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• Society of Automotive Engineers
  The '''Society of Automotive Engineers''' is a professional organisation and [[standards body]] for the [[engineer Starting out as the ''Society of '''Automobile''' Engineers'' in 1905, their original purpose was to promote the use of standards in th
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• Society of Automotive Engineers
  The '''Society of Automotive Engineers''' is a professional organisation and [[standards body]] for the [[engineer Starting out as the ''Society of '''Automobile''' Engineers'' in 1905, their original purpose was to promote the use of standards in th
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• Giulio Alfieri
  [[Category:Italian engineers|Alfieri, Guido]] [[Category:Automotive engineers|Alfieri, Giulio]]
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• Bundy tube
  .... It may be zinc- or terne- coated for corrosion protection. It is used in automotive [[hydraulic brakes|hydraulic brake lines]] in cars manufactured in the USA A 1969 study by the [[Society of Automotive Engineers|SAE]] recommended the replacement of Bundy tube with 90-10 copper-nickel al
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• Ettore Maserati
  '''Ettore Maserati''' ([[1894]] - [[August 4]] [[1990]]) was an Italian automotive engineer, one of five brothers who founded the [[Maserati]] firm in [[Bolog [[Category:Italian automotive engineers]]
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• Alfieri Maserati
  ...erati''' ([[September 23]] [[1887]] - [[March 3]] [[1932]]) was an Italian automotive engineer, known for establishing and leading the [[Maserati]] racing car ma [[Category:Italian automotive engineers]]
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• Carlo Maserati
  ...Maserati''' ([[Voghera]], [[1881]] - [[1910]]) was an Italian bicycle and automotive engineer, known as one of the [[Maserati Brothers]]. [[Category:Italian automotive engineers]]
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• Sims
  ...er based in [[Turin]] with operations in 1908 through 1909. The mechanical engineers ''[[Merz]]'' and ''[[Stinchi]]'' founded the company and built a model name
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• Harley Earl
  ...ors]] from [[1927]] until [[1959]]. Earl was instrumental in establishing automotive design as its own discipline, and demonstrating the critical place of good ...ll design a long time before mass production decisions have to be taken by engineers. But given the immediate postwar sales boom, his second [[concept car]] was
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• Ernesto Maserati
  ...serati''' ([[August 4]] [[1898]] - [[January 12]] [[1975]]) was an Italian automotive engineer and racer, with [[Maserati]] of [[Modena]] since its inception in [[Category:Italian automotive engineers]]
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• Automobile design
  ...ehicle, though it is also involved in the creation of the product concept. Automotive design is practiced by designers who usually have an art background and a d ...and [[Trim package|trim]] design. [[Graphic design]] is also an aspect of automotive design; this is generally shared amongst the design team as the lead design
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• Miari Giusti
  '''Miari Giusti''' was founded on August 4th, 1896 an Italian automotive manufacturer based in [[Padua]] with operations in 1896 through 1898. The i The company was founded by two young entrepreneurs from [[Veneto]], engineers [[Giacomo Miari]] and [[Francesco Giusti]], and planned to build a car move
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• Ferruccio Lamborghini
  ...val sports car manufacturer near the Ferrari factory, and hired ex-Ferrari engineers Gianpaolo Dallara and Bob Wallace to design and develop the cars. His first ...The "no racing" policy caused some tension between him and his ex-Ferrari engineers, who were all racing enthusiasts. Several of them started to develop a mid-
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• MacPherson strut
  ...give as good handling as A arms (wishbones), perhaps because it allows the engineers less freedom to choose camber change and roll center. The wheel tends to l [[Category:Automotive suspension technologies]]
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• History of the Alfa Race Engine
  ...vely poor country on the automotive map. Here are but four of the greatest engineers to have worked for Alfa Romeo, and who were responsible for the finest and Perhaps the most gifted and prolific of all Alfa Romeo engineers, Vittorio Jano took over after Merosi left the company in 1926, having come
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• Brake-by-wire
  '''[[Drive-by-wire]]''' technology in automotive industry replaces the traditional mechanical and hydraulic [[control system ...e-by-wire technology is still under development by some automotomobile and automotive parts manufacturers industry worldwide and has not been widely commercializ
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• Carcerano
  | Industry || [[Automotive | Automotive]] <br/> [[Industrial Design]] <br/> Communication Founded in [[1999]] by Piero Luigi Carcerano as'' 'Carcerano Automotive and Design Engineering''' is right now a pioneer in the techniques of the [
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• Automobile self starter
  Ford's version was slightly more complicated. The engineers at Ford Motor Company used a "positive engagement" style starter. This typ ...it improved the service life.<!-- These are hardly what we would consider "automotive". Interesting, but it probably doesn't belong in this article --[[User:Hyd
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• Exhaust pipe
  In most production engines, the '''[[manifold (automotive engineering)|manifold]]''' is an assembly designed to collect the exhaust g ...manifold, specifically a manifold designed for performance. During design, engineers create a manifold without regard to weight or cost but instead for optimal
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• Bremach
  ...market and requiring the support of a new wave of high quality designers, engineers and machinery. At the same time a significant manufacturer of military equi ...became pat of the PRO.DE group which has a long and successful history in automotive design and engineering with DARMAK brand.
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• 1952 Bizzarrini 500 Macchinetta
  ...little Topolino seemed the perfect palate for demonstrating his skills in automotive engineering. ...-based automobiles and to the talents of one of Italy's greatest freelance engineers, [[Giotto Bizzarrini]].
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• Hemi engine
  ...turies in mortars and cannon, were introduced on some of the very earliest automotive engines, shortly after proving the concept of internal combustion engines t ...avier than a comparable wedge head per [[Chrysler Corporation|Chrysler's]] engineers, poor low-rpm performance characteristics and difficulty meeting emissions
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• Electronic Stability Control
  ...l, which is the more common term recognized by the [[Society of Automotive Engineers]], although individual motor manufacturers use a range of different marketi *[http://www.contitevesna.com/index2.htm Continental Automotive Systems]
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• CNA
  In [[1923]], [[Carlo Gianini]] and [[Peter hesitation]] were two [[Engineer|engineers]] that graduated and lived in the [[Capital (city)|capital]], in a turbulen The two engineers oppened a small shop in the center of [[Rome]] near the [[Diocletian Baths]
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• Prototype
  ...es and confirm performance prior to starting production of a new product. Engineers use their experience to tailor the prototype according to the specific unkn ...ully working full-scale prototype and the ultimate test of concept, is the engineers' final check for design flaws and allows last-minute improvements to be mad
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• Formula SAE
  ...a [[student design competition]] organized by the [[Society of Automotive Engineers]] (SAE, also known as SAE International). The competition was started back ...orporation|Chrysler]], can have staff interact with more than 1000 student engineers. Working in teams of anywhere between two and 30, these students have prove
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• Blowoff valve
  Society of Automotive Engineers. Turbochargers and Turbocharged Engines. Warrendale, PA, 1979.
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• Straight-4
  ...isplacement rely on the damping effect of their engine mounts. Today, most engineers will make use of [[balance shaft]]s above that limit. A 4-cylinder engine n [[list of automotive superlatives|The smallest]] automobile production straight-4 engine powered
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• Horsepower
  ...sists as a legacy term in many languages, particularly in the [[automobile|automotive]] industry for listing the maximum power of [[internal-combustion engine]]s ...the term "bhp" fell into disuse after the American [[Society of Automotive Engineers]] (SAE) recommended manufacturers use "hp (SAE)" to indicate the power of t
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• Torque
  ...ding the relationship between torque, power and engine speed is vital in [[automotive engineering]], concerned as it is with [[transmission (mechanics)|transmitt Some people (e.g. American automotive engineers) use [[horsepower]] (imperial mechanical) for power, foot-pounds (lbf·ft)
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• Lamborghini Sesto Elemento
  ...ive carbon-fiber technologies are being used here for the first time in an automotive application. As a 100 percent subsidiary of AUDI AG, the Italian carmaker a With the Sesto Elemento, Lamborghini's R&D engineers have put together a groundbreaking package. As a pure and radical concept,
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• Junior
  ...sidered not only the pioneers but the true founding fathers of the Italian automotive industry. ...Cars of Turin, held in 1907, the journalist Marenco is a census of Italian automotive sector and its related companies, estimated at 111, including car manufactu
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• Disc brake
  ...anufactured out of a material called grey iron. SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) maintains a specification for the manufacture of grey iron for various app [[Category:Automotive braking technologies]]
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• Straight-6
  ...to manufacture and physically longer than alternative layouts. [[list of automotive superlatives|The smallest]] production straight-6 was found in the 1927 [[A ...ild many straight sixes, it has recently abandoned the layout and now only engineers V6 engines (they have retained the former for medium duty diesel applicatio
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• Front-wheel drive
  ...drive, and now rear- or all-wheel drive. Horsepower is increasing and many engineers feel the rear wheel drive layout is better in cases of significant weight t [[Category:Automotive technologies]]
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• Bizzarrini
  |Industry || [[Automotive]] '''Bizzarrini S.p.A.''' was an [[Automobile|automotive]] [[manufacturer]] in the 1960s. Founded by former [[Alfa Romeo]], [[Ferra
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• ATS
  '''ATS''' ''(Automobili Turismo e Sport)'' was an [[Italy|Italian]] [[automotive]] constructor and [[racing team]] that operated between [[1963]] and [[1965 ...allenge their former employer. Shortly after leaving Ferrari, the talented engineers formed Automobili Turismo e Sport (ATS) with backing from three rich Italia
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• Aerodynamics
  '''{{further|[[Automotive aerodynamics]]}} ...ilation]], [[Duct (HVAC)|gas piping]], and in [[Internal combustion engine|automotive engines]] where detailed flow patterns strongly affect the performance of t
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• Automobile
  ...credited with the invention of the modern automobile, several other German engineers worked on building automobiles at the same time. In 1886, [[Gottlieb Daimle ...t was then greatly expanded by [[Henry Ford]] in the 1910s. Development of automotive technology was rapid, due in part to the hundreds of small manufacturers co
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• Risk compensation
  ...ollege, London]] 1981'' - published in 1982 by the [[Society of Automotive Engineers]].[http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/~jadams/PDFs/SAE%20seatbelts.pdf] This showed
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• American Le Mans Series
  ...the [[United States Department of Energy]] and the [[Society of Automotive Engineers]] (SAE International) to be recognized as a "Green Racing Series", and is p
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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
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• 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
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• 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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• Alfa Romeo 159
  *Auto 1 Europa 1998 - (Panel of engineers, drivers and journalists from the 11 European magazines headed by [[Auto Bi *European Award for Automotive Design in Belgium 1998
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• Scuderia Ferrari
  ...which forced him to stop on the entrance of pit lane, giving no chance to engineers to repair the car. He started in 16th place on the grid. Massa qualified in ...zeugtechnik AG|BBS]], [[Selex]], [[Sabelt]], [[TRW Automotive Holdings|TRW Automotive]], [[Microsoft]] (note: the sponsors/suppliers information is accurate for
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• Moto Guzzi
  ...followed attributed to DTI using Moto Guzzi financially prioritizing their automotive ventures. '''Engineers:'''
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