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! colspan=2 |'''Austin A40 Farina''' |Predecessor:||[[Austin A35]]

...e the [[Fiat]] [[Fiat 500|500]] of [[1957]] and the [[Austin Motor Company|Austin]] [[Mini]] of [[1959]]. Today, superminis are some of the biggest selling c ...rther popularized by the [[United Kingdom|British]] [[Austin Motor Company|Austin]] [[Mini]] two years later.

[[Image:Le_Mans_1955_start.jpg|thumb|250px|'''Start of the race, Levegh #20 car is in the center of the frame''']] ...lso critical; the first use of [[disc brake]]s on a car was in a [[Jaguar (car)|Jaguar]] racing in Le Mans. Mercedes-Benz still used drum-brake in 1955, b

*Austin Healey 1956 *[[Siata 500]] Record car 1946

|Class:||[[Supermini car|Supermini]] |Similar:||[BMC ADO16|Austin/Morris 1100]]

...ight distribution]]—the heaviest component is at one end of the vehicle. [[Car handling]] is not ideal, but usually predictable. * Austin [[Mini]]

...d for [[low cost]] operation. They are designed for drivers who use their car primarily for personal transportation. Typical economy cars are small, lig ...ign) allowed it to be the first car to exemplify the ideals of the economy car. It was far less expensive, smaller, and more austere than its hand-built

...lac (automobile)|Cadillac]], [[Nash Motors|Nash]], [[Peugeot]], [[Jaguar (car)|Jaguar]], [[Volvo]], [[Alfa Romeo]] and [[Lancia]]. Since the 1980's Pini ...(and partially assembled) the [[Cadillac Allanté]] for General Motors. The car's bodies were assembled and painted in Italy before being flown to Detroit

|Class || [[Large car]] |Body style || 4-door [[saloon car|saloon]]<br>2-door [[coupé]]<br>5-door [[station wagon]]

...e current "practical" limit to the displacement of Straight-4 engines in a car is around 2.7 litres. However, in tractors and other construction machinery ...or Company|Austin]] 2660 cc engine used in the [[Austin-Healey 100]] and [[Austin Atlantic]]. These engines were generally the result of a long incremental e

|Class || Racing car Most cars were sold to private owners such as [[Austin Dobson]],

...] body, gaining a reputation especially with racing cars light but strong. Car bodies, which were often unique items commissioned by a client, were design *Austin Healey 1956

[[Image:Lloyd Kleinbus.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Lloyd (car)|Lloyd LT 600 van]] with front suicide door]] ...t is familiar to many English-speakers and often used openly in the custom-car trade.

...ome vehicles acheive this by having little car length behind the [[Pillar (car)|C-Pillar]] and thus [[Renault 5|no room for a side window over the load ar ...In Europe, [[city car]]s, [[supermini car|superminis]], and [[small family car]]s are usually hatchbacks.

...as many vehicles fall between classes or even outside all of them. Not all car types are sold in all countries and names differ in some cases between [[Br |&nbsp;-||rowspan=2|[[Supermini car|Supermini]]||A class||[[Fiat Panda]]

|Body Styles:||[[FF layout|FF]] [[compact car|compact]] 3 and 5-door [[hatchback]] The '''Fiat Tipo''' is a [[small family car]] designed by the [[I.DE.A Institute|IDEA]] design house and produced by th

...63)]] [[Jaguar (car)|Jaguar]] [[Jaguar E-Type|E-Type]] is a classic sports car.]] ...igned primarily for performance driving while not being a rally orientated car.

| Class || [[Small family car]] ...S.]] as the '''Fiat Strada''' but failed to attract many [[Ford Escort]]/[[Austin Allegro]] buyers because of its unconventional appearance. Legend has it th

|Class:||[[Executive car]] |Body style:||4-door [[saloon car|saloon]]<br>2-door [[coupé]]

The '''European [[Car of the Year]]''' award was established in 1964 by a collective of [[automob ...ion from each country is based on the size of the country's car market and car manufacturing industry. The jury for 2006 consisted of 58 members from 22 c

|Successor:||[[Alfa Romeo 33 (road car)|Alfa Romeo 33]] |Class:||[[Small family car]]

! Car ...ned by the [[Louis Ravel|brother]] of the [[Maurice Ravel|composer]]. His car was struck [[head-on collision|head-on]] by a [[van]] traveling at high spe

...use "hp (SAE)" to indicate the power of the engine, given that particular car's complete engine installation. It measures engine power at the [[flywheel] ...s were often exaggerated, while those for the highest-performance [[muscle car]] engines were frequently underrated.

...aseball stadium was built on the innerpart of this curve. When the [[Champ Car]] series began using the track in 2002, the ''peraltada'' curve was partial | [[Cooper Car Company|Cooper]]-[[Maserati]]

...er unit, using the Siata cylinder head, with 22bhp - enough to propel the car to about 100km/h. A Siata 750cc engine with 25bhp was also available. Later ...a]] launched in 1950 to complement the smaller Amica, the Daina was a [[GT car]] built both as a coupe and a trasformabile (convertible). The bodies of bo

...aseball stadium was built on the innerpart of this curve. When the [[Champ Car]] series began using the track in 2002, the ''peraltada'' curve was partial | [[Cooper Car Company|Cooper]]-[[Maserati]]

...running of the event at Albert Park in 2005, Webber drove his Williams F1 car over the Sydney Harbour Bridge in a promotional event, and the Melbourne ci ...he crash, and Brundle’s subsequent rush back to the pits to take the spare car for the re-start, ensured the first race in Melbourne gained widespread cov

...ari]] [[Formula One]] 1.5&nbsp;L V8 engines ''(none of them used in a road car)'' ....6&nbsp;L (13600&nbsp;cc/829 cu&nbsp;in³) 2003 Cadillac Sixteen ([[concept car]])

[[Image:Colorized car engine.jpg|thumb|A colorized [[automobile]] engine]] ...uel energy-density. These engines have appeared in almost all [[Automobile|car]]s, [[motorbike]]s, many [[boat]]s, and in a wide variety of [[aircraft]] a

...aría de Villapadierna]], [[Giovanni Battaglia]], [[Clemente Biondetti]], [[Austin Dobson]] ...r racing car, and was powered by a supercharged eight cylinder engine. The car was very light for the period, weighing just over 1,500 lb (680 kg) despite

...r James drives into a compound and the automatic gates close, trapping her car in front of the dairy truck. ...ssing - instead, an out-take of Sellers messing about on set with a racing car was substituted.{{fact}} Out-takes of Sellers were also used for Tremble's

...passed from [[Alpha Romeo]] to [[Lancia]] in the February [[1938]]. To the car it comes given the name “[[Ardea]]”, correspondent to that one of one a ...incenzo Lancia (that seems already had defined it like '' the most popular car between that I have produced up to now ''), the first one vagito of the one

The film is best known for Bond's Lotus Esprit submarine/car and the introduction of [[Jaws (James Bond)|Jaws]], a giant and seemingly i ...Nixon'', the wet submarine whose body was constructed from an Esprit donor car.

..., and it has been widely parodied (in ''[[The Simpsons]]'', the second ''[[Austin Powers]]'' film, and on ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'', among many othe ...fight at a local warehouse owned by Drax and then again on top of a cable car, after which Dr. Goodhead is captured.

...and remains a huge influence within the cinematic spy film genre. The ''[[Austin Powers]]'' series by writer and actor [[Mike Myers (actor)|Mike Myers]] and ...thumb|left|The [[Aston Martin DB5]] is the most famous and recognised Bond car]]

...and remains a huge influence within the cinematic spy film genre. The ''[[Austin Powers]]'' series by writer and actor [[Mike Myers (actor)|Mike Myers]] and ...thumb|left|The [[Aston Martin DB5]] is the most famous and recognised Bond car]]