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• Hydropneumatic suspension
  ...on [[Berliet]] trucks. Similar systems are also used on some [[military]] vehicles. ...d was not ideally suited to high pressure hydraulics. They invented a new, green fluid, LHM. LHM stands for ''[[Liquide Hydraulique Minéral ]]'' and is a [
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• Vacuum brake
  ...application of manually applied brakes on the [[locomotive]] and in brake vehicles through the train, and later by steam power brakes on locomotives. This was ...cuum braking system in which flexible pipes were connected between all the vehicles of the train, and brakes on each vehicle could be controlled from the locom
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• Fiat 124 Coupé
  ...and the BC gained "eyeball" vents in the centre console. Options included green tinted windows, Cromodora alloy wheels with Chrome centre hub cap (as per A {{Early European Fiat vehicles}}
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• Motorsport
  ..., [[Mercedes-Benz]], [[Delahaye]] and [[Bugatti]] constructing streamlined vehicles with engines producing up to 450 kW(612HP) with the aid of multiple superch ...lso provides a venue for amateurs to compete in home-built factory derived vehicles on various local circuits.
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• Fiat Tempra
  ...main parts (most notably, the doors) were shared with the Fiat Tipo. Other vehicles, derived from the same project were [[Lancia Dedra]] (Tempra's most similar ...utomakers also, so they could find assembly line mistakes to improve their vehicles and give a better product.
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• Auto racing
  ..., [[Mercedes-Benz]], [[Delahaye]] and [[Bugatti]] constructing streamlined vehicles with engines producing up to 450 kW(612HP) with the aid of multiple superch ...lso provides a venue for amateurs to compete in home-built factory derived vehicles on various local circuits.
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• Car safety
  [[Image:Safety_distance_1s_p1050014.jpg|thumb|Distance crossed by vehicles in a city (here, [[Paris]]) during 1 second (typical time to react to an em ...er, the correlation between official crash test results and road deaths in vehicles is not exact. An alternative method of assessing vehicle safety is to study
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• Passive safety
  [[Image:Safety_distance_1s_p1050014.jpg|thumb|250px|Distance crossed by vehicles in a city (here, [[Paris]]) during 1 second (typical time to react to an em ...er, the correlation between official crash test results and road deaths in vehicles is not exact. An alternative method of assessing vehicle safety is to study
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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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• Tour de Langkawi
  ...2004 edition, with police officials mistakenly opening the way for public vehicles onto the race track while the race was still ongoing to decide the winner o ...s through to match the sponsor color. The Sprinter Jersey started with the green color sponsored by [[Petronas]]. However, because Petronas was unsatisfied
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• Fiat 131
  ...by Italian airline [[Alitalia]] and bore their distinctive red, white and green [[livery]]. ...]], the '''Doğan''', '''Şahin''' and the '''Kartal''' (the estate). These vehicles enjoyed a very long production run and were later replaced by newer Fiat mo
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• Fiat X1/9
  ...ed as X0 (for engines), X1 (for passenger vehicles) and X2 (for commercial vehicles). The first passenger-vehicle developed with this code (X1/1) was released ...rs roof. All the X1/9 Prototipos were raced in the traditional Abarth lime-green/yellow and orange/pink colour scheme.
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• Brake fade
  ...brake fade and have come to be a standard feature in front brakes for most vehicles. ...as possible for the first 100 miles or so to "break them in" and eliminate green fade.
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• Ferrari Daytona
  ...in ''[[Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo]]''. It was painted a very dark shade of green with a black numeral [[70]] against an off-white square background. {{Ferrari vehicles}}
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• Hybrid vehicles
  ...r plant based oils have also seen occasional use. A number of other hybrid vehicles use hydrogen fuel. ...also brother of author [[Herman Wouk]] ). Wouk's work with electric hybrid vehicles in the 1960s and 1970s earned the title as the "Godfather of the Hybrid".
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• Automobile racing
  ..., [[Mercedes-Benz]], [[Delahaye]] and [[Bugatti]] constructing streamlined vehicles with engines producing up to 450 kW(612HP) with the aid of multiple superch ...lso provides a venue for amateurs to compete in home-built factory derived vehicles on various local circuits.
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• Grand Prix motor racing
  ...ined by timed qualifying rather than the luck of a draw. All the competing vehicles were painted in the [[List of international auto racing colors|internationa *green ([[British racing green]]) for Britain,
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• Automobile safety
  ...Workers outside the motor carrier industry routinely operate company-owned vehicles for deliveries, sales and repair calls, client visits, and countless other ...utomatically and continuously adapts the headlamp range to the distance of vehicles ahead or which are oncoming
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• Motor racing
  ..., [[Mercedes-Benz]], [[Delahaye]] and [[Bugatti]] constructing streamlined vehicles with engines producing up to 450 kW(612HP) with the aid of multiple superch ...lso provides a venue for amateurs to compete in home-built factory derived vehicles on various local circuits.
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• Auto rickshaw
  ...an auto rickshaws have no doors or seatbelts. They are generally yellow or green in colour and have a black [[canopy]] on the top. Their design varies consi ...a larger space that results from frightened drivers of all other types of vehicles moving away!
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