This section should include information about the car's '''acceleration figures''', '''handling''', '''braking''', etc.
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• Jawa Motors
  In 1934 '''Jawa''' introduced its first car. Production continued to at least the outbreak of war, and it appears that ...Jawa Speedway racing motorcycles are now a separate company. The separate factory where these competition motorcycles were built became a separate company fo
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• HTT Plèthore
  ...HHT locus Technologies will hand make only 400 Plethore a year at a small factory at the St.Eustache Raceway near Montreal. At the [[Montreal International A ...rson point of view'''''. This section should include information about the car's '''acceleration figures''', '''handling''', '''braking''', etc.
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• TVR Grantura
  |Class = [[Sports Car]] ...TVR Grantura'''. These attractive coupes were built by hand at the [[TVR]] factory in Blackpool, England with varying mechanical specifications. All cars feat
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• TVR
  ...rts cars with powerful engines and is the third-largest specialised sports car manufacturer in the world, offering a diverse range of [[coupé]]s and [[co ...name derived from Wilkinson's name - '''T'''re'''V'''o'''R.''' Their first car was an alloy-bodied two seat body on a tubular chassis, which appeared in 1
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• AutoVAZ
  ...] and the [[Lada Niva|Niva]] [[off-roader]]. The variations of their first car, the model [[VAZ-2101]], based on the 1966 [[Fiat 124]] and introduced in 1 The VAZ factory is one of the biggest in the world, has over 90 miles (144&nbsp;km) of prod
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• Leo Kinnunen
  ...i "Leksa" Kinnunen''' (born August 5, 1943 in Tampere) is a Finnish former car racer, the first [[Formula One]] driver from his country. He is also rememb ...quickly outpace him with his own set-ups, he wasn't allowed to modify the car to suit his style anymore.<ref name="forix"/> His chance to shine finally c
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• Citroën CX
  | [[Executive car]] The CX was voted [[European Car of the Year]] in 1975. It is considered by some enthusiasts as the last "re
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• TVR Typhon
  ...designed and built by the British car manufacturer [[TVR]] in their former factory in Blackpool. ...TVR to use adjustable dampers enabling customers to fine fettle with their car's handling.
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• Carrosserie Pourtout
  In 1936 Pourtout expanded again, taking over the Hurtu factory workshops in Rueil-Malmaison. Here the staff, which then numbered fifteen, ...maller engine in the car and it could go faster even though it was a small car."<ref>[http://www.redroom.com/articlestory/the-story-lancia-paulin-and-john
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• Ford Mustang SVO
  ...n to suffer somewhat financially. Many of the great vehicles of the muscle car era had been either completely discontinued or had been painstakingly detun ...of torque in comparison to the [[V8]], which, in the eyes of former muscle car owners, was considered a severe disadvantage.
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• Lotus
  ...acing from 1958 to 1994. Since the 1960s the company has occupied a modern factory and road test facility at Hethel, near Norwich. ...erusahaan Otomobil Nasional Bhd ([[Proton (company)|Proton]]), a Malaysian car company listed on the Kuala Lumpur stock exchange.
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• NSU Ro 80
  ...s being developed soley by Luthe's guesswork until true development of the car was under way. ...is shortfall, a three-speed semi-automatic transmission was applied to the car. Unfortunately, the twin-rotor engine was unreliable in its earlier states,
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• Charles Warren Nash
  ...tion to running Nash Motors, Charles Nash was also president of the luxury car company [[LaFayette Motors]] until that company was bought out by Nash Moto ...belt assembly system that he first introduced at the Durant-Dort carriage factory.<ref>{{cite book | last = Lewis | first = Albert L. | last2 = Musciano | fi
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• Chrysler Crossfire SRT6
  ...ue beast was born. Producing a stated 330HP and 310ft/lbs. of torque, this car has the ability to accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in under 5 seconds, and will on the skid pad and slalom course, this car is a serious contender and will provide all the excitement and experience o
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• Mark Blundell
  ...(born Barnet, London, 8 April 1966) is a former [[Formula One]], [[sports car]], and [[CART]] racing driver. He was a Formula One presenter for the Briti ...ormula 3000]]. Despite having to cope with an underfunded and underpowered car, he showed incredible talent and strung together a series of promising resu
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• Riverside International Raceway
  ...to accommodate several different configurations, depending on the type of car and race length. The three options on Riverside Raceway were the long cours ...Angeles Times Grand Prix, although the long course was also used for Indy car racing in the mid-1980s. When the 1969 version was built, the dogleg was ad
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• Lotus Evora
  The '''[[Lotus]] Evora''' is a sports car to be produced in Britain from November 2008. It will be the world's only [ ...he car is aimed at attracting new customers to the marque, and as such the car is taller and has wider door apertures than the smaller [[Lotus Exige|Exige
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• Renault 5
  ...ld in many markets, usually as the Renault 5 but in North America as '''Le Car''' from 1976 to 1986. ...rson point of view'''''. This section should include information about the car's '''acceleration figures''', '''handling''', '''braking''', etc.
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• Étienne Lenoir
  ...er.<ref name="Wise, p.1182">Wise, p.1182.</ref> In 1863 the [[Hippomobile (car)|Hippomobile]] with a hydrogen gas fuelled one cylinder internal combustion ...ame="Wise, p.1181"/> with a capitalization of two million ''franc''s and a factory in the ''Rue de la Roquette'',<ref name="Wise, p.1181"/> to develop the eng
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• Locking differential
  ...Motors|GM]]'s "''Gov-Lok''." This is the type most often found on vehicles factory equipped with a locking differential. *[[Race car]]s often use locking differentials in order to maintain traction during hig
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• Porsche 928
  The '''Porsche 928''' was a front-engined [[sports car]] produced by [[Porsche]] from 1977 to 1995. ==European Car of the Year==
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• Audi R8 LMP
  ...e 2006 season. It is considered by some to be the most successful [[sports car]]s ever (alongside such greats as the [[Porsche 956|Porsche 956/962]]) havi The gasoline-powered Audi R8 [[race car]] has been replaced from 2006 onwards by the new [[Audi R10]] Diesel, howev
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• Chevrolet SSR
  ...shown at the 2000 Detroit Auto Show. An early-production SSR was the pace car for the 2003 Indianapolis 500 auto race. ...of that year announced five weeks of layoffs at Lansing Craft Centre, the factory that makes the SSR. On November 21, 2005, GM announced that it would close
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• Porsche 997
  ...s [[Porsche 911|911]] - 997 being the factory type number for the car. The car was released in July 2004, and was tasked with bringing the 911 concept int ...d an exclusive "Pure Blue" finish for the Speedster but, upon request, the car is also available in Carrera White, at no extra cost. Interior modification
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• Volkswagen Eos
  ...awn and wind. The model is set for production in the Volkswagen Autoeuropa factory in Palmela, Portugal. ...to the production version, the car was shown as the ''Concept C'' concept car at the 2004 Geneva Motor Show. The production Eos was presented in Septembe
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• MINI Traveller Clubman
  |Class = [[Compact Car]] The '''Mini Traveller Clubman''' is an [[estate car]], introduced in 2008 by [[MINI]].
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• Mercedes-Benz W210
  ...d under the [[Mercedes-Benz E-Class|E-Class]] model names in both [[sedan (car)|sedan]](saloon) and [[station wagon]] body types. The W210 E-class herald ...rust, and eventually to fail - leading to collapse of the suspension. The car remains controllable. This is a problem that Mercedes USA have acknowledged
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• Alvis 12/50
  ...ugh a series of versions with the last ones being made in 1932. A range of factory bodies could be specified in two and four seat form with either open or clo ...rson point of view'''''. This section should include information about the car's '''acceleration figures''', '''handling''', '''braking''', etc.
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• Dan Gurney
  ...Sexton Gurney''' (born April 13, 1931) is an American racing driver, race car constructor, and team owner. ..., New York, but moved to California as a teenager. He has been a driver, a car manufacturer, and a team owner at racing's highest levels since 1958.
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• Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari
  | Events = [[World Touring Car Championship|WTCC]], [[San Marino Grand Prix]] ....9 mi) east of Bologna and 80 kilometres (49.7 mi) east of the [[Ferrari]] factory in Maranello.
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• DKW
  ...e steam fittings. In the same year, he attempted to produce a steam-driven car, called the DKW. Although unsuccessful, he made a [[two-stroke cycle|two-st ...a displacement of 900 cc and produced 30 hp. With a streamlined body, the car could run at 115 Km/h (72 mph). This prototype was to be put into productio
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• Chevrolet Opala
  ...ilt light trucks and pick-up trucks, so, the Opala was its first passenger car made in Brazil. ...m 1995 to 1998. Some of the components and chassis were used for an exotic car called [[Santa Matilde]].
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• Mercedes-Benz MB100
  ...ed in the [[Mercedes-Benz 207D]]. Production began in 1981, at the Vitoria factory in northern Spain. In 1992 the MB100 was given a slanted radiator and an ex ...rson point of view'''''. This section should include information about the car's '''acceleration figures''', '''handling''', '''braking''', etc.
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• Active suspension
  ...er than the movement being determined entirely by the surface on which the car is driving. The system therefore virtually eliminates [[body roll]] and pit ...ar manufacturers to achieve a higher degree of both [[ride quality]] and [[car handling]] by keeping the tires perpendicular to the road in corners, allow
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• Pontiac Astre
  ...ce. Production was switched from an old warehouse in suburban Detroit to a factory beside the Lordstown Ohio GM plant where the Astre and Vega were made. An e '''''Car and Driver''''' in a 1977 Astre road test, said, "The Astre is the Vega-pol
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• Cadillac DTS
  |Similar = [[Lincoln Town Car]] ...an)''' replaces the [[Cadillac DeVille]] as that carmaker's largest luxury car for the 2006 model year. The DTS follows the naming and styling direction s
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• Ferrari F50
  ...t was developed from the 3.5L V12 used in the 1992 Ferrari F92 Formula One car. ...ltural, a monument. They must be hard to find, so we will produce one less car than the market." The last F50 was produced in Maranello, Italy in July 199
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• Mitsubishi Magna
  According to CAR Survey.org, the average reliability rating for the latest Mitsubishi Magna ...or. All power windows are standard and so are the side-thorax airbags. The car also came with Electronic Brakeforce Distribution as standard in the base m
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• Mitsuoka Galue
  ...rson point of view'''''. This section should include information about the car's '''acceleration figures''', '''handling''', '''braking''', etc. ...it-to-the-galue-factory-mitsuokas-stang-rolls-hybrid/ Send it to the Galue factory: Mitsuoka's 'Stang/Rolls hybrid]
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• US F1 Team
  ...06-12 |accessdate=2009-06-12}}</ref> However, the team stopped work on its car and did not compete in 2010. It informed the FIA that it was not in a posit ...S F1 was aiming to be the only F1 team based outside of Europe, with their factory located in Charlotte, North Carolina. This was part of Anderson and Windsor
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• Armstrong Siddeley
  The first car produced from the union was a fairly massive machine, a 5-litre 30[[horsepo ...rong Siddeley was a casualty of the merger; the last car left the Coventry factory in 1960.
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• Chevrolet Malibu
  |Class = Mid-size Family Car The '''[[Chevrolet]] Malibu''' (named for Malibu, California) is a mid-size car produced in the United States by [[General Motors Corporation|General Motor
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• Citroën Visa
  The '''Citroën Visa''' is a supermini that was produced by the French car marque [[Citroën]] from 1978 to 1988. ...he risk of stone chips to the headlights, bonnet and windscreen. Long time Car magazine columnist, the late George Bishop, actually bought one with his ow
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• Wolseley Motor Company
  ...our wheeled Wolseley "Voiturette" followed in 1899. A further four wheeled car was made in 1900, this time with a steering wheel instead of a tiller. The ...kawajiama Ship Building and Engineering. The first Japanese-built Wolseley car rolled off the line in 1922. After World War II, the Japan venture reorgani
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• Toyota Camry Solara
  ...However, the second generation Camry Solara is currently built in Toyota's factory in Kentucky. .../review-intro.cfm?Vehicle=2006_Toyota_Camry%20/%20Solara&ReviewID=1794 New Car Test Drive] and [http://www.autosite.com/content/research/vir/index.cfm/veh
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• Buick V8 engine
  The 401 cu in (6.6 L) '''401''' was Buick's [[muscle car]] powerplant of choice, and was found in the company's [[Buick Gran Sport|S ...lt with the MZ coded factory dual four barrel setup, making it a very rare car. Rarer still was the 1966 Riviera GS, MZ coded engine, in Riviera Red exter
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• Mille Miglia
  ==Car Numbering== ...umbers according to their start time. For example, the 1955 Moss/Jenkinson car left Brescia at 7:22am.(See below.) In the early days of the race even winn
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• Jaguar XK6 engine
  The renowned [[Jaguar (car)|Jaguar]] '''XK''' dual overhead camshaft ([[DOHC]]) [[inline-6|inline 6-cy ...re-war Standard based units whilst fire-watching on the roof of the Jaguar factory during World War II and to have developed prototype engines immediately aft
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• Race car
  ...But the race was changed to: ''Paris to Rouen 1894''. Competitors included factory vehicles from [[Karl Benz]]'s Benz & Cie. and [[Gottlieb Daimler]] and [[Wi ...t over the line was [[Émile Levassor]] but he was disqualified because his car was not a required four-seater.
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• Lotus Exige
  |Class = Sports Car The '''Lotus Exige''' is a two-door, two-seat sports car made by [[Lotus|Lotus Cars]]. It is essentially a coupe version of the [[Lo
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• Preston Tucker
  ...n and His Dream'' is based on Tucker's spirit and the saga surrounding the car's production. ...p in Memphis, Tennesee (Dulian would later be sales manager for the Tucker Car Corp). In 1931 Tucker moved to Buffalo, NY and became regional sales manag
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• Jaguar XKSS
  ...ompleted and partially complete D-types remained unsold at the Browns Lane factory. In an attempt to recoup some of the investment made in building these unus ...rson point of view'''''. This section should include information about the car's '''acceleration figures''', '''handling''', '''braking''', etc.
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• Gear ratio
  ...he right time relative to the movement of each cylinder. From the time the car is driven off the lot, to the time the belt needs replacing thousands of ki ...h each revolution of the wheel, which would be like a higher gear. If the car had smaller tires, it would be like a lower gear.
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• Pony car
  : ''Not to be confused with the [[Hyundai Pony]] car.'' ...edia/2009/04/gallery_mustang Squatriglia, Chuk "Mustang, the Ultimate Pony Car, Turns 45" ''Wired'' 2009-04-17], retrieved on 2009-06-16.</ref>
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• Targa Florio
  ...Palermo, Sicily. Founded in 1906, it used to be one of the oldest [[sports car racing]] events until it was discontinued in 1977 due to safety concerns. I ...ic traffic, often with their race cars fitted with license plates. Porsche factory drivers even had to watch onboard videos, a sickening experience for some.
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• Mitsubishi 380
  | Mid-size car According to Car Survey.org, the average reliability rating for the Mitsubishi 380 is ranked
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• Onstar
  ...[General Motors]]. The service is available for all vehicles that have the factory-installed OnStar hardware. OnStar is known as '''ChevyStar''' in Latin Amer ...riter.com/autowriter/onstar-could-thwart-car-thieves/ "OnStar Could Thwart Car Thieves"] The Auto Writer, Cary, NC, October 10, 2007. Retrieved September
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• Craftsman Truck Series
  ...] series owned and operated by the [[NASCAR|National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing]]. It is the only series in all of NASCAR to race modified prod ...d Cup and Busch events concurrently, but some races were held with [[Champ Car]] and [[Indy Racing League]] events. In mid-1998, at [[Pikes Peak Internat
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• Packard
  ...rry]]. On October 2, 1902, Ohio Automobile Company became '''Packard Motor Car Company''', with James as president. Packard moved its automobile operation The Packard's factory on East Grand Boulevard in Detroit was designed by [[Albert Kahn]], and inc
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• BMW E30
  ...1 through 1991 [[BMW 3-Series]] entry-level luxury car / compact executive car. It was the successor of the [[BMW E21]] in 1982 and was replaced by the [[ ..., but less torque. 0-60 mph times was around 6.4 seconds, very quick for a car in its time.
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• Morris Marina
  |Class = [[midsize car]] |Body Style = 4-door [[sedan (car)|saloon]]<br>5-door [[estate car]]<br>2 door [[coupé]]<br>2-door [[pickup truck|pick-up]]<br>2-door van
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• Mazda CX-7
  ...n January. Production officially began on February 20 at Mazda's Ujina #2 factory in Hiroshima. The CX-7 goes on sale in spring 2006 as a 2007 model. ...rson point of view'''''. This section should include information about the car's '''acceleration figures''', '''handling''', '''braking''', etc.
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• Victor G. Reuther
  ...any police. He was famous during this strike for driving around Flint in a car with a loudspeaker mounted on the roof, encouraging the striking workers wh
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• Sauber
  ...Mans]] and the world sports car championship, competing against [[Jaguar (car)|Jaguar]] and [[Porsche]]. Among others, drivers like [[Michael Schumacher] ...p with Mercedes, won the Le Mans 24 hour race in 1989 and the world sports car championship in 1989 and 1990 with the [[Sauber C9]].
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• World Sportscar Championship
  The '''World Sportscar Championship''' was the world series run for [[sports car racing]] by the [[Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile|FIA]] from 19 ...r [[1955 Le Mans disaster|crash at Le Mans]], while the small Aston Martin factory team struggled to find success in 1957 and 1958 until it managed to score w
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• Dodge Charger
  |Class = Full Size Muscle Car ...orates 164 LEDs and inspired by the late 60's Charger. Under the hood, the car derives motivation from Chrysler's new 3.6 litre ''Pentastar'' [[V6]] for t
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• Maserati MC12
  ...title=World Car Fans test drive MC12|accessdate=2006-09-28|publisher=World Car Fans|first=Nick|last=Hall}}</ref> ...Bertolini, was the chief test driver through the development and said the car "reacts well and is very reliable in its reactions".<ref>{{web cite|url=htt
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• Dodge Challenger
  ...er's introduction, Chrysler was content to let [[Plymouth]] carry the pony car banner with the [[Plymouth Barracuda|Barracuda]], but while the Barracuda t ...been very different than what it turned out to be. For that reason, many car critics, perhaps unfairly, were quick to dismiss the Challenger and Barracu
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• Toyota Soarer
  |Class = [[personal luxury car|personal luxury]] [[Grand tourer|GT]] The '''Toyota Soarer''' was a [[personal luxury car|personal luxury]] [[Grand tourer|GT]] [[coupé]] sold by [[Toyota]] in Japa
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• Rover
  ...as the first recognisably modern bicycle. In 1888 Starley made an electric car, but it never was put into production. ...oil, but fuel consumption problems proved insurmountable for a production car. It is currently on display at the London Science Museum. Rover and the BRM
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• Overdrive
  ...lable with an overdrive option. [[Borg Warner]] provided the box that was factory-installed between the engine and a foreshortened driveshaft. Since the ove ...ps, reducing engine wear and normally saving fuel. One should refer to the car's owner's manual for the proper speed to run at overdrive. All engines have
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• De Lorean DMC-12
  | [[Sports car]] The '''De Lorean DMC-12''' is an American [[sports car]] which was manufactured by the [[De Lorean Motor Company]] from 1981 throu
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• Shelby Mustang
  |Class = [[Pony car]]<br>[[Muscle car]] ...d "Cobras", which was the [[AC Cobra|Ford-powered AC-based two-seat sports car]] also produced by [[Carroll Shelby]] during the same period. The confusion
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• Hockenheimring
  ...ing'' and that name was used until 1947. After the war, former DKW and NSU factory rider and world record setter [[Wilhelm Herz]] promoted the track successfu ...er a collision in the braking zone with [[Pedro Diniz]], which saw Alesi's car spin uncontrollably down the track, causing him to suffer dizziness for 3 d
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• Lamborghini Canto
  ...s]], a novelty for Lamborghini, but after intial tests the rear end of the car had to be redesigned, the ugly oversized air intakes were to be replaced by ...January 1999, the production unit would be detuned to 610 hp. This way the factory would be able to maintain the same maintenance schedule as they used for th
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• International Motor Sports Association
  ...rgia. It was started by John Bishop, a former employee of [[SCCA]] (Sports Car Club of America), and his wife Peggy in 1969 with help from [[William Franc ...ame involved in motorsport in the 1950s when he met Dave Allen, a [[Sports Car Club of America]] (SCCA) staff member. Allen offered Bishop a management po
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• Lotus Esprit
  The '''Lotus Esprit''' was a [[sports car]] built by [[Lotus|Lotus]] from 1976 to 2004. The Silver [[Italdesign]] con ...otus’ performance through light weight mantra, weighing under 1000 kg. The car gained some fame through its appearance in the James Bond film ''The Spy Wh
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• Volkswagen Polo GTI
  ...o GTI''' is a [[hot hatch]] version of the [[Volkswagen Polo]] [[supermini car|supermini]], produced by German automaker [[Volkswagen]]. ...rson point of view'''''. This section should include information about the car's '''acceleration figures''', '''handling''', '''braking''', etc.
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• Plymouth Valiant
  ...ars. Launched as a 1960 model just as Detroit was rediscovering the small car, the Valiant earned a following with its efficient slant-six engine and coo ...ler design chief [[Virgil Exner]] gave the Valiant a sporty but not muscle-car look that appealed to male and female shoppers alike, although even a Plymo
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• Aptera
  ...r panels, always-on climate control, and keyless ignition and entry. An in-car touch screen PC serves as entertainment, navigation, and communication syst | publisher = [http://www.greencarcongress.com/ Green Car Congress]
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• Subaru B9 Tribeca
  ...005. It is based on the [[Subaru Legacy]] platform and the ''B9X'' concept car. The production version of this SUV is named for New York City's famed Tri ...would have been built alongside the Tribeca at Subaru's Lafayette, Indiana factory.
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• Land Rover Series
  ...were producing the highly successful Ferguson TE20 tractor in their shadow factory in Coventry. More likely, he used his own experience of using an army-surpl ...Jeep chassis and used the engine and gearbox out of a [[Rover P3]] saloon car. The bodywork was hand-made out of surplus aircraft grade aluminium, mainly
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• Ford Fairlane (Australian)
  ...lly dropped to zero so therefore, Ford Australia stopped production and no car will take the Fairlane's spot. ...roof-mounted DVD player for backseat passengers at $3,300. Safetywise, the car gets a total of 6 airbags, [[Anti-Lock Brakes ABS|ABS]] and [[Traction Cont
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• Disk brake
  [[Image:discbrake1.jpg|frame|Close-up of a disc brake on a car]] ...c brakes]] were patented by Frederick William Lanchester in his Birmingham factory in 1902, though it took another half century for his innovation to be widel
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• BMW E65/E66
  ...[[BMW 7-Series]]. It replaced the [[BMW E38]] for the 2002 model year. The car was unveiled at the [[Frankfurt Motor Show]] in September 2001, and was lau ...argely cured these issues. Furthermore, BMW of North America extended the factory warranty on all 2002 and 2003 model year 7 series cars sold in the USA to 6
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• Porsche 924
  ...uction for less than a decade, jumped at the opportunity to produce such a car, and bought the rights to the project from VW. However, before the vehicle ...ckarsulm, a suburb of Stuttgart. Americans saw the car early 1976, but the car featured only 97 hp - much too little for a Porsche. Sales reflected this -
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• Volkswagen Rabbit
  The '''Volkswagen Rabbit''' is a compact car manufactured in Germany by [[Volkswagen]]. It originally debuted in Europe ...ously similar to ones found on the [[Volkswagen Touareg|Touareg]]. The new car's styling is more 'evolutionary' than 'revolutionary'. Underhood, the new G
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• Jo Siffert
  ...fert's status in F1 grew slowly, his fame came as a leading driver for the factory [[Porsche]] effort in its quest for the [[World Sportscar Championship]]. I ...d immediately caught fire. Siffert could not free himself from the burning car.
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• Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche
  ...h]] which was pulled by a goat. Though, in fact, he received a true petrol car in miniature (with a [[four-stroke engine]]) of two cylinders which was spe ...any got contracts soon with important German enterprises, like [[Wanderer (car)|Wanderer]], [[Auto Union]], Zwickau, [[Zündapp]] and, from 1933, the new
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• Benz & Cie.
  [[Image:1885Benz.jpg|213px|1885 Benz Tri-Car]] ...ry, static [[internal combustion engines]] forced Karl Benz to enlarge the factory, and in 1886 a new building located on Waldhofstrasse (operating until 1908
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• Buick Regal
  The '''Buick Regal''' was a mid-size car produced by [[General Motors]]' [[Buick]] division from 1973 through 2004, ...rson point of view'''''. This section should include information about the car's '''acceleration figures''', '''handling''', '''braking''', etc.
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• Ford SHO V6 engine
  ...N34 prototypes produced, most with standard Vulcan engines and a few other factory swaps, a SHO [[Ford Ranger|Ranger]] being one.
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• Acura RSX
  ...ration]], the [[Acura]] brand name has been Honda’s luxury and near luxury car label in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Hong Kong since March 1986. ...onda Civic Si, there is a booming performance aftermarket industry for the car and a large following of faithful RSX owners.
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• Motor Racing
  ...'', or '''car racing''') is a [[motorsport]] involving the [[racing]] of [[car]]s. It is one of the world's most watched televised sports. .... It was won by [[Georges Bouton]] of the [[De Dion-Bouton]] company, in a car he had constructed with [[Jules-Albert de Dion|Albert, the Comte de Dion]],
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• Jacky Ickx
  |Team(s) = [[Cooper Car Company|Cooper]]{{·}} [[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]]{{·}} [[Brabham]]{{·}} ...n car championship in 1965. He also competed in [[sports car racing|sports car races]] where he had already significant experience from taking part in the
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• List of Ford VIN codes
  | [[#American Ford factories|Factory ID]] |[[w:Lincoln Town Car|Lincoln Town Car]]
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• Scion xB
  ...d [[automatic transmission]]. Toyota/scion dealerships offered a number of factory installed (warrantied) options, which included suspension, a supercharger, ...rson point of view'''''. This section should include information about the car's '''acceleration figures''', '''handling''', '''braking''', etc.
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• Saturn S-Series
  ...s traditional plastic door skins that were dent and rust proof, giving the car a very high resale value. Most customers were won over by Saturn's "No Hagg ...stdrive.com/review-intro.cfm?Vehicle=2001_Saturn_S-Series&ReviewID=894 New Car Test Drive.com]
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• Nissan Titan
  * Factory-applied spray-on bedliner ...rson point of view'''''. This section should include information about the car's '''acceleration figures''', '''handling''', '''braking''', etc.
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• Formula Three Euroseries
  The '''Formula Three Euroseries''' is a European-based junior [[Open wheel car|single seater]] formula for [[Formula Three]] chassis that was launched (in ...s the same rôle for the [[Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft|DTM]] touring car championship.<ref>{{cite web | title = Increased co-operation between Euro
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• British Racing Motors
  ...Union]] design documents) inspired him to build an all-British Grand Prix car for the post-war era, as a national prestige project (which, naturally, he ...]] of the [[Rubery Owen]] group of companies, which primarily manufactured car parts, to take over the team in its entirety. Between 1954 and 1970 the tea
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• Honda S2000
  ...ion car [[redline]]), perfect 50-50 weight balance and "X-bone" frame. The car was originally launched in 1999 as a 2000 model and continues in the tradit ...is desired by both weekend warriors and tuners alike. They appreciate the car for its incredible stock performance as well as its thriving modification f
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• Chevrolet Corvair engine
  ...t but wide packaging made the engine ideal for mounting in the rear of the car, eliminating the weight and space of a conventional driveshaft. ...ttribute: it was the second production engine ever to be equipped from the factory with a [[turbocharger]], released shortly after the [[Oldsmobile]] ''[[Olds
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• Pontiac
  ...ded to merge together in November 1908 under the name of the Oakland Motor Car Company. The operations of both companies were joined together in Pontiac, ...f time, prewar through the early 1950's, the Pontiac was a quiet and solid car, but not especially powerful. A flathead (side-valve) straight eight offere
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• Fiat Nuova Panda
  ...saviour of Fiat' by the press, and has put Fiat back on the map as a small-car force to be reckoned with. It is built in Tychy, Poland, by Fiat's Polish d ...e thorough design and quirky character of the Panda, it was named European Car of the Year in 2004.
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• Bentley Continental Flying Spur (2005)
  ...swagen Phaeton]], up until 2005 in Crewe and since then in the Transparent Factory in Dresden (Germany). ...ng Spur and Flying Spur Speed aimed only at the Middle Eastern market. The car is called '''Arabia''' and only 50 will be produced. To distinguish it from
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• Buick LaCrosse
  ...tors]] discontinued the brand. Its namesake is the Buick LaCrosse concept car shown beginning in 2000. The original name was inspired by a Buick concept car of the same name shown in 2000 and also used as a reference to the sport of
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• Automotive industry
  ...otor vehicle]]s. In 2008, more than 70 million motor vehicles, including [[car]]s and [[commercial vehicle]]s were produced worldwide.<ref>{{cite web ...8)]</ref> In the opinion of some, urban transport systems based around the car have proved unsustainable, consuming excessive energy, affecting the health
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• Holden
  ...de restrictions led to Holden & Frost commencing large scale production of car bodies. H.J Holden incorporated a new company in 1919, Holden's Motor Body ==Australia's Own Car==
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• Passenger vehicles in the United States
  ...tment of Transportation's definition of a ''passenger vehicle'', to mean a car or truck, used for passengers, excluding buses and trains.'' ...[[Chrysler]], which are commonly referred to as the "Big Three." The motor car has become an integral part of American life, with vehicles outnumbering li
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• General Motors G-Series
  ...rson point of view'''''. This section should include information about the car's '''acceleration figures''', '''handling''', '''braking''', etc. ...s roof extension. Then finally, the "Conversion" models were sent from the factory bare-bones, to have the interior and exterior upgrades added by third-party
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• Ford Edge
  ...rson point of view'''''. This section should include information about the car's '''acceleration figures''', '''handling''', '''braking''', etc. ...tion Safety Administration, the locks weren't programmed properly from the factory, and as such, the rear gate can't be locked by any of the buttons inside of
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• Peugeot 205
  ...ve hatchback vehicles of the 1980s. It was declared 'Car of the Decade' by CAR magazine in 1990. ...205, Peugeot was considered the most conservative of France's "big three" car manufacturers, producing large saloons such as the [[Peugeot 504|504]] and
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• Jeep Liberty
  ...f Liberty buyers are new to the Jeep marque, and the Toledo North Assembly factory in Toledo, Ohio is running overtime to produce the model. ...rson point of view'''''. This section should include information about the car's '''acceleration figures''', '''handling''', '''braking''', etc.
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• Toyota MR2
  ...t|Esprit]], etc...), however its price tag is much less. Gives the average car enthusiast the ability to experiance a mid-[[engine]] [[rear-wheel drive]] ...rson point of view'''''. This section should include information about the car's '''acceleration figures''', '''handling''', '''braking''', etc.
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• Airbag
  ...|250px|An [[automobile]] airbag, like this one in a crashed [[SEAT Ibiza]] car, deflates after 0.3 seconds.]] ...e, 14 years (VAG cars) to ensure their reliability in an accident. If the car is still on the road at this age, it would generally cost far more than the
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• Subaru Outback
  ...ost to the unveiling of the '''third-generation Subaru Outback'''. The new car was designed under [[Osamu Namba]]. [http://www.autoblog.com/2009/04/09/new *"Doesn't offer a lot of sex appeal" - New Car Test Drive
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• Pickup truck
  ...ility]]"), in Australia and New Zealand, is known in North America as a [[Car body style#ute|pickoupe]] in South Africa as a '''bakkie''' (pronounced "bu ...often with [[V8]] or six-cylinder engines), ''mid-size'', and ''[[Compact car|compact]]'' (smaller trucks generally equipped with [[Straight-4|inline 4]]
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• Chevrolet Camaro 1982-2002
  ...as officially revived the Camaro for the 2010 model year, loyalty for this car remains almost unstoppable, and will no doubt continue. | Sports Car
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• Van
  ...t can either be a specially designed vehicle or be based on a saloon/sedan car, the latter type often including derivatives with open backs (pick-ups etc) ...ds, and a refrigerated van (a ''reefer'') used for cold goods. A railway [[car]] used to carry baggage is also called a ''van''.
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• Bedford Vehicles
  ...&nbsp;cwt ASYC and ASXC vans, a close derivative of the Vauxhall Light Six car. The AS series of vans continued in production until 1939. ...he 5-6 cwt. HC light van was introduced in 1938, based on the Vauxhall Ten car, and the WT and WS acquired a newly styled grill.
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• Lincoln MKX
  ...rson point of view'''''. This section should include information about the car's '''acceleration figures''', '''handling''', '''braking''', etc. ...tion Safety Administration, the locks weren't programmed properly from the factory, and as such, the rear gate can't be locked by any of the buttons inside of
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• Lexus RX 400h Hybrid Review
  '''Individual Factory Options''' * Car cover
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• Chevrolet Corvair
  ...e mid-1960 introduction of the Monza Coupe, the Corvair found a new sporty-car niche, and influenced Ford to introduce the [[Ford Mustang|Mustang]] in 196 The Corvair name originated as a [[fastback]] [[show car]] in 1954, which, like many Chevrolet concept cars of the period, including
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• Plymouth Satellite
  ...rson point of view'''''. This section should include information about the car's '''acceleration figures''', '''handling''', '''braking''', etc. ...hout the years of the Satellite there remained one common denominator, the factory paint colors. These colors became the staple of Plymouth's booth, they inc
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• Infiniti G20
  | [[Compact car|Compact]] [[luxury car]] The '''G20''' was [[Infiniti|Infiniti's]] entry-level [[luxury car]] during most of the 1990s and into the 2000s. The G20 was a product of [[b
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• Ford Courier
  ...rson point of view'''''. This section should include information about the car's '''acceleration figures''', '''handling''', '''braking''', etc. ...ourier's engine bay was always fitted with inline 4-cylinder motors at the factory, owners have fitted larger engines into their Couriers, notably Ford V6 and
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• Lexus RX 400h
  ...n and Asian launches to meet the same fate. The Toyota version of the same car debuted in Japan in March of 2005 as the [[Toyota Highlander]] [[Hybrid Car '''Individual Factory Options'''
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• Carburetor
  ...in older or specialized [[automobile]]s such as those designed for [[stock car racing]]. However, [[fuel injection]], first introduced in the late 1950s a ...anies helped these carburettors rise to a position of domination in the UK car market, though such carburetors were also very widely used on [[Volvo]]s an
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• Honda Pilot
  ...ction in the software that controls the machines that tighten bolts at the factory. Dealers will inspect and replace the damper bolts and spindle nuts if nece * '''Car and Driver''' magazine's ''Best Large SUV'' for 2002 through 2007 (Been one
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• Chevrolet Nova
  ...Ford Falcon]] in 1960, Chevrolet began work on a more conventional compact car that would eventually become the Chevy II. The Chevy II/Nova continued on Three different levels of this car were made - the baseline Chevy II '''100''', the mid-grade Chevy II '''300'
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• Formula One
  The period was dominated by teams run by road car manufacturers—Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, [[Mercedes-Benz motorsport|Mercedes Be The first major technological development, [[Cooper Car Company|Cooper's]] re-introduction of [[Mid-engine design|mid-engined]] car
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• Drag racing
  ...oo far off the pavement and wasting energy that would otherwise propel the car forward. On front-wheel-drive cars, these are used not to prevent wheelstan ...s for the driver to "jump the gun" by a fraction of a second, starting the car during the split-second interval between when the yellow light goes out and
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• Samuel Morey
  ...h some commercial success; recorded applications include tugboats, a glass factory, and a sawmill in the Boston naval yard. One tugboat even sailed to South ...the vehicle powered across Market Street into a ditch. This was the second car ride in the world, and the first in the United States. Despite these mostly
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• Driverless car
  The '''driverless car''' is an autonomous vehicle that can drive itself from one point to another ...er application of artificial intelligence to [[automobile]]s see ''[[smart car]]s''.
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• Pontiac Firebird 1982-2002
  | Sports Car ...ld be no more Pontiac-produced V8s at all in this generation (or any other car, for that matter) - these were now all considered "corporate" engines. Thi
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• List of Formula One constructors
  ...ver for a race, and is then responsible for preparing and maintaining that car during the race weekend. As a result of this preparation role and active in ...er, where the chassis and engine are constructed by different entities the car's make comprises both (e.g. [[McLaren (racing)|McLaren]]-[[Mercedes-Benz|Me
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• Lexus RX
  '''Individual Factory Options''' * Car cover
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• French Grand Prix
  ...cancelled. A final location in Flins-Les Mureaux, near the [[Flins Renault Factory]], was cancelled as well on 1 December 2009.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www ...Manuel Fangio won the 1951 race, but shared the win in the Alfa Romeo 159-car with [[Luigi Fagioli]].
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• Rotary engine
  Balzer produced a 3-cylinder, rotary engined car in 1894, then later became involved in Langley's ''Aerodrome'' attempts, wh ...he Gnôme design was derived from the Adams-Farwell, since an Adams-Farwell car is reported to have been demonstrated to the French Army in 1904. In contra
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• NASCAR
  ...4-18}}</ref> NASCAR is the largest sanctioning body of [[stock cars|stock car racing]] in the United States.<ref name="timeline">{{cite web|url=http://ww ===Early stock car racing===
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• Wilhelm Maybach
  ...alist. During the 1890s he was hailed in France, then the world centre for car production, as the "King of constructors". ...ne licenses began to be taken up throughout the world, starting the modern car industry in:
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• Nissan Frontier Review
  ...part of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA’s) New Car Assessment Program (NCAP). A spray-on bed liner and Nissan's Utili-Track cargo security system come factory-installed on Crew Cab and LE King Cab models. Utili-Track includes special
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• Lancia Delta
  The '''Lancia Delta''' is a [[small family car]] produced by Italian automaker [[Lancia]] from 1979 to 1994. It is revived ...rson point of view'''''. This section should include information about the car's '''acceleration figures''', '''handling''', '''braking''', etc.
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• Cadillac Escalade
  ...celebrity ownership, the Escalade has also been proven to be popular with car thieves as well, becoming the most frequently stolen vehicle from 2001-2003 ...smoke, possible fire and malfunctioning of other electronic systems in the car. GM urges owners of affected vehicles to go to their nearest local dealer s
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• Citroën DS
  | [[Mid-size car|Mid-size]] [[luxury car]] / [[Executive car]] ...o the higher standards it set. The smooth, aerodynamic body lines gave the car a futuristic appearance. While it looked very unusual in 1955, public taste
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• Scuderia Ferrari
  ...his is the number of different World Championship races in which a Ferrari car has set the fastest lap time. In both the [[1954 British Grand Prix]] and [ ...eo]] until 1939. Ferrari first competed in F1 in 1948 (the team's first F1 car was the Tipo 125 F1), making it the oldest team left in the championship an
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• Land Rover Defender
  ...ped, being replaced by an engine from Ford's DuraTorq line, built in their factory in Dagenham. The engine chosen was from the ZSD family, being a version of ...rson point of view'''''. This section should include information about the car's '''acceleration figures''', '''handling''', '''braking''', etc.
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• Autogas
  ...actory fitted autogas in some models of their locally made large cars. All factory autogas vehicles are ''dual fuel'' vehicles, with the exception of the ''E- ...one tank, but multiple tanks are used in a some applications. In passenger car applications, the tank is typically either a cylindrical tank mounted in th
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