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• Concept car
  ...oncept car''' is a [[Automobile|car]] [[prototype]] made to showcase a new vehicle's styling, [[technology]], and overall design before [[production]]. They If driveable, the drivetrain is often borrowed from another production vehicle from the same company, or may have defects and imperfections in design. Th
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• Laforza
  ...ded with a new type of dash and seats as well as the center tunnel and the door panels. Some of the vehicle's design innovations included the composite integrated bumpers painted in t
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• Shifter
  ...ick''' and '''gear shifter''') is the lever used to change [[gear]] in a [[vehicle]], such as an [[automobile]], with [[manual transmission]] or several commo The device is used to change gear; in a manual transmission vehicle this will normally be done whilst depressing the [[clutch]] pedal with the
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• Maserati Ghibli
  ...aserati]] in [[1967]]. The V8-powered Ghibli was the most popular Maserati vehicle since the automaker withdrew from racing in the [[1950s]], and it outsold i ...th 2.0 litre [[V6]], operated via a six-speed manual transmission. The two-door, four-seater coupe was similar in appearance to [[Maserati Shamal]], and di
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• Carrozzeria
  ...facturers and merged with their vehicle operations. Others became contract vehicle assemblers, building niche or localized cars for larger companies. ...oducing body [[die (manufacturing)|die]]s is extremely expensive (a single door can run [[U.S. dollar|US$]]40000), which is only practical when large numbe
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• Lancia Musa
  |Body style || 5-door [[Multi-purpose vehicle|MPV]] ...optionals as the Blue&Me (available bluetooth telephone connection and USB door for mp3 files), new body colours and equipment and a [[Very Important Perso
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• GT car
  ...t the traditional and most common [[car body style|body style]] is the two-door [[coupé]] with either a two-seat or a [[2 plus 2|2+2 seat]] arrangement. ...layout|mid-mounted engines]]. They also tend to have softer [[suspension (vehicle)|suspensions]] to provide good [[ride quality]]. However, grand tourers do
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• Monocoque
  ...'s [[Lancia Lambda]]. [[Citroën]] built the first mass-produced monocoque vehicle in [[1934]], the innovative [[Citroën Traction Avant|Traction Avant]]. Th ...tion and noise of powertrain or suspension components from the rest of the vehicle.
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• Effedi
  ...and built by the EFFEDI Automotive Group, Italy's third largest commercial vehicle manufacturer. ...the driving and seating position, and the high visibility windscreen. The vehicle's height, its bright colours and the third stop-light position guarantee it
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• Iveco Massif
  |Class || [[Off-road vehicle]] ...Rover Defender]] at the utility end of the 4x4 market. The Iveco UK light vehicle product manager Jon Stokes announced that pricing of the Massif in the UK w
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• Maserati Shamal
  |Body Style:||2-door 2+2-seater Coupé The '''Maserati Shamal''' is a small, two-door [[coupe]] introduced by [[Italy|Italian]] automaker [[Maserati]] on [[Decem
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• Car safety
  ...the [[United Nations]] established the [[World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations]], an [[international]] standards body advancing auto safety. M ...d road deaths in vehicles is not exact. An alternative method of assessing vehicle safety is to study the [[road accident statistics on a model-by-model basis
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• Passive safety
  ...the [[United Nations]] established the [[World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations]], an [[international]] standards body advancing auto safety. M ...d road deaths in vehicles is not exact. An alternative method of assessing vehicle safety is to study the [[road accident statistics on a model-by-model basis
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• Fiat 127
  Initially only available as a two-door [[sedan|saloon]], a three-door [[hatchback]] using an identical body profile was launched the following ye ...ed, overhead cam engine was unique to the 127 range. At the same time a 5-door derivative became available in certain countries. The final revision of the
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• Station wagon
  ...nguished from a [[minivan]] ([[multi-purpose vehicle]]) or [[sport utility vehicle]] by still being a car, sharing its forward bodywork with other cars in a m ...ed by [[Willys-Overland]] during the war effort. The Willys was a two-door vehicle, and in premium [[Trim package|trim]] had its passenger compartment exterio
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• Automobile emissions control
  ...avelled. However, substantial increases in the distance travelled by each vehicle, and equally substantial increases in the number of vehicles in use, have m The emissions produced by a vehicle fall into two basic categories:
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• Alfa Romeo 147
  |Body Styles:||[[FF layout|FF]] [[compact car|compact]] 3-door & 5-door [[hatchback]] The vehicle is fitted with the new 1.9 JTDM 170 CV engine, which has a 8 second 0 to 1
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• Autobianchi
  ...ion, but rather to focus on [[bicycle]]s, [[motorcycle]]s and [[commercial vehicle]]s. ...eted as a "second vehicle in the household", and a luxurious "recreational vehicle", also being targeted at affluent middle-class women, it mirrored the incre
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• Demolition Derby
  ...liberately ramming their vehicles into one another. The last driver whose vehicle is still operational is awarded the victory. ...ecome muddy to further slow the vehicles. Drivers use the back end of the vehicle to ram to protect the engine compartment from damage.
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• Bugatti Automobiles SAS
  ...l de l'Automobile|Paris Motor Show]] in 1998. It was followed by the four-door [[Bugatti EB 218|EB 218]] touring [[sedan (car)|sedan]], introduced at the ...This was the first-ever [[W engine|W-configuration]] engine on a passenger vehicle, with three banks of six cylinders. It shared many components with Volkswa
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