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29 unusual facts about automobile


Achille Varzi

Varzi's death resulted in the FIA mandating the wearing of crash helmets for racing, which had been optional previously.

AutoIndustriya.com

AutoIndustriya.com was founded in September 25, 2000 by Brent Co and Benjamin Ngo Jr., two car enthusiasts who wanted to build an online resource for everything automotive in the Philippines.

AWS Shopper

AWS Shopper (A.W.S = Automobilwerk Walter Schätzle) was a German Automobile manufactured in Berlin (Germany) from 1971 to 1974.

Bandini 750 sport internazionale

There are also copies that are running with engines Saab and Ford.

Bike-engined car

A bike-engined car is a small or light weight car that is powered by an engine that was designed for use in a motorcycle.

Charles Deutsch

Deutsch served as President of FISITA, the International Federation of Automotive Engineering Societies, from 1975 to 1978.

Concept car

A concept vehicle or show vehicle is a car made to showcase new styling and/or new technology.

Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft

The original DTM was started in 1984 as Deutschen Produktionswagen Meisterschaft (German Production Car Championship), with cars entered by privateer teams and under FIA Group A rules, but was extensively modified throughout the years, allowing more modifications.

The ITR governing body then sought approval and support from the FIA to begin the new series.

Executive car

Some manufacturers seek to differentiate their offerings by making them as estate variants, or with 5-door hatchback bodies—in particular Rover, Saab, Renault and Citroën have been known to prefer such body styles, with Ford also offering such models through the 1990s.

Fair Credit Reporting Act

Typically, these are creditors, with which a consumer has some sort of credit agreement (such as credit card companies, auto finance companies and mortgage banking institutions).

FIA World Rallycross Championship

The World Rallycross Championship (World RX) is a rallycross series organised by the FIA in conjunction with series promoters IMG Motorsport.

G. D. Naidu Industrial Exhibition

Automobile, industrial and mechanical exhibits are present for viewing at the exhibition.

Glasspar

Bill Tritt had a keen interest in boats and cars before World War II, when he studied marine architecture and boat-building at California State Teacher's College in Santa Barbara, California.

H. C. Casserley

Casserley acquired his first motor car in 1934, which aided his reaching obscure small railway lines and investigating windmills, in which he had also developed an interest.

John Erik Franzén

John Erik Franzén (born 1942) is a Swedish artist, mainly a painter, born in Stockholm, most known for several large paintings portraying cars and motorcycles, as well as being the artist behind the portrait of the royal family of Sweden added to the public exhibition at the castle in Gripsholm in 1985, and original paintings for several stamps also portraying members of the royal family.

Larization

They set prices on goods (including durable consumption goods: flat, car, etc.) in national currency instead of foreign currency.

MCKV Institute of Engineering

The institute provides four year Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) degrees in Automobile Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Information Technology.

Mike Burgmann

Following the 1986 race, and as part of safety upgrades the circuit needed to bring it up to FIA standards for inclusion in the 1987 World Touring Car Championship, a chicane was added to Conrod Straight, eliminating the second hump which had long been seen as dangerous at the speeds the touring cars were traveling.

Mosley baronets

Max Mosley, second son of the second marriage of the sixth Baronet, is the long-serving President of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile.

Motorsport Arena Oschersleben

Motorsport Arena Oschersleben was a venue for FIA's European Touring Car Championship from 2001 to 2004 and the World Touring Car Championship from 2005 to 2011.

Pakida

Pakida tells the story of five friends Aadi, Rafeeq, Pauly, Balu and CP who have done their degree in Automobile Engineering and are very close to each other.

Revolutions per minute

Modern Automobile engines are typically operated around 2000–3000 rpm (33–50 Hz) when cruising, with a minimum (idle) speed around 750–900 rpm (12.5–15 Hz), and an upper limit anywhere from 4500 to 10,000 rpm (75–166 Hz) for a road car or nearly 20,000 rpm for racing engines such as those in Formula 1 cars (currently limited to 18,000 rpm).

Russian political jokes

"Dad, can I have the car keys?" / "OK, but don't lose them. We will get the car in only seven years!"

Société des ingénieurs de l'automobile

Traditionally, the association president is alternatively proposed by the administration council of each main French car manufacturer, Renault and Peugeot.

Solar car

In 2008 the event was endorsed by International Solarcar Federation (ISF), Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), World Wildlife Fund (WWF) making it the first Solar Race to receive endorsement from these 3 organizations.

Stinson Aircraft Company

Automobile mogul Errett Lobban (E.L.) Cord acquired 60 percent of Stinson's stock in September 1929, and his Cord Corporation provided additional investment capital to permit Stinson to sell its aircraft at a competitive price while still pursuing new designs.

Vehicle size class

Passenger car classes are defined based on interior volume index or

War as metaphor

Toronto mayor Rob Ford has described municipal initiatives such as a "war on graffiti" and "war on cars."


1:18 scale

The scale is used for 1:18 scale diecast automobile models, military vehicles, armor, and aircraft.

1910 American Grand Prize

After a successful race in 1908, the Automobile Club of America made plans with the rival American Automobile Association to hold the Grand Prize and Vanderbilt Cup together on the Long Island Motor Parkway in 1909.

Aston Martin Owners Club

Having been fired with enthusiasm by winning an automobile race at age twenty and by his first meeting with 'Bert' Bertelli shortly after, his success led to the purchase of the team car LM7 and an invitation to drive “under works control’’ at Le Mans in 1933.

Aubrey Pankey

Aubrey W. Pankey (Pittsburgh, 1905 - Teltow, East Germany death by automobile accident 1971) was an American baritone and noted Lieder singer in 1930s Germany.

Aurel Persu

Persu, a specialist in airplanes aerodynamics and dynamics, implemented his idea in 1922–1923 in Berlin, building an automobile with an incredibly low drag coefficient of 0.28 (same as a modern Porsche Carrera) or even 0.22 (still not reached by almost any modern production cars), depending on the source.

Automobile Alley

Automobile Alley Historic District is an upscale Urban neighborhood in Oklahoma City, located roughly along North Broadway Avenue in Downtown Oklahoma City.

Berenice Abbott

Two decades later, Abbott and McCausland traveled US 1 from Florida to Maine, and Abbott photographed the small towns and growing automobile-related architecture.

Bertone

Giovanni Bertone, Italian automobile designer, known for establishing the Carrozzeria Bertone business

Central Única dos Trabalhadores

Alongside the Workers' Party (PT) and the Landless Workers' Movement (MST), CUT was one of the key organizations to challenge the military rule of 1964–1985 during its final stages, organizing strikes in automobile factories located in the ABC Region.

Chappe et Gessalin

Chappe et Gessalin (CG) was a French automobile maker founded in 1946 which commenced manufacturing complete cars in Brie-Comte-Robert, Seine-et Marne in 1957.

Chautauqua, Illinois

Arriving first by packet boat, and later by automobile or the trains that ran by as often as six times a day, the vacationers were entertained, educated, and inspired by such luminaries like William Jennings Bryan, evangelists Sam Jones, Billy Sunday and Gypsy Smith, the Swiss Bell Ringers, John Philip Sousa’s band and "Sunny Jim," reputed to be one of the Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders.

Chrysler LH engine

Oil sludge buildup in an automobile engine results most often from poor maintenance, often from not changing engine oil at the recommended intervals, rather than to a problem with the engine.

Convertible

Until the 1910 introduction by Cadillac of the United States' first closed-body car, the open or convertible car was the primary body style.

Detroit-Oxford

The Detroit-Oxford was an automobile manufactured in Oxford, Michigan by the Detroit-Oxford Motor Car Company from 1905-06.

Elena Konstantinovna Ragozhina

In 1979, she graduated with honours from the Moscow State Automobile and Road Technical University with a degree in Engineering Design.

FPV

Ford Performance Vehicles, the Melbourne-based, premium performance vehicle partner of automobile manufacturer Ford Australia

Gerardo Traverso

Traverso's career ended following a serious injury sustained in an automobile crash in Asunción in May 2004.

Giovanni Ancillotto

On 18 October 1924, Giovanni Ancillotto was killed in an automobile accident in Caravaggio, Lombardy.

GURPS Autoduel

In this setting (by tradition, fifty years ahead of the current time), characters are involved in autoduelling: combat in armed and armored motor vehicles such as cars, motorcycles, or semis.

Hananoumi Ken

The two spent much of their spare time tinkering with Wajima′s luxury American automobile, a Lincoln Continental.

Highway hypnosis

Amnesia can even develop for the dissociated consciousness that drove the automobile.

Honda Prelude

"It is," wrote Brock Yates for Motor Trend, "by any sane measurement, a splendid automobile. The machine, like all Hondas, embodies fabrication that is, in my opinion, surpassed only by the narrowest of margins by Mercedes-Benz. It is a relatively powerful little automobile by anybody's standards."Motor Trend measuring an early Prelude completing the quarter-mile in 18.8 seconds at 70 mph.

Hotchkiss et Cie

Société Anonyme des Anciens Etablissements Hotchkiss et Cie was a French arms and, in the 20th century, automobile manufacturer first established by United States gunsmith Benjamin B. Hotchkiss.

In Between Evolution

"Heaven Is a Better Place Today" doubles as a tribute to Dan Snyder, a player for the Atlanta Thrashers hockey team who died in an automobile accident nine months before the album's release, and for young men being sent to war.

Iranian Machine Design Competition

The national competition of Electric Automobile Design was planned, held, and opened by the efforts of the Shahid Rezaie Research Center of Sharif University of Technology.

John Hoerr

Later he worked at The Daily Tribune in Royal Oak, Michigan, rejoined UPI for two years in Chicago, and served separate stints with Business Week, in Detroit and Pittsburgh, specializing as a labor reporter on the automobile, steel, and coal-mining industries.

Lieu-Saint-Amand

It is the home of the Sevel Nord facility, an automobile factory which builds Fiat vehicles.

Matchless Silver Arrow

The narrow angle of the V allowed the use of a one piece head, a practice utilised by Lancia in its early V4 automobile engines.The rear suspension was a cantilever design using two springs and friction dampers beneath the saddle, very similar to the 1928 Vincent HRD design.

Meadows Frisky

Meadows Frisky is the name of a series of small British cars manufactured at the factory of Henry Meadows Ltd at Fallings Park in Wolverhampton between 1958 and 1961, during which time, production was under the control of a number of companies.

N46

BMW N46, a 2004 straight-4 automobile piston engine family

N63

BMW N63, a 2008 4.4L, direct-injected, twin-turbocharged V8 automobile engine

Nellie Leland School

Henry M. Leland was a Detroit automotive pioneer who founded both the Cadillac and Lincoln automotive companies.

New Darnytskyi Bridge

The New Darnytskyi Bridge, also known informally as the Kirpa Bridge, is a combined automobile and railroad bridge in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine.

Ontario Highway 20

During the 1960s and 1970s, Lundy's Lane became a Golden Mile, attracting businesses which catered to automobile travellers and tourists.

Owen Bieber

In September 1983, Bieber negotiated an agreement in which the union was able to extend its collective bargaining contract over the joint GM-Toyota New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI) automobile manufacturing plant in Fremont, California.

Paola, Kansas

Justice Brothers, automobile racers & founders of Justice Brothers Car Care Products.

Pat Goss

Goss is the master technician on the television program MotorWeek, where he hosts a segment called Goss' Garage, and hosts a weekend radio show about cars on WJFK-FM in Washington, DC.

Red Lake Falls, Minnesota

The last significant historic event in Red Lake Falls occurred on August 27, 1927, when the famous aviator, Charles Lindbergh and his wife, landed at the nearby airport during a barnstorming trip through the Upper Midwest and were taken on automobile rides to Huot and Crookston.

Richard Martino

A major earner for the Gambino family, Martino owned expensive homes in Harrison, New York and Southampton, New York, wore Prada brand shoes, and drove an expensive Mercedes-Benz automobile.

Shanghai Volkswagen

Shanghai Volkswagen (officially Shanghai Volkswagen Automotive Co., Ltd.) is an automobile manufacturing company headquartered in Anting, China and a joint venture between Volkswagen Group and SAIC Motor.

Stiles–Crawford effect

In the 1920s, Walter Stanley Stiles, a young physicist at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, England, examined the effects of street lighting and headlight features on automobile traffic accidents, which were becoming increasingly prevalent at the time.

Stratagraph

Due to Hagan's intense interest in automobile racing, Stratagraph has fielded several race teams of various types through the years, most notably in the NASCAR Winston Cup Series (now NEXTEL Cup Series), and in IMSA sports car events and endurance racing.

Sumitomo Rubber Industries

In 1985, when Dunlop Rubber was taken over by BTR plc, the company acquired the automobile tire assets of Dunlop, including the right to use the Dunlop brand on automobile tires.

TPMS

Tire-pressure monitoring system, a safety device made to alert automobile operators when their tires are under-inflated

Twin Cities Rail Transport

The system began to decline in the years leading up to World War II as automobile use began to rise.

Virgin VR-01

It had been reported by Auto, Motor und Sport that the VR-01's fuel tank was too small for the car to finish a race, and that the team applied to the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) in order to obtain permission to modify the chassis to accommodate a larger tank.

Wilfred Bourque

On August 19, 1909, Bourque won the third automobile race held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (a five-mile race).