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• Citroën DS
  ...'' (also known as '''Déesse''', or ''Goddess'', after the punning initials in French) was an [[automobile]] produced by the French manufacturer [[Citroë ...d very unusual in 1955, public tastes appear to have caught up with the DS in the post-[[Ford Taurus]]/[[Audi 100]] era.
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• Mercury Sable
  ...manufactured at the Chicago Assembly Plant in Illinois. It was also built in Atlanta, Georgia until Friday April 29, 2005 when production stopped. ...further refined the car. The Mercury Sable station wagon ended production in late 2004. And the last Sable sedan rolled off the line on Friday April 29,
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• Continuously Variable Transmission
  ...rained to a small number of gear ratios, such as the 4 to 6 forward ratios in typical automotive transmissions. ...he sudden jerks and will reject a perfectly smooth transmission as lacking in apparent power.
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• Fuel injection
  ...is then converted to mechanical work by the engine based on the gas laws. In modern automotive applications, the fuel metering task is only one of sever ...table difference is that a carburetor performs several important functions in one single component: it measures engine load, calculates the amount of fue
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• Pontiac Grand Prix
  ...ize]] offering, slotting below the large [[Pontiac Bonneville|Bonneville]] in the company's lineup. ...d-model year 2006, the Grand Prix is Pontiac's largest automotive offering in production, superceeding the recently cancelled [[Pontiac Bonneville]] prog
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• Cadillac Seville
  ...automotive paradigm of "bigger equals better" was no longer in full effect in the marketplace. ...ille was to be simultaneously the smallest and the most expensive Cadillac in the line-up, turning Cadillac's traditional marketing and pricing strategy
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• Wilhelm Maybach
  ...y German engine designer and industrialist. During the 1890s he was hailed in France, then the world centre for car production, as the "King of construct ...ycle, motorboat and, after Daimler's death, to a new automobile introduced in late 1902, the ''Mercedes'' model, built to the specifications of [[Emil Je
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• Indianapolis 500
  ...1965 to 1985, and then with live flag-to-flag coverage beginning in 1986. In May 2006, the race celebrated its 90^th running and 61<sup>st</su ...nsidered Harroun to be a hazard during the race, as he was the only driver in the race driving without a riding mechanic, who checked the oil pressure an
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• Buick Regal
  |Length = 107.8 in (2738 mm) |Width = 73.1 in (1857 mm)
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• Land Rover Defender
  ...he original utility [[Land Rover]] [[Land Rover Series|Series I]] launched in 1948. Using the basic yet robust underpinnings of a ladder frame [[chassis] ...rt a metallic black livery with subtle satin black decals and is available in 90 soft-top and 90 station wagon versions. The front fascia is facelifted w
  50 KB (7,786 words) - 08:42, 19 September 2010
• Jeep Grand Cherokee
  ...division of [[DaimlerChrysler]]. European Grand Cherokees are manufactured in Austria by Magna Steyr. ...inum wheels, unique Black Olive burl real wood trim in an interior swathed in saddle-color Nappa leather, Berber floor mats with Black and Chestnut accen
  31 KB (4,376 words) - 02:42, 19 December 2010
• V8 engine
  ...)|cylinder]]s mounted on the [[crankcase]] in two banks of four cylinders, in most cases set at a right angle to each other but sometimes at a narrower a ...kshaft with heavy counterweights to eliminate the vibrations. This results in an engine which is smoother than a [[V6 engine|V6]], while being considerab
  50 KB (7,583 words) - 13:02, 24 May 2010
• AMC
  ...r Corporation]], which discontinued the use of AMC and Renault brand names in the United States. The [[Jeep]] line was continued, as well as some of the ...'s CEO, [[A.E. Barit]] was retained as a consultant and given a Board seat in the new company, and Nash's [[George W. Mason]] was made President and CEO
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• Toronto Transit Commission
  ...subways, and rapid transit lines in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Established in 1954, the TTC has grown to comprise three subway lines and an elevated rapi ...s were made through this service daily. The TTC employed 11,861 personnel in 2008.<ref name="personnel">{{cite web|url=http://www.toronto.ca/ttc/pdf/ope
  50 KB (7,905 words) - 14:45, 22 June 2010
• List of automotive superlatives
  ...''fastest'', ''lightest'', ''best-selling'', and so on. They vary greatly in size, [[engine displacement]], power, price, and many other traits. ...o automobiles built after World War II, and lists superlatives for earlier vehicles separately. The list is also limited to production road cars that:
  39 KB (4,958 words) - 07:11, 22 June 2010
• Toyota Supra
  ...r ''Supra''.<ref name="OSS">{{cite web|url=http://www.toyota.com/html/shop/vehicles/supra.html|work=Toyota.com|title=Official Toyota Supra Web Site|accessdate= ...name="OSS"/> and in 2002 Toyota officially stopped production of the Supra in Japan.
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• Mercury Cougar
  ...leading big cats on leashes were a feature of Cougar and Mercury ads back in their 1970s heyday. ...000 Mustang sales in less than 3 years, Mercury desperately wanted to cash in on some of the action - hence the Cougar. Mercury successfully combined ma
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• Corporate Average Fuel Economy
  ...AFE''') are regulations in the United States, first enacted by US Congress in 1975,<ref>{{cite web ...rating]] (GVWR) of 8,500 pounds (3,856 kg) or less, manufactured for sale in the US.
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• Nürburgring
  ...toughest, most dangerous, and most demanding purpose-built racing circuit in the world. ...: the 28.265 km (17.563 mi)-long ''Gesamtstrecke'' ("Whole Course"), which in turn consisted of the 22.810 km (14.173 mi) ''[[Nordschleife]]'' ("Northern
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• Wankel engine
  ...ide of an oval-like epitrochoid-shaped housing and a rotor that is similar in shape to a Reuleaux triangle. This design delivers smooth high-rpm power, f ...NSU Motorenwerke AG]] (NSU) before completing a working, running prototype in 1957. NSU then subsequently licenced the concept to other companies across
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