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• Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano
  |Parent company || [[Fiat Group]] ...2006 as a 2007 [[model year|model]]. The 599 GTB debuted at the [[Geneva Motor Show]] on [[February 28]], [[2006]]. Styling of the 599 GTB was handled by
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• Wankel engine
  ...Wankel engines are criticized for poor [[fuel efficiency]] and [[emissions standard|exhaust emissions]]. ...ngineering work by [[Mazda]] brought these problems under control, but the company was then confronted with a sudden global concern over both [[hydrocarbon]]
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• Lamborghini Murcielago
  |Parent company:||[[Volkswagen Group]]
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• Hydrogen vehicle
  ...fficient use of hydrogen involves the use of [[fuel cell]]s and [[electric motor]]s instead of a traditional engine. Hydrogen reacts with [[oxygen]] inside ...ric vehicle]]s), rather than hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles, will soon become standard in the automobile industry. To achieve lower emission goals, the power grid
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• Automobile
  ...a [[wheel]]ed [[passenger]] [[vehicle]] that carries its own [[car engine|motor]]. Most definitions of the term specify that automobiles are designed to r ...lieb Daimler]] and [[Wilhelm Maybach]] in [[Stuttgart]] patented the first motor bike, built and tested in 1885, and in 1886 they built a converted horse-dr
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• Gasoline
  ...sambiguation)|gas]]" (see other meanings). The term ''mogas'', short for ''motor gasoline'', for use in cars is used to distinguish it from [[avgas]], ''avi ...in the oil industry. The exact terminology for these streams varies by oil company and by country.)
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• Future of Formula One
  ...t the end of the [[2004 Formula One season|2004 season]] that [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]] (former owner of [[Jaguar Racing]]) would pull out of Formula One is * The introduction of standard electronic units (facilitating the scrapping of driver aids such as Tractio
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• Lamborghini
  ...counterpart to [[Ferrari]] in the Italian sports car business. The Italian company was founded in 1963 by businessman [[Ferruccio Lamborghini]] (April 28, 191 ...hared components with the clutches in the tractors manufactured by his own company. Encouraged by his discovery, and his desire to spite Ferrari, Lamborghini
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• Four-wheel drive
  ...our-wheel drive vehicle was built in [[1911]] by the Four-Wheel Drive auto company (FWD) of [[Wisconsin]]. FWD would later produce over 20,000 of its four-whe ...w, originally conceived as a stop-gap product for the struggling Rover car company, and despite chronic under-investment succeeded far better than the passeng
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• 24 Hours of Daytona
  ...the last few feet across the finish line using either gravity, the starter motor, or a combination of both (the debate continues to this day) to not only sa ...unning shorter races. The race continued on as part of the [[International Motor Sports Association|IMSA]] [[IMSA GT Championship|GT series]].
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• List of automobile manufacturers
  ...s, and sells the world's [[motor vehicle]]s. In 2008, more than 70 million motor vehicles, including [[car]]s and [[commercial vehicle]]s were produced worl {{World motor vehicle production by country}}
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• Alfa Romeo 159
  ...uced by [[Italy|Italian]] automaker [[Alfa Romeo]] at the 1997 [[Frankfurt Motor Show]] as the replacement for the [[Alfa Romeo 155]]. Cars were assembled a ...Gear stick|gear knob]]. There was also available De-Luxe pack with [[MOMO (company)|Momo]]'s [[mahogany]] steering wheel and gear knob and for Nordic countrie
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• Airbag
  [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]] built an experimental fleet of cars with airbags in 1971. The first ...tor Company|Ford]] introducing them in the mid-1980s; the former made them standard equipment across its entire line in 1990. Autoliv patented the side airbag
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• Isetta
  ...Iso SpA]]. In the early 1950s, the company was building [[refrigerator]]s, motor scooters and small three-wheeled trucks. [[Iso]]'s owner, Renzo Rivolta, de ...e 1955 Paris car show. All told, five versions of the car were built: the standard Isetta, a convertible version, a luxury version, a one-off "Sport" version,
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• Kart racing
  ...pelled by enthusiasts) or '''karting''' is a variant of [[open-wheeler]] [[motor sport]] with simple, small four-wheeled vehicles called '''karts''', '''go- === Motor and fuel ===
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• Formula 2
  ...ants were so few that in 1952 and 1953 all World Championship [[Grand Prix motor racing|Grand Prix]] races were run in Formula Two (although non-championshi A slightly-enlarged version of the F2 [[Cooper Car Company|Cooper]] won the first two F1 Grands Prix in 1958, marking the beginning of
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• Automobile safety
  ...large trucks. Workers outside the motor carrier industry routinely operate company-owned vehicles for deliveries, sales and repair calls, client visits, and c [[Daytime running lamp]] that have been standard on Swedish cars since the 1970s, are soon to be mandatory across the entire
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• Motobi
  Characteristically, the company only existed because of a family row which saw [[Giuseppe Benelli]] walk ou ...eaving his sons, Marco and Luigi, to grapple with the task of keeping the company afloat in the wake of the birth of the [[Fiat 500]] car, which brought the
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• Hybrid vehicles
  ...otor) to either recharge the battery or directly feed power to an electric motor that drives the vehicle. This contrasts with all-[[Battery electric vehicle ...ngine and an electric motor. Below 15 mph (25 km/h) the electric motor alone drove the vehicle and above this speed the "main" engine cut in to ta
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• Junior
  ...icity of the '''Fabbrica di Automobili G.G.F.lli '''[[Ceirano]]'''''', the company formed between Giovanni and Giovanni Battista Ceirano. The car proposal was ...to take the leap. They joined other donors, and founded on 11 July 1899 a company by the name of "Italian Car Factory Torino, which bought block after fiftee
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