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  • ...A' arm or short long arm (SLA) suspension. It is commonly used in [[sports car]]s, luxury cars and light trucks.
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  • ...]] used this arrangement. From 1927-1929, the American firm [[Hudson Motor Car Company|Hudson]] used a 6-cylinder engine of this form as well, but this en
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  • ...es a term used in the [[1950s]] and [[1960s]] as a derogatory term for any car that did not fit into the [[mainstream]]. ...opular Hot Rodding]]. There are also television shows such as [[My Classic Car]], and [[Horsepower TV]]. Hot rods are part of [[United States|American]] c
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  • ...omobile]] [[gearbox]] that can change [[gear ratio]]s automatically as the car or truck moves, thus freeing the driver from having to shift gears [[manual ...right|The automatic transmission selector lever in a [[Ford Five Hundred]] car.]]
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  • ...oyce]] in 18 kt. gold (explained as white gold in the novel) and using the car to smuggle the gold. He also overhears Goldfinger talking to a Chinese agen ...(a memorable scene includes one early-leaving mobster's body left inside a car reduced to a metal cube by a giant automobile wrecking compactor). As for
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  • *Lincoln Continental Mark VII — Bond's rental car in Key West. ...assenger in a Silver Wraith II, he is chauffeured around Isthmus City in a Rolls-Royce.
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  • The '''European [[Car of the Year]]''' award was established in 1964 by a collective of [[automob ...ion from each country is based on the size of the country's car market and car manufacturing industry. The jury for 2006 consisted of 58 members from 22 c
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  • ...ari]] [[Formula One]] 1.5 L V8 engines ''(none of them used in a road car)'' ....6 L (13600 cc/829 cu in³) 2003 Cadillac Sixteen ([[concept car]])
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  • ...11 [[Targa Florio]] with two 24 HP models. In 1914, an advanced Grand Prix car was designed and built, the [[Alfa Romeo Grand Prix|GP1914]] which featured ...Romeo with the [[Alfa Romeo 20/30 HP|Torpedo 20-30 HP]] becoming the first car to be badged as such.Their first success came in 1920 when [[Giuseppe Campa
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  • ...shing net. Meanwhile, the woman takes Bond's car, drives it back up to her car, jumps into the Cougar, and speeds away. Bond comments, "This never happene ...e hotel. Inquiring about the car's owner, the manager advises him that the car belongs to Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo ([[Diana Rigg]]). Later, Bond encount
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  • ...ge from damage and wear. The design of front and [[rear suspension]] of a car may be different. ...es for a 2000lb race car and a 10,000lb truck are very different. A luxury car, taxi, or passenger bus would be described as having soft springs. Vehicles
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  • ...DBS around Jeremy Clarkson's [[Top Gear]] track and in the film I got the car up to 170mph. When I braked, we had those brakes just f**king glowing. Will ...ormed by Adam Kirley using the Aston Martin DBS and a nitrogen cannon. The car rolled seven times beating the previous record of six accomplished the prev
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  • ...levelled off or declined as motorized transportation became affordable and car-centred policies led to an increasingly hostile environment for bicycles. I ...he ''Rover Cycle Company Ltd.'' in the late 1890s, and then the ''[[Rover (car)|Rover]]'' auto maker. The [[Morris Motor Company]] (in [[Oxford]]) and [[
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  • ===By car=== ...u must either book a hotel that offers parking or leave it at a commercial car park (Parkhaus, Parkgarage). These can be very expensive.
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