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- |Class:||[[compact car]] The '''[[Austin Motor Company|Austin]] A40 Farina''' was a [[compact car]] from [[British Motor Corporation]] in the [[1960s]].4 KB (528 words) - 11:58, 8 October 2009
- ...ortly before leaving Zagato, Spada designed one of the most modern looking cars of the era, the [[Alfa Romeo Sprint GT (Veloce)|Alfa Romeo Junior Z]], as w ...], where he designs a strings of [[compact]] and [[Luxury vehicle|luxury]] cars, for [[Fiat]] – the groundbreaking [[Fiat Tipo|Tipo]] and [[Fiat Tempra|T5 KB (670 words) - 16:05, 13 April 2009
- While opinions differ as to the exact definition, most sports cars have two seats and two doors and are designed to provide excellent [[Car ha ...ing quality, but brands such as [[Lamborghini]] which do not race or build cars exclusively for racing are also highly regarded.9 KB (1,403 words) - 11:59, 8 October 2009
- |Body Styles:||[[FF layout|FF]] [[compact car|compact]] 5-door [[hatchback]] & [[station wagon]] The '''Alfa Romeo 33''' was a [[compact car|compact]] car built between by [[Alfa Romeo]] between 1983 and 1994.6 KB (825 words) - 08:59, 22 October 2009
- |[[Compact car|Compact]]||Small family car||C class||[[Ford Focus]] | -||Compact MPV||[[Renault Scénic]]15 KB (2,077 words) - 10:50, 8 October 2009
- ...esigned again for [[1936]]'s [[Lancia Aprilia|Aprilia]]. The first-series cars used a 1352 cc version with a 72 mm bore and 82 mm stroke. A small V4 powered the compact [[1939]] [[Lancia Ardea|Ardea]]. It was a 20° narrow-angle engine displac4 KB (612 words) - 16:37, 13 June 2009
- |Class:||[[Compact car|Compact]] [[Category:Compact cars]]4 KB (608 words) - 16:51, 31 October 2009
- ...[[Mercedes-Benz CLK-Class|CLK]] and [[Mercedes-Benz SLK-Class|SLK]] sports cars, and the [[Mercedes-Benz M-Class|M-Class]] luxury sport utility vehicle. Hi ...ss of design. Sacco felt this was of special importance to Mercedes, whose cars' reputation for longevity meant that their typical life cycle was 20 to 305 KB (735 words) - 10:15, 26 July 2009
- Rear wheel drive has fallen out of favor in passenger cars since the [[1980s]], due in part to higher manufacturing costs, and a perce ...ay also drift, but only with much more difficulty. When front wheel drive cars drift, the driver usually pulls on the emergency brake in order for the bac9 KB (1,331 words) - 08:17, 18 August 2009
- |Body Styles:||[[FF layout|FF]] [[compact car|compact]] 3-door & 5-door [[hatchback]] The '''Alfa Romeo 147''' is a [[compact car|compact]] automobile produced by the [[Italy|Italian]] manufacturer [[Alfa Romeo]]7 KB (1,016 words) - 18:22, 27 October 2009
- ...modern cars. Some manufacturers, notably Acura, Audi, Toyota, VW and Volvo Cars, have also used [[straight-5]] configurations. The General Motors ''GM Atl ...round the same time, fuel consumption became a much more important factor. Cars became smaller and much more space-efficient. The engine bay of a modern sm4 KB (593 words) - 08:50, 8 October 2009
- Rear wheel drive has fallen out of favor in passenger cars since the [[1980s]], due in part to higher manufacturing costs, and a perce ...ay also drift, but only with much more difficulty. When front wheel drive cars drift, the driver usually pulls on the emergency brake in order for the bac9 KB (1,427 words) - 23:37, 20 September 2009
- ...ilized. However, this increased speed, coupled with the fact that compact cars tend to be less crashworthy, makes injuries more frequent. Vehicles from t ...tery]], and occasionally cutting an escape hatch in the roof. To make the cars last longer, they are occasionally pre-bent, [[frames]] notched, rear [[bum10 KB (1,521 words) - 21:32, 26 September 2009
- ...ry sports cars, cruising motorcycles, and aircraft than ordinary passenger cars. ...engine luxury sports cars, while Subaru uses it in its [[all-wheel drive]] cars, where the difficulties of fitting the engine between the front wheels are8 KB (1,221 words) - 12:10, 11 May 2010
- |Category || [[Touring car racing|Touring cars]] The first WTCC, which was open to [[Group A]] Touring Cars, was held in [[1987 World Touring Car Championship season|1987]] concurrent10 KB (1,242 words) - 17:04, 14 March 2009
- ...-wheel-drive and transverse ("east-west") engine configurations in smaller cars saw that the shorter engine length of the V6 became highly desirable, and t ...dels with straight sixes. BMWs are [[rear wheel drive]], but Volvo builds cars equipped with [[front wheel drive]] and a [[transverse engine|transverse]]8 KB (1,196 words) - 20:17, 19 October 2010
- ...h front wheel drive cars date to the early days of the automobile. [[Alvis Cars]] of the [[United Kingdom]] introduced a front wheel drive model in 1928, b ...successful models were the 1934 [[Citroën Traction Avant|Traction Avant]] cars from [[Citroën]] in Europe, and the contemporary [[Cord 810|810]] from [[C12 KB (1,842 words) - 23:38, 7 August 2009
- ...weight by as much as 15% and lowering the cars centre of gravity. The new compact design allowed for great advancement in the bodywork and increasing the car ...managed by Ferrari agreeing to aggregate their tyre usuage between the two cars, ensuring that Schumacher used the same total number of tyres as all the ot6 KB (896 words) - 00:39, 11 April 2011
- ...ed that of the [[Peugeot 404]] and [[BMC]]'s [[Austin A55 Cambridge|family cars]] of the same period: all three were designed by [[Pininfarina]] of [[Turin ...d the designation 1500L ''(lunga = long)''. The car shared with its more compact sibling Fiat's four cylinder 1481 cc engine, delivering 72 bhp, which in 195 KB (592 words) - 22:53, 14 June 2009
- [[Ferrari]]'s earliest cars used engines designed by [[Gioacchino Colombo]], who had formerly designed The early 166, 195, and 212 cars used Colombo V12s of varying sizes. All shared the same 58.8 mm strok7 KB (1,080 words) - 23:07, 7 August 2009