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• V8 engine
  ...ive]] sports cars, [[muscle car]]s, [[pony car]]s, luxury cars and [[light trucks]]. The shorter and occasionally narrower [[V6 engine]] is easier to fit in The [[Rover Meteorite]] petrol or diesel V8 was used in trucks and transporters from 1943, and for marine or stationary use.
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• Suspension (vehicle)
  Ancient military engineers used leaf springs in the form of bows to power their siege engine ...semi-elliptical springs used to be common and still are used in heavy-duty trucks and aircraft. They have the advantage that the spring rate can easily be m
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• Plug-in hybrid
  ...chnology has been implemented or proposed in delivery vans, trucks, buses, military vehicles, and other medium- to heavy-duty vehicles. ...ntly building PHEVs based on the [[Mercedes-Benz Sprinter]] [[van]]. Light Trucks are also offered by Micro-Vett SPA<ref>{{cite web | title=Hybrid Daily: Tec
  32 KB (4,593 words) - 03:49, 26 May 2010
• Diesel Vehicles
  ...e of scarcity. Diesel advocates say that if more people drove diesel light trucks and cars, the price would drop dramatically in these areas—and possibly t ...similar to the big V8 gasoline engines popular in the US. Light and heavy trucks, in the U.S., have been diesel-optioned for years.
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• Automobile layout
  ...th a part-time four-wheel drive capability, as typically found in [[pickup trucks]] and other off road vehicles, while the term "all-wheel drive" is used to ...their center point. Such vehicles are controlled in a fashion similar to a military tank.
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• AMC
  ...e DJ-Series postal Jeeps. AMC also expanded its international network. The military and special products business was reconstituted as American Motors General ...had problems with [[AM General]], a significant defense contractor. AMC's military equipment division was actually now managed by a partially French governmen
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• Preston Tucker
  ...sporation manager for a beer distributor, overseeing the fleet of delivery trucks for the company. ...mph (185&nbsp;km/h), far in excess of the design specifications. The U.S. military felt the vehicle was too fast and had already committed to other combat veh
  27 KB (4,351 words) - 07:02, 3 January 2010
• Motor oil
  ...rvice" (originating from spark ignition) (typical passenger cars and light trucks using [[gasoline engine]]s), and '''C''' for "commercial" (originating from ...cause of their lack of sufficient quantities of crude for their (primarily military) needs. A significant factor in its gain in popularity was the ability of s
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