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• Disc brake
  ...tive for some time after a water crossing, an important factor in off-road vehicles). Disc brakes are also more reliable than drum brakes due to the simplicit ...[[Formula One]] racing.) Discs have now become standard in most passenger vehicles, though some retain the use of drum brakes on the rear wheels to keep costs
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• Four-wheel drive
  ...s. The third differential is in the center. This setup is used on most AWD vehicles to this day.]] ...wheels all the time (e.g., a [[Subaru Impreza]]), whereas 4WD is used for vehicles designed primarily for heavy off-road use, normally with a low range transf
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• Zagato
  |Services||design consultancy and engineering services ...''' (SZ DESIGN s.r.l.) is a [[Industrial design|design]] consultancy and [[engineering]] services company situated just outside [[Milan]], the hub of [[Italy]]'s
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• Graphite-reinforced plastic
  ...long at the forefront of development of carbon fiber technology for racing vehicles, discovered a loophole in the Formula One rule book. Ferrari developed a r ==Civil Engineering Applications==
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• Lancia Fulvia
  ...67, ''[[Road & Track]]'' summed up the Fulvia as "a precision motorcar, an engineering tour de force". ...ed to [[front wheel drive]] like the [[Lancia Flavia|Flavia]]; the general engineering design of the Fulvia was identical to that of the Flavia with the major exc
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• Multi-valve
  In [[automotive engineering]], an engine is referred to as '''multi-valve''' (or '''multivalve''') when ...like [[Volkswagen]] and [[Audi]] now use 5-valve engines in many of their vehicles after acquiring the technology from [[Bugatti]] who developed it for their
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• Formula 2
  ...rmann formel2 1978.jpg|thumb|left|200px|[[Peter Scharmann]]'s 1978 [[March Engineering|March]]-[[BMW]]]] ...an]] team's cars. Dominant chassis of this era were generally from [[March Engineering|March]] and [[Ralt]], with Chevron, the French Elf and [[Martini (cars)|Mar
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• Abarth
  ...pipes. Later, Abarth diversified in producing various tuning kits for road vehicles, mainly for [[Fiat]]. Abarth was also associated in producing sports or rac ...[Renault]]. It is based in the ''Officine 83'', part of the old Mirafiori engineering plant.
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• Touring car racing
  ...re, at least notionally, derived from production cars while today's NASCAR vehicles are based on a shared, custom, design. In the early days of NASCAR, stock c ...mula One]], the similarity of the cars both to each other and to fans' own vehicles makes for entertaining, well-supported racing. The lesser impact of aerody
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• Lamborghini Sesto Elemento
  ...same time, fuel consumption also drops because of the extreme lightweight engineering applied throughout. ...om the undisputed lightweight expertise of AUDI AG. Systematic lightweight engineering is crucial for future super sports cars: for the most dynamic performance,
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• Hydropneumatic suspension
  ...on [[Berliet]] trucks. Similar systems are also used on some [[military]] vehicles. ...d War II]], Paul Magès, an employee of Citroën, with no formal training in engineering, secretly develops the concept of an air/oil suspension to combine a new le
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• Ferrari FF
  ...d a second, simple, gearbox (gears and other components built by [[Carraro Engineering]]), taking power from the front of the engine. This gearbox (designated "po [[Category:All-wheel-drive vehicles]]
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• GM High Feature engine
  ...54-Degree V6 engine|54° V6]], with involvement with design and development engineering from Ricardo PLC of England.
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• Triumph-Italia
  ...Triumph - ''"Italian bodywork at its best, British tradition in sports car engineering at its finest.”'' [[Category:Triumph vehicles|Italia]]
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• Hybrid vehicle drivetrain
  [[Petroleum electric hybrid vehicle|Petroleum electric hybrid vehicles]] make use of both an on-board [[rechargeable energy storage system]] (RESS ...lower floors, which is useful for buses. Some 8x8 all-wheel drive military vehicles use individual wheel motors.
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• Lee Iacocca
  ...in neighboring [[Bethlehem, Pennsylvania]], with a degree in [[industrial engineering]]. He is an alumnus of [[Theta Chi]] Fraternity. After graduating from Lehi ...company was losing millions due to recalls of the [[Chrysler F platform]] vehicles, the [[Dodge Aspen]] and [[Plymouth Volare]]). Iacocca joined Chrysler and
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• V12
  ...d [[Ferrari]] used the V12 almost exclusively on their highest-performance vehicles, while [[Jaguar (car)|Jaguar]] developed a [[Jaguar V12 engine|V12]] that w * [[B Engineering Edonis]]
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• Lancia Gamma
  ...and Subaru have ever made a bigger 4-cylinder engine. The "4" had certain engineering advantages, but more than anything it allowed Aldo Brovarone (Pinifarina ch [[Category:Front wheel drive vehicles]]
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• Wheel
  ...n ca. 1200 BCE, and Barbieri-Low (2000) argues for earlier Chinese wheeled vehicles, circa 2000 BCE. It is an open question whether there was an independent "i ...nvented more recently, and allowed the construction of lighter and swifter vehicles. The earliest known examples are in the context of the [[Andronovo cultur
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• Dante Giacosa
  ...was engineering manager at Fiat by 1937 and he had become director of the engineering division of Fiat by 1950. ...ion for good handling and ride quality. It was with a 508C chassis that as engineering manager Dante Giacosa led a team that developed the Fiat 508CMM a streamlin
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