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• Alfa Romeo 149
  {{Alfa Romeo modern timeline}} [[Category:Alfa Romeo vehicles|149]]
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• Compact SUV
  ...Subaru-Forester-XT.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Subaru Forester, one of the first vehicles to be named a compact SUV]] [[Image:Suzuki-Grand-Vitara-2006.JPG|250px|thumb|right|Suzuki Grand Vitara, a modern compact SUV]]
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• Whitewall tire
  ...er sidewalls. The original whitewalls featured an entirely white sidewall. Modern whitewall tires often have a thin white stripe, or white raised lettering i ...nd within the [[pimpmobile]] culture. Although wide whitewalls are rare on modern automobiles, they are still manufactured by specialty outlets and/or classi
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• Torque steering
  ...luence of the engine torque on the steering for some [[front-wheel drive]] vehicles. For example, during full acceleration the steering may pull to one side, w ...haft") on one side of the transmission. This is already implementd on most modern cars. When the driveshafts have different length and excessive torque is ap
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• Drum brake
  ...inder (engine)|cylinder]] and [[piston]]s (as in the picture), though some vehicles continued with purely-mechanical systems for decades. Some designs have two ...apped around the outside of the drum and tightened. This type predated the modern drum brake, and was later often used for the parking brake on the central [
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• Fiat Elba
  {{Modern European Fiat vehicles}}
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• Bugatti Type 53
  ...hough [[Ettore Bugatti]] himself had designed multi-engine all wheel drive vehicles early in his career. It was originally conceived by [[Giulio Cappa]], who ...Bugatti]] even crashed a Type 53 at [[Shelsley Walsh]] in June, [[1932]]. Modern tests, however, have shown the car to be quite tractable at speed, and Buga
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• Windshield
  ...tomobile]], [[bus]], [[motorcycle]], or [[tram]] is the front [[window]]. Modern windshields are generally made of [[Glass#Laminated_glass|laminated safety ...stem for automobile windshields, introduced on [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]] vehicles ("[[Quickclear]]") in the [[1980s]], uses very thin heating wires embedded
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• Bugatti Type 2
  ...a new car, the '''Type 5''' or '''Hermes'''. It was a prototype of a more-modern model with a [[straight-4|four-cylinder]] engine and four-speed [[manual tr [[Category:Bugatti vehicles|Dietrich-Bugatti]]
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• Bugatti Type 5
  ...a new car, the '''Type 5''' or '''Hermes'''. It was a prototype of a more-modern model with a [[straight-4|four-cylinder]] engine and four-speed [[manual tr [[Category:Bugatti vehicles|Dietrich-Bugatti]]
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• Lamborghini LM003
  ...it never went past a few concept drawings that looked vaguely similar to a modern [[Range Rover]]. {{Lamborghini vehicles}}
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• Open wheel
  [[Image:Alonso_%28Renault%29_qualifying_at_USGP_2005.jpg|thumb|right|Modern Formula One Renault]] ...t only to enclose the driver's body, with the head exposed to the air. In modern cars, the engine is located directly behind the driver, and drives the rear
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• Open-wheel
  [[Image:Alonso_%28Renault%29_qualifying_at_USGP_2005.jpg|thumb|right|Modern Formula One Renault]] ...t only to enclose the driver's body, with the head exposed to the air. In modern cars, the engine is located directly behind the driver, and drives the rear
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• Shifter
  ...[[engine]] from the [[drivetrain]] and [[wheel]]s. Automatic transmission vehicles, and those with [[continuously variable transmission]] gearboxes, do not re ...he [[dashboard]]), the transmission tunnel, or directly on the floor. Some vehicles, especially older models, have a [[column shift]] where the lever is mounte
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• Casalini
  ...is devoted to the production of small cars: the so-called ''[[minicar]]s'' vehicles. The company was founded in 1939 and until 1969 first machines produced whe ==Modern History==
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• Fiat 132/Argenta
  {{Modern European Fiat vehicles}} {{Early European Fiat vehicles}}
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• Independent suspension
  ...on on all wheels. Some early independent systems used [[swing axle]]s, but modern systems use [[Chapman strut|Chapman]] or [[MacPherson strut]]s, [[trailing ...locity joint|constant-velocity (CV) joints]] used in [[front wheel drive]] vehicles.
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• Regenerative brake
  ...storing it for future use or feeding it back into a power system for other vehicles to use. Using a dynamo as a regenerative brake was discovered co-incident with the modern [[electric motor]]. In 1873, [[Zénobe Gramme]] attached the wires from tw
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• Axle
  ...the wheels relative to each other and to the vehicle body. Since for most vehicles the wheels are the only part touching the ground, the axles must bear the w ...y be slowed by applying force to brake the rotation of the axle. Consumer vehicles' brakes are part of the wheel assembly and therefore exert friction on the
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• Bubble car
  ...iant Robin]]) — these were rather larger but continued in production until modern times. The [[Messerschmitt KR175]], [[Messerschmitt KR200|KR200]] and [[Me
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