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• Lamborghini
  ...at would rival Ferrari's designs. He called upon the talents of automobile engineers [[Giotto Bizzarrini]] and [[Gian Paolo Dallara]], designer [[Franco Scaglio ...ning share in Automobili Lamborghini to Swissman René Leimer, and left the automotive industry, retiring to a gentleman farmer's life on a [[vineyard]].
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• Electronic stability control
  [[BMW]], working with [[Robert Bosch GmbH]] and [[Continental Automotive Systems]], developed a system to reduce engine torque to prevent loss of co ...40|W140 S-Class]] model. That same year [[BMW]], supplied by Bosch and ITT Automotive (later Continental) and [[Volvo]] began offering ESC on some of their model
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• Cisitalia
  ...y produced and Cisitalia was derived as the marque. Dusio enticed [[Fiat]] engineers [[Dante Giocosa]] and [[Giovanni Savonuzzi]] to join him in the fledgling o ...ew York's [[Museum of Modern Art]] in 1951. In the MOMA's first exhibit on automotive design, called "Eight Automobiles", the Cisitalia was displayed with seven
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• Supercharger
  ...am White'' 1995: Airlife Publishing Ltd, England and Society of Automotive Engineers, Inc., in the USA. ISBN 1 85310 734 4
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• Ceirano GB & C
  ...o the consortium of [[Fiat]] Trucks. In 1931, Giovanni gave up on starting automotive companies, including the skepticism of many who expected his umpteenth resu ..., and was designed by [[Aristide Faccioli]], one of the most brilliant car engineers at the time. The car was equipped with two horizontal cylinders, transmissi
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• Four-cylinder
  ...kinson cycle|Atkinson]] and [[Miller cycle|Miller]] cycles. Most truck and automotive Diesel engines use a four-stroke cycle, but with a compression heating igni ...The Middle Ages of the Internal combustion Engine'', Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), 1999
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• Isetta
  ...cided he would like to build a small car for mass consumption. By 1952 the engineers [[Ermenegildo Preti]] and [[Pierluigi Raggi]] had designed a small car that ...rcycle [[carburettor]]. In addition to further changes of detail, the BMW engineers enlarged the sump for installation in the car and cooled the engine by mean
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• History of the automobile
  ...marked the introduction of gasoline-fuelled internal combustion engines. [[Automotive]] history is generally divided into a number of [[era]]s based on the major ...pment in the UK for most of the rest of the 19th century, as inventors and engineers shifted their efforts to improvements in [[railway]] [[locomotive]]s. The l
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• Airbag
  The American inventor [[Allen Breed]] then developed a key component for automotive use - the ball-in-tube sensor for crash detection. He marketed this innovat In 1990, the first automotive fatality attributed to an airbag was reported, with deaths peaking in 1997
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• Car handling
  ...ity is considered to help handling. At least it simplifies the suspension engineers work. ...ne front suspension tends to give better handling, because it provides the engineers more freedom to choose the geometry, and more road holding, because the cam
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• Lancia Beta
  ...ackaging, but also, by tilting the engine 20 degrees rearwards, the Lancia engineers achieved improved weight transfer over the driven wheels and towards the ce The Lancia engineers made changes to the engines fitted to the Beta range. These included a besp
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• Suspension (vehicle)
  Leaf springs have been around since the Early Egyptians. War engineers used leaf springs, to little success, on catapults. The use of leaf springs ...ust include Anti-Roll Bar Wheel Rates. Many "very knowledgable, well paid" engineers have made the error of calculating the Anti-Roll Bar's Spring Rate incorrec
  29 KB (4,645 words) - 10:46, 8 October 2009
• Motor oil
  The [[Society of Automotive Engineers]], usually abbreviated as '''SAE''', has established a numerical code syste ...motor oils were formulated and commercially applied for the first time in automotive applications. Improving the efficiency of lubricants, synthetic lubricants
  19 KB (3,054 words) - 08:52, 8 October 2009
• Fuel injection
  ...a means of metering fuel into an [[internal combustion engine]]. In modern automotive applications, fuel metering is one of several functions performed by an "en ...tem to fully optimize all criteria simultaneously. In practice, automotive engineers strive to best satisfy a customer's needs competitively. The modern [[digit
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• Isotta-Fraschini
  ...endeavors with Isotta-Fraschini, would become one of the greatest Italian engineers of all time. An attempt by Isotta-Fraschini to re-enter the automotive market after the war, the 8C Monterosa, launched in 1947, used an unconvent
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• Internal combustion engine
  ...kinson cycle|Atkinson]] and [[Miller cycle|Miller]] cycles. Most truck and automotive Diesel engines use a four-stroke cycle, but with a compression heating igni ...th an engine tender refilling these as needed. As engines were adapted for automotive and aircraft use, the need for a high power to weight ratio lead to increas
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• Lancia Augusta
  ...sion, with substitution of the shocks-absorber to dry with those hydraulic engineers; modifications are recorded also to calender (hour to badge) and the mudgua ...of the Augusta is recorded in the late spring of 1934, to massacring [[the automotive Turn of Italy]] (defined also, in homage to the fascist government, Goblet
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• Pagani Huayra
  ...Huayra merges the past, present and future in a timeless interpretation of automotive art. The styling of the car was perfected over the course of 5 years to fin ...veloped the bespoke P Zero tires, specifically for the Huayra. The Pirelli engineers were faced with a demanding task, combining road holding for excitement beh
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• Hybrid vehicle drivetrain
  ..., a hybrid uses a large battery pack with a higher voltage than the normal automotive 12 volts. Accessories such as power steering and air conditioning are power ...LA]] mechanical and aerospace engineering professor, is collaborating with engineers from Ford to get Pneumatic hybrid technology up and running. The system is
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• Hybrid vehicles
  Automotive hybrid technology became successful in the 1990s when the [[Honda Insight]] ...large battery pack is required, providing a higher voltage than the normal automotive 12 volts. Accessories such as power steering and air conditioning are power
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