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  • ...ars]] for companies and teams such as [[Subaru]] and [[Aston Martin]]. Its Automotive Technology division based in Warwick provides road car design and engineeri ...unning campaigns for [[Alfa Romeo|Alfa Romeo]], [[Honda]] and [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]].
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  • ...becoming a part of [[Chrysler Europe]] and a brand rather than independent company. In 1978, Chrysler divested its European operations to another French autom ...active in the automotive business in the early 1920s when he met [[Fiat]] founder, [[Giovanni Agnelli]]. They began business together in 1922 with Pigozzi ac
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  • ...ine tuner and parts manufacturer closely associated with the [[Honda Motor Company]]. Despite the family connections, however, Mugen is not, and has never bee The company tunes and races Honda vehicles in the [[Super GT]] championship, and, addit
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  • '''Noble Automotive Ltd.''', more commonly known simply as '''Noble''', is a British [[sportsca Noble is an independent low production British sports car company, which currently produces the M12-GTO3R, [[Noble M400]] and the [[Noble M15
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  • ...ineering Company Ltd''' of Coventry, United Kingdom from 1919 to 1967. The company also produced aero-engines and military vehicles, the latter continuing lon ...ere stationary engines, carburettor bodies and motorscooter. The company's founder T.G. John was approached by Geoffrey de Freville with designs for a 4-cylin
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  • ...eturned to its roots. The luxury coupé was styled by [[Italdesign]], whose founder and head Giorgetto Giugiaro penned, among others, the classic [[Maserati Gh If using information gathered from Road Test articles from a reputable automotive source, then '''''please make sure to cite the quote'''''.
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  • ...uptcy in 1982. Near the end, in a desperate attempt to raise the funds his company needed to survive, John De Lorean was filmed appearing to accept money to t ...a time machine by eccentric scientist Doctor Emmett L. Brown, although the company had ceased to exist before the first movie was made.
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  • ...'''Noble M15''' is a new supercar designed and developed by [[Noble|Noble Automotive]], a high-performance sports car manufacturer based in Leicestershire.The N Noble founder [[Lee Noble]] has been quoted in indicating "the [[Noble M12|M12]] is a gre
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  • '''Active''' or '''adaptive suspension''' is an automotive technology that controls the vertical movement of the wheels via an onboard [[Colin Chapman]] - the inventor and automotive engineer who founded [[Lotus Cars]] and the [[Team Lotus|Lotus]] [[Formula
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  • :''See also [[Battista Farina]], founder of the company, his son [[Sergio Pininfarina]] and grandson [[Andrea Pininfarina]].'' ...ner and builder [[Battista Farina|Battista "Pinin" Farina]] (following the company, his family name became Pininfarina in 1961, as a result of combining his n
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  • {{List of Hudson Models}}The '''Hudson Motor Car Company''' made Hudson and other brand [[automobile]]s in Detroit, Michigan, from 1 ...ho provided the necessary capital. One of the chief "car men" of the early company was Roy Chapin, Sr, a young executive who had worked with [[Ransom E. Olds]
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  • ...ourbon). Agnelli was named after his grandfather [[Giovanni Agnelli]], the founder of the Italian car industry [[Fiat]]. ...family's company worked. Agnelli raised Fiat to become the most important company in Italy, and one of the major car-builders of Europe. He also developed th
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  • Production commenced in February 1937, the month in which the firm's founder died: this was the last of [[Vincenzo Lancia]]'s designs, featuring four p If using information gathered from Road Test articles from a reputable automotive source, then '''''please make sure to cite the quote'''''.
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  • ...it was announced that Aptera was one of the first 30 participants in the [[Automotive X Prize]], where they are considered a front-runner in the alternate class. | url = http://auto.xprize.org/auto/press-release/automotive-x-prize-announces-first-30-teams-in-multimillion-dollar-competition-fo
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  • The original Europa used Lotus founder [[Colin Chapman]]'s steel backbone chassis concept that was first used in t ...signed and built to be an embodiment of Chapman's oft-stated philosophy of automotive design: "Simplify, then add lightness." The 4-wheel independent suspension
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  • ...continued until the company joined the German war effort in 1940, ceasing automotive production in favour of engines for the Panzer and Tiger tanks. ...sler Corporation to become [[DaimlerChrysler_AG|DaimlerChrysler]]. The new company revived the ''[[Maybach]]'' brand name as a luxury make in 2002.
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  • ...g sold on the renowned collector of Stratoses, Christian Hrablek, also the founder-designer of Fenomenon. If using information gathered from Road Test articles from a reputable automotive source, then '''''please make sure to cite the quote'''''.
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  • ...e world's leading finance companies, GMAC Financial Services, which offers automotive, residential and commercial financing and insurance. GM's [[OnStar]] subsid ...th several automakers around the world, including Toyota, Suzuki, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. of China, AVTOVAZ of Russia and Renault SA of France.
    30 KB (4,492 words) - 02:35, 11 April 2010
  • ...small number of gear ratios, such as the 4 to 6 forward ratios in typical automotive transmissions. The E-CVT saw first commercial automotive use in [[Toyota]]'s [[Hybrid Synergy Drive]] system. This system is not a t
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  • ...as founded by [[Bill France Sr.]] in 1947-48. As of 2009, the CEO for the company is [[Brian France]], grandson of the late Bill France Sr.<ref name="buzzle- ...ffame.org/honors/index.php?cmd=view&id=676&type=inductees Induction in the Automotive Hall of Fame], Retrieved April 18, 2009</ref>
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