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• Willys
  ...to sort out the mess, and the first to go was the Willys Six. Deemed an engineering disaster, Chrysler had auto engineers Owen Skelton, Carl Breer and Fred Zed ...hrysler car were sold to one [[William C. Durant]], then in the process of building a new, third empire. The plant would build Durant's low priced Star car wh
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• US F1 Team
  Team US F1 set up shop in Charlotte, North Carolina, in a building that at one time housed [[NASCAR]] [[Joe Gibbs]]/Toyota Racing operations. ...ett on USF1's progress|date=2010-01-19 |accessdate=2010-01-21|work=Racecar Engineering|publisher=IPC Media|first=Sam|last=Collins}}</ref>
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• Top Gear Race to the North
  ...R Peppercorn Class A1 locomotives, with appropriate modern day changes for engineering, safety, operational and manufacturing cost reasons. ...icTornadoAward">Now Public, 24 May 2009</ref><ref name="IMechEEHA">IMechE, Engineering Heritage Award</ref>
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• Cylinder block
  ...[[General Motors Corporation|General Motors]] and [[Chrysler]]) have been building since the 1950s: There are '''Small-block''' and '''Big-block''' engines. T ...locks, which can achieve it with fewer compromises in reliability and less engineering effort. A 7.0 L big block, like the [[Chevrolet Big-Block engine#427|427 Ch
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• Packard
  ...improve on the designs of current automobiles. By 1899, the brothers were building vehicles in their native Warren, Ohio. The company, which they called the O ...he public's mind, and in the long run the Six hurt Packard's reputation of building some of America's finest luxury cars. The Six, designated "110" in 1940-41
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• LaSalle
  In an era where automotive brands were somewhat restricted to building a specific car per model year, Sloan surmised that the best way to bridge t ...automobiles essentially followed a set pattern, with design changes set by engineering needs. Ford’s [[Model T]] evolved over its extended run, but ever so sli
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• Chevron
  ...field he excelled. He took an apprenticeship in mechanical and electrical engineering before becoming a mechanic, but he soon fell in with motor racing scene in Bennett soon graduated to building, maintaining and also driving racing cars for himself and other local enthu
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• Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft
  ...tt's factory by fire in 1903 hastened the work and the new ''Art-Nouveau'' building, with a ''jagged-roof'', was brought forward to start production in Decembe ...ed a ''Relief Fund'' (one of the first worker insurance schemes) and began building separator blocks in all its plants.
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• Mugen
  The company has a strong racing heritage as Hirotoshi Honda began building his own racing car, in a workshop at his father's house, shortly before he ...ded by Mugen board member [[Shin Nagaosa]]. Nagaosa was the manager of the engineering division of the company and in recent years has been largely involved with
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• Straight-8 engine
  ...lly won over 1000 races. Like the Duesenbergs, Bugatti got his ideas from building aircraft engines during WWI, and like them, his engine was a high-revving o [[Alfa Romeo]] were the first to react to the engineering problems of the straight-8: in their racing car engines for the [[Alfa Rome
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• Telematics
  ...e looking forward to developing the project and using it as a platform for building relationships and collaborating internationally with other universities and ...will automatically slow also. There are also possibilities that need less engineering effort. A radio beacon could be connected to the brake light, for example.
  19 KB (2,720 words) - 04:31, 22 September 2010
• Sauber
  ...uber [[Petronas]] Engineering'', a company founded for the sole purpose of building these engines, that were nearly identical to the ones used by Ferrari. Saub
  35 KB (4,336 words) - 05:09, 19 February 2007
• Watkins Glen International
  ...e a smaller version of the original street circuit and laid out by several engineering professors from nearby Cornell University. Along with the annual SCCA race, ...or weddings, business meetings, etc. No cause could be determined and the building was a total loss. The loss included irreplaceable, unique original motorsp
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• 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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• Compression ratio
  ...and knock sensors to delay ignition timing, one worldwide manufacturer is building 10.8:1 CR gasoline engines that use 87 MON ([[octane rating]]) fuel. [[Category:Engineering ratios]]
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• Automobile layout
  ...g heavy acceleration, weight is shifted to the back, improving [[traction (engineering)|traction]] at the rear wheels at the expense of the front driving wheels; ...r forward than a comparable rear-wheel drive layout, improving [[traction (engineering)|traction]] and directional stability on wet, snowy, or icy surfaces.<ref n
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• Lotus 16
  ...{{24hLM|1956}} and {{24hLM|1957}}. Also in 1956 Chapman's reputation as an engineering innovator saw him drafted in by the ambitious [[Vanwall]] team to help deve
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• AMC
  Abernethy believed that AMC's reputation of building reliable economical cars could be translated into a new strategy that could ...]]s". Under its familiar body, the Eagle featured some truly revolutionary engineering. The drive train was the world's first true full-time all wheel drive syste
  51 KB (7,794 words) - 06:58, 18 January 2010
• Richard Hammond
  ...ell as presenting ''Brainiac: Science Abuse'' on Sky1, ''Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections'' on BBC Two, ''Should I Worry About...?'' on BBC One and ''Tot ...ng with assistance from nature, help designers today. Episodes include the building of the Airbus A380, Taipei 101 and the Keck Observatory.<ref name="natgeoch
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• Dan Gurney
  In 1962, Gurney and [[Carroll Shelby]] began dreaming of building an American racing car to compete with the best European makes. Shelby conv !rowspan="2"| [[Porsche in Formula One|Porsche System Engineering]]
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