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• Brass Era car
  ...that there were well over 1,000 manufacturers in the [[List of automobile manufacturers#United States|U.S. alone]]. The gold-tone trim which is occasionally added to modern luxury [[sedan]]s is a reference back to autodom's great Age of Brass.
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• City car
  ...]], and nowadays they are a proper [[car classification]]. Most mainstream manufacturers have one or even two city cars in their lineup, so the competition is fierc ...from their workplace. In these cases, a city car may be [[battery electric vehicle|battery electric powered]]; in some locations, electric recharging is provi
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• Luxury car
  ..., a light truck (light [[pickup trucks]]), or a [[sport utility vehicle]]. Luxury vehicles place more emphasis on comfort, appearance, and amenities than on ...e:Wood-Luxury-Car.jpg|thumb|250px|Woodgrain trim is one of the most iconic luxury car attributes]]
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• Carrozzeria
  ...build the wooden and metal bodies of vehicles was so specialized that most manufacturers procured contracts with existing coachbuilders to produce bodies for their ...e practice of custom coachbuilding gained favor among the rich. Some ultra-luxury vehicles sold as chassis only. For instance, when [[Duesenberg]] introduced
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• Iveco
  |Products || [[Commercial vehicle]]s, [[Diesel]] engines ...e'''hicle '''Co'''rporation, an alliance among European commercial vehicle manufacturers such as [[Fiat]] (including [[Officine Meccaniche|OM]] and [[Lancia|Lancia
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• Four-wheel drive
  [[Image:Jeep Wrangler TJ.jpg|thumb|right|224px|The [[Jeep Wrangler]] is a 4WD vehicle with a transfer case to select low range or high range 4WD.]] ...ine]] simultaneously. While many people associate the term with [[off-road vehicle]]s, powering all four wheels provides better control on slick ice and is an
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• Straight-6
  Many manufacturers build cars equipped with straight six engines. Manufacturers [[BMW]] and [[Volvo]] both produce multiple models with straight sixes. BM [[BMW]], on the other hand, is one of the few remaining manufacturers to persist with the I6 configuration, making [[petrol]] and [[turbocharger|
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• Car body style
  ;'''[[MPV]]''' : Multi-purpose vehicle, a large car or small bus designed to be used on and off-road and easily co ;'''[[Sports utility vehicle]]''' (SUV) : Derivative of off-road or four-wheel drive vehicles but with c
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• All wheel drive
  [[Image:Jeep Wrangler TJ.jpg|thumb|right|224px|The [[Jeep Wrangler]] is a 4WD vehicle with a transfer case to select low range or high range 4WD.]] ...ll wheel drive''', and '''AWD''' are terms used to describe a four-wheeled vehicle with a drivetrain that allows all four [[wheel]]s to receive power from the
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• Automatic transmission
  ...omobile]] [[gearbox]] that can change [[gear ratio]]s automatically as the vehicle moves, thus freeing the driver from having to shift gears [[manual transmis ...baru Justy]]), the technology has recently gained greater acceptance among manufacturers and customers.
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• Isotta-Fraschini
  ...was know as "The Aristocrat of Automobiles." This was the Italian supreme luxury marque from Milan which only the most elite could own. Today Isotta-Fraschi ...of its founders, [[Cesare Isotta]] and [[Oreste Fraschini]]. This high-end luxury car marque was established as Fabbrica Automobili Isotta-Fraschini. Prior t
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• Autobianchi
  ...ion, but rather to focus on [[bicycle]]s, [[motorcycle]]s and [[commercial vehicle]]s. ...eted as a "second vehicle in the household", and a luxurious "recreational vehicle", also being targeted at affluent middle-class women, it mirrored the incre
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• History of the automobile
  ...n [[Redruth]], and in 1801 [[Richard Trevithick]] was running a full-sized vehicle on the road in [[Camborne]]. ...he USA but was also the first [[amphibious vehicle]], as his steam-powered vehicle was able to travel on [[wheel]]s on land and via a [[paddle wheel]] in the
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• Station wagon
  ...; the "sportwagon" name has been popularised again in recent years by some manufacturers. ...nguished from a [[minivan]] ([[multi-purpose vehicle]]) or [[sport utility vehicle]] by still being a car, sharing its forward bodywork with other cars in a m
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• V8
  ...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 ...With the recent exceptions of the [[Dodge Viper]]'s [[V10]] and the [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]] large truck engine of the same arrangement, there are practi
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• Electronic stability control
  ...until control is regained. Electronic stability control does not improve a vehicle's cornering performance; rather it helps to minimize a loss of control. Th ...intended line through a corner; an onboard [[computer]] monitored several vehicle operating parameters through various sensors. When too much [[throttle]] ha
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• Fully-automatic transmission
  Recently manufacturers have begun to make '''[[continuously variable transmission]]s''' available. ...anual transmissions. In most cars (except US family, luxury, sport-utility vehicle, and minivan models) they have usually been extra-cost options for this rea
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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 ==Vehicle overview==
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• Castagna
  ...ages, finished with fanatical attention to detail, secretly believing that luxury must be built slowly and with passion: in detail. ...fference lies in the detail, the quality of assembly and the finish, every vehicle produced is meticulously inspected by him before being shipped or delivered
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• Four-wheel-drive
  ...px|The Italian built [[Laforza]] for the US and European markets was a 4WD vehicle with a transfer case to select low range or high range 4WD.]] ...vehicle]] category. While many people associate the term with [[off-road vehicle]]s, powering all four wheels provides better control on many surfaces, and
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