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  • ...t costs drove the purchase price higher than that of a [[Rolls-Royce (car)|Rolls-Royce]]. The Fidia's main competitors were other luxurious and sporty sedans like
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  • ...s since been adopted by European automakers [[Volvo]], [[Rolls-Royce (car)|Rolls-Royce]], [[Lotus Cars]], [[Aston-Martin]], [[Porsche]], and [[Audi]]. Bundy pipe
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  • '''Paolo Martin''' is a [[car designer]], presently working for [[Pininfarina]]. He was born in 1943 and * [[Rolls-Royce Camargue]]
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  • [[Image:Lloyd Kleinbus.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Lloyd (car)|Lloyd LT 600 van]] with front suicide door]] ...t is familiar to many English-speakers and often used openly in the custom-car trade.
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  • The advent of [[unibody]] construction, where the car body is unified with, and structurally integral to the chassis, made custom ...ilding survives among low-production companies such as [[Rolls-Royce (car)|Rolls-Royce]], [[Aston Martin]], and [[Morgan Motor Company|Morgan]] because of its low
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  • |Class || [[Luxury car]] ...ass at Coppa de Garda. Petrol prices were rising and it was hard to sell a car with such a big engine, so total production was only 52 copies. At this mom
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  • ...ol, that "they" won't even allow us to show it on our site, yet; very cool car! ...r]], [[Volvo Cars|Volvo]], [[Bristol Cars|Bristol]], and [[Rolls-Royce car|Rolls-Royce]].
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  • ...llowed the purchase of [[Lamborghini]] (for VW's [[Audi]] division), the [[Rolls-Royce]] factory in [[Crewe]], [[England]], and the [[Bentley]] marque. ...okyo Motor Show]] — the VW-designed [[Bugatti EB 18/4|EB 18/4]] [[GT car|GT]].
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  • ...lac (automobile)|Cadillac]], [[Nash Motors|Nash]], [[Peugeot]], [[Jaguar (car)|Jaguar]], [[Volvo]], [[Alfa Romeo]] and [[Lancia]]. Since the 1980's Pini ...(and partially assembled) the [[Cadillac Allanté]] for General Motors. The car's bodies were assembled and painted in Italy before being flown to Detroit
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  • ...e of "vehicles" that offer luxurious settings, a true luxury car will be a car ([[sedan]], [[coupé]], [[hatchback]], [[station wagon]], [[roadster]], etc ...Luxury-Car.jpg|thumb|250px|Woodgrain trim is one of the most iconic luxury car attributes]]
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  • A '''fuel pump''' is an essential component on a [[automobile|car]] or other [[internal combustion engine]]d device. Fuel has to be pumped f In earlier [[Automobile|car]]s built before the late [[1970s]], the pump was mechanically driven by a l
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  • ...new interpretation on an [[Alfa Romeo 6C 2500]], which became among other car representation for some political figures of the time. ...schi looked in the past, still it is worthwhile to mention the Talbot, the Rolls-Royce and [[Fiat]].
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  • ...nts made to the vehicle in order to optimize its behaviour (performance, [[Car handling|handling]], reliability, etc.). Adjustments can occur in [[Suspens ...his in mind so that if you find dropping pressure improves that end of the car or adding pressure lowers it.
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  • ...ssis of pedigreed cars from the likes of Aston Martin, Bentley, Jaguar and Rolls-Royce. It replaced the [[Ferrari 612 Scaglietti|612 Scaglietti]] grand tourer. T ...on the steering wheel is in the "comfort" or "snow" positions, leaving the car most often in the traditional rear wheel drive layout.
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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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  • ...was not actually run to the Grand Prix formula of the day, but to touring car rules, taking place on a 300-kilometre road circuit at [[Guadarrama]], near ...ch was won by [[Jim Clark (racing driver)|Jim Clark]] racing in a [[Lotus (car)|Lotus]].
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  • ...founders, [[Cesare Isotta]] and [[Oreste Fraschini]]. This high-end luxury car marque was established as Fabbrica Automobili Isotta-Fraschini. Prior to es ...is a forgotten former silent film star from the 19teens and 1920s, and the car represents both the height her glamour and how its time has past.
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  • In [[1959]], [[Saab Automobile|Saab]] had an experimental car with ''two'' transverse [[straight-3]] engines bolted together—the [[ ...the archetypal British engine for sports and luxury cars for many years. Rolls-Royce used straight-6 engines until changes in their design make the shorter [[V8
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  • ...5-2a.jpg|right|thumb|350px|[[Aston Martin DB5]] the most famous James Bond car]] ...#GT.2C GTV and GTV6|Alfa Romeo GTV6]] || Unknown || Bond steals the parked car while its owner uses a pay phone booth and makes haste towards Octopussy's
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  • ...May Day and an attempt to drown Bond in a lake while unconscious inside a car fails. Later, [[General Gogol]] from the Soviet Union shows up at Zorin's e ...rite method of assassination is to sneak into the backseat of her victims' car, and then strangle them from behind. She is assisted in turn by two henchwo
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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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