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Cyclecar
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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Gioacchino Colombo
[[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
'''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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Kay Petre
..." 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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Bugatti Prototypes
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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RMR layout
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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Microcar
[[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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Bari
...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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Alfa Romeo Spider
...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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Bugatti Type 10
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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Piaggio
...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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Las Vegas Grand Prix
...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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Straight-4
...-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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Fiat 4 HP
...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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Batmobile
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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Alfa Romeo in Formula One
...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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Fiat 500
...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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Vespa 400
...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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Bugatti Type 13
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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V8
...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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