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• Fiat 1100
  ...re-named the '''1100B''' and popularly known as the "1100 musone" (i. e. "big nose"). After World War II, in 1949, the car was re-introduced with a curvy ...in the car's overall length, and with more careful packaging of the spare wheel (under the floor) and the fuel tank (in the rear wing on the right).
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• Dante Giacosa
  ...ng a transverse [[leaf spring]] and [[wishbone]]s and neat packaging was a big advance, with the engine located over the front wheels and radiator behind ...ve shaft]]s. This is the arrangement we see under the bonnet of most front wheel drive cars today. Other features of the design are not so familiar, such as
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• Capriolo
  ...rm its first heavy bomber squadron in 1918. The Caproni factories used its big productive capacity and tecnology, in other fields, like marine, industrial ...hub is separable at rubber buffer level, so to permit to keep out the rear wheel without to remove the chain.
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• Formula 2
  ...any|Cooper]] to move up to Formula Two, rather than to compete against the big manufacturers of [[Alfa Romeo (Formula One)|Alfa Romeo]] and [[Maserati]]. ...d Prix Engineering Ltd]] and prepared by MotorSport Vision (MSV). The open wheel chassis will be powered by a 1.8L turbocharged Audi engine developed by Mou
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• ASA
  ...lem. [[Ferrari]] marketing did not want to diminish the image for Ferrari big car sales in their largest market in the U.S.A. by selling a much smaller l ...and sway bar---conventional, Ferrari type stuff. But the ASA also had four wheel disc brakes at a time when Ferrari was still hard pressed to put them on hi
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• Bandini 750 sport siluro
  A front precise and stable, big traction and drive, [[center of mass | CG]] aerodynamic efficiency are the * [[Steering]]: a worm wheel and twisted with vibration damper on shaft
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• Champcars
  | category || [[Open wheel car|Open wheel racing]] ...litical situation, along with the absence of many of the top CART drivers, big-name sponsors, and faster CART-spec cars cast a shadow over the race. It wa
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• Indianapolis 500
  ...[[IndyCar]]" class of [[formula racing|formula]], or [[open wheel car|open-wheel]], race cars that have competed in it. It has been broadcast live over radi Although the first race was won by an American driver at the wheel of an American car, European makers such as the [[Italy|Italian]] [[Fiat]]
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• Gilles Villeneuve
  ...to his snowmobiling days: "Every winter, you would reckon on three or four big spills - and I'm talking about being thrown on to the ice at 100 mph. Those ...frenetic style which seemed more like that of a rally driver, Villeneuve's wheel-banging duel with [[René Arnoux]] in the last laps of the [[1979 French Gr
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• European Car of the Year
  ...and reliable, and its ultra-modern hatchback body was the most modern on a big car to be seen on Europe's roads during the 1970s. It sold well in the luxu ...tchback which had been penned by world renowed designer Giugiaro. The four-wheel drive Integrale version would go on to enjoy a long and successful rally ca
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• World Rally Championship
  ...cylinder cars, but feature [[turbocharger]]s, [[anti-lag]] systems, [[four-wheel-drive]], [[sequential gearbox]]es, aerodynamic parts and other enhancements ...ing purposes with immediate success, other manufacturers started their all-wheel-drive projects. Group B regulations were introduced in the [[1982 World Ral
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• Fiat Nuova 500
  ...Lounge and Sport. Customers can choose also between 15 interior trims, 9 wheel options, 19 decals and 12 body colours. There are over 500,000 different pe ...e lighter than the engines they replace, performance will be improved. The big plus about these engines is not the added performance, but the extra fuel e
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• Auto Club Speedway
  ...eedway was opened. In addition to NASCAR, the raceway has also hosted open-wheel events from both [[CART]] and the [[Indy Racing League]]. ...ide of the back strech of the track at a high rate of speed. His blue open wheel car was smashed literally into pieces.
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• Alfa Romeo 8C
  ...the two seater sports cars it was used in the world's first genuine [[Open wheel car|single-seat]] Grand Prix racing car, the [[Alfa Romeo P3|Monoposto 'Tip ...ed the exploit of winning the 1935 German GP at the [[Nürburgring]] at the wheel of a 3.2 Tipo B against the more powerful Mercedes and Auto Union. The bloc
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• Fiat Grande Punto
  ...lightly slower than the Mark 1 GT on a straight line, but was considered a big improvement in handling. ...Punto, the [[Super 2000]] Punto Abarth, was unveiled in 2005. It is [[four-wheel drive]] and powered by a 2.0 L 16 valve engine capable of producing 28
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• Formula One
  ...tor racing|Grand Prix racing]], is the highest class of single-seat [[open-wheel]] [[formula racing|formula]] [[auto racing]]. It consists of a series of ra ...qualifying trim). These cars were and still are the most powerful [[open-wheel]] circuit racing cars ever. To reduce engine power output and thus speeds,
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• ATS
  ...me-molybdenum tubular chassis with a fully independent suspension and four-wheel disc brakes, the resulting car was essentially a thinly veiled racing car, ...s, leading radius arms, coil springs and tubular shock absorbers, and four-wheel Dunlop hydraulic disc brakes, mounted in-board at the rear. Wheelbase: 98.5
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• Fiat Punto
  ...g model). The 1.8 HGT accelerates 0-60 in 8.0 seconds. It was considered a big improvement in handling over the Mark 1 GT. ...Punto, the Super 2000 Punto [[Abarth]], was unveiled in 2005. It is [[four-wheel drive]] and powered by a 2.0 L 16 valve engine capable of producing 28
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• Verona
  ...r tourist sights. By 1308, under the rule of [[Cangrande I della Scala]] (“Big Dog”), Verona dominated all of the [[Veneto]] and was an anti-[[Papal]] s ...n air of harmonious elegance. The huge [[Rose Window]] is decorated as a [[Wheel of Fortune]]. The lintels above the portal have carvings of the months of t
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• Damon Hill
  ...in Formula 3, where he won four races, Hill ascended another tier of open wheel racing by joining Mooncraft in the International [[Formula 3000]] champions In August 2006, Hill was back behind wheel of a single-seater race car, when he took a 600bhp [[Grand Prix Masters]] m
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