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• Four-wheel drive
  ...Subaru Impreza]]), whereas 4WD is used for vehicles designed primarily for heavy off-road use, normally with a low range transfer case (e.g. a [[Toyota Land ...n differentials generally work very well, though they can be expensive and heavy.
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• Steering
  ...rapping around the inside of the rim). This effect is even stronger with a heavy vehicle like a truck; recirculating ball steering prevents this degree of f [[image:frontloaderko.jpg|thumb|right|A front [[loader (equipment)|loader]] with articulated steering.]]
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• Straight-6
  ...various industrial applications. These range from various types of [[heavy equipment]] to [[power generation]]. As with everyday passenger vehicles, the smooth
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• Hydropneumatic suspension
  ...a conventional power steering pump, hydropneumatic suspension adds no new equipment and in many cases results in a lower unsprung mass. ...ne to improve roll stiffness and thus roll stability limit, especially for heavy vehicles.
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• Diesel engine
  ...ufacturer [[Denso Corporation]], developed the Common Rail Fuel System for Heavy Duty Vehicles and finally turned into its first practical use on their ECD- ...essive [[vibration]]. The [[inline-6]] is the most prolific in medium- to heavy-duty engines, though the [[V8]] and [[straight-4]] are also common.
  33 KB (5,114 words) - 23:11, 23 September 2009
• Electric car
  ...borhood electric vehicle]]s. Working electric vehicles include heavy work equipment, [[fork lift]]s, and numerous other service and support vehicles. Strictly
  9 KB (1,323 words) - 08:15, 8 October 2009
• Continuously variable transmission
  ...[[lawn mower]]s, [[garden tractor]]s and some [[Hydraulic machinery|heavy equipment]].
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• Officine Meccaniche
  ...Società Anonima Officine Meccaniche" manufactured materials rail and other heavy engineering products. On October 1, 1917 OM took over the automaker Züst, ...cia]] and [[Milan]]. This creates three sectors: buses and trucks, railway equipment, agricultural tractors, forklifts and marine engines, motor pumps and refri
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• Ship
  ...passengers etc. which when added to the weight of the ship's structure and equipment, will bring the vessel down to her designed waterline. ...or many years had an inferior power-to-space ratio. About this period too, heavy [[fuel oil]] came into more general use and began to replace [[coal]] as th
  19 KB (3,038 words) - 23:49, 7 August 2009
• Tire manufacturing
  ...r wire spools that are fed into the calender. Calenders utilize downstream equipment for shearing and splicing calendered components. ...el-cut. Belts are spliced end to end with no overlap. Splices that are too heavy or non-symmetrical will generate defects in force variation, balance, or bu
  14 KB (2,137 words) - 09:56, 12 December 2009
• Ceramic
  ...n some semiconducting ceramic materials, mostly mixtures of [[heavy metals|heavy metal]] [[titanate]]s. The critical transition temperature can be adjusted ...on in the ceramic leads to cracks, which can lead to potentially dangerous equipment failure. Such engines are possible in laboratory settings, but mass-produc
  17 KB (2,553 words) - 18:50, 19 July 2009
• Tre Spade
  ...irties the two brothers identified the brother Bertoldo, who meanwhile was heavy debate in difficulty, and in 1938 the company becomes FACEM, manufacture Ar ...ea so treacherous to be the great company with great strengths and capital equipment production, while it was destined to fail handicraft production, small fami
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• Lamborghini Diablo
  Even at over $200,000, the vehicle was fairly sparse in terms of equipment, featuring only basic radio functions (with optional CD playback) along wit ...manufacturing business. The car went without most of the Diablo's standard equipment, meaning that it was devoid of a radio, air-conditioning or sound deadening
  13 KB (2,003 words) - 21:53, 2 June 2010
• Fiat Stilo
  ...|fuel economy]] was also seen as poor for its class, a result of the car's heavy weight and the transmission, which used very long gear ratios. Another poin As the Stilo model range has aged, the amount of equipment from the options list has now been lessened. The Stilo was originally offer
  8 KB (1,259 words) - 20:31, 27 October 2009
• Supercar
  ...eur track use rather than racing alone, and because of this their standard equipment often does not include roll cages and other features required for [[race ca ...lb/hp). Certain vehicles have a high power-to-weight ratio despite their heavy weight, due to a very powerful engine. For example, the Bugatti Veyron carr
  9 KB (1,324 words) - 13:26, 8 October 2009
• Four-cylinder
  ....jpg|thumb|150px|Early internal-combustion engines were used to power farm equipment.]] ...r and requires extensive insulation, whilst gaseous hydrogen requires very heavy tankage. While hydrogen is light and therefore has a higher specific energy
  22 KB (3,344 words) - 22:07, 11 August 2009
• Turbo-Hydramatic
  ...THM350 had been in developement longer(disputable), it often failed under heavy torque or stress. ...g with the 1979 model year, vehicles which had the THM200/200C as standard equipment were optioned with the THM250-C, actually a THM350 without the intermediate
  14 KB (2,205 words) - 17:10, 11 May 2009
• Suspension (vehicle)
  ...ride height or its location in the suspension stroke. Vehicles which carry heavy loads will often have heavier than desired springs to compensate for the ad ...ld also be uncomfortably bumpy. However, even though we say they both have heavy springs, the actual spring rates for a 2000lb race car and a 10,000lb truck
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• Gasoline
  *''Hydrocrackate'' (Heavy, Mid, and Light), produced from a hydrocracker, with medium to low octane a ...ntinue to be sold for off-road uses, including aircraft, racing cars, farm equipment, and marine engines.) The ban on leaded gasoline was presumed to lower leve
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