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• Innocenti A40
  |Class:||[[compact car]] The '''[[Austin Motor Company|Austin]] A40 Farina''' was a [[compact car]] from [[British Motor Corporation]] in the [[1960s]].
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• Ercole Spada
  ...ortly before leaving Zagato, Spada designed one of the most modern looking cars of the era, the [[Alfa Romeo Sprint GT (Veloce)|Alfa Romeo Junior Z]], as w ...], where he designs a strings of [[compact]] and [[Luxury vehicle|luxury]] cars, for [[Fiat]] – the groundbreaking [[Fiat Tipo|Tipo]] and [[Fiat Tempra|T
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• Sports cars
  While opinions differ as to the exact definition, most sports cars have two seats and two doors and are designed to provide excellent [[Car ha ...ing quality, but brands such as [[Lamborghini]] which do not race or build cars exclusively for racing are also highly regarded.
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• Alfa Romeo 33
  |Body Styles:||[[FF layout|FF]] [[compact car|compact]] 5-door [[hatchback]] & [[station wagon]] The '''Alfa Romeo 33''' was a [[compact car|compact]] car built between by [[Alfa Romeo]] between 1983 and 1994.
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• Car classification
  |[[Compact car|Compact]]||Small family car||C class||[[Ford Focus]] | -||Compact MPV||[[Renault Scénic]]
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• Lancia V4 engine
  ...esigned again for [[1936]]'s [[Lancia Aprilia|Aprilia]]. The first-series cars used a 1352 cc version with a 72 mm bore and 82 mm stroke. A small V4 powered the compact [[1939]] [[Lancia Ardea|Ardea]]. It was a 20° narrow-angle engine displac
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• Fiat Regata
  |Class:||[[Compact car|Compact]] [[Category:Compact cars]]
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• Bruno Sacco
  ...[[Mercedes-Benz CLK-Class|CLK]] and [[Mercedes-Benz SLK-Class|SLK]] sports cars, and the [[Mercedes-Benz M-Class|M-Class]] luxury sport utility vehicle. Hi ...ss of design. Sacco felt this was of special importance to Mercedes, whose cars' reputation for longevity meant that their typical life cycle was 20 to 30
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• RWD
  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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• Alfa Romeo 147
  |Body Styles:||[[FF layout|FF]] [[compact car|compact]] 3-door & 5-door [[hatchback]] The '''Alfa Romeo 147''' is a [[compact car|compact]] automobile produced by the [[Italy|Italian]] manufacturer [[Alfa Romeo]]
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• Straight engine
  ...modern cars. Some manufacturers, notably Acura, Audi, Toyota, VW and Volvo Cars, have also used [[straight-5]] configurations. The General Motors ''GM Atl ...round the same time, fuel consumption became a much more important factor. Cars became smaller and much more space-efficient. The engine bay of a modern sm
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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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• Demolition Derby
  ...ilized. However, this increased speed, coupled with the fact that compact cars tend to be less crashworthy, makes injuries more frequent. Vehicles from t ...tery]], and occasionally cutting an escape hatch in the roof. To make the cars last longer, they are occasionally pre-bent, [[frames]] notched, rear [[bum
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• Flat-6
  ...ry sports cars, cruising motorcycles, and aircraft than ordinary passenger cars. ...engine luxury sports cars, while Subaru uses it in its [[all-wheel drive]] cars, where the difficulties of fitting the engine between the front wheels are
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• World Touring Car Championship
  |Category || [[Touring car racing|Touring cars]] The first WTCC, which was open to [[Group A]] Touring Cars, was held in [[1987 World Touring Car Championship season|1987]] concurrent
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• Straight-6
  ...-wheel-drive and transverse ("east-west") engine configurations in smaller cars saw that the shorter engine length of the V6 became highly desirable, and t ...dels with straight sixes. BMWs are [[rear wheel drive]], but Volvo builds cars equipped with [[front wheel drive]] and a [[transverse engine|transverse]]
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• Front-wheel drive
  ...h front wheel drive cars date to the early days of the automobile. [[Alvis Cars]] of the [[United Kingdom]] introduced a front wheel drive model in 1928, b ...successful models were the 1934 [[Citroën Traction Avant|Traction Avant]] cars from [[Citroën]] in Europe, and the contemporary [[Cord 810|810]] from [[C
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• Ferrari F2002
  ...weight by as much as 15% and lowering the cars centre of gravity. The new compact design allowed for great advancement in the bodywork and increasing the car ...managed by Ferrari agreeing to aggregate their tyre usuage between the two cars, ensuring that Schumacher used the same total number of tyres as all the ot
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• Fiat 1800/2100
  ...ed that of the [[Peugeot 404]] and [[BMC]]'s [[Austin A55 Cambridge|family cars]] of the same period: all three were designed by [[Pininfarina]] of [[Turin ...d the designation 1500L ''(lunga = long)''. The car shared with its more compact sibling Fiat's four cylinder 1481 cc engine, delivering 72 bhp, which in 19
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• Ferrari Colombo engine
  [[Ferrari]]'s earliest cars used engines designed by [[Gioacchino Colombo]], who had formerly designed The early 166, 195, and 212 cars used Colombo V12s of varying sizes. All shared the same 58.8 mm strok
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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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• Marine 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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• Autotecnica
  In 1953 the 1100 was completely redesigned as a compact four door saloon with a modern monocoque chassis and bodywork incorporating [[Category: Cars]]
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• Fiat 8V
  ...iat]]s (but many parts were made by [[Siata]] and they used them for their cars). The 8V was developed by [[Dante Giacosa]] and the stylist [[Fabio Lucio R ...cars had a factory produced bodywork by [[Carozzeria Speciale FIAT]]. Some cars had the bodywork done by other [[Italian]] [[coachbuilders]]. [[Carozzeria]
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• Ferrari 500 Mondial
  In the early 1950s, [[Ferrari]] shifted from using the compact [[Gioacchino Colombo]]-designed [[V12 engine]] in its smallest class of spo ...erraris is that they lacked the hood scoops common on V12 models. The V12 cars used [[carburettor|downdraft carburettors]] located centrally in the "valle
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• Ferrari Monza
  In the early 1950s, [[Ferrari]] shifted from using the compact [[Gioacchino Colombo]]-designed [[V12 engine]] in its smallest class of spo ...erraris is that they lacked the hood scoops common on V12 models. The V12 cars used [[carburettor|downdraft carburettors]] located centrally in the "valle
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• Lee Iacocca
  ...of bankruptcy, as it was focusing most of its money on large, fuel thirsty cars that the public didn't want due to a fuel crisis at the time. First, Iacoc ...nment-backed loans seven years earlier than expected; most of it came from cars built on the K platform.
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• Pushrod engine
  ...engines and have largely replaced cam-in-block designs in countries where cars are taxed based on [[engine displacement]]. In [[1949]], [[Oldsmobile]] int ...oorer "breathing". Breathing was not greatly emphasized in past production cars because engines could not run long and reliably at high speed due to other
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• Dante Giacosa
  ...s [[Tranquillo Zerbi]], designer of [[Grand Prix motor racing|Grand Prix]] cars for Fiat. In 1933 when work commenced on the Fiat 500, the director of the ...bsp;km/h was claimed. A batch of twenty cars was laid down in 1946 and the cars were raced successfully throughout the rest of the 1940s.
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• AC Cars
  '''AC Cars Group Ltd.''' is a British specialist car manufacturing company and one of In 1922 the name changed again to A.C. Cars Ltd. Edge bought the company outright for £135,000 in 1927 and re-register
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• Autobianchi
  ...handful of models during its lifetime, which were almost exclusively small cars, with the biggest being the short-lived [[Autobianchi A111]], a [[small fam ...(mechanics)|differential]] (final drive) that has become prevalent in its cars today. This car competed with the [[Innocenti]]-built [[Mini]], which was t
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