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• Tre Spade
  ...precision of surgery Parts of trails and [[Carreggia]] military, materials engineering, materials rail ... The brothers also agreed to create a foundry in Turin, ...that initial sacrifice has raised its further prosperity. And so will the automotive industry. " Of course, Morasso was right. To succeed in a sea so treacherou
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• Gull-wing door
  The term '''gull-wing door''' is an automotive industry term describing [[automobile]] [[door]]s which are hinged at the r ...using a [[Steel|solid-steel]] torsion bar (supplied by [[Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation]]) to counterbalance a full-sized door and then used simple pne
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• List of Le Mans 24h winners
  | {{flagiconUnited Kingdom}} [[John Wyer|J.W. Automotive Engineering]] | {{flagiconUnited Kingdom}} [[John Wyer|J.W. Automotive Engineering]]
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• Formula SAE
  ...a SAE''' is a [[student design competition]] organized by the [[Society of Automotive Engineers]] (SAE, also known as SAE International). The competition was sta ...s and Stratton]] engine. Using the [[Mini Baja]] competitions as a guide, engineering students had to design and build small, "Indy-style" vehicles using the sam
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• Hemi engine
  ...turies in mortars and cannon, were introduced on some of the very earliest automotive engines, shortly after proving the concept of internal combustion engines t ...ne|FE]] engine block. The 1964 engine was designed in 90 days of intensive engineering effort for use in racing. The 427 SOHC used the side oiler engine block mod
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• List of Formula One constructors
  |align="left"| [[Alta Car and Engineering Company|Alta]] |align="left"| [[Connaught Engineering|Connaught]]
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• Disc brake
  ...otors are manufactured out of a material called grey iron. SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) maintains a specification for the manufacture of grey iron for v ...a function of reducing the unsprung weight of the brake assembly, with the engineering assumed that enough brake rotor mass remains to absorb racing temperatures
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• V8
  ...esigns. In [[1915]], the cross-plane design was proposed at an automotive engineering conference in the United States, but it took another eight years to bring i ...i 348|348]], and successors. Ferrari's smallest V8 (and indeed, [[list of automotive superlatives|the smallest ever]]) was the 2.0 L (1990 cc) unit fo
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• Rayton
  ...ften found himself in legal trouble, but he also had some rather ingenious automotive ideas. One of these concepts he came up with was given the name UNIVIS and ...an ingenious mode of transportation, and in this case also a new method of engineering an automobile.
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• Lancia Lambda
  ...nnovative [[automobile]] produced from 1922 through 1931. It was [[list of automotive superlatives|the first]] car to feature a load-bearing [[monocoque]]-type b ...at would be essentially a rolling showpiece of dynamic design and creative engineering: Thus, the Lambda was born. [[Lancia]], an engineer at heart, looked at shi
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• Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca
  ...o compare real life versus video games, [[Jeremy Clarkson]] of the British automotive show ''[[Top Gear (current format)|Top Gear]]'' attempted to beat his [[Gra | [[March Engineering|March]]
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• Lancia Gamma
  ...Presented in 1976 at the [[Geneva Motor Show]] as Lancia's new [[Flagship#Automotive|flagship]], it filled the void in Lancia's lineup left by the demise of the ...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
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• Front-wheel drive
  ...ing the mass of the drivetrain over the driven wheels improves [[traction (engineering)|traction]] on wet, snowy, or icy surfaces. [[Category:Automotive technologies]]
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• History of the automobile
  ...marked the introduction of gasoline-fuelled internal combustion engines. [[Automotive]] history is generally divided into a number of [[era]]s based on the major ...n patent for a low-voltage ignition of the magneto type; this was his only automotive patent. This design was used for all further engines, and the four-seat "se
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• Compression ratio
  ...engine will usually not be much higher than 10:1, although some production automotive engines built for high-performance from 1955-1972 had compression ratios as ...epend on cam (i.e. valve) timing. Generally, cylinder pressure for common automotive designs should at least equal 10 [[bar (unit)|bar]], or, roughly estimated
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• Gilco
  ...d extensively in the bicycle industry) [[Gilberto Colombo]] moved into the automotive chassis business, becoming famous for the light weight and strength of his By attending the first years of Engineering at the [[Politecnico di Milano]], Gilberto Colombo knows Mario Speluzzi, pr
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• Risk compensation
  A study led by Fred Mannering, a professor of [[civil engineering]] at [[Purdue University]] supports risk compensation, terming it the "offs ...niversity College, London]] 1981'' - published in 1982 by the [[Society of Automotive Engineers]].[http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/~jadams/PDFs/SAE%20seatbelts.pdf] Th
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• 12 Hours of Sebring
  | {{flagiconGBR}} [[John Wyer|J.W. Automotive Engineering]] | {{flagiconUSA}} Electramotive Engineering
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• Automobile safety
  *The vehicle's [[headlamp]]s, [[Retroreflector|reflectors]], and other [[Automotive lighting|lights and signals]] *[[Automotive night vision|Infrared night vision]] systems to increase seeing distance be
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• Ground effect
  ...am shortly after and the idea was not taken further. Robin Herd at [[March Engineering]], on a suggestion from Wright, used a similar concept on the 1970 March Fo *[[Automotive aerodynamics]]
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