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  • From [[1898]] to [[1910]], [[automobile]] production quicky expanded. Light cars of that era were commonly known as There were sporting cyclecars such as [[Amilcar]], [[Major (automobile|Major]] or [[Salmson]] of [[France]].
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  • [[Italy|Italian]] '''Gioacchino Colombo''' was an [[automobile]] [[engine]] designer. He began work as an apprentice to the great [[Vitto Colombo's great work for Ferrari was a tiny 1.5 L V12, first used in the [[Ferrari 166|166]] [[sports car]]s. Thi
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  • '''Bubble car''' is a generic name given to a range of small economical [[automobile]]s — mainly produced in the 1950s and 1960s. Bubble cars became popular ...ll as BMW's [[Isetta]]. [[France]] also produced large numbers of similar tiny vehicles called [[voiturette]]s, but unlike the German makes, these were ra
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  • ..." lady caused a media sensation at the time. The abiding image of Kay is a tiny woman seated in a huge 10.5 litre V12 [[Delage]]. This was the car in which ...leys. She was ninth in the Mountain Grand Prix at Brooklands in a [[Riley (automobile)|Riley]] 1.5 in 1934, against tough opposition. Her first visit to [[Le Man
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  • The Type 56 was a tiny 2-seat open car very much in the style of turn-of-the-century horseless car The five Type 73 chassis were sold off after the company exited automobile production. Most were later assembled, and one (number 2) was even given a
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  • In [[automobile design]], an '''RMR''' or '''Rear [[Mid-engine design|Mid-engine]], [[Rear- ...00|Indianapolis]] between 1939 and 1947. In 1953 [[Porsche]] premiered the tiny and altogether new RMR [[Porsche 550|550 spyder]] and in a year it was noto
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  • [[Image:Smart.car.bristol.750pix.jpg|thumb|right|300px|[[Smart (automobile)|Smart]] car is an example of a microcar]] A '''microcar''' is an extremely small [[automobile]]. Various definitions are used, including "less than 3 [[metre]]s in leng
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  • ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" Other tiny groups consist of British, Filipinos, and Ethiopians.
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  • ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...y two seats. The rear seats can be optionally deleted to increase the very tiny boot space.
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  • The Bugatti automobile was prototyped as the '''Type 10''' in [[Ettore Bugatti]]'s basement in [[1 ...]], and entered the [[French Grand Prix]] at [[Le Mans]] in [[1911]]. The tiny Bugatti looked out of place at the race, but calmly took second place after
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  • ...disastrous state of the roads did not assist in the re-development of the automobile markets. Enrico Piaggio, the son of Piaggio's founder Rinaldo Piaggio, deci ...to develop other products. In [[1957]] they produced the [[Vespa 400]], a tiny passenger car.
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  • ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...the end of Formula One racing in Las Vegas since the races had drawn only tiny crowds.
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  • ...-banger''', this [[straight engine]] configuration is the most common in [[automobile|car]]s with a [[engine displacement|displacement]] up to 2.3 [[litre|Litres == Automobile use==
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  • ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...ounted to a three-speed gearbox. (No reverse gear was included.) With this tiny engine the car could achieve top speed of 35km/h. Despite having such a sma
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  • The '''Batmobile''' is the fictional personal [[automobile]] of [[comic book]] [[superhero]] [[Batman]]. The car has followed the evol Originally in the [[comic books]], Batman simply drove a simple red automobile with nothing special in its functions. This version first appeared in Batm
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  • ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...F1 teams used Alfa Romeo [[straight-4]] engines in cars such as the [[LDS (automobile)|LDS]] Mk1 and Mk2 "Specials", [[Cooper Car Company|Cooper]]s and [[De Toma
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  • ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ..."cinquecento" from the [[Italian language|Italian]] word for "500") is a [[automobile|car]] produced by the [[Fiat]] company of [[Italy]] between 1957 and 1975 (
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  • ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" [[Image:vespa_400_1958.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The '''1958 Vespa 400''' was a tiny passenger car with a 349 [[Cubic centimetre|cc]] engine built in both 2 and
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  • The Bugatti automobile was prototyped as the '''Type 10''' in [[Ettore Bugatti]]'s basement in [[1 ...]], and entered the [[French Grand Prix]] at [[Le Mans]] in [[1911]]. The tiny Bugatti looked out of place at the race, but calmly took second place after
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  • ...engines. V8 engines are rarely less than 4 litres in displacement and in automobile use have gone up to 8.5 litres or so. ...es, including those from [[De Dion-Bouton]], [[Peerless]], and [[Cadillac (automobile)|Cadillac]], were flat-plane designs. In [[1915]], the cross-plane design
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  • ...has a lower temperature tolerance, is used to enhance chemical resistance. Tiny synthetic fibres known as [[Microfiber|microfibres]] are used in many types ...cular vehicles' outside-air intakes. Being a relatively recent addition to automobile equipment, this filter is often overlooked and clogged or dirty cabin air f
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  • ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...e island is between [[Cape Miseno]] and the island of [[Ischia]]. With its tiny satellite island of [[Vivara]], it is a ''[[comune]]'' of the province of [
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  • ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" '''De Tomaso''' is an [[Italy|Italian]] [[automobile|car]]-manufacturing company. It was founded by the [[Argentina|Argentinian]
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  • ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...a as a private track meant a transition from racing through the streets of tiny Elkhart Lake to racing on a big, wide, dedicated race track.
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  • ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...r - the '''[[Tyrrell Racing|Tyrrell]] P34'''. The theory was that its four tiny front wheels would increase mechanical front-end grip – with more rubber
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  • ...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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  • ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...acchino Colombo]] designed [[V12]] resided. In its first configuration the tiny engine just displaced 1.5 litre, but in its third incarnation had grown in
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  • ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...of the GTV. The rear seats can be optionally deleted to increase the very tiny boot space.
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  • ...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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  • ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ''' Lancia Artena ''' is [[a produced automobile]] from [[the houses automobilistiche|casa]] [[Torino|torinese]] in two peri
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  • ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" |align="left"|{{flagiconUS}} [[Tiny Lund]]
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  • ...which tax automobiles according to displacement and regulatory bodies in [[automobile racing]] variously consider the Wankel engine to be equivalent to a four-st ...rporation|General Motors]] and [[Mercedes Benz]] to design Wankel-engine [[automobile]]s, the most extensive automotive use of the Wankel engine has been by the
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  • Volpi, and thus Serenissima, halted automobile operations before [[1970]]. The company withdrew from any involvement in the automobile sector in 1969. [http://www.autopasion18.com/HISTORIA-SERENISSIMA.htm <smal
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  • Introduced for before the time to [[the Hall of the automobile|Salone]] of [[Paris]] in the October of 1931, the Astura endures, after app ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile"
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  • '''Ufficine Nardi''' was an [[Italy|Italian]] [[automobile]] and [[racing car]] maker, named for their creator. The ''750 Nardi-Danese'' or 750ND was a tiny machine, starting with a [[Fiat 500]] chassis, powered by a 50bhp 746 cc [[
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  • ...an implement by shaft or belt. The foot throttle gives the operator more automobile-like control over the speed of the tractor for road work. This is a featur ...t it operate in small work areas where movement is limited. There are also tiny wheeled loaders, officially called [[Skid-steer loader]]s but nicknamed "[[
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  • ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...00]], the team was one of the least successful in Formula One history. The tiny team never had appropriate human, financial or technical resources, sometim
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  • ...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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  • ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...onditions (from the industrial suburb of Gardolo just north of the city to tiny mountain hamlets on the Monte Bondone). Various distinctive suburbs still m
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  • ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...r the technical situation improved. Few [[sponsors]] were attracted by the tiny Italian equipe. Denim only stayed for the first two seasons, [[Kelemata]] w
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  • ...,000 jobs lost this decade. As a result, in 2009, China became the largest automobile market in the world. ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile"
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  • ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" '''Minardi''' was an [[automobile racing]] team and constructor founded in [[1979]] by [[Giancarlo Minardi]]
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  • ...Carburetors are still found in small engines and in older or specialized [[automobile]]s such as those designed for [[stock car racing]]. However, most cars buil ...y the technician or mechanic, adjusting a screw which opens the throttle a tiny fraction to allow a minimal amount of air to pass, and another screw which
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  • ...dom|UK]]), ''Autopista'' ([[Spain]]), ''Autovisie'' ([[Netherlands]]), ''L'Automobile Magazine'' ([[France]]), ''[[Stern (magazine)|Stern]]'' ([[Germany]]) and ' ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile"
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  • ...s from [[Rhodos]] who founded the merchant colony called [[Parthenope]] on tiny Megaride island and the neighbouring Pizzofalcone hill. Parthenope was name ...e is still small and a number of earlier and ambitious enterprises such as automobile manufacturing plants on the the outskirts have closed and gone elsewhere. T
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  • ...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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  • ...ération Internationale de l'Automobile's ([[Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile|FIA]]'s) standardisation of rules. A World Drivers' Championship followed i ...édération Internationale de l'Automobile ([[Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile|FIA]]) organized the first ever official World Championship for Drivers usi
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