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• Variable displacement
  ...ler Chrysler Hemi engine#5.7. Other systems appeared in 2005 from General Motors (''Displacement on Demand'' in the GM LS engine generation IV small-block) * General Motors Cadillac V8 engine#L62 V8-6-4|V8-6-4(
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• Harley Earl
  ...]]s, and wrap-around [[windshield]]s, but he is probably best known to the general public for beginning the [[tailfin]] craze that dominated automobile stylin ...tors for the [[1957]] model year. He ordered that for [[1958]] all General Motors cars should have 50 pounds (23 kg) of chrome-plated steel trim apiece. Thes
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• Alfa Romeo Kamal
  ...yder|Spyder]], and [[Alfa Romeo Brera|Brera]]. A version of the [[General Motors]] ''[[GM Premium V engine|Premium V]]'' [[V8]] engine (familiar as the [[Ca
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• V20
  ...ome large [[diesel engine]]s. For example, the [[1960s]] vintage [[General Motors Electro-Motive Division]] [[EMD SD45]] [[railroad]] [[locomotive]] was fitt
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• Straight-8
  ...engine|flathead]] configuration) and [[General Motors Corporation|General Motors]] owned marques (flathead and [[overhead valve|OHV]] configuration), but th
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• Concept car
  [[General Motors]] designer [[Harley Earl]] is generally credited with inventing the concept ...mperfections in design. They can also be quite refined, such as [[General Motors]]' [[Cadillac Sixteen]] Concept [http://www.cardesignnews.com/autoshows/200
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• V16
  Cadillac revived the V16 concept in [[2003]] with a [[General Motors]] [[concept car]], the [[Cadillac Sixteen]]. This car used a 1000 [[horsep ...as railroad [[locomotive]]s use V16 powerplants, including many [[General Motors Electro-Motive Division]] locomotives.
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• Motorama
  ...otorama''' was an auto show staged by [[General Motors Corporation|General Motors]] from [[1949]] to [[1961]]. Motorama (also known as Autorama) was aptly de ...ss]], [[Buick Wildcat II]], [[Chevrolet Nomad]] [[station wagon]], General Motors [[Firebird XP-21]] and [[Pontiac Bonneville Special]], [[Cadillac El Camino
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• Subframe
  The sub frame saw regular production in the 60's and 70's General Motors X and F cars.
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• GM High Feature engine
  |Manufacturer || [[General Motors Corporation|General Motors]] ...derivative '''LP1''') are members of [[General Motors Corporation|General Motors]]' new '''High Feature''' (or '''HFV6''') engine family of modern [[DOHC]]
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• Marque
  ...rts car]]. A company may operate a single marque, or many—[[General Motors]] has used more than a dozen in the American market alone. ...Corporation]]'s [[Plymouth (automobile)|Plymouth]] division and [[General Motors]]' [[Oldsmobile]] are recent examples of marques that failed when they lost
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• Unit
  * A unit can be a general word for a module or device. For more specific example, see next entry. * [[Multiple unit]], a passenger train whose carriages have their own motors
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• Crumple zone
  [[Image:Vehicle crash test at the General Motors Vehicle Safety and crash Worthiness Laboratory.jpg|thumb|right|A [[crash te The only other general downside to crumple zones is that repair costs are higher in "fender bender
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• Japan Black
  ...e disuse of Japan Black by the end of the [[1920s]]. In [[1924]], General Motors introduced "True Blue" Duco (a product of [[DuPont]]) nitrocellulose lacque
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• Giovanni Battista Ceiranos
  ...]], which until 1903 the "Ceirano 5HP" and the "Ceirano 6/8HP" with single motors and a vierzylindrigen "Ceirano 16HP with 4,562 cc developed. Matteo''''1903
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• Compact car
  ...before, the post World War II era compact class began in 1950 when [[Nash Motors|Nash]] introduced a convertible [[Nash Rambler|Rambler]]. It was built on a Today, although the general downsizing of all vehicles has somewhat blurred size class distinctions, th
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• Iso Rivolta
  ...driving performance: the 5,4 l V8 (small-block) motor came from [[General Motors]] in Detroit, the transmission, too, axles (de Dion) and braking system (4
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• DOHC
  ...r was the [[Lotus Cars|Lotus]]-reworked Ford Kent engine 1962, and General Motors' first was the 1975 Cosworth-tweaked GM 2300 engine, though by comparison,
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• Bugatti EB110
  ...ano Artioli purchased the [[Lotus (car)|Lotus]] car company from [[General Motors]]. The acquisition brought together two of the greatest names in automotive
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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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• Scooter
  ...der motors). Most jurisdictions have no legal definition for "scooter". In general, 50 cc and under scooters are classified in most states and countries as a ...rs don't agree this is a good solution because they are used to two-stroke motors.
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• Sport compact
  ...the explosion of this market segment. [[General Motors Corporation|General Motors]] has responded with a new [http://www.gm.com/company/racing/technology/FWD
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• Cam-in-block
  ...he [[archetype]] for most modern pushrod engines. Currently only General Motors, Ford, DaimlerChrysler, and Cummins produce cam-in-block or pushrod engines ...(notably several engines produced by [[General Motors Corporation|General Motors]]).
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• Fiat Doblò
  | Related || [[Pyonghwa Motors|Pyongwha Ppeokkugi]] In North Korea [[Pyonghwa Motors]] produces Doblò branded as its own name Ppeokkugi.
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• Car body style
  ...usage of it during the [[1970s]] by both [[General Motors]] and [[American Motors Corporation|AMC]] in [[North America]] as another word for "station wagon" ;'''[[Sportshatch]]''' : This term, which has been used by [[General Motors]] for several European models, has been applied to a number of body styles:
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• Straight engine
  ...and Volvo Cars, have also used [[straight-5]] configurations. The General Motors ''GM Atlas engine'' family includes straight-4, straight-5, and straight-6
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• Raimondi
  ...s]]. In 1925 '''[[MR]]''' produced three versions of motorbikes with TRAIN motors: 98 and 123 cc with 'Raimondi type' gradual gears which, as the advertiseme ...ese used diesel engines of 6, 10 and 15 CV. 1935 saw the start of Seacraft Motors which were a main feature of the company until the mid-sixties. During this
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• Hybrid vehicle drivetrain
  ...sories such as power steering and air conditioning are powered by electric motors instead of being attached to the combustion engine. This allows efficiency ...cient over a wide speed range. Some vehicle designs have separate electric motors for each wheel. Series hybrids can be also be fitted with a [[supercapacito
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• Gianni Agnelli
  ...the 2000s, Agnelli made overtures to [[General Motors Corporation|General Motors]], with whom an agreement was reached to progressively let the American com
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• Overhead camshaft
  ...Cubic inch "Tornado" SOHC inline six engine. In the 1970's, both General Motors and [[Ford]] produced SOHC inline four engines: the GM 2300 engine and the
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