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- From [[1898]] to [[1910]], [[automobile]] production quicky expanded. Light cars of that era were commonly known as There were sporting cyclecars such as [[Amilcar]], [[Major (automobile|Major]] or [[Salmson]] of [[France]].6 KB (694 words) - 07:07, 20 July 2009
- [[Italy|Italian]] '''Gioacchino Colombo''' was an [[automobile]] [[engine]] designer. He began work as an apprentice to the great [[Vitto Colombo's great work for Ferrari was a tiny 1.5 L V12, first used in the [[Ferrari 166|166]] [[sports car]]s. Thi2 KB (267 words) - 14:35, 13 April 2009
- '''Bubble car''' is a generic name given to a range of small economical [[automobile]]s — mainly produced in the 1950s and 1960s. Bubble cars became popular ...ll as BMW's [[Isetta]]. [[France]] also produced large numbers of similar tiny vehicles called [[voiturette]]s, but unlike the German makes, these were ra1 KB (221 words) - 23:23, 2 October 2009
- ..." lady caused a media sensation at the time. The abiding image of Kay is a tiny woman seated in a huge 10.5 litre V12 [[Delage]]. This was the car in which ...leys. She was ninth in the Mountain Grand Prix at Brooklands in a [[Riley (automobile)|Riley]] 1.5 in 1934, against tough opposition. Her first visit to [[Le Man3 KB (482 words) - 19:16, 2 March 2009
- The Type 56 was a tiny 2-seat open car very much in the style of turn-of-the-century horseless car The five Type 73 chassis were sold off after the company exited automobile production. Most were later assembled, and one (number 2) was even given a4 KB (711 words) - 14:25, 4 August 2009
- In [[automobile design]], an '''RMR''' or '''Rear [[Mid-engine design|Mid-engine]], [[Rear- ...00|Indianapolis]] between 1939 and 1947. In 1953 [[Porsche]] premiered the tiny and altogether new RMR [[Porsche 550|550 spyder]] and in a year it was noto7 KB (899 words) - 11:42, 7 July 2009
- [[Image:Smart.car.bristol.750pix.jpg|thumb|right|300px|[[Smart (automobile)|Smart]] car is an example of a microcar]] A '''microcar''' is an extremely small [[automobile]]. Various definitions are used, including "less than 3 [[metre]]s in leng7 KB (1,049 words) - 23:10, 7 August 2009
- ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" Other tiny groups consist of British, Filipinos, and Ethiopians.4 KB (651 words) - 18:40, 24 February 2009
- ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...y two seats. The rear seats can be optionally deleted to increase the very tiny boot space.5 KB (779 words) - 10:26, 15 July 2009
- The Bugatti automobile was prototyped as the '''Type 10''' in [[Ettore Bugatti]]'s basement in [[1 ...]], and entered the [[French Grand Prix]] at [[Le Mans]] in [[1911]]. The tiny Bugatti looked out of place at the race, but calmly took second place after5 KB (797 words) - 19:00, 10 September 2009
- ...disastrous state of the roads did not assist in the re-development of the automobile markets. Enrico Piaggio, the son of Piaggio's founder Rinaldo Piaggio, deci ...to develop other products. In [[1957]] they produced the [[Vespa 400]], a tiny passenger car.7 KB (1,064 words) - 14:29, 30 April 2010
- ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...the end of Formula One racing in Las Vegas since the races had drawn only tiny crowds.5 KB (634 words) - 21:21, 26 September 2009
- ...-banger''', this [[straight engine]] configuration is the most common in [[automobile|car]]s with a [[engine displacement|displacement]] up to 2.3 [[litre|Litres == Automobile use==7 KB (1,100 words) - 20:21, 19 October 2010
- ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...ounted to a three-speed gearbox. (No reverse gear was included.) With this tiny engine the car could achieve top speed of 35km/h. Despite having such a sma5 KB (674 words) - 00:23, 3 November 2011
- The '''Batmobile''' is the fictional personal [[automobile]] of [[comic book]] [[superhero]] [[Batman]]. The car has followed the evol Originally in the [[comic books]], Batman simply drove a simple red automobile with nothing special in its functions. This version first appeared in Batm8 KB (1,240 words) - 20:58, 22 September 2009
- ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...F1 teams used Alfa Romeo [[straight-4]] engines in cars such as the [[LDS (automobile)|LDS]] Mk1 and Mk2 "Specials", [[Cooper Car Company|Cooper]]s and [[De Toma8 KB (1,194 words) - 07:56, 15 July 2009
- ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ..."cinquecento" from the [[Italian language|Italian]] word for "500") is a [[automobile|car]] produced by the [[Fiat]] company of [[Italy]] between 1957 and 1975 (11 KB (1,713 words) - 17:00, 22 January 2014
- ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" [[Image:vespa_400_1958.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The '''1958 Vespa 400''' was a tiny passenger car with a 349 [[Cubic centimetre|cc]] engine built in both 2 and4 KB (563 words) - 22:47, 12 December 2016
- The Bugatti automobile was prototyped as the '''Type 10''' in [[Ettore Bugatti]]'s basement in [[1 ...]], and entered the [[French Grand Prix]] at [[Le Mans]] in [[1911]]. The tiny Bugatti looked out of place at the race, but calmly took second place after6 KB (880 words) - 18:10, 5 November 2009
- ...engines. V8 engines are rarely less than 4 litres in displacement and in automobile use have gone up to 8.5 litres or so. ...es, including those from [[De Dion-Bouton]], [[Peerless]], and [[Cadillac (automobile)|Cadillac]], were flat-plane designs. In [[1915]], the cross-plane design17 KB (2,591 words) - 00:05, 8 August 2009
- ...has a lower temperature tolerance, is used to enhance chemical resistance. Tiny synthetic fibres known as [[Microfiber|microfibres]] are used in many types ...cular vehicles' outside-air intakes. Being a relatively recent addition to automobile equipment, this filter is often overlooked and clogged or dirty cabin air f10 KB (1,545 words) - 23:21, 2 October 2009
- ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...e island is between [[Cape Miseno]] and the island of [[Ischia]]. With its tiny satellite island of [[Vivara]], it is a ''[[comune]]'' of the province of [8 KB (1,241 words) - 17:03, 5 March 2009
- ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" '''De Tomaso''' is an [[Italy|Italian]] [[automobile|car]]-manufacturing company. It was founded by the [[Argentina|Argentinian]11 KB (1,722 words) - 00:27, 17 August 2010
- ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...a as a private track meant a transition from racing through the streets of tiny Elkhart Lake to racing on a big, wide, dedicated race track.10 KB (1,467 words) - 14:54, 25 September 2009
- ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...r - the '''[[Tyrrell Racing|Tyrrell]] P34'''. The theory was that its four tiny front wheels would increase mechanical front-end grip – with more rubber9 KB (1,350 words) - 00:16, 5 November 2009
- ...02" GT was an aesthetic and technical achievement that transformed postwar automobile body design. The extraordinary Pinin Farina design was honored by New York' ...by automobile designers when defining a volume and shaping the shell of an automobile was to treat each part of the body as a separate, distinct element—a box18 KB (2,744 words) - 21:44, 19 November 2011
- ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...acchino Colombo]] designed [[V12]] resided. In its first configuration the tiny engine just displaced 1.5 litre, but in its third incarnation had grown in8 KB (1,150 words) - 23:08, 26 June 2010
- ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...of the GTV. The rear seats can be optionally deleted to increase the very tiny boot space.9 KB (1,377 words) - 19:53, 27 October 2009
- ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile"13 KB (1,948 words) - 13:06, 14 April 2009
- ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ''' Lancia Artena ''' is [[a produced automobile]] from [[the houses automobilistiche|casa]] [[Torino|torinese]] in two peri37 KB (5,283 words) - 01:57, 12 December 2011
- ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" |align="left"|{{flagiconUS}} [[Tiny Lund]]19 KB (2,313 words) - 22:27, 22 September 2009
- ...which tax automobiles according to displacement and regulatory bodies in [[automobile racing]] variously consider the Wankel engine to be equivalent to a four-st ...rporation|General Motors]] and [[Mercedes Benz]] to design Wankel-engine [[automobile]]s, the most extensive automotive use of the Wankel engine has been by the23 KB (3,604 words) - 09:49, 2 August 2009
- Volpi, and thus Serenissima, halted automobile operations before [[1970]]. The company withdrew from any involvement in the automobile sector in 1969. [http://www.autopasion18.com/HISTORIA-SERENISSIMA.htm <smal12 KB (1,962 words) - 07:42, 9 June 2012
- Introduced for before the time to [[the Hall of the automobile|Salone]] of [[Paris]] in the October of 1931, the Astura endures, after app ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile"40 KB (5,790 words) - 00:34, 12 December 2011
- '''Ufficine Nardi''' was an [[Italy|Italian]] [[automobile]] and [[racing car]] maker, named for their creator. The ''750 Nardi-Danese'' or 750ND was a tiny machine, starting with a [[Fiat 500]] chassis, powered by a 50bhp 746 cc [[9 KB (1,351 words) - 21:52, 18 March 2013
- ...an implement by shaft or belt. The foot throttle gives the operator more automobile-like control over the speed of the tractor for road work. This is a featur ...t it operate in small work areas where movement is limited. There are also tiny wheeled loaders, officially called [[Skid-steer loader]]s but nicknamed "[[17 KB (2,725 words) - 00:24, 23 June 2009
- ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...00]], the team was one of the least successful in Formula One history. The tiny team never had appropriate human, financial or technical resources, sometim26 KB (3,732 words) - 20:23, 4 October 2010
- ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile"13 KB (1,926 words) - 13:27, 14 October 2009
- ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...onditions (from the industrial suburb of Gardolo just north of the city to tiny mountain hamlets on the Monte Bondone). Various distinctive suburbs still m13 KB (2,044 words) - 13:09, 14 April 2009
- ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...r the technical situation improved. Few [[sponsors]] were attracted by the tiny Italian equipe. Denim only stayed for the first two seasons, [[Kelemata]] w42 KB (5,856 words) - 23:27, 3 June 2011
- ...,000 jobs lost this decade. As a result, in 2009, China became the largest automobile market in the world. ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile"79 KB (7,858 words) - 09:06, 13 September 2009
- ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" '''Minardi''' was an [[automobile racing]] team and constructor founded in [[1979]] by [[Giancarlo Minardi]]70 KB (9,209 words) - 20:03, 12 November 2012
- ...Carburetors are still found in small engines and in older or specialized [[automobile]]s such as those designed for [[stock car racing]]. However, most cars buil ...y the technician or mechanic, adjusting a screw which opens the throttle a tiny fraction to allow a minimal amount of air to pass, and another screw which27 KB (4,310 words) - 17:26, 17 May 2011
- ...dom|UK]]), ''Autopista'' ([[Spain]]), ''Autovisie'' ([[Netherlands]]), ''L'Automobile Magazine'' ([[France]]), ''[[Stern (magazine)|Stern]]'' ([[Germany]]) and ' ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile"29 KB (4,039 words) - 11:56, 8 October 2009
- ...s from [[Rhodos]] who founded the merchant colony called [[Parthenope]] on tiny Megaride island and the neighbouring Pizzofalcone hill. Parthenope was name ...e is still small and a number of earlier and ambitious enterprises such as automobile manufacturing plants on the the outskirts have closed and gone elsewhere. T18 KB (2,855 words) - 08:25, 8 October 2009
- ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile"30 KB (4,846 words) - 15:03, 15 October 2010
- ...ération Internationale de l'Automobile's ([[Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile|FIA]]'s) standardisation of rules. A World Drivers' Championship followed i ...édération Internationale de l'Automobile ([[Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile|FIA]]) organized the first ever official World Championship for Drivers usi67 KB (10,614 words) - 08:56, 7 October 2009