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• Frua
  ...is own carrozzeria in 1966) and equipped himself to [[design]] and build [[automobile|car]]s. During the [[1960s]] [[Pietro Frua]] was among the most prominent car designers in Italy. The “Frua line” was [[synonym]]ous with the good taste of a s
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• Franco Scaglione
  '''Franco Scaglione''' was an automobile coachwork designer ([[Florence]], 26 september 1916 – [[Suvereto]],19 jun ...clothing for fashion houses, which is very profitable, but his vocation is automobile coachwork design. On 25th September 1948 he marries Maria Luisa Benvenuti a
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• Carrozzeria
  ...a or '''coachbuilder''' is a manufacturer of bodies for [[carriage]]s or [[automobile]]s. ...s for their chassis. For example, [[Fisher Body]] built all of [[Cadillac (automobile)|Cadillac]]'s closed bodies in the [[1910s]].
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• Irwindale Speedway
  ...paved 1/2 and 1/3 mile oval tracks. It is mainly used for [[United States Automobile Club|USAC]] [[Sprint car racing|sprint car]] and regional [[NASCAR]] races. ...ed Electrics]]. Lett, a Team Associated professional driver and one of the designers and developers of the aforementioned RC10, set the record with a heavily mo
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• Benetton B196
  ! Designers ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile"
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• Benetton B197
  ! Designers ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile"
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• Fiat Barchetta
  ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...r the supervision of Peter Barrett Davis and other [[automobile design|car designers]] at the [[Fiat Centro Stile]], and prototyping was carried out by Stola.
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• Circuit Park Zandvoort
  ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...nd only wanted to give up his vegetable garden in the dunes if the track's designers named a nearby corner after him. On the other hand, many different stories
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• Sway bar
  ...ar, anti-sway bar, roll bar,''' or '''anti-roll bar,''' '''ARB''') is an [[automobile]] [[suspension (vehicle)|suspension]] device. It connects opposite (left/ri ...prings and of the anti-roll bars, if any. The use of anti-roll bars allows designers to reduce body lean without making the suspension's springs stiffer in the
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• Benetton B195
  ! Designers ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile"
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• Carcerano
  ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...in Pianezza (Torino), by creating "Carcerano Open a series of events where designers, architects, engineers, entrepreneurs, artists, musicians, photographers, i
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• Giotto Bizzarrini
  ...mpany in [[1963]]. Bizzarini also worked for other makers including [[Iso automobile|Iso]] and [[Alfa Romeo]]. A series of [[concept car]]s in the [[2000s]] po ...zarrini was declared bankrupt in 1969, which ended Bizzarrini's days as an automobile manufacturer.
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• Borile
  ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...off road bike that its futuristic solutions were only now adopted by some designers.
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• List of Italian companies
  ==Automobile Manufacturers== ''Main article'' [[Automobile industry in Italy]]
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• Life
  ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...engines bore no other similarities, nor were there any links between their designers.
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• Ground effect
  ...e the force one wants the maximum area at the minimal pressure. Racing car designers have achieved low pressure in two ways: first, by using a fan to pull air o ...d by Lotus. In 1968 and 1969, [[Tony Rudd]] and [[Peter Wright (racing car designers)|Peter Wright]] at [[British Racing Motors]] (BRM) experimented on track an
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• Toro Rosso STR1
  ! Designers ...engines, only power-restricted under the [[Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile|FIA]]'s equivalency formula. Both the chassis-sharing and V10 engine usage
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• Automobile
  ...thumb|right|213px|Karl Benz's "Velo" model (1894) - entered into the first automobile race]] An '''automobile''' is a [[wheel]]ed [[passenger]] [[vehicle]] that carries its own [[car en
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• Fondmetal
  ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...91, due to some financial troubles, the British FOMET subsidiary where the designers had been working on a new Formula One car since the previous summer found i
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• Minardi M01
  ! Designers ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile"
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• B Engineering
  ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" '''B Engineering''' is a small-volume [[automobile]] manufacturer located in [[Italy]]. It is made up of several former emplo
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• V8
  ...engines. V8 engines are rarely less than 4 litres in displacement and in automobile use have gone up to 8.5 litres or so. ...ering exhaust system has been a major problem for single-seater racing car designers.
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• Ferdinand Porsche
  ...Dr. Porsche's son was [[Ferry Porsche]], the eponym for the [[Porsche]] [[automobile]], based on the Volkswagen design. The name Porsche is pronounced with an a After working for Bela Egger for five years, Porsche entered the automobile industry, joining the carriage factory Jakob Lohner & Co., which began the
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• Rotary engine
  ...d during [[World War I]]. It was also used in a few [[motorcycle]]s and [[automobile|cars]]. As the war progressed, aircraft designers demanded ever-increasing amounts of power. Inline engines were able to meet
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• Torsion beam suspension
  ...ke coil springs, usually cannot provide a progressive spring rate, forcing designers to compromise between [[ride quality]] and handling ability - progressive t {{Automobile configurations}}
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• Fiat 508
  ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...ch this car in a little pomp and especially the quality of the work of his designers, who made a car with average grade of benefits and the cost of use was very
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• Lavaggi
  ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...ent. When the tarp was finally lifted, it was immediately obvious that the designers had worked with principle of function over form. There was some confusion a
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• Ducati 98
  ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...ecause production recovered relatively quickly after WWII, and because the designers understood that "a model with a racing pedigree, stylish looks, and a bit o
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• Linkage (mechanical)
  Designers will synthesize a linkage by starting with the required output motion, mech {{Automobile configurations}}
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• Luigi Colani
  ;1990: Exhibition in ''Centre International de l'Automobile'' car museum in [[Paris]]; Presentation of the new [[Swissair]] uniforms de [[Category:Automobile designers]]
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• George Barris (auto customizer)
  ...uto show and was so popular it overshadowed the best work of Detroit's top designers, on display at the major manufacturer's exhibits. It also established the e
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• Cisitalia
  ...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 box
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• V6
  ...dvent of wing cars, a wide 120° bank angle was appealing for racing engine designers as it permits a low [[center of gravity]]. It was even considered superior {{Automobile configurations}}
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• Alfa Romeo 1900
  ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...ks, the [[Turin]] based company recovered quickly thanks to the talents of designers such as Giovanni [[Michelotti]], Pietro [[Frua]], Mario [[Boano]] and Giova
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• Toro Rosso STR2
  ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...[[Adrian Newey]], who earned a reputation as one of the most successful F1 designers with Championship-winning cars at both [[WilliamsF1|Williams]] and [[McLare
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• Dante Giacosa
  {{Italian automobile designers}} [[Category:Italian automobile designers]]
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• Bugatti
  '''Bugatti''' is one of the most celebrated [[marque]]s of [[automobile]] and the one of the most exclusive [[Italy|Italian]]/French/German car pro Although founder [[Ettore Bugatti]] was born in Italy, the automobile company that bears his name was located in [[Molsheim]], in the then-German
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• Internal combustion engine
  [[Image:Colorized car engine.jpg|thumb|right|A colorized [[automobile]] engine]] ...e of this before compression was already commonly used. It may have misled designers who tried to emulate the [[Carnot heat engine|Carnot cycle]] in ways that w
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• Fiat 8V
  ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...amiliar. But now imagine that it was designed in 1952, a time in which car designers had just dismissed winged fenders and were experimenting with aerodynamica.
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• Osella
  ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" In the early years, most of the work was done by interim designers like [[Giorgio Valentini]] or [[Tony Southgate]], but frequently Enzo Osell
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• Airbag
  [[image:car.airbag.600pix.jpg|right|thumb|250px|An [[automobile]] airbag, like this one in a crashed [[SEAT Ibiza]] car, deflates after 0.3 ...for cushioning, in particular after very rapid inflation in the case of an automobile [[collision]].
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• Lamborghini Sesto Elemento
  ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...pedals, which can be electrically adjusted longitudinally. Of course, the designers of Lamborghini Centro Stile also dispensed with interior trim in the classi
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• Spada
  ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" The designers gave more importance to the pleasure of driving
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• Bizzarrini
  ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" '''Bizzarrini S.p.A.''' was an [[Automobile|automotive]] [[manufacturer]] in the 1960s. Founded by former [[Alfa Romeo
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• Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano
  ...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"
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• Aerodynamics
  ...]s. Urban aerodynamics seeks to help [[Urban planning|town planners]] and designers improve comfort in outdoor spaces, create urban microclimates and reduce th
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• Grand Prix motorcycles
  ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...ogy and the high degree of technical skill & knowledge demonstrated by the designers and manufacturers.
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• Future of Formula One
  ...verhaul of the rules every few years in an attempt to cut speeds. However, designers and engineers always manage to get speeds back up eventually.
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• ATS
  ...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"
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• Car handling
  Automobile [[suspension (vehicle)|suspension]]s have many variable characteristics, wh ...ntry to high-speed corners. To compensate for this unavoidable effect, car designers often bias the car's handling toward less corner-entry understeer (such as
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