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• Fiat Tipo
  |Body Styles:||[[FF layout|FF]] [[compact car|compact]] 3 and 5-door [[hatchback]] The Tipo platform spawned five more cars. The first of these was the [[Lancia Dedra]] [[sedan (car)|sedan]] in 1989,
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• Vignale
  ...esigned and built cars, usually low volume variants of the main production cars of these automobile manufacturers. ...er of fresh and original design cues which found their way into production cars for decades to come. As a whole however it was a bit too wild and unbalance
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• W engine
  ...ugatti]]'s [[Bugatti EB 118|EB 118]] and [[Bugatti EB 218|EB 218]] concept cars, but the design was determined to be impractical because of the irregular [ ...kaging, that is, they contain high numbers of cylinders but are relatively compact.
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• Alfa Romeo 156
  ...e Crosswagon Q4 and Sportwagon Q4 (both using the 1.9 L JTD engine). These cars were equipped with a [[Torsen]] four-wheel drive system. *Best Compact Executive 1998 - (What Car - UK)
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• Front wheel drive
  ...cessful models were the [[1934]] [[Citroën Traction Avant|Traction Avant]] cars from [[Citroën]] in Europe, and the contemporary [[Cord 810|810]] from [[C ...of the [[Ford Taurus]] bringing front wheel drive to prominence in midsize cars. By the mid 1980s, most formerly rear wheel drive Japanese models were fro
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• Luxury car
  ...t is somewhat subjective, there are certain guidelines by which the luxury cars are defined. These guidelines include price, design, comfort, and prestige. In addition to being relatively expensive, luxury cars also offer a higher degree of comfort than their mainstream counterparts as
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• Ferrari 275
  12 lightweight '''GTC''' cars had aluminium bodywork. Twelve were constructed in between the end of the ...weight made a difference of over 150 kg compared to the alloy bodied road cars.
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• Torsion beam suspension
  ...re nothing more than crawling under the car with a wrench in hand. In most cars which use this type of suspension, swapping torsion bars for those with a d ...ling dead axle, also sprung by torsion bars. The Czechoslovakian [[Tatra]] cars designed by Professor [[Hans Ledwinka]] in the mid 1930s used all round ind
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• Lancia Fulvia
  |Class:||[[Compact car]] * ''Berlina'' - A compact four-door saloon introduced in 1963 with 1098 cc engine producing 58 b
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• Bremach
  ...d in 1913, that has built over 7.000 aircraft, developed a new [[3-wheel]] compact, reliable delivery vehicle for light weight freight carriage. [[Category: Cars]]
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• Rear wheel drive
  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 bac
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• Fiat Bravo (2007)
  [[Category:Compact cars]]
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• Hot rod
  '''Hot rods''' are cars which have been customized for performance, and/or appearance. A "Hot Rod" ...ad been junked for mechanical reasons, since the [[running gear]] of early cars was not durable.
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• Hatchback
  ...o entry doors and the hatch) or five-door (four entry doors and the hatch) cars. In Europe, [[city car]]s, [[supermini car|superminis]], and [[small family Small cars often incorporate a hatch tailgate to make the best use of available space.
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• Fiat Coupé
  |Body Styles:||[[FF layout|FF]] [[compact car|compact]] [[coupé]] ...counter the understeer and torque steer that plagues most turbocharged FWD cars. Additionally, the coupe featured independent suspension all round: At the
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• Fiat Coupe
  |Body Styles:||[[FF layout|FF]] [[compact car|compact]] [[coupé]] ...counter the understeer and torque steer that plagues most turbocharged FWD cars. Additionally, the coupe featured independent suspension all round: At the
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• Electric vehicle conversion
  ===Compact sedan or coupe=== A compact sedan may be a better choice than a subcompact owing to better load capacit
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• W8
  ...ugatti]]'s [[Bugatti EB 118|EB 118]] and [[Bugatti EB 218|EB 218]] concept cars, but the design was determined to be impractical because of the irregular [ ...packaging, i.e., they contain high numbers of cylinders but are relatively compact.
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• Straight-4
  ...d [[Porsche]] to use a 3.0 L (2990 cc) straight-4 engine on road cars like the [[Porsche 968]], but the largest modern non-diesel was the plain 3 ...e early 20th century, bigger engines existed, both in road cars and sports cars. Due to the absence of displacement limit regulations, manufacturers took i
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• Engine
  ...cylinder layouts replacing longer straight-line arrangements. In passenger cars, [[V8|V-8]] layouts were adopted for all piston displacements greater than Smaller cars brought about a return a to smaller engines, the [[V4|four]]- and [[v6|six]
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