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• Rolling friction
  ...played a part in the infamous [[Ford Explorer]] [[Firestone vs Ford Motor Company controversy|rollover accidents]]. |0.005 ||   tram-rails standard dirty with straights and curves
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• Iveco Massif
  |Parent company || [[Fiat|Fiat Group]] The Massif is produced by Iveco (the commercial section of the Fiat motor company) and competes with the [[Land Rover Defender]] at the utility end of the 4x
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• Scooter
  Most modern motor scooters have smaller wheels than motorcyles, between 8 and 12 inches (20-2 ...ooled such as the [[Honda]] [[Honda FC50|FC50]] or the 2002 [[Yamaha Motor Company|Yamaha]] YQ50s. Scooters increasingly have four stroke engines to meet stri
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• Testi
  ...was founded in 1936 as a manufacturer of racing bikes . After the war the company decided to produce [[motorcycles]] in 1949, with a two stroke Sachs engines ...be most important is the Champion built in various versions since 1969. At Standard Champion in 1971 is flanked Luxury version with the engine Minarelli P6SS t
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• V8
  ...ha V8]] used in the [[Ford Taurus]] ''SHO''. It was based on [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]]'s [[Ford Duratec engine#Duratec 25|Duratec V6]] and shares that engi ...he recent exceptions of the [[Dodge Viper]]'s [[V10]] and the [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]] large truck engine of the same arrangement, there are practically no
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• Maserati Quattroporte II
  ...) on a [[Citroën SM]] chassis, since [[Citroën]] had purchased the Italian company. It had an angular [[Bertone]] body, fashionable at the time, and was the o *There were 1821 standard 4portes manufactured between 1979 and [[1984]].
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• Straight-4
  ...ën Traction Avant|Traction Avant]] engine, and the [[1948]] [[Austin Motor Company|Austin]] 2660 cc engine used in the [[Austin-Healey 100]] and [[Austin Atla ...of the biggest straight-4s of its time was [[De Dietrich]] 17,000&nbsp;cc motor. Its cubic capacity is over twice the size of the Cadillac's 500 in<sup>3</
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• Daytime running lamp
  ...) are [[automotive lighting|lighting devices]] on the front of roadgoing [[motor vehicle]]s, automatically switched on when the vehicle is moving forward, a [[Image:Varselljussats.jpg|thumb|right|[[Hella (company)|Hella]] DRL retrofit kit offered in Sweden in the 1970s. Package text read
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• Jackie Stewart
  ...n the wet. It was only natural that Jackie would soon become involved in [[motor racing]] like his older brother. ...[[Ken Tyrrell]] who was running the [[Formula Junior]] team for Cooper Car Company heard of this young Scotsman from a track manager and called up Jimmy Stewa
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• Fiat Bravo (2007)
  ...S. Germano. The car was designed by Fiat Style Centre. Austrian automotive company [[Magna Steyr]] engineered a large amount of the car's body and internal fi ...w feature first introduced with the [[Fiat Grande Punto]] and is fitted as standard on the Bravo Dynamic and Sport. Developed with [[Microsoft]] this system of
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• Ferrari F2008
  ...= [[Shell Oil Company|Shell]] V-Power ULG 64 Fuel<br>[[Shell Oil Company|Shell]] SL-1098 Lubricant| The '''Ferrari F2008''' is a [[Formula One]] [[motor racing]] car, which [[Scuderia Ferrari]] will use to compete in the [[2008
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• Lamborghini Diablo
  After three years of making minor adjustments to the standard Diablo, Lamborghini decided in 1993 that a second even more specialized ver ...arbonfibre molded seats, helping to make it 125 kilograms lighter than the standard car. Lamborghini choose to do without the VT's advanced electronic suspensi
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• Aurea
  ...t fairly heavy. Regular production of Aureas stopped around 1926, but the company produced a few more cars from existing parts and maintained parts supply un ...aly]]; later verions contain O.S. instruments as a variation of the Veglia standard type. Amp gauge is American Westinghouse and oil gauge is "Aurea" insignia
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• Fiat 130
  ...ension]] ([[torsion bar]]s in the front and [[coil spring]]s in the rear), standard power steering and four-wheel [[disc brakes]], and was the first Fiat to ad Using the "128 type A" motor as a basis, a new crossflow [[V6]] engine, with a 60° vee angle and rubber
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• Raimondi
  ...ir shop. In 1922 Romeo, with his partner '''[[Malagoli]]''', set up the MR company to build [[motorcycles]]. In 1925 '''[[MR]]''' produced three versions of m ...CV. 1935 saw the start of Seacraft Motors which were a main feature of the company until the mid-sixties. During this thirty-year period more than 20 models o
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• Ducati 999R Xerox
  |Parent company || Ducati Motor Holdings, SpA The 999R Xerox is a special with features that distinguish it from the standard 999R model: [[Öhlins]] forks with black sleeves, anodised black footpegs a
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• Ferrari 166
  ...p;mm long. 39 examples were produced from its introduction at the [[Turin Motor Show]] in [[1948]] to its retirement in [[1950]]. It was replaced by the 2 ...omer's choice. Many used [[Carrozzeria Touring]], who produced a somewhat-standard [[barchetta]] and [[coupe]], but [[Stabilimenti Farina]], [[Ghia]] and [[Vi
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• Ducati Singles
  When [[Ducati Motor Holding|Ducati]] began manufacturing motorcycles, they were single cylinder ...the military, making the factory a target for Allied bombing. The [[Ducati Motor Holding|Ducati]] factory at Borgo Panigale was hit badly more than once, bu
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• Bimota
  '''Bimota''' is an [[Italian]] [[motorcycle]] [[company]] located in the city of [[Rimini]]. The Bimota was born in [[1966]] as a company in the field of heating and air conditioning. Its name is the first two let
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• Sequential manual transmission
  ...cars of the 1990s made the most high-profile debut of this technology in [[motor sports]], and enhanced variations on this theme are still in use in many fo ...fforts. This technology has also trickled down to the cars of their sister company, [[Maserati]] where it is known as "Cambiocorsa". [[Alfa Romeo]]'s [[Selesp
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