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• Gas turbine
  ...rials that make up the engine to withstand heat and pressure. Considerable engineering goes into keeping the turbine parts cool. Some turbines also try to recover ...tp://www.memagazine.org/supparch/pejun04/yearturb/yearturb.html Mechanical Engineering "Power & Energy," June 2004 - "A Year of Turbulence," Feature Article]</ref
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• De Lorean
  In October 1978, construction of the 6-building, 660,000 square foot (61,000 m²) manufacturing plant began in Northern Ire Unit production was scheduled to begin in 1979, but engineering delays and budget overruns caused the assembly lines to start in early 1981
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• Studebaker
  ...rsonnel carrier. After the cessation of hostilities Studebaker returned to building automobiles that appealed to average Americans and their need for transport
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• Bedford Vehicles
  ...of Bedford and Vauxhall [[petrol engine]]s almost until the marque ceased building trucks and buses. ...ntries still use ageing Bedfords every day, their robust nature and simple engineering endearing them as highly useful vehicles in demanding terrain.
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• Plug-in hybrid
  ...Frank of the University of California at Davis used student teams to begin building operating prototype Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. His work attracted i ...rview) | url=http://www.inoculatedmind.com/?p=81}} have been designing and building working prototypes, the most recent of which is currently being installed i
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• General Motors Company
  ...]]. The Vega engine and its die-cast block technology were developed at GM Engineering Staff, long before the program was handed-off to Chevrolet to finish and br ...ments. In contrast, Ford, GM's primary domestic competitor, has emphasized building more and better passenger cars with attractive styling, features, and quali
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• Land Rover Series
  ...ost-war period and raw materials were strictly rationed to those companies building construction or industrial equipment, or products that could be widely expo ...th heavy-duty suspension and was popular with public utility companies and building contractors.
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• Wankel engine
  ...ough by then, AMC had decided to buy the Wankel engines from GM instead of building them itself. However, GM's engines had not reached production when the Pace ===Engineering===
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• Jeremy Clarkson
  ...Clarkson has produced programmes and books on subjects such as history and engineering. From 1998 to 2000 he also hosted his own chat show, ''Clarkson''. ...number of documentaries focused on non-motoring themes such as history and engineering, although the motoring shows and videos continued. Alongside his stand-alon
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• Chevrolet Corvair
  ..., but the Corvair otherwise remained largely carryover with minor trim and engineering changes (self adjusting brakes) from 1962. Significant engineering and safety changes occurred in 1964, while the bodies and models available
  51 KB (7,921 words) - 14:26, 9 December 2010
• Holden
  :Construction of high feature [[V6]] engine plant building completed at Fishermans Bend - start of production planned for October 2003 ...named after the late America's Cup yacht designer, Ben Lexcen. This badge engineering proved unpopular with buyers, even though rival Ford had been somewhat succ
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• Passenger vehicles in the United States
  ...expanded their operations and the scope of models manufactured in the US, building the Anna engine plant and East Liberty automobile assembly plant, and in 20 :''See [[Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America]] for more detailed description''
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• Motor Racing
  ...evelops other soft skills such as teamwork whilst promoting motorsport and engineering.
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• Land Rover Defender
  ...Projects division also handled specialised military contracts, such as the building of a fleet of 127-inch V8-powered Rapier-missile launchers for the British New methods of building the Defender have made the model profitable again (since the 1990s, the han
  50 KB (7,786 words) - 08:42, 19 September 2010
• Straight-6 engine
  ...sed [[Austin]] straight-six engines in their post WW-2 cars until 1962, re-engineering the [[Austin Sheerline]]'s 4 litre DS range to increase the power output. [ ...popular before World War II in mid-range cars. Most manufacturers started building straight-six engines when cars grew too large for the [[inline-four engine]
  36 KB (5,541 words) - 08:25, 24 May 2010
• Custom auto
  ...one built on the style of those first hot rods. The basic performance and engineering elements of the hotrod came together in these cars: More power, less weight ...rth to a whole host of related cultural phenomena. The stars of custom car building, like Ed Roth and George Barris, became celebrities in the hot rod scene an
  49 KB (8,295 words) - 17:09, 18 April 2010
• Rallying
  ...funded works representation from Adolf Hitler's Germany, keen to prove its engineering and sporting prowess with successful marques like [[Adler]], [[Wanderer]] a ...e makers overcame the rules of FISA (as the FIA was called at the time) by building the requisite number of these models for the road.
  38 KB (5,921 words) - 23:23, 6 July 2010
• Electric motor
  ...ld of force. Professor Poeschel, his teacher, stated that would be akin to building a perpetual motion machine. Tesla would later attain U.S. Patent 0,416,194, ....edu/e-books.php e-book library] of classic texts on mechanical design and engineering.
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