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Agip

Agip (Azienda Generale Italiana Petroli—General Italian Oil Company) is a former Italian automotive gasoline, Diesel, LPG, lubricants, fuel oil, and bitumen retailer established in 1926.

Amuza

Amuza Motors Pty Ltd of Perth is an Australian automotive company which exhibited its Ford Falcon-based stretch limo at the 2003 Tokyo Auto Salon.

Autoblog

Autoblog.com, a news website focused on automobiles and the automotive industry

AVI Sound International

AVI's MX-90 was the world's first midrange to employ a neodymium (NdFeB) magnet, and AVI also created the first 24dB crossovers (XN-24E), and the first point source coaxial speakers (CS-130) in automotive audio.

Cécile de Ménibus

She continued a career in automotive racing and in 1996, hosted the Belgian Championship of tourism cars while driving a Peugeot 106.

Cerizay

The automotive coachbuilder firm Heuliez has its main production plant on the outskirts of the town.

Chip Foose

Chip Foose (born October 13, 1963 in Santa Barbara) is an American hot rod shop owner, automotive designer and fabricator, and star of the reality TV series Overhaulin' on Velocity.

Eagle Premier

As a result, the automotive supplier received $10 million grants from the governments of both Canada and Ontario to expanded the metal stamping plant in Milton, Ontario.

ERIKA Enterprise

Thanks to the collaboration with the Tool & Methodologies team of Magneti Marelli Powertrain & Electronics, the automotive kernel (BCC1, BCC2, ECC1, ECC2, multicore, memory protection and kernel fixed priority with Diab 5.5.1 compiler) is MISRA C 2004 compliant using FlexeLint 9.00h under the configuration suggested by Magneti Marelli.

European Network Exchange

The 15 members of the association, which are all also represented on the so-called ENX board, are Audi, BMW, Bosch, Continental, Daimler, DGA, Ford, PSA Peugeot Citroën, Renault, Volkswagen as well as the automotive associations ANFAC (Spain), GALIA (France), SMMT (UK), OSD (Turkey) and VDA (Germany).

F650

F650 Pickups, a aftermarket automotive manufacture and distributor

Fisker

Fisker Karma, a luxury plug-in hybrid sports sedan produced by Fisker Automotive

Fulvio Bonavia

Though he has shot ad campaigns for a wide range of international clients, such as Adidas, Heineken, Swatch, Amnesty International, and Alitalia, he is best known for his campaigns for automotive companies including Jaguar, BMW, Saab, Alfa Romeo, Daimler-Chrysler, and Audi.

GAZ

In 2011, Bo Andersson received Automotive Executive of the Year Award at the International Automotive Forum organized by the Adam Smith Institute, and was named a Eurostar of automotive industry in the emerging market category by the Automotive News Europe Magazine for achievements in model range renewal, establishment of cooperation between GAZ Group and leading international automakers, and positive financial results of the company in 2010.

Golden Avio F30

The Golden Avio F30 is an Italian ultralight aircraft designed by Stelio Frati and produced by Golden Avio, a division of Golden Car, an automotive parts and prototyping company located in Caramagna Piemonte.

Gray Marine Motor Company

The marine engine division continued operations for over forty years, and is most known for converting automotive engines for fishboats, cruisers and World War II Landing Craft, such as the Canadian Ramped Cargo Lighter and the famed Higgins Boats.

Greenville Drive

The name was chosen due to the presence of BMW US Manufacturing and Michelin in the area and, more generally, due to Greenville's rich automotive past.

Heibao

Heibao (company), a Chinese automotive manufacturing company based in Weihai, Shandong.

Hornavanskolan

The school cooperates with various car manufacturers such as BMW, Daimler, Knorr-Bremse, Volkswagen AG (Audi), Bosch, GM, Aston Martin, Lotus Cars, Caterham Cars and MIRA Ltd and can offer students of the BilTeknikSystem (car technology system) program temporary internships at national and international automotive companies.

Hydrolastic

Invented by British automotive engineer Alex Moulton, Hydragas is an evolution of the previous Hydrolastic system.

Hyundai IHL

is an automotive components manufacturing company headquartered in Gyeongju, South Korea.

I-Logix

Major examples of the tools I-Logix created before it was acquired, are Statemate and Rhapsody (now IBM Rational Rhapsody), both was and still used by all major Automotive and Aerospace/Defence manufacturers and suppliers.

Jaso

Japanese Automotive Standards Organization, an organization that sets automotive standards in Japan

Kelly Harmon

She was married to automotive executive John DeLorean from May 31,1969 in a private candlelight ceremony at the Bel-Air Country Club after becoming engaged in February of the same year; and separating in 1971.

Knocking

Engine knocking, or the sound accompanying automotive combustion malfunction

Lauren Fix

Lauren Fix is the National Automotive Correspondent for Time Warner Cable, YNN, her segments air twice per week nationally.

Lommel Proving Grounds

The Lommel Proving Ground also known as the Ford LPG, is an automotive proving ground, constructed by Ford of Europe on ground rented from the city of Lommel, located south of the Belgian hamlet of Kattenbos.

Lou Santiago

Lou Santiago (born 1963) is a retired U. S. Navy Seabee, an automotive builder and fabricator, and television host/personality.

Michael Lynch

Michael T. Lynch (born 1938), American author, journalist, and automotive historian

Mieschke Hofmann und Partner

Mieschke Hofmann und Partner GmbH (MHP) is a consultancy based in Ludwigsburg, Germany, specializing in IT and process consulting in the automotive and manufacturing sectors.

Mirage Magazine

Mirage's subject matter predominantly focuses on timeless aesthetics in the fields of architectural-, automotive- and product design combined with features about forgotten utopias and influential creative personalities like Robert Evans or Peter Saville.

MPC5xx

The MPC5xx family of processors such as the MPC555 and MPC565 are 32-bit PowerPC embedded microprocessors that operate between 40 and 66 MHz and are frequently used in automotive applications including engine and transmission controllers.

Nellie Leland School

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

Pep Boys

In May 2008, Pep Boys CEO Jeff Rachor left the company after 13 months to pursue a luxury automotive dealership venture with Michael Dell (founder of Dell).

Philippine College of Technology

PCT also started to offer one- and two-year Tech/Voc programs registered with TESDA: Hotel & Restaurant Management, Computer Programming, Computer Secretarial, Computer Technology, Automotive Technology, Electronics Technology, Health Care Services and more.

Radici Group

Fibres applications: apparel, home furnishings and automotive interiors, residential and automotive use, tailor-made products for automotive applications, such as tyre cord, airbags, filters, hoses and belts.

Reference architecture

AUTOSAR is a component-based reference architecture for automotive software architectures.

Robert Waring Stoddard

The Stoddards owned Wyman-Gordon, a major company that manufactured forgings for the automotive, aerospace and gas turbine industries.

Rooftop Films

The screenings all take place on rooftops or in other scenic outdoor locations throughout New York City, including the roof of the Old American Can Factory in Gowanus, Open Road Rooftop in the Lower East Side, the lawn at Automotive High School in Williamsburg, the roof of El Museo del Barrio, the roof of Brooklyn Technical High School in Fort Greene, and more.

Saginaw 9.5-inch axle

The Saginaw 9.5-inch axle is an automotive axle manufactured by American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc. This differential has three major variants.

São José dos Pinhais

It is the third pole of Brazil automotive, housing automakers Volkswagen, Audi, Nissan and Renault.

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.

Sierra Wireless

Sierra Wireless products and technologies are used in a variety of markets and industries, including automotive and transportation, energy, field service, healthcare, industrial and infrastructure, mobile computing and consumers, networking, sales and payment, and security.

Solvent Red 26

Its main use is as a standard fuel dye in the United States of America mandated by the IRS to distinguish low-taxed or tax exempt heating oil from automotive diesel fuel, and by the EPA to mark fuels with higher sulfur content; it is however increasingly replaced with Solvent Red 164, a similar dye with longer alkyl chains, which is better soluble in hydrocarbons.

TagAZ

Construction of the Taganrog Automotive Plant began in Spring 1997, under license and technology of South Korean Daewoo Motors, and was fully financed by Doninvest Finance & Industry Group, with investment volumes surpassing US$ 260 million.

Thermal manikin

Thermal manikins are primarily used in automotive, indoor environment, outdoor environment, military and clothing research.

Toyota Industries

The company manufactures automotive engines for use in Toyota-brand automobiles such as Avensis, Corolla, Crown, Land Cruiser.

Unipower

The Unipower GT was a British specialist sports car first shown at the January 1966 Racing Car Show, and produced by truck maker Universal Power Drives Ltd in Perivale, Middlesex and later by U.W.F. Automotive in London until production ceased in early 1970, by which time around 75 are believed to have been made, including about 15 built by U.W.F..

VDX

OSEK or OSEK/VDX (Vehicle Distributed eXecutive), a standards body for automotive electronics

William Metzger

William E. Metzger (1868-1933), Detroit automotive pioneer and organizer of Cadillac and E-M-F


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