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• Radial engine
  ...cylinder and 150hp 9-cylinder engines are available from Australia's Rotec Engineering. HCI Aviation [http://www.hciaviation.com/] offers the R180 5-cylinder (75h ...radial types. The radial aircraft engines provided greater power to weight ratios and were more reliable than conventional inline vehicle engines available a
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• Citroën CX
  As an engineering innovator, Citroën was constantly running into issues where restrictive U. ...''Athena''' and CX '''Diesel''', '''Super''' and '''Pallas'''. New gearbox ratios for the CX '''Estate''', '''GTi''' and '''Prestige'''. Rear aerodynamic spo
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• Jeep Grand Cherokee
  ...127 parts with its predecessor. The structure was stiffened by [[Porsche]] Engineering for sharper steering and lighter weight. The spare tire was relocated from ...fts, with a different second gear for downshifts. Although five of the six ratios were used, Chrysler decided to call it a "4-speed automatic". In 2001, Chry
  31 KB (4,376 words) - 02:42, 19 December 2010
• Chevrolet Small-Block engine
  ...and are lighter wight, but less powerfull because of the lower compression ratios used. ...son, Chevrolet Engineering Laboratory, dated June 5, 1967 to D.A. Martens, Engineering Department, subject Z-28 Service Pack Power Breakdown states "engine capabl
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• Chevrolet Corvair
  ..., but the Corvair otherwise remained largely carryover with minor trim and engineering changes (self adjusting brakes) from 1962. Significant engineering and safety changes occurred in 1964, while the bodies and models available
  51 KB (7,921 words) - 14:26, 9 December 2010
• General Motors Company
  ...]]. The Vega engine and its die-cast block technology were developed at GM Engineering Staff, long before the program was handed-off to Chevrolet to finish and br ...omotive market is likely to be advantaged by unrealistic currency exchange ratios that have become a structural problem owing to the Chinese government's ext
  30 KB (4,492 words) - 02:35, 11 April 2010
• Pontiac Grand Prix
  ...p;kW) ''[[Pontiac V8 engine#428|428 HO]]''. It was both a marketing and an engineering landmark, being hailed at the time as "an Eldorado for the masses" and also ...325 [[HP|hp]]. Both engines received substantially lower compression ratios (8.4 to 1 for 1971 compared to 10.25 to 1 in 1970) as part of a GM-corporat
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• Internal Combustion Engine
  ...rnal combustion is advantageous, since it can provide high power to weight ratios together with excellent fuel energy-density. These engines have appeared in An engine's quoted capacity can be more a matter of marketing than of engineering. The [[Morris Minor]] 1000, the Morris 1100, and the [[Austin-Healey Sprite
  31 KB (4,688 words) - 09:27, 21 August 2010
• Petroleum electric hybrid vehicle
  ...| title=Godfather of the Hybrid | work=California Institute of Technology: Engineering & Science | url=http://pr.caltech.edu/periodicals/EandS/articles/LXVII3/wou ...rers may move to [[flexible fuel engine]]s, which would increase allowable ratios, but no plans are in place at present.
  48 KB (7,153 words) - 16:31, 25 September 2009
• Toyota Supra
  ...tion, but the L-types were never fitted with such an option. Although gear ratios changed throughout the years all P-types came as standard with a [[limited *In 1994, the MK IV Supra won ''[[Popular Mechanics]]'' "Design & Engineering awards". <ref name="OSS" />
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• Land Rover Defender
  ...at high speeds. A new transfer box will also be fitted, but using the same ratios as before. ...imported by the Australian government in the late 1940s for work on civil engineering projects such as dams and road construction, which brought the vehicle to t
  50 KB (7,786 words) - 08:42, 19 September 2010

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