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• Fissore
  ...brothers (Bernando, Antonio, Costanzo and Giovanni) to produce horse drawn vehicles, they began their first tentative steps into the car and truck world at the ...to various vehicles including cars, ambulances, hearses, light commercial vehicles etc.
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• Lancia Appia
  ...lid #999;" |[[Image:Lancia Appia.jpg|280px|Lancia Appia III serie berlina (1959/1963)]] ...uction cars dating back to the Lancia [[Lancia Lambda|Lambda]] (introduced in 1922) to use the famous sliding pillar front suspension. All three series p
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• Maserati 3500
  ...prototype '''3500GT''', revealed at the [[Salon International de l'Auto]] in [[Geneva]], March 1957. *Front disc brakes and limited slip differential became optional in 1959,
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• Straight-6
  ...'''I6''') is an [[internal combustion engine]] with six cylinders aligned in a single row. The name '''slant-6''' is sometimes used when the cylinders ...argest are used in tractor-trailer combinations and some low speed diesels in cargo and passenger ships. These engines have a displacement of 1,000 L or
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• Alfa Romeo Giulietta
  ...troduced in late 1954. This was followed by a [[sedan]] in spring 1955 and in mid 1955, the open two-seat Giulietta Spider, featuring [[convertible]] bod ...an and 80 bhp in the Giulietta Sprint. This was to be increased to 100 bhp in later sporting models such as the Giulietta Sprint Speciale and the Giuliet
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• Front wheel drive
  ...oday feature [[transverse engine|transverse]] engine mounting, though many in prior decades were positioned [[longitudinal engine|longitudinal]]ly instea ...in Europe, and the contemporary [[Cord 810|810]] from [[Cord Automobile]] in the United States.
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• Seat belt
  ...cars seat belts also prevent rear-seat passengers from crashing into those in the front seats. ...ently in older cars, now uncommon except in some rear middle seats. (also in passenger aircraft).
  7 KB (1,222 words) - 10:44, 8 October 2009
• Fiat 1100
  ...00 musone" (i. e. "big nose"). After World War II, in 1949, the car was re-introduced with a curvy trunk and new name, the '''1100E'''. Both the 508C and the 110 ...rsion, the '''1100TV''' with a third light in the middle of the grille and in station-wagon version, with a side-hinged fifth door at the back.
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• De Tomaso
  |Foundation || [[1959]] in [[Modena]] ...entinian]]-born [[Alejandro de Tomaso]] (1928–2003) in [[Modena]] in 1959.
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• Alfa Romeo 1900
  |Production || 1950&ndash;1959 |Wheelbase || Berlina/Sprint<br>2630/2500&nbsp;mm<br>(103.5/98.4 in.)
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• Ferrari 250
  ...1950s and early 1960s. It was the company's most successful early line of vehicles, produced for over a decade from 1953 to 1964 and spawning countless varian A predecessor to the 250 line was the '''225 S''' introduced at the 1952 [[Giro di Sicilia]]. Two of the two-seat sports prototypes wer
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• Fiat 600
  ...was 2,604,000. During 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, the car became very popular in countries such as [[Spain]] (as [[Seat 600]]), where it became the [[cultur A year after its debut, in 1956, a soft-top version was introduced, as well as a six-seater variant &mdash; the Fiat 600 Multipla. It was a pr
  11 KB (1,504 words) - 06:02, 30 April 2014
• Lancia
  ...Lancias are seen as presenting a more luxurious alternative to the models in the Fiat range upon which they are based. One of the firm's trademarks is t ...e the "[[Lancia Alfa-12HP|tipo 51]]" or 12 HP (later called Alfa) was made in 1907 and produced from 1908. This car had a small four cylinder engine with
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• Isetta
  [[File:1959 Isetta Velam.jpg|thumb|right|220px|'''1959 Isetta Velam''']] ...zil it was the ''bola de futebol de fenemê'' (soccer ball of a truck), and in Chile its still called the "huevito" (little egg).
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• Maserati 250F
  ...uttman]], [[Carroll Shelby]], [[Cliff Allison]], [[Giulio Cabianca]], <br> 1959 + [[Carel Godin de Beaufort]], [[Fritz d'Orey]], [[Astrubel Bayardo]](dnq), ...total. It was introduced for the [[1954 Formula One season]] and remained in use by customer teams until [[1960 Formula One season|1960]].
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• Aermacchi
  ...''Società Commerciale Aeronautica'' to once again turned to the motorcycle.In 1946 they also presented a small car under the brand name of ''[[Macchitre] ...vely "green wing", "blue wing" and "golden wing"). In the beginning, these vehicles were equipped with 2-cylinder engines had been designed to be used mostly f
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• Dante Giacosa
  ...Zerbi]], designer of [[Grand Prix motor racing|Grand Prix]] cars for Fiat. In 1933 when work commenced on the Fiat 500, the director of the aero-engine d He died in Turin in 1996.
  19 KB (3,001 words) - 10:40, 10 March 2010
• Automobile safety
  ...leading cause of injury-related deaths, an estimated total of 1.2 million in 2004, or 25% of the total from all causes. ...e, 45% of all fatal injuries to workers under age 18 between 1992 and 2000 in the United States resulted from transportation incidents.
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• Formula 2
  ...pe of [[formula racing]]. It was replaced by [[Formula 3000]] in 1985, but in 2009 the [[Formula Two]] name returns. The 2009 FIA Formula Two Championshi ...o racing, the high performance nature of the cars and the expense involved in the series has always meant a need for a path to reach this peak. For much
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• Moonraker (film)
  ...Eyes Only'' was subsequently delayed and ended up following ''Moonraker'' in 1981. ...mpy humor has made it a durable cult hit, and it has been widely parodied (in ''[[The Simpsons]]'', the second ''[[Austin Powers]]'' film, and on ''[[Sta
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