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• Gottlieb Daimler
  ...ialist, born in Schorndorf (Kingdom of Württemberg, a federal state of the German Confederation), in what is now the Federal Republic of Germany. He was a pi ...ilt in France and presented to the public in Paris in October 1889 by both engineers. The same year, Daimler's wife, Emma Kunz, died.
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• Dan Gurney
  ...killing a young spectator and instilling in him a longstanding distrust of engineers. The accident also caused him to make a change in his driving style that la ...ke fuel pumps, fuel injection and the oil delivery system. He led the 1967 German GP at the [[Nürburgring]] when a driveshaft failed two laps from the end w
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• Wilhelm Maybach
  ...l.hɛlm ˈmai.bax] (February 9, 1846 – December 29, 1929) was an early German engine designer and industrialist. During the 1890s he was hailed in France ...cles, branded as [[Maybach]]. This continued until the company joined the German war effort in 1940, ceasing automotive production in favour of engines for
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• NSU Ro 80
  The '''NSU Ro80''' was produced by German company [[NSU]] between 1967 and 1977. The Ro80 was a very advanced automob ...than supercars on release in 1967, due to the expense required. The Ro80's engineers worked hard both on the brakes themselves, which were noted by period motor
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• Supercharger Engine
  ...for higher boost levels. British engines were generally able to outperform German ones. ...am White'' 1995: Airlife Publishing Ltd, England and Society of Automotive Engineers, Inc., in the USA. ISBN 1 85310 734 4
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• Car body style
  ...normally glass-windowed) division between the front seats and the rear. In German, the term simply means a [[sedan (car)|sedan]]. ;'''Jeep''' : Russian, Bulgarian, German, Portuguese, Hebrew and Greek term for a [[sport utility vehicle]]. Origina
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• Front wheel drive
  In the German market, premium vehicles developed advanced [[independent suspension]] desi ...and now rear- or all-wheel drive. [[HP|Horsepower]] is increasing and many engineers feel the rear wheel drive layout is better in cases of significant weight t
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• Porsche 997
  ...ts predecessor while the bigger Carrera S mill gets 30 more hp. That's 385 German engineered horses. Connected to all this (and helping improve this automoti ...s been carried over from the 996 GT3 - everything else is new. The Porsche engineers have been meticulous to meet their briefs - for example, the forged pistons
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• Supercharged Engine
  ...for higher boost levels. British engines were generally able to outperform German ones. ...am White'' 1995: Airlife Publishing Ltd, England and Society of Automotive Engineers, Inc., in the USA. ISBN 1 85310 734 4
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• Smart Roadster
  ...o sketch various possible future Smart cars. A small team of designers and engineers within the group realised that the powertrain of the City Coupe was ideal f In 2003 german tuninghouse Brabus created a prototype version of the roadster coupé with
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• Subaru 360
  ...e towards automobiles with [[unibody]] frames. Many of the ideas came from engineers from the former Nakajima Aircraft Company, which became Fuji Heavy Industri
  14 KB (2,039 words) - 00:54, 10 December 2010
• Rotary engine
  ...selector switch to cut out a selected number of cylinders suggesting that German rotaries did as well. ...f the three Seguin brothers, Louis, Laurent and Augustin. They were gifted engineers and the grandsons of famous French engineer Marc Seguin. In 1906 the eldest
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• Porsche 928
  ...car into a newly aware market educated by the world energy crisis. Porsche engineers spent a large period of time developing the rear transaxle, their efforts c ...g exhaust and lightweight body parts. The 1370KG machine raced in the 1994 German GT championship, and was quite competitive, setting lap times faster than s
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• Gasoline direct injection
  ...gasoline injection was used on production aircraft during WWII, with both German ([[Daimler Benz]]) and Soviet ([[KB Khimavtomatika]]) designs. The first au ...>[http://www.accessmylibrary.com/premium/0286/0286-8397410.html "Canadian, German Companies Buy Assets of Waukegan, Ill., Boating Company"], ''St. Louis Post
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• History of the automobile
  ...e as an energy source for cars, was discovered in principle by yet another German, [[Christian Friedrich Schönbein]], in 1838. The battery [[electric car]] ...pment in the UK for most of the rest of the 19th century, as inventors and engineers shifted their efforts to improvements in railway locomotives. The law was
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• Saab 9-3
  ...erformance. The '''9-3 Cabriolet Hirsch Edition''', available only for the German market, squeezes 300 hp and 400Nm of torque from its 2.8 litre V6. It has a *Prestigious Sporting Open Top award, The Institute of Vehicle Engineers (IVehE), Great Britain
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• Sleeve valve
  ...p between the intake and exhaust valve timing usual in modern engines. The German engineer Max Bentele, after studying a British sleeve valve aero engine (pr |location=Warrendale, Pennsylvania |publisher=[[Society of Automotive Engineers|SAE]]
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• Fuel injection
  ...tem to fully optimize all criteria simultaneously. In practice, automotive engineers strive to best satisfy a customer's needs in a competitive manner. The mode ...d an electronic fuel injection system, called D-Jetronic (D for Druck, the German word for pressure), which was first used on the [[Volkswagen Type 4|Volkswa
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• Scuderia Ferrari
  ...usso died at the [[1958 French Grand Prix]] and Collins died at the [[1958 German Grand Prix]]; Hawthorn won the World Championship and announced his retirem ...tees]], Willy Mairesse and [[Ludovico Scarfiotti]]. Surtees won the [[1963 German Grand Prix]], at which Mairesse crashed heavily, rendering him unable to dr
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• Petroleum
  Locating an oil field is the first obstacle to be overcome. Today, petroleum engineers use instruments such as gravimeters and magnetometers in the search for pet ...thod to extract oil from coal. It was known as ''Ersatz'' ("substitute" in German), and accounted for nearly half the total oil used in WWII by Germany. Howe
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