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• Cadillac Deville
  ...rtation to a bona fide status symbol. "Town Car" was first used by Lincoln in 1922 to describe a one-off vehicle built for Henry Ford. (see http://www.li ...6. Both cars were based on the [[Cadillac Series 62|Series 62]]. Beginning in 1965, DeVille denoted Cadillac's mainstream model, falling between the [[Ca
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• Lancia Aurelia
  ...] [[automobile]]. Designed by [[Vittorio Jano]], the Aurelia was launched in 1950 and production lasted through the summer of 1958. ...]] design, with rear [[semi-trailing arm]]s replaced by a [[de Dion tube]] in the [[#Fourth series|Fourth series]].
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• Buick V8 engine
  ...ace [[Buick Straight-8 engine|its straight-8 engines]]. These engines came in many of the same displacements as those from other divisions, but were enti Buick first generation of V8 lasted from 1953 through 1956. It was an [[Overhead valve|OHV]]/[[pushrod engine]] like the then new [[Ol
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• Alvis Cars
  ...dom from 1919 to 1967. The company also produced aero-engines and military vehicles, the latter continuing long after car production ceased. ...e Alvis as a compound of the words "aluminium" and "vis" (meaning 'strong' in Latin)although de Freville himself vigorously denied this theory. Perhaps t
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• Buick
  ...2004, although GM's Swedish subsidiary, [[Saab]], fills a similar segment in price and prestige level. ...1910VanderbiltCup.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Louis Chevrolet driving a Buick Bug in the 1910 Vanderbilt Cup]]
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• Holden
  ...ian automotive manufacturer with ties to [[General Motors]]. It is an icon in the region. ...formed General Motors–Holden's Ltd. In 1998, it was renamed Holden Ltd and in May 2005, it became known as GM Holden Ltd.
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• Frederick Lanchester
  ...now, part of Imperial College, Kensington. He supplemented his instruction in applied engineering by attending evening classes at Finsbury Technical Scho When he completed his education in 1888, he took a job as a Patent Office draughtsman for £3 a week. About th
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• Lincoln Mark series
  ...|Lincoln's]] 2-door [[Personal luxury car|personal luxury]] [[coupé]] from 1956 to 1998, except for 1980 to 1983 model-years when the Mark VI was also offe ...[Lincoln Continental#1982|smaller Continental]], which became the Mark VII in 1984. The Mark VIII (1993–1998) was the last generation of the Mark and L
  20 KB (3,161 words) - 21:54, 1 April 2010
• Automatic transmission
  ...tomatic transmission|automatic]] transmissions have significantly improved in their ability to support high fuel efficiency but [[manual transmission]]s ...Ford500autotrans.JPG|frame|right|The automatic transmission selector lever in a [[Ford Five Hundred]] car.]]
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• Personal luxury car
  ...th common mechanical components beneath their distinctive exteriors, these vehicles were a lucrative segment of the post-World War II automotive marketplace. ...utomobiles which eschewed both pure luxury and absolute sports performance in favor of a distinctive combination of style, craftsmanship, and power: thes
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• Frederick W. Lanchester
  ...now, part of Imperial College, Kensington. He supplemented his instruction in applied engineering by attending evening classes at Finsbury Technical Scho When he completed his education in 1888, he took a job as a Patent Office draughtsman for £3 a week. About th
  14 KB (2,264 words) - 21:44, 20 August 2009
• MG
  ...ver]] went bankrupt in the spring of 2005. MG cars have resumed production in January 2007 under new owners [[Nanjing Automobile Group]]. ...ver as GM, guiding the company through its best years until his retirement in 1969.
  14 KB (2,221 words) - 01:54, 22 December 2010
• Pontiac
  ...by [[GMC|General Motors]] and sold in the United States from 1926 to 2009. In the GM brand lineup, Pontiac is a mid-level brand featuring a more sporting ..., Michigan to build the Cartercar. Oakland was purchased by General Motors in 1909. The first General Motors Pontiac was conceived as an affordable [[V6|
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• AC
  ...[[automobile]] manufacturer and one of the oldest independent car marques in Britain. ...Edge]], who had been behind [[Napier & Son]], joined the board in 1921 and in 1922 both John Weller and John Portwine left.
  14 KB (2,269 words) - 02:14, 9 December 2010
• Lincoln Continental
  ...ime, the Continental nameplate referred to the four-door Lincoln flagship. In 1981 the Continental's reign as the Lincoln flagship ended when the Town Ca ...ready for Edsel's March 1939 vacation. The design, allegedly sketched out in an hour by Gregorie working from the [[Lincoln-Zephyr|Lincoln Zephyr]] blue
  35 KB (5,074 words) - 20:28, 9 August 2010
• Automatic gearbox
  ...some. In recent years, automatic transmissions have significantly improved in their ability to support high fuel efficiency but [[manual transmission]]s ...ween set gear ratios. Even though CVTs have been used for decades in a few vehicles (e.g. [[Van Doorne's Automobiel Fabriek|DAF]] saloons and the [[Volvo 340]]
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• Disk brake
  ...e. To stop the wheel, friction material in the form of brake pads (mounted in a device called a ''brake caliper'') is forced mechanically, hydraulically ...]] were patented by Frederick William Lanchester in his Birmingham factory in 1902, though it took another half century for his innovation to be widely a
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• Chevrolet Small-Block engine
  |Image = '''place image here in 300 pixels''' ...''' 400 cu in (6.6 L)<br>'''262:''' 262 cu in (4.3 L)<br>'''305:''' 305 cu in (5 L)
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• Lotus
  ...behind the Railway Hotel in Hornsea. Team Lotus was active and competitive in [[Formula One]] racing from 1958 to 1994. Since the 1960s the company has o ...begun life an inn-keeper's son and ended a multi-millionaire industrialist in post-war Britain. The carmaker built tens of thousands of successful racin
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• Land Rover Series
  ...of these vehicles ''ever made'' are still in use today- a claim first made in the 1992 brochure and repeated many times since, being much publicised when ...g &mdash; many body parts are interchangeable between brand-new models and vehicles nearly 30 years old. Differences, however, are significant. The principal d
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