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• Straight engine
  ...modern cars. Some manufacturers, notably Acura, Audi, Toyota, VW and Volvo Cars, have also used [[straight-5]] configurations. The General Motors ''GM Atl ...round the same time, fuel consumption became a much more important factor. Cars became smaller and much more space-efficient. The engine bay of a modern sm
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• Rear-wheel drive
  Rear wheel drive has fallen out of favor in passenger cars since the [[1980s]], due in part to higher manufacturing costs, and a perce ...ay also drift, but only with much more difficulty. When front wheel drive cars drift, the driver usually pulls on the emergency brake in order for the bac
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• Demolition Derby
  ...ilized. However, this increased speed, coupled with the fact that compact cars tend to be less crashworthy, makes injuries more frequent. Vehicles from t ...tery]], and occasionally cutting an escape hatch in the roof. To make the cars last longer, they are occasionally pre-bent, [[frames]] notched, rear [[bum
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• Flat-6
  ...ry sports cars, cruising motorcycles, and aircraft than ordinary passenger cars. ...engine luxury sports cars, while Subaru uses it in its [[all-wheel drive]] cars, where the difficulties of fitting the engine between the front wheels are
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• World Touring Car Championship
  |Category || [[Touring car racing|Touring cars]] The first WTCC, which was open to [[Group A]] Touring Cars, was held in [[1987 World Touring Car Championship season|1987]] concurrent
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• Straight-6
  ...-wheel-drive and transverse ("east-west") engine configurations in smaller cars saw that the shorter engine length of the V6 became highly desirable, and t ...dels with straight sixes. BMWs are [[rear wheel drive]], but Volvo builds cars equipped with [[front wheel drive]] and a [[transverse engine|transverse]]
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• Front-wheel drive
  ...h front wheel drive cars date to the early days of the automobile. [[Alvis Cars]] of the [[United Kingdom]] introduced a front wheel drive model in 1928, b ...successful models were the 1934 [[Citroën Traction Avant|Traction Avant]] cars from [[Citroën]] in Europe, and the contemporary [[Cord 810|810]] from [[C
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• Ferrari F2002
  ...weight by as much as 15% and lowering the cars centre of gravity. The new compact design allowed for great advancement in the bodywork and increasing the car ...managed by Ferrari agreeing to aggregate their tyre usuage between the two cars, ensuring that Schumacher used the same total number of tyres as all the ot
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• Fiat 1800/2100
  ...ed that of the [[Peugeot 404]] and [[BMC]]'s [[Austin A55 Cambridge|family cars]] of the same period: all three were designed by [[Pininfarina]] of [[Turin ...d the designation 1500L ''(lunga = long)''. The car shared with its more compact sibling Fiat's four cylinder 1481 cc engine, delivering 72 bhp, which in 19
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• Ferrari Colombo engine
  [[Ferrari]]'s earliest cars used engines designed by [[Gioacchino Colombo]], who had formerly designed The early 166, 195, and 212 cars used Colombo V12s of varying sizes. All shared the same 58.8 mm strok
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• Fiat Tipo
  |Body Styles:||[[FF layout|FF]] [[compact car|compact]] 3 and 5-door [[hatchback]] The Tipo platform spawned five more cars. The first of these was the [[Lancia Dedra]] [[sedan (car)|sedan]] in 1989,
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• Vignale
  ...esigned and built cars, usually low volume variants of the main production cars of these automobile manufacturers. ...er of fresh and original design cues which found their way into production cars for decades to come. As a whole however it was a bit too wild and unbalance
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• W engine
  ...ugatti]]'s [[Bugatti EB 118|EB 118]] and [[Bugatti EB 218|EB 218]] concept cars, but the design was determined to be impractical because of the irregular [ ...kaging, that is, they contain high numbers of cylinders but are relatively compact.
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• Alfa Romeo 156
  ...e Crosswagon Q4 and Sportwagon Q4 (both using the 1.9 L JTD engine). These cars were equipped with a [[Torsen]] four-wheel drive system. *Best Compact Executive 1998 - (What Car - UK)
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• Front wheel drive
  ...cessful models were the [[1934]] [[Citroën Traction Avant|Traction Avant]] cars from [[Citroën]] in Europe, and the contemporary [[Cord 810|810]] from [[C ...of the [[Ford Taurus]] bringing front wheel drive to prominence in midsize cars. By the mid 1980s, most formerly rear wheel drive Japanese models were fro
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• Luxury car
  ...t is somewhat subjective, there are certain guidelines by which the luxury cars are defined. These guidelines include price, design, comfort, and prestige. In addition to being relatively expensive, luxury cars also offer a higher degree of comfort than their mainstream counterparts as
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• Ferrari 275
  12 lightweight '''GTC''' cars had aluminium bodywork. Twelve were constructed in between the end of the ...weight made a difference of over 150 kg compared to the alloy bodied road cars.
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• Torsion beam suspension
  ...re nothing more than crawling under the car with a wrench in hand. In most cars which use this type of suspension, swapping torsion bars for those with a d ...ling dead axle, also sprung by torsion bars. The Czechoslovakian [[Tatra]] cars designed by Professor [[Hans Ledwinka]] in the mid 1930s used all round ind
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• Lancia Fulvia
  |Class:||[[Compact car]] * ''Berlina'' - A compact four-door saloon introduced in 1963 with 1098 cc engine producing 58 b
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• Bremach
  ...d in 1913, that has built over 7.000 aircraft, developed a new [[3-wheel]] compact, reliable delivery vehicle for light weight freight carriage. [[Category: Cars]]
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