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• Electronic control unit
  ...ded system]] that controls one or more of the electrical subsystems in a [[vehicle]]. Some modern cars have up to 70 ECUs, including: * Door Control unit
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• Innocenti Mini
  ...ntroduced by [[Leyland Innocenti]] in 1974. The vehicle was a rebodied, 3-door [[hatchback]] version of the [[Mini]], styled by [[Bertone]].
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• Sedan
  ...enter "post" (also called a B-pillar) supporting the roof and dividing the door windows from the rear quarter windows.
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• Grand tourer
  ...but the traditional and most common [[car body style|body style]] is a two door [[coupe]] with either a two seat or a 2+2 seat arrangement. Example cars in ...abin than mid-mounted engines. They also tend to have softer [[suspension (vehicle)|suspension]] to provide good ride quality. However, grand tourers do have
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• Suicide door
  [[Image:Suicide door.jpg|thumb|250px|Rear suicide door on a 1967 [[Ford Thunderbird]]]] [[Image:Fiat Multipla 600.jpg|thumb|250px|Front suicide door on a [[Fiat Multipla|Fiat Multipla 600]]]]
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• Aermoto
  ...al and a rigid front and rear suspension. The vehicle had a little sliding door on the right side from which you could reach the engine and ventilation ope
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• Convertible
  ...p, a convertible has roll-up glass windows in the sides, and so the entire vehicle is "convertible" to an enclosed coupé. Convertibles are usually 2 door models, only a few 4 door models exist e.g. the [[1960s]] [[Lincoln Continental#1961-1969 Lincoln Con
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• Accossato
  ...edan provided Accossato for the creation of a two-door sedan and a funeral vehicle. The funeral means would be the main field of activity of the Turin bodywor ...rt of coupe equipped with a small rear side door, behind the main driver's door, which helped to facilitate Small loads. In 1956, Ernesto Accossato ceased
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• Alfa Romeo Arna
  |Body Styles:||[[FF layout|FF]] [[subcompact car|subcompact]] 3-door or 5-door [[hatchback]] ...an Alfa [[transmission (mechanics)|transmission]] and front [[suspension (vehicle)|suspension]]. It did however use an independent rear suspension from Nissa
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• Lamborghini Raptor
  ...om a [[4WD]] [[Lamborghini Diablo]]. The design was completed and a sample vehicle displayed at the [[Geneva Auto Show]] in 1996. At the time of showing, it w ...s well as the extensive use of [[carbon fiber]] for the body work made the vehicle significantly lighter than the Diablo, thus theoretically faster. To make u
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• Lamborghini Cheetah
  ...y of the United States|US military]] to design and build a new all-terrain vehicle. The basis of the design came from MTI, and was largely a copy of [[Food Ma ...and the engine choice was not powerful enough to be adequate for the heavy vehicle (2042kg/4500lbs), resulting in overall poor performance.
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• Alfa Romeo 146
  |Body Styles:||[[FF layout|FF]] [[compact car|compact]] 3- or 5-door [[hatchback]] ...e B-pillar forwards; the 145 is a 3-door hatchback, whereas the 146 is a 5-door.
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• Spoiler (automotive)
  ...ecrease [[drag (force)|drag]], or increase the amount of force pushing the vehicle's tires to the road surface (also called ''[[downforce]]''). Spoilers are # increasing the amount of positive pressure downward through the vehicle
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• Car body style
  ;'''[[Coupe]]''' (US) or '''Coupé''' (UK/EU) : A 2-door, 2 or 4 seat car with a fixed roof. Its doors are longer than those of a se ...4 door and 2 or 4 seat, but generally called in British English 3 door, 5 door.
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• Small family car
  ...[[station wagon|estate]]s. [[Multi-purpose vehicle]]s and [[sport utility vehicle]]s based on small family cars, which are called '''[[compact MPV]]s''' and After the [[Second World War]], European manufacturers usually featured two vehicle types: small cars (or [[supermini car|superminis]]) and large [[saloon]]s.
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• Alfa Romeo 145
  |Body Styles:||[[FF layout|FF]] [[compact car|compact]] 3- or 5-door [[hatchback]] ...e B-pillar forwards; the 145 is a 3-door hatchback, whereas the 146 is a 5-door.
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• De Tomaso Longchamp
  |Body style || 2-door [[coupe]]<br>2-door [[convertible]] The '''De Tomaso Longchamp''' is a [[Vehicle door|two-door]] [[2 plus 2|2+2]] [[coupé|coupe]] produced by the [[Italy|Italian]] [[aut
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• Classic car
  [[Image:Ford Model A Fordor.jpg|thumbnail|right|[[Ford Model A]] Four-door]] ...idered a good cut-off age for such terms because it's extremely rare for a vehicle that old to still be owned or used without special consideration for its cl
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• Ferrari Modulo
  The concept car has an extremely low body with a [[Vehicle canopy|Canopy]]-style roof that slides forward to permit entry to the cabin *[[Vehicle canopy|Canopy door]]
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• Maserati Quattroporte II
  The '''Maserati Quattroporte''' is a luxury four-door [[sedan]] made by [[Maserati]] of [[Italy]]. There have been five generatio ...a large V8 engine. It was important to de Tomaso that there was an Italian vehicle to compete with vehicles like the recently launched [[Mercedes-Benz 450SEL
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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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• George Barris (auto customizer)
  ...rris Brothers custom" car. They sold it at a profit to buy another project vehicle, and their career was born. Before George had even graduated from high scho ...] coupe for himself, and a customer who saw it ordered a similar car. This vehicle, known as the [[Hirohata Merc]] for its owner, was shown at the 1952 [[Moto
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• Lancia Flaminia
  ...r>2-door [[convertible|cabrio]] (''[[Carrozzeria Touring|Touring]]'')<br>4-door [[landaulet]] [[limousine]] ''([[Pininfarina]]) ...s, and are very rare collectibles now. Interestingly, coupés outsold the 4-door variant by far, even in spite of shorter production run and coachbuilt bodi
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• Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale
  |Body style || 2-door [[coupe]] ...also features windows which seamlessly curve upward into the 'roof' of the vehicle.
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• Lamborghini LM002
  |Class || [[Sport utility vehicle]] |Body style || 4-door
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• Lancia Gamma
  |Body Style:||4-door [[fastback]] (''berlina'')<br>2-door [[coupé]] ...was made until 1984 as a 4-door [[fastback]] (called '''Berlina''') and 2-door [[coupé]] (presented in 1977), both designed by [[Pininfarina]]. There wer
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• Volugrafo
  ...opment of a parachute launching motorbike starting from the Belmondo motor-vehicle. The abandonment of the operation led to a slowdown in the construction of ...[engineer]] and [[race driver]] [[Belmondo]] developed the Volugrafo Bimbo vehicle, which was introduced in November 1945 and produced through early 1946. Pro
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• Covini
  | Body style || 3-door [[coupe]] ...e one prototype. Over the following 20 years, Covini developed several two-door [[sports car|sport cars]] with diesel engines: the T46, [[Covini Engineerin
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• Hatchback
  ...ace, accessed from behind the vehicle by a tailgate or flip-up window. The vehicle must have at least two rows of seats, with the rear set able to fold down t ...are often described as three-door (two entry doors and the hatch) or five-door (four entry doors and the hatch) cars. In Europe, [[city car]]s, [[supermin
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• Electric vehicle
  An '''electric vehicle''', or EV, is a [[vehicle]] with one or more [[electric motor]]s for propulsion. The motion may be p The [[energy]] used to propel the vehicle may be obtained from several sources:
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• Savio
  ...lina_2_porte_1947.jpg|thumb|right|250px|'''1947 Savio Fiat 1100A Berlina 2 door''' [http://www.fiatfuoriserie.it/index.htm <small>Source</small>]]] ...tala chassis for their previous employer. Another early project was a four door saloon built on a Ceirano chassis, the first use of the silent-bloc system.
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