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• Pickup truck
  ...sheet steel monocoque chassis in the same style as modern passenger cars. Trucks on the other hand usually have a heavy 'C' section rail chassis with a full ...-cylinder engines), ''mid-size'', and ''[[Compact car|compact]]'' (smaller trucks generally equipped with [[Straight-4|inline 4]] engines).
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• HUMMER
  ...bankruptcy, aka the old GM). The original [[Hummer H1]] was based on the military [[High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle]] (HMMWV, or ''Humvee''). Howe ...] once said at the [[Los Angeles Auto Show]] said that the Hummer Brand of trucks will run on Biodiesel. However, this plan never came to fruition.
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• Hummer H3
  ...55''" which underpins the [[Chevrolet Colorado]] and [[GMC Canyon]] pickup trucks. It was designed by GM designer [[Carl Zipfel]]. ...all-new, mid-sized, five-passenger sport utility vehicle that carries the military-inspired design cues and amazing off-road capabilities of the [[Hummer H1]]
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• Alternative Fuel Vehicles
  ...dwide use propane. Cars, pickup trucks, vans, shuttles, trolleys, delivery trucks, school buses and forklifts work well using propane. Vehicles can be equipp Traditionally used by fleets and heavy-duty trucks, a slow shift towards offering natural gas pumps at existing gas stations h
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• Chevrolet Opala
  ...el spinoff. Before this car, Chevrolet only built light trucks and pick-up trucks, so, the Opala was its first passenger car made in Brazil. It was used by the São Paulo Police for many years. The military dictatorship used the Opala for its agents through the 1970s. Its reliabili
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• Amphibious vehicle
  ...omobile|cars]], [[bus]]es, [[truck]]s, [[Recreational vehicle|RVs]], and [[military vehicle]]s, all the way to the very largest hovercraft. Classic landing cra ...e of applications, including recreation, expeditions, search & rescue, and military, leading to a myriad of concepts and variants. In some of them the amphibio
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• GAZ
  * [[GAZ-66]] 4x4 military truck (1964-1998)
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• Virgil Exner
  ...e Exner Sr. had been promoted to drawing advertisements for [[Studebaker]] trucks. They had a second son in 1940, Brian, who tragically fell from a window an ...Loewy Associates]], an industrial design firm where he worked on cars and military vehicles prior to, and during World War II. In 1944, he was fired by Loewy
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• Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft
  ...and marine engines. Later, it expanded into making trucks (1905) and fire trucks (1907). The region became a centre of the automobile industry, and other co ...pplies. In the autumn of 1915, ''DMG'' opened the Sindelfingen factory for military vehicles, aircraft engines, and even entire aircraft. After the war, limite
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• Four Wheel Drive
  ...systems may be described as having a 95%/5% or 90%/10% power split. Light trucks and SUVs tend to use multi-plate clutches under computer control, often wit ...World War I. It was not until "go-anywhere" vehicles were needed for the military that [[Four Wheel Drive|four-wheel drive]] found its place. The Jeep, orig
  20 KB (3,185 words) - 09:16, 19 June 2010
• Colectivo
  ...e amount of trucks and cars, with their output soon rising to 600 units of trucks and also public transportation vehicles. ...], after Argentina's victory in the 1978 FIFA World Cup were forced by the military government to film one of its key stories inside a ''colectivo''.
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• Petroleum electric hybrid vehicle
  ===Automobiles and light trucks=== A number of manufacturers currently produce hybrid automobiles and light trucks, including [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]], [[General Motors Corporation|Gener
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• Land Rover Series
  ...-inch and 109-inch types. These had all-new cloth seats from the [[Leyland Trucks|Leyland]] T-45 Lorry, soundproofing kits, tinted glass and other "soft" opt ...as unique to the model and featured drop-shackle suspension similar to the military series Land-Rovers. 900x16 tyres were a standard feature and these machines
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• Driverless car
  Three US Government funded military efforts known as Demo I (US Army), Demo II (DARPA), and Demo III (US Army), ...ctivity relating to free-ranging off-road cars. Some of these projects are military-oriented.
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• GPS
  ...add a third and fourth civilian signal to the system, as well as advanced military capabilities. * '''Military Applications'''
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• Ford Model A (1927-1931)
  ...as the basis for the [[FAI armoured car|FAI]] and [[BA-20]] [[Armored car (military)|armored car]], which saw significant use as scout vehicles in the early st [[Category:Pickup trucks]]
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• Land Rover Defender
  ...atforms, fire engines, mobile workshops, ambulances and breakdown recovery trucks. ...lace. It is still largely hand assembled, and unlike most modern cars and trucks, all the major body panels and sub-assemblies simply bolt together. A Defe
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• Off-roading
  ...[[Truck]]s are often fitted with these extras by default. Furthermore, the military]usually design their vehicles with off-roading in mind, such as a [[Jeep]] * Jason Aldean Hicktown, has bunch of a trucks/jeeps and cars rolling around in the mud
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• Straight-6 engine
  ...As of 2009, the [[Cummins B Series engine]] used in [[Dodge Ram]] [[pickup trucks]] displaced up to 6.7 L<ref>{{cite web | title = The 2002-2009 Dodge Ram He ...tion. Straight-sixes also continue to be commonly used in medium to large trucks, and [[sport utility vehicle]]s, where engine length is less of a concern.
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• Custom auto
  ...For five years Detroit had basically been in the business of supplying the military. Now all that production capacity was turned to creating a stream of new ca ...d some day exceed the speed of sound on the ground, built from war surplus military aircraft fuel tanks.
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