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• Pagani Huayra
  ...The front and rear CrMo subframes offer an exceptional rigidity-to-weight ratio to allowing the suspensions to work at their best while incorporating an ad
  17 KB (2,787 words) - 18:29, 10 March 2011
• Villa
  ...y drive gear, multi-disc clutch and four-speed gearbox. With a compression ratio of 11:1, power was around 12 bhp at 10,000 rpm. The frame, except for a few ...ystem, water for the cylinders and air to the cylinder head, a compression ratio of 11.5:1 and a power output of 48 bhp at 11,500 rpm. The 250 had a front-m
  18 KB (2,834 words) - 02:16, 30 January 2011
• Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano
  !Compression Ratio !Power to Weight Ratio
  24 KB (3,460 words) - 15:04, 28 September 2010
• Lamborghini Diablo
  ...ium Roadster", wore the newest VT roadster body and shared its final drive ratio but was otherwise a standard, rear-wheel-drive Diablo, lacking the VT's all
  13 KB (2,003 words) - 21:53, 2 June 2010
• Pagani Zonda
  ...[[Enzo Ferrari (car)|Enzo Ferrari]], comparatively, has a power to weight ratio of 483 bhp/[[ton]] (356 W/kg).
  25 KB (3,614 words) - 10:48, 27 January 2011
• Fibreglass
  Glass fibers are useful because of their high ratio of surface area to weight. However, the increased surface makes them much
  11 KB (1,713 words) - 11:45, 8 October 2009
• Lancia Kappa
  ...this engine, called '''Power Drive''' and '''Comfort Drive''', with [[gear ratio]]s optimized towards the former or the latter, respectively
  8 KB (1,121 words) - 10:49, 18 October 2009
• California II
  ...by pushrods, rockers, screw-type adjusters, 1064cc, 92 x 80mm, Compression ratio: 9.5:1, Weber fuel injection with 2 40mm throttle bodies, Lubrication: wet ...d; Displacement: 1064CC, 90� V-twin; Bore/Stroke: 92mm x 80mm; Compression Ratio: 9.5 : 1; Max. H.P: 77 @ 6400 RPM; Max. Torque: 70 ft/lbs. @ 5000 RPM; Valv
  17 KB (2,259 words) - 08:42, 8 October 2009
• Dardo IFV
  | pw ratio || 24.5 hp/tonne
  5 KB (730 words) - 22:43, 8 March 2009
• Car handling
  ...ion at the limit of adhesion depends on the road surface, so with the same ratio of front to back braking force, a car will understeer under braking on slic ...transmission of road forces back to the steering wheel and the [[steering ratio]] of turns of the steering wheel to turns of the road wheels affect control
  36 KB (5,845 words) - 08:04, 8 October 2009
• Alfa Romeo 1750
  ...ited to the four-cylinder motor due to baulky shifting and ill-chosen gear ratio. Because of this, its fuel consumption was frighteningly high and accelerat
  6 KB (797 words) - 12:34, 26 April 2010
• Automatic transmission
  ...ic transmission''' is an [[automobile]] [[gearbox]] that can change [[gear ratio]]s automatically as the vehicle moves, thus freeing the driver from having ...trolling the operation of the planetary gearset to select the optimum gear ratio for the current operating conditions. However, in many modern automatic tra
  18 KB (2,740 words) - 23:27, 3 July 2009
• Kart racing
  ...4.5 seconds, and has a top speed of 75mph. It has a better power to weight ratio than a Ferrari F50. A kart like this can be driven by race licence holders ...and higher in the groove of the one pulley, and gradually making the gear ratio bigger.
  17 KB (2,621 words) - 12:06, 8 October 2009
• Lamborghini Gallardo
  ...ny to be an entirely new model, with 520 hp (388 kW) and a lower-ratio six-speed transmission. The soft top is fully [[convertible|retractable]].
  13 KB (1,997 words) - 09:02, 23 April 2010
• Sprint car racing
  Sprint cars have a high [[power-to-weight ratio]] making sprint car racing exciting with speeds in excess of 140 miles per
  6 KB (957 words) - 20:11, 1 August 2009
• Four-cylinder
  ...ther two reciprocating types have to. In addition, its greater [[expansion ratio]] also means more of the heat from its combustion phase is utilized than is ...nburnt hydrocarbons depending on the operating conditions and the fuel/air ratio.
  22 KB (3,344 words) - 22:07, 11 August 2009
• Sprint car
  ...ing on short dirt or paved tracks. Sprint cars have a high power-to-weight ratio making sprint car racing exciting with speeds in excess of 140 MPH on some
  6 KB (971 words) - 10:30, 15 June 2009
• Alfa Romeo 1900
  ...with more powerful 100 bhp engine, it had bigger valves, compression ratio was higher and it had double carburetor. Two years later was introduced '''
  11 KB (1,578 words) - 10:50, 4 October 2012
• Maserati 4CLT/50
  ...of a more powerful supercharger and a small increase in the [[compression ratio]]. Following customary Maserati practice, the engine was mounted into a cha ...ter this, to counteract the resulting loss in performance, the compression ratio was more than doubled and capacity was upped to the class limit of 2.0L. Wi
  15 KB (2,073 words) - 10:18, 16 April 2009
• Hub gear
  ...require a wider range of gears with smaller individual steps between each ratio). Hub gear systems have in the past also been used on [[motorcycle]]s, alt
  4 KB (700 words) - 16:21, 13 June 2009

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