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• Hybrid vehicle drivetrain
  ...ion engine and the transmission, replacing both the conventional [[starter motor]] and the [[alternator]]. To store power, a hybrid uses a large battery pac ...In some cases, the combustion engine is the dominant portion; the electric motor turns on only when a boost is needed. Others can run with just the electric
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• List of microcars by country of origin: U
  |{{flagiconUK}} [[United Kingdom]]||Allard Clipper||[[Allard]] Motor Co [[Private company limited by shares|Ltd]], [[Clapham]] ||[[Villiers Eng ...|[[Battery Manufacturing Association]], [[Hove]], [[Sussex]] ||[[electric motor]] 1.5 kW| ||2 ||1952-1957 ||
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• Engine tuning
  ...cars built by hobbyists never compete but are rather built for display at motor shows or the simple pleasure of owning and driving such a car. In this cont ...sually achieved by a differently profiled camshaft. See also [[Four-stroke cycle#Valve Timing]], [[variable valve timing]].
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• Grand Prix motorcycle racing
  ...whether the engine was a [[two stroke cycle|two-stroke]] or [[four stroke cycle|four-stroke]]. Consequently, all machines were two-strokes, due to the grea ...ct surface. Because of this difficulty, MotoGP is perhaps unique in modern motor sport in that teams will often deliberately detune their engines to allow t
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• Hand brake
  ...r actuated parking brakes. However, a decision was made late in the design cycle to broaden the cars' possible purchasing appeal by offering them with bench ...the transmission into gear. Worse still, many North American-market [[Ford Motor Company]] cars from the late [[1960s]] had a flaw in which, when the steeri
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• Dirt track racing
  ...Australia and Canada also. Many of the cars may also race on [[Short track motor racing|asphalt short tracks]] during the racing season. *[[International Motor Contest Association|IMCA]] (International Motor Contest Association)
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• Straight-5
  ...er|turbocharged]]. It has also recently found an application in the [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]] [[Ford Focus#Focus ST|Focus ST]]. [[Volkswagen]] has used st ...considering ''power strokes'' and their frequency. A [[Four-stroke_cycle|4-cycle]] engine fires all its cylinders in every 720 degrees — the crankshaf
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• Garelli
  In [[1912]] [[Adalberto Garelli]] patented a [[two-stroke cycle]] cylinder sdoppiato. This engine, 350cc motorcycle equipaggerà the protot ...] the Garelli will be acquired by [[Agrati]] company that already produced motor scooter "Capri".
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• Ducati Supermono
  [[Image:Supermonomotor.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Supermono motor]] *Single cylinder, [[Four-stroke cycle|four stroke]], liquid cooled, fuel injected
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• Wankel engine
  [[Image:Wankel Cycle anim en.gif|right|thumb|The Wankel cycle. The "A" marks one of the three apexes of the rotor. The "B" marks the ecce ...l engine, the four [[stroke (disambiguation)|strokes]] of a typical [[Otto cycle]] engine are arranged sequentially around an [[Oval (geometry)|oval]], unli
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• Napier Deltic
  ...p a committee to develop a high-power, lightweight [[diesel engine]] for [[Motor Torpedo Boat]]. Hitherto in the [[Royal Navy]], such boats had been driven ...haust port lead and inlet port lag. These engines are called '[[Two-stroke cycle#Uniflow|uniflow]]' designs because the flow of gas into and out of the cyli
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• V8
  ...use the 90° angle as well, but with more complex cranks to even the firing cycle. ...d/Yamaha V8]] used in the [[Ford Taurus]] ''SHO''. It was based on [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]]'s [[Ford Duratec engine#Duratec 25|Duratec V6]] and shares t
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• Bugatti Veyron
  ...he 1999 '''EB 18/4 "Veyron"''' [[concept car]]. Introduced at the [[Tokyo Motor Show]], it was similar in design and appearance to the final Veyron product ...[[Ferdinand Piëch]], announced the production Veyron at the 2001 [[Geneva Motor Show]]. It was promised to be the fastest, most-powerful, and most-expensi
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• Auto rickshaw
  ...desh]] and [[Sri Lanka]] and is popular in many other countries. It is a [[motor]]ized version of the traditional [[rickshaw]], a small two- or three-wheele ...tos'' are generally fitted with a [[motorcycle]] version of a [[Two-stroke cycle|two-stroke engine]] with a handlebar for control (again like motorcycles) i
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• Motocross
  *[[Yamaha Motor Corporation|Yamaha]] ([[Japan]]) ...ross sidecars are purpose built frames that resemble an ordinary motocross-cycle with a flat platform to stand on attached to either side and a handlebar at
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• Mondonico
  ...But the family knows that they were always mad about bicycles, cycling and cycle racing. The pictures of Binda and Girardengo in the opening credits of OLN' ...azing requires that the tubes be heated twice, robbing the special, exotic cycle tubes of some of their special qualities. When the tubes are assembled on t
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• Kart racing
  ...pelled by enthusiasts) or '''karting''' is a variant of [[open-wheeler]] [[motor sport]] with simple, small four-wheeled vehicles called '''karts''', '''go- === Motor and fuel ===
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• VR6 engine
  ...comes from a combination of [[V engine]] ([[German language|German]]: ''V-Motor'') and the German word "Reihenmotor" ([[straight engine]]). The combination ...went on sale with a revised version of the 3.2 L VR6 as its top-spec motor. For North America, the Passat received a new 3.6 L VR6 with a narrowe
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• Automobile emissions control
  ...controls have been highly successful in reducing the emissions produced by motor vehicles in terms of quantity per distance travelled. However, substantial Since 1966, the first [[Emission test cycle|emission test cycle]] was enacted in the State of California measuring tailpipe emissions in PP
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• Motorcycle Trials
  ...e of 3 is earned, as long as the section is completed without stalling the motor, dismounting, going out of bounds or going backward. If the competitor fail * [http://www.doublefive.co.uk Doublefive Kent Motor Club (UK)]
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