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Turbo-Hydramatic
...smission]]s developed and produced by [[General Motors Corporation|General Motors]]. These transmissions mate a three element [[torque converter]] to a [[sim ...e first fully automatic transmission, [[Hydramatic]], developed by General Motors [[Oldsmobile]] division in the late 1930s, the two transmissions were not m

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Straight-5
...ra]] [[Acura Vigor|Vigor]]. Recently, [[General Motors Corporation|General Motors]] launched a popular straight-5 engine for its compact trucks (Chevrolet Co

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Automobile design
...ard A. Teague|Richard Teague]], a famous automobile designer at [[American Motors Corporation]] (AMC).]] ...g saturation. To maintain unit sales, [[General Motors Corporation|General Motors]] head [[Alfred P. Sloan|Alfred P. Sloan Jr.]] devised annual model-year de

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Torsion beam suspension
...uspensions are currently used on trucks and SUV's from [[Ford]], [[General Motors Corporation|GM]] and [[Dodge]]. Manufacturers change the torsion bar or ke ...sistance to load and, in some cases (depending on the speed with which the motors can act), to respond to changes in road conditions. [[Height adjustable sus

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Van (road vehicle)
...modify the original manufacturer's body to create [[custom van]]s for the general public. Dodge, now part of [[Daimler-Chrysler]] quit making their model in

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Hand brake
...[front-wheel drive]] cars in the early [[1980s]] (United States v. General Motors, 841 F.2d 400 (D.C. Cir. 1988)). The cars were initially designed to be fiv

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Electric vehicle
...on may be provided either by [[wheels]] or [[propellers]] driven by rotary motors, or in the case of tracked vehicles, by [[linear motor]]s. ...chanics)|gearbox]]es and [[Torque converter|torque converters]]. Electric motors also have the ability to convert movement energy back into electricity, thr

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Electric car
...ear motor]]s. The [[Electricity|electrical]] [[energy]] used to power the motors may be obtained from a direct connection to land-based generation plants, a ...que convertor]]s and [[Differential_(mechanics)|differential]]s. Electric motors also have the unusual ability to convert movement energy back into electric

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V8
...dynamic styling meant that the straight-8 was simply too large. [[General Motors]] responded to Ford's V8 success with the [[1949]] introduction of the ''[[ During the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, every [[General Motors]] division had their own engines, whose merits varied. This enabled each d

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Pushrod engine
...(notably several engines produced by [[General Motors Corporation|General Motors]]).

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ISO
The motor company '''Iso Rivolta''' (Iso Motors since 1973) was initially named '''Isothermos''' and used to manufacture re ...vrolet Small-Block engine]] came from [[General Motors Corporation|General Motors]] in Detroit, the transmission, too, axles (de Dion) and braking system (4

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Pininfarina
...ably [[Ferrari]], [[Maserati]], [[Cadillac (automobile)|Cadillac]], [[Nash Motors|Nash]], [[Peugeot]], [[Jaguar (car)|Jaguar]], [[Volvo]], [[Alfa Romeo]] an ...na designed (and partially assembled) the [[Cadillac Allanté]] for General Motors. The car's bodies were assembled and painted in Italy before being flown to

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Automobile self starter
...on was purchased by the [[Delco]] Company, later acquired by the [[General Motors Corporation]]. Coincidentally, the death of a friend from complications du ...gear away from the ring gear, and the starter motor stops. Modern starter motors have a "bendix" — a gear and integral [[freewheel]], or overrunn

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Iso Lele
...s [[powertrain]], a [[V8]] engine and [[automatic gearbox]] from [[General Motors|GM]]

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Hydrogen vehicle
...General Motors Sequel|Sequel]], a fuel cell powered vehicle from [[General Motors]]]] ...en is turned into electricity through fuel cells which then power electric motors.

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Ferrari 400
...er an [[automatic transmission]], in this case a 3-speed unit from General Motors. The engine, based on the Daytona's, was a 4.8 L (4823 cc) [[V12

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Steering
[[General Motors Corporation|General Motors]] offers [[Delphi]]'s [[Quadrasteer]] in their consumer [[Chevrolet Silvera ...ature first appeared on cars built by [[General Motors Corporation|General Motors]] after an extensive and very public lobbying campaign enacted by [[Ralph N

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List of microcars by country of origin: U
|{{flagiconUK}} [[United Kingdom]]||[[Bond Bug]]||[[Reliant|Reliant Motors Co Ltd]], [[Tamworth]], [[Staffordshire]] || [[Reliant]] 700 cc ||2 |{{flagiconUK}} [[United Kingdom]]||JARC 'Little Horse'||JARC Motors [[Private company limited by shares|Ltd]], [[Isleworth]] ||[[Excelsior (Co

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Formula SAE
Big companies, such as [[General Motors Corporation|General Motors]], [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]], and [[Chrysler Corporation|Chrysler]], can General Motors hosted the competition in 1991, Ford Motor Co. in 1992, and Chrysler Corp.

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Daytime running lamp
...galized (but not mandated) effective with the [[1995]] model year. General Motors immediately equipped most (and, in following years, all) of its vehicles wi *(Canada) [http://www.tc.gc.ca/acts-regulations/GENERAL/m/mvsa/regulations/mvsrg/100/mvsr108.html#Daytime_Running_Lamps Canada Moto

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