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• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
  ...es [[vehicle manufacturer]]s and importers, allows or blocks the import of vehicles and safety-regulated vehicle parts, administers the [[vehicle identificatio ...adopt its (or any other) vehicle safety regulations at that time. However, vehicles meeting the ECE safety standards were legal to import into the United State
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• Chrysler PT Cruiser
  It was designed as a modern interpretation of the [[Chrysler Airflow]] with [[Dodge Neon]] components, *[[Ford Focus]]
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• Amphibious vehicle
  ...lthough they ''are'' part of ''amphibious assault''. Nor are Ground effect vehicles, such as Ekranoplans. The former don't offer any real land transportation a ...ody configurations or other unconventional designs such as screw-propelled vehicles which use auger-like barrels which propel a vehicle through muddy terrain w
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• NSU Ro 80
  ...eveloped semi-automatic transmission was also a new feature, foreshadowing modern sports car transmissions such as Porsche's Tiptronic or Lamborghini's e-Gea ...of only 0.355, the Ro80 was miles ahead of its competition, and even some modern cars struggle to match this figure. Although NSU claimed that the car had b
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• Land Rover Defender
  ...manual/5-speed LT85 manual/5-speed LT77 manual/5-speed R380 manual/6-speed Ford MT82 manual<br>2-speed LT230 permanent 4WD transfer box with lockable cente ...iesel (200Tdi/300Tdi)<br>2.5L I5 Turbo Diesel(Td5)<br>2.4 I4 Turbo Diesel (Ford Tdci)<br>3.5L V8 Petrol<br>3.9L V8 Fuel-Injected Petrol<br>2.8L I6 BMW M52
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• Fuel injection
  ...then converted to mechanical work by the engine based on the gas laws. In modern automotive applications, the fuel metering task is only one of several func ...ers strive to best satisfy a customer's needs in a competitive manner. The modern digital EFI system is far more capable at optimizing these competing object
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• Lincoln MKS
  |Similar = [[Lincoln MKT]]<br>[[Ford Taurus]]<br>[[Volvo S80]] ...icle_id=24002|title=Ford Confirms New Shelby GT and Lincoln MKS Sedan|work=Ford press release|accessdate=August 10|accessyear=2007}}</ref>. It is based on
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• Sports car racing
  ...n all three in the same year, but an error in the [[team orders]] of the [[Ford GT40]] team at Le Mans in 1966 took the win from him, although he finished ...ouring cars]]) and sports cars, whether descended from primarily roadgoing vehicles or developed from pure-bred racing cars came to dominate races such as Le M
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• Nürburgring
  |Events = '''[[FIA]] [[Formula One]]'''<br>[[German Grand Prix]]<br>[[European Grand Prix]]<br> [[Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters|DTM]], [[24 Hours Nürburgr ...motorsport]] complex around the village of Nürburg, Germany. It features a modern [[Formula One|Grand Prix]] race track built in 1984, and a much longer old
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• Diesel Vehicles
  ...e durable and more fuel efficient than their gasoline counterparts. Diesel vehicles are extremely popular in Europe (roughly half of the cars sold are diesel), ...s will no longer have to be redesigned to cope with higher sulfur content. European diesels are both more advanced technologically and much more popular with b
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• Airbag
  [[Ford]] built an experimental fleet of cars with airbags in 1971. Then, GM who h Airbags became common in the 1980s, with [[Chrysler]] and [[Ford]] introducing them in the mid-1980s; the former made them standard equipmen
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• Battery electric vehicle
  '''Battery electric vehicles''' or '''BEV'''s are [[electric vehicle]]s whose main energy storage is in ...mes used, forming a type of [[hybrid vehicle]]. Batteries used in electric vehicles include "flooded" lead-acid, absorbed glass mat, NiCd, nickel metal hydride
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• Citroën CX
  The CX was voted [[European Car of the Year]] in 1975. It is considered by some enthusiasts as the last ...ive U.S. design legislation criminalized new technology: items that define modern automobile design today, like mineral oil brake fluid, aerodynamic headligh
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• Rallying
  ...nterest and entries from leading manufacturers. Prizes were awarded to the vehicles by a jury based on the reports of the observers who rode in each car; the j ...nt led directly to a period of city-to-city road races in France and other European countries, which introduced many of the features found in later rallies: in
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• Mercury Cougar
  ...rd Mustang|Mustang]], but later versions of the Cougar were based on the [[Ford Thunderbird|Thunderbird]], and the last was a version of the [[Mercury Myst | [[Ford Mustang]]
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• Holden
  ...d Trinidad and Tobago. Holden has offered a reasonably full range of other vehicles, some locally produced but others sourced from various other parts of the G :Opens Woodville, South Australia - most modern production line in Australia
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• Alpine
  ...e World Rally championship outright, beating [[Porsche]], [[Lancia]] and [[Ford]]. During all of this time, production of the [[Alpine A110|A110]] increase ...op a replacement for the [[Alpine A110|A110]] and launch the car just when European petrol prices leapt through the roof.
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• Manual Transmission
  ...ly used for starting from a standstill. This procedure is common in racing vehicles and most production motorcycles. ...cing' the gears to alter speed is not damaging, and the selector method on modern motorcycles (pedal operated) is not conducive to having the long shift time
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• General Motors Company
  ...ancing, easy monthly payments allowed far more people to buy GM cars—while Ford was moralistically opposed to credit. During the 1920s and 1930s, General M ...s for its Ontario plants, and last fall it awarded C$100 million to [[Ford|Ford Motor Co.]] to expand their Canadian auto production, provide jobs and cont
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• Citroën DS
  | [[Mercedes-Benz W111|Mercedes-Benz 220SEb]]<br>[[Ford Zephyr]]<br>[[Rover P6]] ...in 1955, public tastes appear to have caught up with the DS in the post-[[Ford Taurus]]/[[Audi 100]] era.
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