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• Straight-8
  ...engine|flathead]] configuration) and [[General Motors Corporation|General Motors]] owned marques (flathead and [[overhead valve|OHV]] configuration), but th
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• Lamborghini LM001
  ...ysler]] engine, they chose to go with a 180 hp 5.9L [[American Motors Corporation|AMC]] built V8, with the intention of offering the V12 from the [[Lamborghi
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• Marque
  ...marque, or many—[[General Motors]] has used more than a dozen in the American market alone. ...o be the marque and make of a [[Dodge Dart]], but the maker was [[Chrysler Corporation]].
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• Automobile design
  ...Teague|Richard Teague]], a famous automobile designer at [[American Motors Corporation]] (AMC).]] ...ects on the auto business, the field of product design, and eventually the American economy. The smaller players could not maintain the pace and expense of yea
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• List of microcars by country of origin: U
  |{{flagiconUK}} [[United Kingdom]]||[[Bond Bug]]||[[Reliant|Reliant Motors Co Ltd]], [[Tamworth]], [[Staffordshire]] || [[Reliant]] 700 cc ||2 |{{flagiconUK}} [[United Kingdom]]||JARC 'Little Horse'||JARC Motors [[Private company limited by shares|Ltd]], [[Isleworth]] ||[[Excelsior (Co
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• Hand brake
  ...figuration) were equipped with pedal activated emergency brakes, while non-American cars, which often had [[bucket seat]]s, were equipped with a lever between ...[front-wheel drive]] cars in the early [[1980s]] (United States v. General Motors, 841 F.2d 400 (D.C. Cir. 1988)). The cars were initially designed to be fiv
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• Pushrod engine
  ...s [[Rolls-Royce]] and [[Rover]] used this arrangement. From 1927-1929, the American firm [[Hudson]] used a 6-cylinder engine of this form as well, but this eng ...(notably several engines produced by [[General Motors Corporation|General Motors]]).
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• Scooter
  ...] and 250 cc with a single cylinder, though some models have twin cylinder motors). Most jurisdictions have no legal definition for "scooter". In general, 50 ...rs don't agree this is a good solution because they are used to two-stroke motors.
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• Torsion beam suspension
  ...ons are currently used on trucks and SUV's from [[Ford]], [[General Motors Corporation|GM]] and [[Dodge]]. Manufacturers change the torsion bar or key to adjust ...sistance to load and, in some cases (depending on the speed with which the motors can act), to respond to changes in road conditions. [[Height adjustable sus
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• Car body style
  ...a [[sedan (car)|sedan]]. Literally means [[tourism]], used mostly in Latin American Countries. ...f it during the [[1970s]] by both [[General Motors]] and [[American Motors Corporation|AMC]] in [[North America]] as another word for "station wagon" or "hatchbac
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• Lee Iacocca
  ...tober 15]], [[1924]] in [[Allentown, Pennsylvania]]) is an [[United States|American]] industrialist. ...zed businessmen in the world, Iacocca is the former chairman of [[Chrysler Corporation]] and was a passionate advocate of U.S. business exports during the [[1980s
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• Lamborghini LM002
  ...officially known as the [[Rambo]]. 301 LM002s were built, including 60 LM/American special equipment vehicles. ...001]], which was very similar to the Cheetah, but had an [[American Motors Corporation|AMC]] V8 engine.
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• Four-wheel drive
  ...rghini]] uses a viscous coupling unit to drive the front, and the [[Nissan Motors|Nissan]] [[Skyline GT-R]] uses a clutch. The [[Audi TT]] normally powers th ...[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|British]] and [[United States|American]] armies during [[World War I]].
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• Limited slip differential
  ...n]] differential invented by Vernon Gleasman in 1958, then sold to Gleason Corporation, who started marketing it in 1982. Geared LSDs are less prone to wear than [[American Motors Corporation]]: Twin-Grip
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• Straight-6
  ...ame the base engine model used on economy cars only. The vast majority of American cars during this period had V8s. The [[Chrysler]] Corporation had noteworthy [[Chrysler Slant 6 engine|slant six engines]], used in the [
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• Hydrogen vehicle
  ...General Motors Sequel|Sequel]], a fuel cell powered vehicle from [[General Motors]]]] ...en is turned into electricity through fuel cells which then power electric motors.
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• Gianni Agnelli
  ...eral Motors]], with whom an agreement was reached to progressively let the American company court Fiat. The recent serious crisis of Fiat found Agnelli already ...women during his marriage, including th film star [[Anita Ekberg]] and the American fashion designer [[Jackie Rogers]],[http://www.nyobserver.com/2007/jackie-o
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• Grand-Am
  The '''Grand American Road Racing Association''' or '''Grand-Am''' is an [[auto racing]] sanction ...investors are several of the key people behind NASCAR’s success, but Grand American offers an entirely different product that features world-class sports car r
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• Automatic transmission
  ...d|Bentley]], [[Hudson Motor Car|Hudson]], [[Kaiser Motors|Kaiser]], [[Nash Motors|Nash]], and [[Rolls-Royce Limited|Rolls-Royce]]. From 1950 to 1954 [[Lincol ...and several other manufacturers in the US and other countries. [[Chrysler Corporation|Chrysler]] was late in developing its own true automatic, introducing the t
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