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• Car classification
  Examples of city cars: ...[hatchback]]s and the smallest [[sedan]]s. These vehicles are the smallest cars widely sold in the North American market. They have usually three, four or
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• Fiat Seicento
  ...body, instead of the 5-door [[mini MPV]] look seen on many [[Korea]]n city cars. Like its predecessors, the Cinquecento and [[Fiat 126|Polski Fiat 126]], t ...lear indicator lenses, with the Sporting model getting a restyled bodykit. Cars built from this period also come with an [[anti-lock braking system]]. A '[
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• Carbon fibre
  ...s varies between 2000 and 7000 MPa. The density of carbon fiber is 1750 kg/m³. ...ber yarn is rated by the linear density (weight per unit length = 1 g/1000 m = tex) or by number of filaments per yarn count, in thousands. For example
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• Enrico Nardi
  ...e Miglia]], sharing a [[Fiat 508]] Balilla with J. McCain in 1935 and with M. Trivero in 1936, as well as a [[Lancia Augusta]] Berlina with Vittorio Ma ...lished a workshop in ''Via Vincenzo Lancia'', [[Torino]], building racing cars, prototypes and small-series special designs.
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• Chiribiri
  ...] which flew in July 1912. It was 24 feet (7.3 m) long with a 31 foot (9.4 m)wingspan, weighed 770 lb (350 kg) and flew at 55 mph (90 km/h). But then C ...dexnew.htm Official Chiribiri (clothing) web site with images of Chiribiri cars and film of Nuvolari driving (mostly) Alfa Romeos and Auto Unions].
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• Race car
  ...[[Frank Duryea]] winning in 10 h and 23 min, beating three petrol-fuelled cars and two electric. The first trophy awarded was the [[Vanderbilt Cup]]. ...] saw the radical differentiation of racing vehicles from high-priced road cars, with [[Delage]], [[Auto Union]], [[Mercedes-Benz]], [[Delahaye]] and [[Bug
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• Understeer
  It is common practice among automobile manufacturers to configure production cars deliberately to have a slight linear range understeer by default. If a car ...being used for turning and motor [[torque]]. This is why rear wheel drive cars tend to handle better as the rear wheels' main job is to handle the motor's
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• Horsepower
  ...note the power of early [[20th century]] British [[automobile|cars]]. Many cars took their names from this figure (hence the [[Austin Motor Company|Austin] : 1 PS = 75 [[kilopond|kp]]·m/s = 735.49875 W = 0.9863201652997627 hp (SAE)
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• Phil Hill
  ...business. I don't want to beat anybody, I don't want to be the big hero. I'm a peace-loving man, basically. ...to racing, working as a mechanic on other drivers' cars. Hill began racing cars at an early age, going to [[England]] as a [[Jaguar (car)|Jaguar]] trainee
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• Ferrari 458 Italia
  ...jection]], which is a first for Ferrari mid-rear engine setups in its road cars. ...e ABS has reduced 100–0 km/h (62-0 mph) braking distance to 32.5 m.
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• Lancia Thesis
  ...voured by Lancia. At the 2004 Geneva Motor Show, an extended version (5,49 m) prototype was shown, made by [[Stola S.p.A.]] and named as the "Stola S85" [[Category:Executive cars]]
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• Giotto Bizzarrini
  ...nd handling. The result was the Ferrari 250 GTO, one of the greatest sport cars ever. ...timate in aerodynamics. [[Carroll Shelby]]'s 289 AC [[Shelby Cobra|Cobra]] cars had an advantage on slow tracks, but the GTO achieved a superior top speed
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• Carrozzeria
  ...ns. Others became contract vehicle assemblers, building niche or localized cars for larger companies. *[[Walter M. Murphy Company]]
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• Formula One car
  ...ique to the championship. The current Formula One regulations specify that cars must be constructed by the racing teams themselves. ...ernationale de l'Automobile|FIA]] mandated that as of the 2006 season the cars must be powered by 2.4 litre naturally-aspirated engines in the [[V8 engine
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• Gilco
  ...ri 250|250MM]], [[Ferrari 500|500S]], [[Ferrari 250 GT|250GT]] and some F1 cars). Other car companies followed, including [[Cisitalia]], [[Fiat]], [[Stangu Gilco also construced a very small number of their own cars, and also built chassis' for private customers, mainly in the 750 and 1100
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• Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez
  ...the thin air makes breathing more difficult for both the drivers and their cars. The circuit got its name shortly after it opened when [[Ricardo Rodrígue ...n the 2005 season, with a [[chicane]] on the main straightaway to slow the cars down. They also introduced a curve between the short course and the Ese del
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• Puma Rome
  ...company in addition to producing the Dune Buggy, has also produced sports cars and SUVs, all based on the chassis of the Beetle. She also performed specif ...he also made a dragster and in the subsequent years had produced electric cars such as the PUMA BOXER 90 presented at the Bologna Motor Show.
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• Formula One regulations
  ...every aspect of the car carries size regulations; consequently the various cars tend to be very close to the same size. ...d off by the FIA, known as ''[[parc fermé]]''; they may not do work on the cars, other than routine maintenance, until they are released from ''parc fermé
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• Luigi Colani
  ...e host of futuristic concepts that will have us living in pods and driving cars so flat that leg amputation is the only option." ;1960: World's first kit car in series: 1700 cars, Colani GT
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• Osella
  |Chassis || Osella FA1/M ...One]] car) were optimistic enough to buy that simple untested machine. The cars ran with [[Toyota]] or [[Lancia]] engines in the 1976 [[Germany|German]] an
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