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...nterior offering either two seats or [[2_plus_2|2+2]] seating. Through the 1950s [[convertible]] models were sometimes called convertible coupes, but since ...ury the term was applied to various close-coupled automobiles. Through the 1950s many automakers offered several varieties of coupé, including the '''club

...erior offering either two seats or [[2_plus_2|2+2]] seating. Through the [[1950s]] [[convertible]] models were sometimes called convertible coupes, but sinc ...] the term was applied to various close-coupled automobiles. Through the [[1950s]] many automakers offered several varieties of coupé, including the '''clu

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...[[Alexander Graham Bell]] around 1900 and [[Buckminster Fuller]] in the [[1950s]]. Bell's interest was primarily in using them to make rigid frames for nau ...onstruction), but [[monocoque]] car bodies have been more common since the 1950s.

...n]] [[automobile]] design and [[coachbuilder|coachbuilding]] firm in the [[1950s]]. It was founded by Sergio Scaglietti in [[1951]] as an automobile repair ...credited with the "headrest" bump present on most racing Ferraris of the [[1950s]] and [[1960s]], a design at first despised by Enzo but championed by Dino.

...subject to wear and the brakes needed to be adjusted regularly until the [[1950s]] introduction of self adjusting drum brakes. Self adjusting brakes operate ...umstances. For this reason drum brakes have been superseded in most modern automobiles and light trucks with at least front wheel (often now four wheel) [[disc br

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...y customers and few lead to a limited series production. Especially in the 1950s and 1960s this resulted in a wide and varied range of Fiat-based specials b [[Category:1900s automobiles]]

...of road-cars with gull-wing doors are the [[Mercedes-Benz 300SL]] from the 1950s, the [[Bricklin SV-1]] from the 1970s and the [[De Lorean DMC-12]] from the == List of automobiles ==

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...] and [[commercial vehicle]]s. Some competiive success was achieved in the 1950s with the 600 and 750 models. ...ched to using [[Fiat]] mechanicals and chassis for all of its conventional automobiles. Despite offering a full range of model versions based on the '750' (saloon

Although L-head inline 4 and 6 cylinder engines were frequently used for automobiles, tractors, etc., the best known flathead automotive engine is the [[Ford Fl ...r use was the [[Willys Hurricane engine]], used in civilian Jeeps in the [[1950s]] and [[1960s]]. It was replaced by the I-head design.

...rari_250#250_GT_Spider_California_SWB|California]]" name used for the late-1950s Ferrari 250 GT. [[Category:2000s automobiles]]

..., even incorporating styling cues form some of its famous race cars of the 1950s and 1960s such as a double bubble roof line. Prior to its participation in [[Category:1980s automobiles]]

|Products || [[Automobiles]], [[Motorbikes]] [[Isomotos]] were known as expensive, but durable and well-built. In the mid-1950s, he started to develop a miniature car for two persons and front entrance,

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...a major [[italy|Italian]] [[bicycle]] manufacturer, and who also produced automobiles from 1900 to 1939. Edoardo Bianchi started his bicycle manufacturing busin ...hi produced 123 cc and 248 cc ohc single racers, and in the late 1950s released new 248&nvsp;cc and 348&nvsp;cc dohc twins, designed by Colombo an

...akes in framing the passenger compartments of their passenger vehicles. In automobiles, the framing was sheathed in steel which was then covered in colored lacque ..., evolved from trucks and were viewed as Commercial Vehicles, not consumer automobiles. The framing of the early station wagons were left unsheathed because of th

...der of [[DAF Trucks|Van Doorne's Automobiel Fabriek]] (DAF), in the late [[1950s]], specifically to produce an automatic transmission for a small, affordabl ==New automobiles equipped with CVT==

...open wheel racers were built for racing, and the stock cars were ordinary automobiles modified to varying degrees. Stock cars are generally automobiles manufactured by the major automakers with certain modifications as allowed

National agencies which tax automobiles according to displacement and regulatory bodies in [[automobile racing]] va ...e year 1957. Considerable effort went into designing rotary engines in the 1950s and 1960s. They were of particular interest because they were smooth and ve

...ehicles or more specifically road vehicles. This most commonly refers to [[automobiles]] but also refers to [[motorcycle]]s, [[truck]]s, [[bus]]es, [[Coach (vehic ...[[tailfin]] and other aeronautical design references to auto design in the 1950s.

...enault]], [[Citroen]] and [[Volkswagen]], as well as by [[Packard]] in the 1950s. The Packard used torsion bars at both front and rear, and interconnected t Some [[front-wheel drive]] automobiles use a type of torsion bar suspension, usually called a [[Twist-beam rear su

Although L-head inline 4 and 6 cylinder engines were frequently used for automobiles, tractors, etc., the best known '''flathead''' automotive engine is the [[F ...r use was the [[Willys Hurricane engine]], used in civilian Jeeps in the [[1950s]] and [[1960s]]. It was replaced by the I-head design.

Stock cars are generally automobiles manufactured by the major automakers with certain modifications as allowed These cars are modified manufactured automobiles. There is a high degree of variability between classes of modified cars. Th

Although L-head inline 4 and 6 cylinder engines were frequently used for automobiles, tractors, etc., the best known L-head automotive engine is the [[Ford Flat ...r use was the [[Willys Hurricane engine]], used in civilian Jeeps in the [[1950s]] and [[1960s]]. It was replaced by the I-head design.

In the 1950s the race was run sporadically as a non-championship Formula One race, with | [[Automobiles Gonfaronnaises Sportives|AGS]]

the 1950s by self adjusting [[Drum brake#History|''brakes'']].

The company attempted a comeback under [[Roland Bugatti]] in the mid-1950s with the [[MR layout|mid-engined]] [[Bugatti Prototypes#Type 251|Type 251]] ==Bugatti Automobiles SAS==

...s its own [[car engine|motor]]. Most definitions of the term specify that automobiles are designed to run primarily on roads, to have seating for between one and ...f the modern automobile, several other German engineers worked on building automobiles at the same time. In 1886, [[Gottlieb Daimler]] and [[Wilhelm Maybach]] in

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Vehicles that can be considered [[automobiles]] may have been demonstrated as early as 1769, although that date is disput ...1892 to carry two adults. One of the first four-wheeled [[petrol]]-driven automobiles in Britain was built in [[Birmingham]] in 1895 by [[Frederick William Lanch

At the start of the 1950s, Ilario Bandini became a dealer in Italy for [[Alfa Romeo]] and then for [[ ==1950s racing opportunities in the USA==

...d '''Tudor''' : These names were coined by [[Ford Motor Company]] in the [[1950s]] to describe four-door and two-door bodystyles respectively. These terms ;'''[[Landau (car)|Landau]]''' : In automobiles, generally (inaccurately) synonymous with ''landaulet''; also used for a ca

...izers were called "Porsche-type" for many years after this. In the early [[1950s]] only the second-third shift was synchromesh in most cars, requiring only ...not heard in the forward gears. The teeth on the forward gears of consumer automobiles are helically cut. When helical gears rotate, their teeth slide together, w

...in the 1920s, with another two in the 1930s, one in the 1940s, five in the 1950s, five in the 1960s, two in the 1970s, two in the 1980s, and one in the 1990 | {{flagiconFrance}} [[Alpine (car)|Société Automobiles Alpine]]

...ke, Wisconsin|Elkhart Lake]], [[Wisconsin]]. It has hosted races since the 1950s and currently hosts races in the [[Sports Car Club of America|SCCA]] [[Spee ...ty, owing to the post [[World War II]] economy, and the influx of sporting automobiles. The [[Sports Car Club of America]]

'''Lancia Automobiles S.p.A.''' {{IPA|[ˡlantʃa]}} is an [[Italy|Italian]] [[automobile manufact Whilst some models had been imported on a small scale in the 1950s and 1960s, Lancias were officially sold in the [[United States]] from 1975.

...ta|Alfa Romeo 159]] [[supercharger|supercharged]] [[straight-8]] engine of 1950s could produce up to 425 bhp.]] *[[English Racing Automobiles|ERA]] inline-6 1.5 L Compressor

Despite the time spent racing automobiles and producing the 1932 film ''[[Lac aux Dames]]'', the first French "[[talk ...employees, he put his energy into restoring the vineyard and by the early 1950s was once again producing some of the world's best wines.

...ati]], [[Ernesto Maserati]] and [[Mario Maserati]], were all involved with automobiles from the beginning of the 20th century. Alfieri, Bindo and Ernesto built 2 ...r [[Juan-Manuel Fangio]] raced for Maserati for a number of years in the [[1950s]], producing a number of stunning victories including winning the world cha

...influenced Enzo Ferrari's decision to produce a line of racing cars in the 1950s, with V6 and V8 engine designs. History shows that Alfredo Ferrari did not ...ngine; he died on June 30, 1956 at the age of only 24, before his namesake automobiles Fiat Dino and Dino were produced.

...). Drag racing was organised as a sport by [[Wally Parks]] in the early [[1950s]] through the [[NHRA]] (National Hot Rod Association) which is the largest

...). Drag racing was organised as a sport by [[Wally Parks]] in the early [[1950s]] through the [[NHRA]] (National Hot Rod Association) which is the largest

...ic materials whose formation is due to the action of heat. Up until the [[1950s]] or so, the most important of these were the traditional clays, made into ...ating element]]s in, for example, the rear-window defrost circuits of most automobiles.

...t Commercial Vehicles S.p.A. These companies are fully owned by Fiat Group Automobiles S.p.A.{{-}} ...nal coachbuilt custom, Alfa Romeo found itself producing not just sporting automobiles but also railway locomotives, buses, tractors and commercial vans.

There are four major regulatory constraints for automobiles: the European, the British, the Japanese, and the American. The method used Once [[V8]] engines became expected on large American cars in the late [[1950s]], and continuing to the [[oil crisis]] in the [[1970s]], there was an engi

...was formed. Both agencies now create and enforce emission regulations for automobiles, as well as for many other sources. ...Bendix]] introduced the first electronic injection systems starting in the 1950s, and they were quite dissimilar to today's EFI. ([[#Evolution]])

...as braking, parking, etc.). This may have been true in the US in the late 1950s when many of the European imports undersold the Detroit "dinosaurs". It ma * The gaudy 1950s American "full size" "dinosaurs" — responded very slowly to steering

...player in developing motor industries for a number of countries from the 1950s, particularly in [[Eastern Europe]], Spain, [[Egypt]], [[Ethiopia]] and [[T Fiat automobiles have been made in Poland since 1920. In 1932, the [[Polski Fiat|Polskie zak

...[[aeroplane]]s as early as the 1940s, with the first patents filed in the 1950s. Despite the 1970s implementation of airbags in GM cars, many conventional automobiles did not even have them until the mid 1990s.

...a Circuit]] four times between 1938 and 1958. Another notable venue in the 1950s was a road circuit at [[Albert Park and Lake|Albert Park]] in [[Melbourne]] | [[English Racing Automobiles|ERA]]

...scent of "[[turbo lag]]", but demonstrated that turbines could be used for automobiles (see [[Chrysler Turbine engines]]). Also, in late 1990s General Motors made ...enerally have predictable demand for power, but is a challenging issue for automobiles, trucks, and buses

...ut it dropped off dramatically in the United States between 1900 and 1910. Automobiles became the preferred means of transportation. Over the 1920s, bicycles grad ...ported from England, first became popular in the United States in the late 1950s. These comfortable, practical bicycles usually offered generator-powered he

...ltures have been loose-knit social groups such as the [[Cafe racers]] of [[1950s]] Britain, and the [[Mods]] and [[Rockers]] of the [[1960s]]. Others are pu

In the 1950s, Moto Guzzi led the world of [[Grand Prix motorcycle racing]]. With durable ...sight saw Moto Guzzi adapting to a cultural shift away from motorcycles to automobiles. The company focused on popular lightweight mopeds including the Dingo and