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...|| 4-door [[cabriolet]]<br>4-door [[limousine]]<br>4-door [[Saloon (car)|saloon]] '''Fiat 524''' is a model of car produced by [[Italy|Italian]] [[automotive]] manufacturer [[Fiat]] between

| Body style || 2/4-door [[sedan (car)|sedan]]<br>2/4-door [[Cabriolet (automobile)|cabriolet]]<br>2-door [[spyde The '''Fiat 518 Ardita''' was a model of car produced by [[Italy|Italian]] [[automotive]] company, [[Fiat]] between 1933

...oratio Nelson Jackson]] in his 2-seat [[Winton automobile|Winton]] touring car, "The Vermont", drives across America]] [[Image:Studebaker1920.jpg|thumb|250px|1920 [[Studebaker Big Six]] '''touring car''' with its top down. The folded top behind passengers was known as the "fa

...1900]] ''Gran Luce'' and on a two-door versions of the [[Alfa Romeo 1900]] saloon. Around 1957, even [[Ferrari]], commissioned a number of Ellena [[berlinett ...in [[Turin]]. '''Ellena''' created a luxurious and particularly beautiful car with [[Fiat]] mechanicals (the 2300BL representation) in collaboration with

| Body style || 2/4-door [[sedan (car)|sedan]]<br>2/4-door [[Cabriolet (automobile)|cabriolet]]<br>2-door [[spyde The '''Fiat 514''' was a model of car produced by [[Italy|Italian]] [[automotive]] company, [[Fiat]] between 1929

A '''family car''' is a [[car classification]] used in [[Europe]] to describe normally-sized cars. The na ....arp.750pix.jpg|thumb|right|A [[Ford Focus]], classified as a small family car.]]

...d were available in three forms: a 2+2 sports coupe, a saloon and a luxury saloon. The engines were available and tuned by [[Abarth]] or [[Stanguellini]]. Ve ...gious and expensive cars began in 1959 with the presentation of an elegant saloon derived from the Fiat OSCA 1500 shown at Turin in 1960, designed by [[Giova

|Class:||[[compact car]] |Body styles:||[[FR layout|FR]] 4-door [[sedan (car)|saloon]]<br>[[FR layout|FR]] 4-door [[hatchback]]

...rd.focus.arp.750pix.jpg|200px|thumb|right|A [[Ford Focus]], a small family car]] ...are generally referred to as [[compact car]]s, and the term "small family car" is almost never used to describe them.

...ame or chasis. Steel monocoque construction is now the most common form of car bodywork. There are several common car body styles:

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

...00, 1800, 2300), including sometimes stretching the wheelbase. A four-door saloon based on the 600, the 'Lucciola' followed, a successful style carried on to Francis Lombardi [[600 Lucciola]] was a four-door, pillarless saloon using the 600 floorpan and mechanicals. Click here for a period advertiseme

...ness was carried on by his closest business partner, [[Carlo Follis]]. Few car bodies were made until after World War II, when a [[cabriolet]] was built o {{A-Z multipage list|Car Information and Photos by Marque|Information and Photos by Marque|}}

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

|Class:||[[Supermini car|Supermini]] ...heel drive]], [[transverse engine]] setup, as well as the first Fiat group car with [[rack and pinion]] steering. Primulas were built in the Autobianchi f

...had a wheelbase of 2600mm ([[Torpedo]] and [[Spider]]), 2700mm and 2720mm (saloon) and 2350mm ([[Sport]] and [[Corsa]]). {{A-Z multipage list|Car Information and Photos by Marque|Information and Photos by Marque|}}

A '''sedan''' car, [[American English]] terminology, is one of the most common configurations In [[British English]] the configuration is called a '''saloon''' and has its engine under the ''bonnet'' at the front, and a ''boot'' for

...the cartoon car driven by Disney's Mickey--was the world's first "people's car"; the Topolino became available to the public in 1936, while both the Volks Even with these improvements, the car was fairly commonplace. Everybody who could afford it modified these bare b

...onvertible), ''Panoramica'' (station wagon), and ''Furgoncino'' (van). The car was presented to the public on September 16, 1957 at the [[Museo della Scie Initially the car was equipped with the smallest Fiat engine, air-cooled 479 cc producing 15h

|Layout & Class:||[[FF layout|FF]] [[compact car|compact]] ...r [[Fiat]] from [[1995]] to [[2001]]. Effectively two versions of the same car, the Bravo is a 3-door [[hatchback]] and the Brava a 5-door hatchback.

|Body || four-door saloon-type closed {{A-Z multipage list|Car Information and Photos by Marque|Information and Photos by Marque|}}

|Class || [[Large family car]] |Body style || 4-door [[sedan]]<br>5-door [[estate car|estate]]<br>2-door [[convertible|cabrio]]

|Class:||[[Compact car|Compact]] |Body style:||4-door [[sedan|saloon]]

...m:1px solid #999;" |[[Image:Fiat Marea front 20080226.jpg|280px|Fiat Marea Saloon]] | Class || [[Family car]]

| Class || [[Small family car]] | Body style || 4-door [[sedan (car)|sedan]]

| Body style || [[coupe]]/[[sedan (car)|sedan]]<br>[[spyder|spider]]<br>[[station wagon]]<br>[[van]] | Length || 3575 mm (saloon)<br>3735 mm (familiare)

|Class:||[[Large family car]] |Body style:||4-door [[sedan|saloon]]<br>5-door [[station wagon]]

...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]]

...000 MM and [[Disco Volante]] coupes, the stunningly executed lines of this car are every bit as good as anything created by [[Alfa Romeo]] at the time. ...coque chassis and bodywork incorporating integrated front lights. Soon the car became available as a sports version, the 1100TV, with a third front light,

|Class:||[[Midsize car]] ...uced for sale in [[1961]]. Initially available only as a four door [[sedan|saloon]], it featured a 1.5&nbsp;[[Litre|L]] [[Lancia Flat-4 engine|aluminium boxe

|Team(s):||[[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]], [[Cooper Car Company|Cooper]] | [[Cooper Car Company|Coop]]

| Class || [[Small family car]] | Body style || 4-door [[saloon car|saloon]]<br />2-door [[saloon car|saloon]]<br />5-door [[Station wagon|estate]]

|Class:||[[Executive car]] The '''Lancia Gamma''' was an [[executive car]] from [[Italy|Italian]] [[Fiat|Fiat Auto's]] up-scale [[Lancia]] marque. P

|Class:||[[FF layout|front-engined]] [[saloon]]/[[estate]] |Body styles:||[[Saloon]]<br>[[Estate|Sportwagon]]

...back]] [[automobile|car]] category (for [[America]]n cars see [[subcompact car]]. Today their size is around 3,90 m and have seating for four adults and a ...ustin Seven or Morris Mini Minor. It was the only major choice in the mini-car sector until the [[Rootes Group]] launched its rear-engined [[Hillman Imp]]

...00]] mechanicals. It was available in various configurations, ''Berlina'' (saloon), ''Cabriolet'' (roadster), ''Trasformabile'' (convertible), ''Panoramica'' ...ied and entered it into races until he was hospitalised after crashing the car on [[June 12]], [[1962]] on a public road.

...fa Romeo 2600]] berlina. The entire mechanicals were taken from the latter car, including the 130bhp 2584cc straight-six engine. In 1966 the de Luxe took The car was sold officially through [[Alfa Romeo]] and had the model designation 10

|Class:||[[subcompact car]] / [[supermini car|supermini]] The '''Fiat Palio''' is [[Fiat]]'s 'world car' aimed at [[developing countries]], although the station wagon version and

...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. They w ...e closely connected with [[Fiat]] around this time, and produced the 1400B saloon, 1200 Sport, 2300S Coupe and 600D Polis. In 1965 they released the Fiat 600

...d in [[2002]] as the successor to the [[Lamborghini Diablo|Diablo]]. The [[car body style|body style]] is a two door, two seat [[coupé]]. ...rom a [[Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution|Mitsubishi Evo VIII FQ-400]], a 4-door saloon with a 2.0L I4 Turbo engine, being driven by [[Jeremy Clarkson]]. In the ha

[[image:Logoautobianchi1.gif|thumb|180px|'''Autobianchi badge on a car's front fascia''']] ...h the biggest being the short-lived [[Autobianchi A111]], a [[small family car]]. Autobianchis were priced higher than Fiat models of similar size and the

|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

| Class || [[Family car]] | Body style || 4-door [[sedan (car)|sedan]]<br>5-door [[station wagon]]|

...ably a range of electric powered small trucks and a 5 or 7 seat [[electric car]]. In 1946, with the war over and thus demand for their commercial vehicles The first conventional car model released by Moretti Motors was the 'Cita'. Shortly afterwards Moretti

|Layout & Class:||[[FF layout|FF]] [[supermini car|supermini]] The '''Fiat 127''' is a [[supermini car|supermini]] produced by the [[Italy|Italian]] automaker [[Fiat]] between 19

...car designer. His work covered a large range from [[minicar]]s to [[sports car]]s, using all the different layouts as and when they were the best solution ...t confidence to entrust the design of all the mechanical components of the car including the chassis to Giacosa. Giacosa was engineering manager at Fiat b

|Class:||[[Compact car]] The '''Lancia Fulvia''' is an [[Italy|Italian]] [[automobile|car]] introduced at the [[Geneva Motor Show]] in 1963 by [[Lancia]]. It was pro

|Layout & Class:||[[FF layout|FF]] [[mid-size car|mid-size]] ...Fiat Regata]]. The original poject was called ''Tipo 3'', being a mid-size car between the [[Fiat Tipo]] (project ''Tipo 2'') and the bigger [[Fiat Croma]

|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

|Class || [[Executive car]] ...s produced had a [[Lancia V4 engine|V4]] engine of 1089 cc, which gave the car good performance.

| Class || [[Small family car]] ...[[Bertone]] of [[Italy]], was the most distinctive looking [[small family car]] in Europe on its launch. It was badged in [[Britain]] and the [[United St

|Class:||[[city car]]<br>[[FR]] |Body style:||[[sedan|saloon]]<br>convertible<br>cabriolet<br>estate car

'''Touring car racing''' is a general term for a number of distinct [[auto racing]] compet ==Characteristics of a touring car==

|Body style || 4-door [[sedan (car)|sedan]] (berlina)<br>2-door [[coupé]]<br>2-door [[Targa top|targa]] (Spid The '''Lancia Beta''' was a car produced by [[Lancia]]. It was the first Lancia produced by the company aft

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

...ar wheel drive, which would make it Alfa's first mass-produced rear driven car since the demise of the [[Alfa Romeo 75]] in 1992. This announcement caused ...d. The rumour was that in return for advising Tata on how to run a premium car company (something that Tata has never done before), Alfa Romeo would gain

...Matich]]'s outright time set in a 2.6 litre [[Lotus Cars|Lotus]] [[Sports Car]]. ...o be the second and last running of this endurance race. Endurance touring car races would continue at Oran Park well into the 1980s and apart from the Sa

| Body style || 4-door [[sedan (car)|sedan]]<br>2-door [[coupe]] The '''Alfa Romeo Alfetta''' was an executive [[saloon car]] and [[fastback]] [[coupé]] produced from [[1972]] until [[1984]] by [[Al

...emblem is a [[trident]]. Today, Maserati is owned directly by the Italian car giant [[Fiat]], after having been a part of [[Ferrari]] (a company in which ...who after the 10-year contract with Orsi, went on to form the [[O.S.C.A.]] car builder. This team worked on several projects ([[Maserati 4CLT]], [[Maserat

|Successor:||[[Alfa Romeo 33 (road car)|Alfa Romeo 33]] ...yle:||[[FF layout|FF]] [[Hatchback]], [[Station wagon|Estate]] and [[Sedan|Saloon]]

...ish specialist car manufacturing company and one of the oldest independent car marques in Britain. Based in [[Weybridge, Surrey]] (see also [[British moto ...moved to [[Thames Ditton]], Surrey in [[1911]] and grew into a substantial car manufacturer. [[Selwyn Edge|S F Edge]], who had been behind [[Napier]], joi

In [[1959]], [[Saab Automobile|Saab]] had an experimental car with ''two'' transverse [[straight-3]] engines bolted together&mdash;the [[ [[Jaguar (car)|Jaguar]] used them, from [[1949]] until the mid [[1990s]] in form of the l

...om the Giulia Berlina car and was designed by [[Bertone]]. The name of the car evolved from Giulia Sprint GT to Giulia Sprint and to GTJ ([[GT 1300 Junior ...ive in [[motorsport]]. Autodelta, the racing division of Alfa, developed a car for competition close to the road going model. These cars were named GTA in

...e]] and was also Alfa's first production car without separate chassis. The car was introduced first time for bigger audience in 1950 [[Paris Motor Show]]. ...ing it was "The family car that wins races", not-so-subtly alluding to the car's success in the [[Targa Florio]], Stella Alpina, and other competitions. I

|Layout & Class:||[[FF layout|FF]] [[supermini car|supermini]] The '''Fiat Uno''' is a [[supermini car]] produced by the [[Italy|Italian]] manufacturer [[Fiat]]. The Uno was laun

| Class || [[Large family car]] ...dels were [[executive car]]s, the Croma was marketed in the [[large family car]] segment, replacing the [[Fiat 132/Argenta|Fiat Argenta]].

...ash;[[Open-wheel|open wheel racers]] in the Northeast and West and [[Stock car racing|stock cars]] in the South. The open wheel racers were built for raci ...their car's backend around through a corner. The multiple drivers show the car angle at different points in a corner. ]]

...or 12 HP (later called Alfa) was made in 1907 and produced from 1908. This car had a small four cylinder engine with a power of 58 bhp. ...[[live axle]]s were common practice for both the front and rear axles of a car. They also developed rear transaxles which were fitted to the Aurelia and

...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

|Layout & Class:||[[FF layout|FF]] [[Mid-size car]] ...a Romeo 156''' (known internally as the type 932) is a [[compact executive car]] introduced by [[Italy|Italian]] automaker [[Alfa Romeo]] at the 1997 [[Fr

|Body Styles:||[[FF layout|FF]] [[full-size car|full-size]] [[sedan]] The '''Alfa Romeo 164''' was a [[full-size car|full-size]] [[automobile]] produced by the [[Italy|Italian]] manufacturer [

...tandard production chassis, while the Lotus had been created as a [[sports car]] with a special chassis, ideal distribution of weights, and specially desi ...e size of the Giulietta, I had a cage made of rods built directly onto the car and a worker modelled this new shape in aluminium sheets. This operation le

'''Cizeta''' Automobili srl of [[Modena]], [[Italy]] was a car manufacturer set up in the late 1980s by Claudio Zampolli (an Italian [[Fer ...n brought the original Diablo design to Cizeta. The prototype was the only car to carry the "Cizeta-Moroder" badge, as Giorgio Moroder pulled out of the C

...as he brought with him unrivaled flair, experience and the latest in race car design. [[Enzo Ferrari]], too, had joined the company as a works driver. Th ...ly small [[displacement]]. Further benefiting from excellent handling, the car, in top factory [[racing]] [[engine]] trim, could comfortably exceed 161 km

...0 Cisitalia [[Grand Prix]], the lack of money would not allow the stunning car to be completed.''']] ...Dusio’s conglomerate, Consorzio Industriale Sportiva Italia, went into the car building business. They opened a factory in Turin and became the first comp

...d in [[2002]] as the successor to the [[Lamborghini Diablo|Diablo]]. The [[car body style|body style]] is a two door, two seat [[coupé]]. To celebrate La Lamborghini have announced two more powerful models, the XTR, a track-only car with a 700 bhp version of the V12, and the LP640 with 640 bhp. Although the

...made by [[Maserati]] of [[Italy]]. There have been five generations of the car, each separated by a period of roughly five years. ...of Europe. However, the Quattroporte could be said to have been the first car specifically designed for this purpose.

The '''[[Ferrari]] 250''' is a series of [[sports car]]s from the 1950s and early 1960s. It was the company's most successful ea ...the hills and curves and Bracco emerged victorious at the end. This same car was later entered at the [[24 Hours of Le Mans]] and the [[Carrera Panameri

|Class || [[Sports car|Sports Car]] |Related || [[Alfa Romeo Giulia|Alfa Romeo Giulia Saloon]]

|[[Image:FiatYump1_SM.jpg |right|thumb|200px|[[Fiat Uno]] rally car ]] ...ple, 111,000 of whom are outside Italy. Fiat built the famous [[Lingotto]] car factory, opened in 1923.