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• Veritas
  With a virtual disappearance from motor racing and automotive engineering for nearly 50 years, a small company known as Vermot AG <ref>{{cite web |ur
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• Frederick W. Lanchester
  ...glish polymath and engineer who made important contributions to automotive engineering, aerodynamics and co-invented the field of operations research. ...f Imperial College, Kensington. He supplemented his instruction in applied engineering by attending evening classes at Finsbury Technical School. Unfortunately, h
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• Connecting rod
  In modern [[automobile|automotive]] [[internal combustion engine]]s, the connecting rods are most usually mad ....edu/e-books.php e-book library] of classic texts on mechanical design and engineering.
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• Carburetor
  ...essfully commercialized in the early 1970s, is now the preferred method of automotive fuel delivery. The majority of motorcycles still are carburated due to lowe ...g in the late 1930s, downdraft carburetors were the most popular type for automotive use in the United States. In Europe, the sidedraft carburettors replaced do
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• Compression ratio
  ...engine will usually not be much higher than 10:1, although some production automotive engines built for high-performance from 1955-1972 had compression ratios as ...epend on cam (i.e. valve) timing. Generally, cylinder pressure for common automotive designs should at least equal 10 [[bar (unit)|bar]], or, roughly estimated
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• Epicyclic gearing
  The planetary gearbox arrangement is an engineering design that offers many advantages over traditional gearbox arrangements. O [[Category:Automotive transmission technologies]]
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• De Tomaso Pantera
  ...ere made internally, including the use of a factory [[Manifold (automotive engineering)|exhaust header]].
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• History of the automobile
  ...bile can be divided into a number of eras based on the prevalent method of automotive propulsion during that time. Later periods were defined by trends in exteri ...nal combustion engine]] that constitutes the most prevalent form of modern automotive propulsion is a creation of German inventor [[Nikolaus Otto]]. The similar
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• California Air Resources Board
  ...onal and science fields such as medicine, chemistry, physics, meteorology, engineering, business, and law. Others represent the pollution control agencies of r ...[[SUV]]s and [[pickup truck]]s sold in California in model year 2009. The automotive industry has sued, claiming this is simply a way to impose gas mileage stan
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• Lotus Europa
  ...ept originated during 1963 with drawings by Ron Hickman, director of Lotus Engineering (Designer of the original Lotus Elan, as well as inventor of the Black and ...signed and built to be an embodiment of Chapman's oft-stated philosophy of automotive design: "Simplify, then add lightness." The 4-wheel independent suspension
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• Lancia Montecarlo
  If using information gathered from Road Test articles from a reputable automotive source, then '''''please make sure to cite the quote'''''. ...s or door beams, crumple zones were in the infancy stages for the marque's engineering facility at Pininfarina during the 1970's. The Montecarlo / Scorpion vehicl
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• Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca
  ===Automotive=== ...o compare real life versus video games, [[Jeremy Clarkson]] of the British automotive show ''[[Top Gear (current format)|Top Gear]]'' attempted to beat his Gran
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• List of 24 Hours of Le Mans winners
  | {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} [[John Wyer]] Automotive Engineering | {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} [[John Wyer]] Automotive Engineering
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• Daimler Motor Company
  ...was used for their luxury models. It is now a subsidiary of the [[Premier Automotive Group]], making it part of [[Ford]]. ...ing Sir Bernard 6 to 3, and he promptly made [[Edward Turner]] head of the automotive division. This then included [[Ariel|Ariel]], Triumph , and BSA motorcycles
  14 KB (2,176 words) - 08:39, 11 December 2010
• Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche
  ...pent long time at workshops where he began to learn early about mechanical engineering. Also, they used to tour around Europe and the United States of America whe ...bile engineering. In 1930, he was taking additional lessons of physics and engineering. However, he never joined to any university formally .
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• Volkswagen Brasilia
  ..., economical and larger than the Beetle as well as utilize reliable German engineering. ...in a third-person point of view'''''. If using criticisms from a reputable automotive source, then '''''please make sure to cite the quote'''''.
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• List of Formula One constructors
  |align="left"| [[Alta Car and Engineering Company|Alta]] ...[[Hersham and Walton Motors|HWM]], [[Cooper (car)|Cooper]] and [[Connaught Engineering|Connaught]].</ref>
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• Statesman
  '''Statesman''' was an automotive marque created by [[Holden|General Motors Holden]] (GMH), the Australian su ...', which involved a minor cosmetic facelift. However, it had a significant engineering upgrade, along with the rest of the GMH range, involving the adoption of Ra
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• List of supercars
  *[[Edonis|B Engineering Edonis]] ...ow. Ran by Nick Tomkinson, the Australian company's first venture into the automotive industry was the construction of Lamborghini Countach replicas. They clearl
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• Ground effect in cars
  ...am shortly after and the idea was not taken further. Robin Herd at [[March Engineering]], on a suggestion from Wright, used a similar concept on the 1970 March Fo *[[Automotive aerodynamics]]
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