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• Airbag
  The 1970s fleet of 10,000 airbag-equipped GM experienced seven fatalities. One is no Despite the 1970s implementation of airbags in GM cars, many conventional automobiles did not even have them until the mid 1990s.
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• Ferrari Dino
  ...list of [[Sports Car International Top Sports Cars|Top Sports Cars of the 1970s]]. ''[[Motor Trend|Motor Trend Classic]]'' named the 206/246 as number sev ...ngine; he died on June 30, 1956 at the age of only 24, before his namesake automobiles Fiat Dino and Dino were produced.
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• Tire
  Because neither bicycles nor automobiles had been invented when Thomson produced his tire, that tire was only applie ...wide use in the United States, the largest market at that time, until the 1970s. This type of tire uses parallel carcass plies for the sidewalls and crosse
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• Enzo Coloni Racing Car Systems
  ...oloni, a racing driver from [[Perugia]], Italy. Coloni competed during the 1970s and after participating in the Italian Formula 3 series for several years, ...a, Coloni presented a new car (the Coloni C3) which was penned by former [[Automobiles Gonfaronnaises Sportives|AGS]] man Christian Vanderpleyn. The C3 was a basi
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• Indianapolis 500
  ...indirectly connected to a history of success that would last into the mid-1970s. ...owing him to win the 1922 edition of the race. Miller then created his own automobiles, which shared the 'Miller' designation, which, in turn, were powered by sup
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• Automobile safety
  Since at least the early 1970s, attention has also been given to vehicle design regarding the [[Pedestrian [[Daytime running lamp]] that have been standard on Swedish cars since the 1970s, are soon to be mandatory across the entire EU.
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• Car handling
  ...lacked the courage to test it for top speed. Contact with Europe and the 1970s energy crisis have gradually relieved this problem. (Large trucks also can * When the [[NHTSA|American government]] in the early [[1970s]] required new automobiles to withstand a five mile per hour impact without damage, this was often acc
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• Aerodynamics
  ...odynamics, hypersonic speeds are speeds that are highly supersonic. In the 1970s, the term generally came to refer to speeds of Mach 5 (5 times the speed of
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• Alfa Romeo Giulia
  [[Category:1960s automobiles]] [[Category:1970s automobiles]]
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• History of the bicycle
  ...ut it dropped off dramatically in the United States between 1900 and 1910. Automobiles became the preferred means of transportation. Over the 1920s, bicycles grad ...energy efficient]] transportation led to the American [[bike boom]] of the 1970s. Annual U.S. sales of adult bicycles doubled between 1960 and 1970, and do
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• Motorcycle
  ...apanese manufacturers (led by [[Honda]]) in the late [[1960s]] and early [[1970s]] who were able to produce designs faster, cheaper and of better quality. T
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• Fiat
  In the 1970s and 1980s, the company became a pioneer in the use of industrial robotics f Fiat automobiles have been made in Poland since 1920. In 1932, the [[Polski Fiat|Polskie zak
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• Hybrid vehicles
  ...erman Wouk]] ). Wouk's work with electric hybrid vehicles in the 1960s and 1970s earned the title as the "Godfather of the Hybrid". Wouk installed a protot ...scent of "[[turbo lag]]", but demonstrated that turbines could be used for automobiles (see [[Chrysler Turbine engines]]). Also, in late 1990s General Motors made
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• Fuel injection
  ...trict [[automobile emissions control|exhaust emission]] regulations of the 1970s and 1980s gradually eroded and then reversed the simplicity, cost, and pack ...was formed. Both agencies now create and enforce emission regulations for automobiles, as well as for many other sources.
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• List of James Bond vehicles
  ==Automobiles== ...red in ''A View To A Kill'' as a San Francisco P.D. patrol car. A few late 1970s [[Dodge Monaco]]s were seen, along with a [[Plymouth Volaré]] seen outside
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• Monaco Grand Prix
  ...rom 1911. In 1928 the club applied to the ''Association Internationale des Automobiles Clubs Reconnus'' (AIACR), the international governing body of motorsport, t By the early 1970s, as [[Brabham]] team owner [[Bernie Ecclestone]] started to marshall the co
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• 24 Hours of Le Mans
  Beginning in the late 1970s, the demand for fuel economy from around the world led the race to adopt a ...o not only achieve greater speed but also to have better [[Fuel economy in automobiles|fuel economy]], and spend less time in the pits. Engine sizes have also va
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• Australian Grand Prix
  ...nny Hulme]] and [[Bruce McLaren]] prominent figures of the era. During the 1970s the race lost its international lustre as a [[Formula 5000]] race. The earl | [[English Racing Automobiles|ERA]]
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• Moto Guzzi
  ...sight saw Moto Guzzi adapting to a cultural shift away from motorcycles to automobiles. The company focused on popular lightweight mopeds including the Dingo and The cartridge front fork used in Guzzi's motorcycles of the later 1970s and 1980s is a Guzzi invention. Instead of containing the damping oil in th
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