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• White Motor Company
  ...machine manufacturing business and in 1901 they set up operations to build automobiles. Volvo produced trucks as White and Autocar through the 1980s, while Western Star continued independently in Canada and the U.S., althoug
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• FF layout
  ...the 1948 [[Citroën 2CV]], 1949 [[Saab 92]] and the 1959 [[Mini]]. In the 1980s, the traction and packaging advantages of this layout caused many compact a [[Category:Automobiles]]
  5 KB (778 words) - 07:36, 10 July 2008
• Compact car
  ...are defined based on interior volume index or [[seating capacity]], except automobiles classified as a special vehicle such as those with only two designated seat ...], was one of the few unsuccessful European small family hatchbacks of the 1980s.
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• Landyacht
  ...led with 3 or 4 speed automatic transmissions, excessive [[Fuel economy in automobiles|fuel consumption]], and emphasis on ride comfort at the expense of handling After the oil crises of the 1970s and 1980s, American automakers never fully recovered from the decline in popularity o
  5 KB (769 words) - 05:39, 25 May 2010
• Moskvich
  ...ded production, so people had to wait a long time for a new car. Until the 1980s all Moskvitch cars were compact rear-wheel drive sedans and station wagons [[Category:Soviet automobiles]]
  5 KB (698 words) - 07:25, 24 August 2010
• Cadillac Deville
  ...elifts. 2000 DeVilles also featured the first production LED tail lamps in automobiles, a feature now becoming increasingly commonplace on luxury and family cars. [[Category:1940s automobiles]]
  12 KB (1,790 words) - 20:40, 9 August 2010
• Moskvitch 2141 Aleko
  ...built, but then project stoped. Factory received order from ministerium of automobiles industry of USSR to design frontwheel driving car instead rearwheel driving [[Category:1980s Automobiles]]
  11 KB (1,516 words) - 07:15, 24 August 2010
• Mercury
  ...models such as the Cougar and Marquis. But in the late 1970s to the early 1980s the brand was joined at the hip with Ford again and its image suffered as a During the late 1960s and up to the mid-1980s, the Mercury used the "Sign of the Cat" ad campaign based on its popular Co
  15 KB (2,207 words) - 05:08, 21 December 2010
• Effects of the automobile on societies
  ...et the recommended amount of exercise to stay healthy. In fact, since the 1980s, obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the United States. *[[Automobiles]]
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• Robert Lutz
  ...of the [[Dodge Viper]], [[Plymouth Prowler]] and [[Chrysler LH platform]] automobiles. ** Chairman of Ford of Europe (early 1980s)
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• Zastava
  ...s (138 km) southeast of Belgrade. It is most known for its [[Fiat]]-based automobiles, which began assembling in 1955 for Eastern European markets. The firm also ===The 1980s ===
  11 KB (1,780 words) - 14:18, 3 June 2010
• Jaguar XJS
  ...n]] (but the manual was soon dropped). The XJ-S was one of only three V-12 automobiles at the time, the other two coming from Italy, with the Lamborghini and the ==The 1980s==
  11 KB (1,631 words) - 15:53, 6 April 2009
• Carsharing
  ...ong metering of costs provides a cost incentive to drive less. With owned automobiles many expenses are sunk costs and thus independent of how much the car is dr ...ber of stations covering the entire city, the project endured into the mid-1980s before finally being abandoned.
  12 KB (1,828 words) - 07:59, 21 August 2009
• Formula Three
  ...unit based on the [[Ford Anglia]]<ref>Gauld, Graham, "Ford", in ''World of Automobiles'' (London: Orbis, 1974), Volume 6, p.696</ref> with a special 2-[[valve]] [ ...fairly strong in France; Reynard pioneered use of carbon fibre in the mid-1980s replacing traditional aluminium or steel [[monocoque]] structures. [[Dallar
  17 KB (2,366 words) - 02:19, 8 July 2010
• Overdrive
  ...wo different things. An overdrive is a device which was commonly used in [[automobiles]] to allow the choice of an extra-high overall [[gear ratio]] for high spee ...ndered the overdrive a complex and obsolete solution to economy gearing in automobiles, and very few cars are fitted with them today, although they still appear o
  11 KB (1,827 words) - 12:25, 28 January 2009
• Lotus Excel
  [[Category:1980s automobiles]] [[Category:1990s automobiles]]
  10 KB (1,426 words) - 01:08, 17 July 2010
• Lincoln Mark series
  ...wn Car, however, continued to be Lincoln's best seller for the rest of the 1980s. All told, these Lincolns are quiet, reliable, roomy cars. ...ad most comfort/convenience/performance options that were available in the 1980s. This included all power accessories, leather seating, keyless entry, an on
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• Engine displacement
  The cubic inch was often formerly used (until the 1980s) to express the displacement of engines for new cars, trucks, etc. (e.g., t There are four major regulatory constraints for automobiles: the European, the British, the Japanese, and the American. The method used
  11 KB (1,702 words) - 10:45, 13 November 2008
• Alpine
  ...se cars and consequent customer demand, he founded the Societe Anonyme des Automobiles Alpine in 1954. The firm was named [[Alpine]] after his Coupe des Alpes suc Alpine Renault continued to develop their range of models all through the 1980s. The A310 was the next modern interpretation of the [[A110]]. The [[Alpine
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• Malcolm Bricklin
  Bricklin went on to import [[Fiat X1/9]]s (rebadged as [[Bertone]]s). In the 1980s, he formed Yugo America, Inc. with a goal of bringing an extremely affordab ...h a manufacturing plan to offer a luxury sedan at a lower price than other automobiles offered in the United States.
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