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  • ...simple MacPherson strut suspension on the left front wheel of a rear-wheel drive vehicle.]] ...transverse engine|transverse]] oriented engines such as most [[front wheel drive]] vehicles have. For those reasons, it has become almost ubiquitous with
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  • ...erformance. Great visibility and an ergonomic interior allow a comfortable drive while the doors are hinged at the rear to allow easier access. Other key fe ...erplants is coupled up to a continuously variable gearbox and a four wheel drive system.
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  • ...time the camshaft when compared with [[OHC]] engines. Most [[OHC]] engines drive the [[camshaft]] or [[camshaft]]s using a [[timing belt]], a [[Roller chain ...ly from the use of [[Multi-valve|multiple valves]] as well as much greater freedom of component placement and intake and exhaust port geometry. Most modern pu
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  • ...tto Giugiaro photographs the Visconti, the concept car he created in sheer freedom, just like he did two years ago with the Brera coupe. ...“Biscione” Carmaker, sometimes by way of contract, and sometimes in sheer freedom”.
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  • ...in [[1839]]. A nephew later claimed that his uncle developed a rear-wheel drive design using mid mounted [[treadles]] connected by rods to a rear crank, si ...Although a [[Henry Lawson (inventor)|Henry Lawson]] invented a rear-chain-drive bicycle in 1879 with his "bicyclette", it still had a huge front wheel and
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  • '''Four wheel drive''', '''4WD''', or '''4x4''' ("four by four") is a four-wheeled [[vehicle]] ..., to varying degrees of engagement while 4WD means only four of the wheels drive the vehicle continuously. AWD can also be thought of as automatic 4WD, havi
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  • Although less than two hours' drive from [[Rome]], the city (laid out within medieval walls) has not yet been h ...'' of [[Perugia]]. In the end, however, the Aquilans, always fond of their freedom, had him deposed and imprisoned by the king of [[Naples]].
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  • ** Front-wheel drive: 226 kW (307 PS/303 hp) - [[GM LS engine#LS4|GM LS4]], 2005 ** First front-wheel drive Wankel engine - 1969 [[Mazda Luce|Mazda R130 Luce]] ''(Only FWD rotary vehi
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  • ...on the conditions. Inducing understeer by applying power in a front wheel drive car is useful via proper use of "[[Left-foot braking]]." In any case, this ...sion tends to give better handling, because it provides the engineers more freedom to choose the geometry, and more road holding, because the camber is better
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  • ...[Kirkpatrick MacMillan]] refined this in 1839 by adding a mechanical crank drive to the rear wheel, thus creating the first true "bicycle" in the modern sen ...solved this problem by introducing the ''chain'' and producing rear-wheel drive. These models were known as ''dwarf safeties'', or ''safety bicycles'', for
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  • ...junior team to house their growing list of young talent looking for an F1 drive. Despite campaigns by Minardi fans the team were renamed [[Scuderia Toro Ro ...] as full time racing drivers. Liuzzi who had previously shared the second drive role with Klien moved to new Red Bull owned team [[Scuderia Toro Rosso|Toro
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  • ...is said to have uttered one of the most famous phrases to come out of the drive to unite Italy in the 19th century: “We have created Italy; now we have t ...he entire chorus became the unofficial anthym of the [[Risorgimento]], the drive to unify Italy in the 19th century. Many still feel that the chorus should
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