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  • ...y of the United States|US military]] to design and build a new all-terrain vehicle. The basis of the design came from MTI, and was largely a copy of [[Food Ma ...and the engine choice was not powerful enough to be adequate for the heavy vehicle (2042kg/4500lbs), resulting in overall poor performance.
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  • ...Control Unit]] to calculate how and when to change [[Gears|gears]] in the vehicle for optimum performance, [[Fuel efficiency|fuel economy]] and shift quality ...ity, improved shift feel, improved shift speed and improved [[Car handling|vehicle handling]]. The immense range of programmability offered by a '''Transmissi
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  • ...rovided to encourage the use of electric vehicles. [[neighborhood electric vehicle|NEVs]] may also be used as station cars where the roadway speed limits perm ...gain with the California Air Resources Board. See [[Partial zero-emissions vehicle|PZEV]] for more information.
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  • ...an areas. It is more substantial and faster than a [[neighborhood electric vehicle]] ("NEV") and has four seats, unlike [[microcar]]s which are two-seaters; t ...from their workplace. In these cases, a city car may be [[battery electric vehicle|battery electric powered]]; in some locations, electric recharging is provi
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  • ...'s [[Lancia Lambda]]. [[Citroën]] built the first mass-produced monocoque vehicle in [[1934]], the innovative [[Citroën Traction Avant|Traction Avant]]. Th ...tion and noise of powertrain or suspension components from the rest of the vehicle.
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  • * Partial release of a Westinghouse brake application was unresponsive, and usually r The Westinghouse system uses air reservoirs on each vehicle and compressed air is released from these reservoirs to the brake cylinders
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  • ...on of a valve on the locomotive; the vacuum actuated brake pistons on each vehicle, and the degree of braking could be increased or decreased by the driver. ...the train pipe, the air pressure acts against pistons in cylinders in each vehicle. A vacuum is sustained on the other face of the pistons, so that a net forc
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  • ...ction run, the F40 was Ferrari's fastest, most powerful and most expensive vehicle and it remains one of the highest performing street legal vehicles ever pro ...orts car that would come as close as possible to being a full fledged race vehicle while still retaining the necessary equipment to be a street-legal product.
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  • ...he Raging Bull is now offering the convertible version of the Aventador, a vehicle that perfectly balances the ultimate driving experience with the ultimate i ...ce. The powered rear windshield not only influences the flow of air in the vehicle, but also controls the experience of the sound from the twelve-cylinder eng
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  • ...n are) one-of-a-kind machines, and need bear no relation to any road-going vehicle. In the ACO classification system, two categories are recognized: P1 and P2 ...ncept of sports-car racing from that in Europe or North America, featuring partial-tube frame chassis, widely divergent engine layouts, and so on. The number
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  • * 1955 - Construction of the first vehicle in the yard dump BM 1 which found an immediate use to the largest public wo ...de. Launch Series HD7, whose vast range of 2, 3 and 4 wheel drive axles or partial and engine IVECO ranging from {{Convert|340|hp|kW|0|abbr=on}} to {{Convert|
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  • ...that when Lafosse attempted to make up for lost time, either [[suspension (vehicle)|suspension]] or tyre failure caused the car to veer off suddenly into the
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  • ...when he first sees Bond's powerboat but doesn't get beyond "fu-", and the partial expletive "mother" is also heard numerous times. Even in 1973, that was not ...n in the blaxploitation film ''[[Superfly (film)|Superfly]]''. He kept the vehicle for several years as a show car. One of the vehicles 007 is pursuing in the
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