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• Auto Club Speedway
  ...0; background:#808080; color:#fff; border-bottom:1px solid #999;" |[[Image:Auto Club Speedway (formerly California Speedway) - Speedway.png|290px]] ! colspan=2 |'''Auto Club Speedway of Southern California'''
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• Fiat 1300/1500
  |Manufacturer || [[Fiat|Fiat Auto]] ...ily car]]s manufactured by the [[Italy|Italian]] [[automaker]] [[Fiat|Fiat Auto]] from 1961 to 1967, which replaced the [[Fiat 1200]]. The 1300 and 1500 we
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• History of the automobile
  ...on foot waving a red flag and blowing a horn. This effectively killed road auto development in the UK for most of the rest of the 19th century, as inventor ...hydrogen gas]]-fuelled one-cylinder internal combustion engine made a test drive from [[Paris]] to [[Joinville-le-Pont]] in 1860, covering some nine kilomet
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• Fiat Topolino
  In 1955 the mid-size rear wheel drive [[Fiat 600]] was launched by Fiat and that would become the design basis fo *'''India''' [[First (Auto) | First]], the manufacturer began a collaboration with Fiat in 1950 and ma
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• Louis Chiron
  ...nt-Gaudens]] near the city of [[Toulouse]]. From there, Chiron went on to drive a [[Bugatti]] and an [[Alfa Romeo]] to important wins in national Grand Pri Louis Chiron's career came to a end with his retirement in 1938 and auto racing itself a year later with the outbreak of [[World War II]]. When raci
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• René Dreyfus
  ...ice]], [[France]] and showed an early interest in automobiles, learning to drive before the age of nine. The middle of three children, his brother Maurice s ...nstance Chiron, were hired by the German teams and jumped at the chance to drive the most advanced cars available, as a [[Jew]] this option was not availabl
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• Four-wheel-drive
  '''Four wheel drive''', '''4WD''', or '''4x4''' ("four by four") is a four-wheeled [[vehicle]] ..., to varying degrees of engagement while 4WD means only four of the wheels drive the vehicle continuously. AWD can also be thought of as automatic 4WD, havi
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• Fiat Albea
  ...000 Albeas in Russia next year-as part of its joint venture with Severstal auto. [[Category:Front wheel drive vehicles]]
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• Formula Ford
  ...n provide drivers with their first insights into how a racing car feels to drive and how to properly set up a car, or it can provide a relatively inexpensiv {{Class of Auto racing}}
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• Lamborghini Reventón
  ...] [[sports car]] that debuted at the 2007 [[Frankfurt Motor Show|Frankfurt Auto Show]]. It ranks as the most powerful and expensive [[Lamborghini]] road c ...d it is one of the talking points of the Reventón. It displays the dynamic drive forces, longitudinal [[acceleration]] during acceleration and braking, as w
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• Fiat 124 Sport Spider
  ...[[convertible]] made by [[Fiat]], introduced at the November 1966 [[Turin Auto Show]], and manufactured until 1985. Most of the cars were exported to the [[Category:Rear wheel drive vehicles]]
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• Economy car
  ...ely simple. Advances such as [[monocoque]] construction and [[front wheel drive]] would allow progressively more advanced small cars to be produced, such a ...interest in economical cars wax and wane. During this time, the American auto manufacturers would introduce smaller cars of their own, such as the [[Chev
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• Automatic transmission
  [[Oldsmobile]]'s 1940 models featured [[Hydra-Matic]] drive, the first mass-production fully automatic transmissions. Initially an Olds ...ts the transmission from moving forward (although wheels, depending on the drive train, can still spin freely), it is recommended to use the [[hand brake]]
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• Iso Grifo
  That same year [[Bertone]] showed the Grifo A3/L prototype at the Turin Auto Show, while Iso showed off the (partly unfinished) competition version; the ...t gear! Renzo Rivolta also shows a one-off Grifo A3/L Spyder at the Geneva auto show and because this stayed a one-off this particular car is the most soug
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• Fiat 131
  ...nufacturer]] [[Fiat]] from 1974 to 1984. It was exhibited at 1974 [[Turin Auto Show|Turin Motor Show]]. ...iveshaft|propeller shaft]], under the transmission "tunnel", transmits the drive to a solid live rear axle.
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• Lime Rock Park
  '''Lime Rock Park''' is a [[road racing|road course]] [[auto racing]] facility located in [[Lakeville, Connecticut]]. Owned by [[Skip Ba ...te patches in the corners which have made the track even more difficult to drive and more prone to deteriorate. In preparation for the new ALMS date in July
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• Alfa Romeo 159
  ...ral Motors]] facility in [[Rayong]][http://www.bangkokpost.com/midyear2002/auto.html], [[Thailand]] (production in Thailand started March 2002 and lasted c ...oon (car)|saloon]] was discontinued late in 2005 in Europe, the four-wheel drive Q4 Crosswagon was produced to the end of 2007. The 156 was replaced with 15
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• Lancia Beta
  ...ne word, not Monte Carlo, the capital of Monaco). This was a [[rear-wheel drive]] [[mid-engine]]d two-seater sports car that shared very few components wit ...strut]]s all round and disc braking on all four wheels. The [[front wheel drive]] models were available in a number of engine capacities ranging from 1.3&n
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• Hermann Lang
  ...x|Italian]] and [[Spanish Grand Prix]], Hermann Lang was given a chance to drive for the Mercedes team. He proved to be most capable on high-speed racetrack ...poli Grand Prix]] enroute to earning that year's [[European Championship (auto racing)|European Championship]]. He clocked the fastest lap at the [[French
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• Sports Car Club of America
  ...me go on to professional racing careers. The club is also the source for [[Auto race workers|race workers]] in all specialties, without whom racing organiz ...imits are to be obeyed), but of precision and navigation. The object is to drive on time, arriving at checkpoints with the proper amount of elapsed time fro
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• Maserati Coupe
  ...with the Coupé's debut following shortly thereafter at the 2002 [[Detroit Auto Show]]. Sales in the United States began in March 2002 for the Spyder and i ...he driver to choose between four different operating modes: Normal, Sport, Auto and Low Grip. Each of these programs is selected by means of console-mounte
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• Electronic stability control
  ...t also works together with Diamante's electronic controlled suspension and four-wheel steering that Mitsubishi had equipped to improve total handling and perform ESC is described as the most important advance in auto safety since the [[seat belt]] by many experts including Nicole Nason, Admi
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• Formula One regulations
  ...s thirty minutes before the start of a race, during which time drivers may drive around the track as much as they like, driving through the pitlane each tim |[[Image:Auto Racing Green.png|25px|Green flag]]
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• Lancia Flaminia
  ...ransmission|manual]]<br>''[[Saxomat]]'' [[Semi-automatic transmission|semi-auto]] ...'''Florida II''', presented a year later at the [[Salon International de l'Auto]] in [[Geneva]], was a coupé, and became [[Battista Pininfarina|Battista P
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• Luigi Fagioli
  ...and for the 1934 season he was lured away by [[Mercedes-Benz|Mercedes]] to drive one of their [[Silver Arrows]] with the brilliant [[Hermann Lang]] as his c ...t team orders. He left Mercedes at the end of the 1936 season and joined [[Auto Union]] where his rivalry with Caracciola escalated, culminating at the [[
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• Martin Brundle
  '''Martin Brundle''' (born [[June 1]], [[1959]]) is an [[England|English]] [[Auto racing|motor racing]] and former [[Formula One]] driver known chiefly as th ...deal with world champions Williams, but in the end [[Damon Hill]] won the drive instead. Still keen to stay in F1, Brundle found himself racing for [[Ligie
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• Hybrid vehicle drivetrain
  ..., and allowing lower floors, which is useful for buses. Some 8x8 all-wheel drive military vehicles use individual wheel motors. ...the Lexus GS450h. By switching the clutches, the gear ratio from MG2 (the "drive" motor) to the wheel shaft is switched, either for higher torque or higher
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• Vitantonio Liuzzi
  Liuzzi was born in [[Locorotondo]], [[Italy]], and like most auto racing drivers, began his career in [[kart racing]] in [[1991]]. Highlights ...eat to [[Jacques Villeneuve]]. In November, 2004 he was given another test drive, this time with [[Red Bull Racing|Red Bull]]. This led to him joining Red B
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• Marco Andretti
  ...ti''' (born March 13, 1987 in [[Nazareth, Pennsylvania]]) is an American [[auto racing]] driver who drives the #26 car for [[Andretti-Green Racing]] in the ...Speedway]]. Andretti had one of the best cars that night and was able to drive the high line all night, but [[Ryan Hunter-Reay]] and Andretti made contact
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• Covini
  ...evised version debuted at the [[Geneva Motor Show|Salon International de l'Auto]], featuring new wheels, new roof structure and a refreshed interior, and w ...n procedure (dismount and remount four directional tires on opposite side, drive tires are not able to be rotated to front due to size difference).
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• List of microcars by country of origin: U
  |{{flagiconUK}} [[United Kingdom]]||[[Power-Drive]]|| || || || || |{{flagiconUSA}} [[USA]]||[[Auto Cub (1956)|Auto Cub]]||Randall Products, [[Hampton, New Hampshire]]||[[Briggs & Stratton]]
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• Modena (racing team)
  ...the Lambo 291. [[Nicola Larini]] and [[Eric van de Poele]] were signed to drive. Both cars had to face pre-qualifying for the first half of the season and [[Category:Italian auto racing teams]]
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• Dante Giacosa
  ...SU]]/[[Fiat]] in [[Germany]], [[Zastava]] in [[Yugoslavia]] and [[Concord (auto manufacturer)|Concord]] in [[Argentina]]. Over two and a half million were ...[[Austria]] in 1957, with their own boxer air-cooled engine and swing axle drive and suspension. The [[Steyr 650TR]] of 1965 to 1969, was the hottest 500 mo
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• Indy Racing League
  |Sport || [[Auto racing]] ...979 in sports|1979]], who incidently, had broken away from [[United States Auto Club|USAC]]. George blueprinted the IRL as a lower-cost open-wheel alternat
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• Tazio Nuvolari
  ...Flying Mantuan'') or ''Nivola''. He was the 1932 [[European Championship (auto racing)|European Champion]] in [[Grand Prix motor racing]]. Dr [[Ferdinand ...before agreeing to race for them for the 1938 season. Nuvolari remained at Auto Union until Grand Prix racing was put on hiatus by [[World War II]]. The on
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• Bandini formula junior
  ...e differences between different cars, engines had to come necessarily from auto series produced in a large number of units on which they were allowed limit ...he frame by screws, while the engine bonnet, which reaches the seat of the drive, is set with two constraints quick release. Two air-intakes lateral horizon
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• Maserati Quattroporte
  ...was the only Maserati with a [[hydropneumatic]] suspension and front wheel drive. However, the [[1973 oil crisis]] had intervened and demand for such cars d ...lejandro de Tomaso]] and his design staff in 1976. This was a [[rear wheel drive]] car, powered by a large V8 engine. It was important to ''de Tomaso'' that
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• Miller Motorsports Park
  '''Miller Motorsports Park''' is a [[auto racing|auto]], [[Motorcycle racing|motorcycle]] and [[Kart racing|kart]] racing facilit ...iding a wide range of driver training programs including an opportunity to drive one of four [[Ford GT]]'s on course.
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• Isotta-Fraschini
  *Four-wheel power drum brakes ...d to showcase four-wheel braking to the general public at the 1910 [[Paris Auto Salon]] on one of their production [[vehicles]].
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• Drifting (motorsport)
  ...as [[Tazio Nuvolari]] also used an at the limit form of driving called the four-wheel drift[http://www.ddavid.com/formula1/art_of_driving.htm]. It has also featu ...g has evolved into a competitive sport where drivers compete in rear-wheel drive cars to keep their cars sideways as long as possible. At the top levels of
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• Lancia Monte Carlo
  {| style="margin:0 auto;" align=center width=75% id=toc [[Category:Rear wheel drive vehicles]]
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• Fiat 127
  ...in conjunction with the state-of-the-art transverse engine and front wheel drive layout which had been pioneered in the [[Fiat 128]], and also featured a un ...]] film ''[[Gung Ho (film)|Gung Ho]]'', centered on a (fictional) Japanese auto manufacturer reopening a shutdown automobile factory in a fictional western
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• Donington Park
  ...rs were respectively [[Bernd Rosemeyer]] and [[Tazio Nuvolari]], both in [[Auto Union]] 'Silver Arrows'. ...won by the late [[Ayrton Senna]], and was described by [[AtlasF1]] as the 'Drive of the Decade' [http://atlasf1.autosport.com/99/dec15/lupini.html]. There
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• Alfa Romeo 6C
  | Platform || [[FR layout|FR]]/[[Rear-wheel drive|RWD]] ...ptic [[leaf springs]], semi-elliptic [[rear springs]] and [[torque]] tube, four-wheel [[drum brakes]]. Wheelbase: 108"
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• Rallying
  ...modest foothold in car-crazy Europe. Not blind to the growing popularity, auto manufacturers began to support “works” or “factory” cars and someti ...point racing. Which refers to sectors each stage is time by how fast the drive is. You can also find rallies in every month of the year in every climate;
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• Alfa Romeo Giulia
  '''Tipo: 105.25. Right hand drive tipo: 105.29. Motore: 00502.''' ...ing them rare today with a total production of 1000 in right and left hand drive versions. The car was based on the Giulia Sprint GT, with the cabriolet mod
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• Suspension (vehicle)
  ...ubtracting the unsprung, sprung and [[jacking forces]] at each wheel. Some auto racing circles use false terms, or combine things like jacking forces and s ...a ''semi-dependent'' suspension. In this case, jointed axles are used, on drive wheels, but the wheels are connected with a solid member, most often a [[de
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• Formula One car
  ...on the back of the steering wheel. By regulation the cars use [[rear wheel drive]]. A modern F1 clutch is a multi-plate carbon design with a diameter of les ...f the new seamless shift gearbox, which eliminate the split-second loss of drive during a gear change. The ultimate advantage of this is said to be from fiv
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• Lancia Astura
  Abandoned the carrying auto body typical of the Lambda, the Astura (as of the rest the smaller sister A Produced with one pregevole auto body sedan (to 4 lights and 4-5 places or to 6 lights and 6-7 places) reali
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• ASA
  The body of the Mille GT concept car shown at the 1961 Auto Show was commissioned thru [[Bertone]] and designed by [[Giugiaro]] and was ...1200 Fiat with a Pininfarina body.." A little later on, at the 1961 Turin Auto Show, there was a very pretty "Ferrarina" GT sitting on the Bertone stand,
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• Raymond Sommer
  ...The following year, he won the [[24 hours of Le Mans ]], despite having to drive over 20 hours solo after his teammate [[Luigi Chinetti]] retired ill. Duri ...ench [[Bugatti]] team and the German manufacturers [[Mercedes-Benz]] and [[Auto Union]], were the dominant force in GP racing, with Hitler unwilling to see
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• Alfa Romeo P3
  | {{Auto in|104|0}} | Front {{Auto in|55|0}}, Rear {{Auto in|53|0}}
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• Rally
  ...modest foothold in car-crazy Europe. Not blind to the growing popularity, auto manufacturers began to support “works” or “factory” cars and someti ...point racing. Which refers to sectors each stage is time by how fast the drive is. You can also find rallies in every month of the year in every climate;
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• Fiat Nuova 500
  The car is produced at the moment only in [[Tychy]], [[Poland]], by Fiat Auto Poland alongside a sister model, the second generation [[Ford Ka]] due for *AUTO EUROPA 2008
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• Fiat Punto
  ...electa with a [[CVT]]-type automatic gearbox, and the Punto ED (Economical Drive), a 1.1 Punto whose 5-speed gearbox was designed for high fuel efficiency. ...ontinuously variable transmission|CVT]]/[[semi-automatic transmission|semi-auto]] (Speedgear)
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• Car handling
  ...on the conditions. Inducing understeer by applying power in a front wheel drive car is useful via proper use of "[[Left-foot braking]]." In any case, this [[Steering#Four-wheel steering|Four-wheel steering]] has begun to be used on road cars (Some WW II reconnaissance veh
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• Luigi Villoresi
  ...idually in different races. Emilio was so successful that he was signed to drive an [[Alfa Romeo in motorsport|Alfa Romeo]] for [[Scuderia Ferrari]] in the ...9 drivers, from a starting field of 303, in a January 1958 [[Monte Carlo]] auto rally, who completed the first leg of the rigorous touring car event, witho
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• Alfa Romeo Canguro
  |Drive Wheels || RWD ...before final fettling and mechanical work was undertaken at Alfa Romeo’s [[Auto-Delta]] racing department. The 1.570 cc twin cam engines were also later de
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• Tony Stewart
  ...hony Wayne "Tony" Stewart''' (born [[May 20]], [[1971]]), is an [[race car|auto racing]] driver who has won championships in [[Sprint car racing|sprint car ...ter midgets for a handful of years before moving up to the [[United States Auto Club|USAC]] series. Stewart was the USAC rookie of the year in [[1991]], a
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• Automobile
  The term ''automobile'' is derived from Greek ''auto-'' ("self") and Latin ''mobilis'' ("movable"), referring to the fact that i ...tomobile put into production and sold commercially. Bertha Benz's historic drive is celebrated as an annual [[holiday]] in [[Germany]] with rallies of antiq
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• Hatchback
  ...poration]] design) was the 1968 [[Austin Maxi]], a five-speed, front-wheel drive hatchback. The first all-Italian hatchback was the [[Fiat 127]], which went ...e were hatchbacks. The 1980s began with the launch of two more front-wheel drive hatchbacks: the [[Ford Escort]] and [[Lancia Delta]]. More similar cars fol
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• Al Unser
  Al's oldest brother Jerry became the first Unser to drive at the [[Indianapolis Motor Speedway]], qualifying 23rd and finishing 31st ...cord 10 times on oval, road and dirt tracks to capture the [[United States Auto Club]] national championship.
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• Pagani Huayra
  | Layout || Rear mid-engine, rear-wheel drive layout ...elease on January 25, 2011. The official world debut will be at the Geneve Auto Salon 2011 in March.
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• Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano
  ...ft.lbf|448|0}} @ 5600 rpm || 8400 rpm || {{Auto bhp|362|0}} per tonne || {{Auto ft.lbf|265|0}} per tonne The car was unveiled at the 2009 [[Geneva Motor Show|Geneva Auto Show]].
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• Lancia Artena
  Abandoned the carrying auto body typical of the Lambda, the Artena (as of the rest the sister greater A A Artena comes produced with auto body sedan (to 4 lights and 4-5 places or to 6 lights and 6-7 places) from
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• Maserati
  ...cing successes continued, even against the giants of German racing, [[Audi|Auto Union]] and [[Mercedes-Benz|Mercedes]]. In 1939, a [[Maserati 8CTF]] won th ...f squarish, [[Front-engine design|front-engined]], [[rear wheel drive|rear-drive]] [[Coupé|coupes]], cheaper than before but with aggressive performance, l
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• Lancia Zeta
  The Evasion was badged Synergie in the right hand drive markets of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, presumably due t ...ed '''Peugeot 807 Grand Toursime''' at the 2003 [[Salon International de l'Auto|Geneva Motor Show]]. Apart from the exquisite appointment of the 4-passenge
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• Seat belt
  ...in the car's body, and most pretensioners use explosively expanding gas to drive a piston that retracts the belt. Pretensioners also lower the risk of "sub See the page http://auto.howstuffworks.com/seatbelt.htm for more.
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• ATS
  ...chrome-molybdenum tubular chassis with a fully independent suspension and four-wheel disc brakes, the resulting car was essentially a thinly veiled racing car, ...hbones, leading radius arms, coil springs and tubular shock absorbers, and four-wheel Dunlop hydraulic disc brakes, mounted in-board at the rear. Wheelbase: 98.5
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• Automobile self starter
  Chrysler manufactured a gear reduction starter employing a small gear to drive a larger gear attached to the starter's pinion gear shaft. This allowed lo [[Category:Auto parts]]
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• Wankel engine
  ...ed States]] to finish the entire 24 hours of the [[24 Hours of Le Mans]] [[auto racing|race]], in 1974. Mazda is the only team from outside Western Europe ...("Propeller Speed Reduction Unit") which allows the high revving rotary to drive a slower un-ducted propeller.
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• Alfa Romeo 8C
  The '''Alfa Romeo 8C''' name was used on road, [[Auto racing|race]] and [[sports cars]] of the 1930s. The 8C means 8 cylinders, a ...Alfa Romeo 12C| Monoposto 12C]] 36 and 37 could not match the Mercedes and Auto-Union cars.
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• Stanguellini
  ...ton, Wisconsin area. Kiekhaefer was a research driven person, and a fan of auto racing. He heard that Briggs Cunningham had won at Watkins Glen using a Fia ...h terminal cancer, and contacted Sandy MacArthur and asked him if he could drive in his place at Sebring, with Carl Haas.
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• Horsepower
  ...tell where the power reading was taken — at the flywheel, transmission or drive wheels. ...E net hp. The change was meant to 'deflate' power ratings to assuage the [[auto insurance]] industry and environmental and safety lobbies, as well as to ob
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• A1 Grand Prix
  ! colspan=2 |'''[[Auto racing]]''' '''A1 Grand Prix''', abbreviated to '''A1GP''', is an [[open-wheel]] [[auto racing]] series. It is unique in its field in that competitors represent th
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• Triumph-Italia
  ...Vignale produced approximately 329 cars. Most all produced were left-hand drive with the probable exception of six cars. The last run of roughly 35 cars we image:Italiaprototype.jpg|Triumph Italia prototype 1959 Turin Auto Show
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• Infineon Raceway
  |Location || {{flagiconUSA}} 29355 Arnold Drive, [[Sonoma, California]], 95476 ...s each year that are run on road courses. It is also host to several other auto races and [[motorcycle]] races such as the [[American Federation of Motorcy
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• Lancia Augusta
  ...one important factory American of auto bodies, the Budd, that autoportante auto body stops [[a licence]] for one much similar one to that one of the August ...ise to “X)” with box-shielded lateral, to which it comes knit the mounting auto body without.
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• Car body style
  ...[[Sports utility vehicle]]''' (SUV) : Derivative of off-road or four-wheel drive vehicles but with car-like levels of interior comfort and drivability. Also ...acturers in the North American market for their [[station wagon]] models. Auto manufacturers in recent years perceive a stigma attached to the term 'stati
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• Station wagon
  ...x]] introduced the first affordable enclosed automobile, which shifted the auto industry away from open vehicles towards meeting consumer demand for enclos ...tion dethroned the [[rear wheel drive]] layout for efficient [[front wheel drive]] vehicles. Station wagons were the victims of Detroit's downsizing trend a
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• Lancia Stratos
  At the Geneva Auto Show of 2005, a British design firm known as [[Fenomenon]] debuted a retrom [[Category:Rear wheel drive vehicles]]
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• Oran Park Raceway
  '''Oran Park Raceway''' is a [[Auto racing|motor racing]] circuit at [[Narellan, New South Wales|Narellan]] in ...so has a [[motocross]] track, a skidpan, a [[dirt track]] and [[four wheel drive]] course and is used for advanced driver training.
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• Life
  Initially Sir [[Jack Brabham]]'s son [[Gary Brabham]] was signed to drive but when he failed to prequalify twice he left the team for good, in the se [[Category:Italian auto racing teams]]
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• Tire
  Front tires, especially on front wheel drive vehicles, have a tendency to wear out more quickly than rear tires. Routin [[Category:Auto parts]]
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• 24 Hours of Daytona
  ...ather than the shortest time over a fixed distance as in most conventional auto races. ...] has gained a reputation of "checkers or wreckers" after his gallant 2004 drive with a badly stricken car in the lead, while attempting to nurse it to vict
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• Cisitalia
  ...day, including [[Maseratis]], [[Simca-Gordinis]], and [[Enzo Ferrari]]’s [[Auto Avio Construzioni]] (the first Ferrari), Piero Dusio achieved a dream start Partly due to expensive construction of the mid-engine, four wheel drive formula one car, designed by [[Ferdinand Porsche]], Cisitalia went into rec
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• Mika Häkkinen
  ...28, 1968 in [[Vantaa|Helsingin maalaiskunta]]) is a [[Finland|Finnish]] [[auto racing|racing driver]] and two-time [[Formula One]] champion. He was [[Mich ...into the race team later on. In Monaco he returned to racing with a guest drive in the [[Porsche Supercup]] race, an event he dominated. His hopes of stepp
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• List of automotive superlatives
  ** Front-wheel drive: 226&nbsp;kW (307&nbsp;PS/303&nbsp;hp) - [[GM LS engine#LS4|GM LS4]], 2005 ** First front-wheel drive Wankel engine - 1969 [[Mazda Luce|Mazda R130 Luce]] ''(Only FWD rotary vehi
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• Cristiano da Matta
  ...da Matta''' (born [[September 19]], [[1973]]) is a [[Brazil|Brazilian]] [[auto racing]] driver, winner of the American [[Champ Car World Series|CART]] Cha ...For the 2006 Champ Car season, he switched to the [[Dale Coyne Racing]] to drive the No.19 [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]] [[Lola]], until June 9, 2006, when he
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• Fiat Panda
  ...air-cooled 652&nbsp;cc two-cylinder powerplant from the [[Fiat 126]]. The drive for a mechanically simple car was also evident in the rear suspension, whic The Panda [[four-wheel drive|4x4]] was launched in June 1983, it was powered by a 965 cc engine with 48b
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• Ferrari 250 GTO
  The '''Ferrari 250 GTO''' was a [[sports car]] and [[auto racing]] [[automobile|car]] made by [[Ferrari]] in the early [[1960s]]. It ...he time of its introduction it was (depending on choice of gears and final-drive ratio) most likely the straight-line fastest car on any race track; more su
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• Farina
  ...ith rack and pinion steering was designed at ERA (Dunstable) by the famous Auto Union engineer Dr. Robert Eberan-Eberhorst. The two-seater Jupiter was capa ...l with today’s modern traffic. I find the Farina Jupiter a pleasant car to drive and it makes a very good touring car."
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• Grand Prix motor racing
  ...own to the next, to endurance tests for car and driver. Innovation and the drive of competition soon saw speeds exceeding 100 mph, but because the races wer ...l Herald Tribune]]'' in [[Paris]], established the [[Gordon Bennett Cup in Auto Racing|Gordon Bennett Cup]] in [[Europe]], an annual race that attracted in
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• Hybrid vehicles
  ...w Flyer]] and [[Gillig]] hybrid [[Bus|buses]] using [[Allison]]'s electric drive system ...to each wheel, and therefore simplifies [[traction control]], [[all wheel drive]], and similar features.
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• Hungarian Grand Prix
  ...laid out in [[Népliget]], a park in [[Budapest]]. The [[Mercedes-Benz]], [[Auto Union]], and [[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]] teams all sent three cars and the ...[[Arrows]]-[[Yamaha Motor Corporation|Yamaha]] in 1997, when his car lost drive on the last lap causing him to coast in second place.
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• Fiat
  * ''Other services'' Fiat Gesco, KeyG Consulting, Sadi Customs Services, Easy Drive, RM Risk Management and Servizio Titoli are minor companies that work for p ...f its various businesses into autonomous companies, one of them being Fiat Auto. That same year, sales reached an all-time high in the United States, corre
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• Ducati V-twin
  ...und, square, and Mille crankcases. In the 1980s these gave way to the belt drive camshaft engines that have continued to this day, in air and liquid cooled ...k, [[Ducati V-twin motorcycles#Bevel gear driven valves|bevel geared shaft drive camshaft engines]], he had gone from making complex engines to making simpl
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• Pagani Zonda
  | Layout || Rear Mid-engine, Four-wheel drive layout ...e Zonda. It is named [[Pagani Huayra|Huayra]] and will debut at the Geneva Auto Show in 2011. Pagani expects to build no more than 40 each year and each wi
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• Automotive
  http://www.auto-italia.com - Auto Italia - - New, used http://www.autoricambi.us/ - Auto Ricambi - Fiat Parts (USA)
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