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unusual facts about vehicles



1:18 scale

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

2008 Paris Motor Show

In this edition, the subject was "Taxis du Monde" (Taxis from around the world), and it featured a variety of taxi vehicles from different cities and eras, such as a New York Checker cab, a Chicago Yellow Cab, London Black cabs, a Manila Jeepney, a Bangkok Tuk Tuk, etc., as well as several Parisian taxis, starting with the classic Renault Taxi de la Marne and ending with the proposed future taxi Peugeot Expert Tepee.

Adrian Beecroft

He is a keen auto-enthusiast, having an extensive collection of vehicles, including several Aston Martins, most notably a DBR1 which he races at a number of motoring events.

Amarok

Volkswagen Amarok, a pickup truck made by Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles

Aton Impulse Viking 2992

The Viking 2992 is an advanced all-terrain amphibious vehicle developed by Aton Impulse, a Russian manufacturer of amphibious vehicles.

Bear Flat

Holloway is no longer open to traffic at the north end: vehicles now take the Wells Road road out of Bath towards Radstock, while pedestrians and cyclists can still follow Holloway up the hill.

BlueTec

Daimler Trucks uses BlueTEC on all its Freightliner and Western Star Trucks destined for highway use, as these vehicles are only available with diesel engines.

Civil Defence Ireland

Many of the vehicles have all-terrain capabilities such as Land Rover Defender field ambulances, Bedford and Iveco four-wheel drive lorries and Bandvagn 206 personnel carriers.

Demountable Rack Offload and Pickup System

As both vehicles are now out of commercial production, resulting in vastly reduced and resultantly higher cost spares provision, and taking into account the wider geographic nature of modern British Army deployment, the MOD is presently developing a replacement under the Enhanced Pallet Load System (EPLS), which will be based on the 15 tonne MAN SV.

Destroy Build Destroy

Destroy Build Destroy was a game show hosted by musician Andrew W.K. in which two groups (a "green or blue" team and an "orange or yellow" team, usually grouped by theme such as common interests) of three teenage contestants got to destroy various objects, then built vehicles out of the wreckage.

Edgar Steele

In her petition, she asked for numerous damages, including child support payments of $1,400 per month, two of the family's vehicles, and their horse ranch in Sagle, Idaho.

Ertl Company

Ertl has also, on different occasions, acquired the licenses to produce die-cast vehicles and figurines as well as model kits for Looney Tunes, Garfield, Thomas the Tank Engine, Super Mario Bros. DC Comics, and Star Wars.

Everline

The system is identical to AirTrain JFK in New York City and the Vancouver Sky Train in Canada, using Bombardier Advanced Rapid Transit vehicles controlled by Bombardier CITYFLO 650 automatic train control technology.

Flag of the Governor-General of New Zealand

The flag is flown at places the Governor-General occupies or resides such as Governor-General's residence, Parliament of New Zealand while attending Executive Council meetings and on official vehicles.

Ford C3 transmission

The Bordeaux Automatic Transmission Plant, in Blanquefort, France (in the Bordeaux metropolitan area) produces automatic transmissions for a variety of rear-wheel drive vehicles.

FV103 Spartan

It was reported to the House of Commons in 2006 that 478 FV103 vehicles were in service with the armed forces of the United Kingdom in April of that year, with 452 of them in deployable state.

Geo Metro

Partially because of the renewed interest in the Metro, the July 2009 issue of Car and Driver included a base model 1998 Chevrolet Metro 3-door hatchback among vehicles tested for fuel efficiency alongside two hybrid models: the redesigned Honda Insight and Toyota Prius models.

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.

Hammersmith Is Out

Hammersmith Is Out was the first film financed by John Crean, the founder of Fleetwood Enterprises, Inc. a producer of recreational vehicles, travel trailers (including fold-down tent trailers) and manufactured housing.

Hans Beck

Born in Greiz, Thuringia, Beck grew up in the town of Zirndorf, beginning his toy making career as a creator of little vehicles and figures for his younger siblings.

Lieu-Saint-Amand

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

Lima Army Tank Plant

The plant prepared many vehicles for Europe, including the M5 light tank and the T-26 Pershing tank.

M1 Tank Platoon

As platoon commander, direct control is limited to the four M1 tanks, however depending on the mission, support units like recon and attack helicopters, M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, MLRS artillery systems or other older M60 Patton tanks were available and could be given orders via the tactical map.

Marine Corps Air-Ground Museum

It housed a wide variety of historic Marine Corps vehicles/tanks (both wheeled and tracked), equipment, artillery pieces and aircraft (both fixed wing (airplanes) and rotary wing (helicopters)) to trace the evolution and significance of the Marine Air-Ground Team.

Metro Transit rolling stock

The Blue Line's original first-generation fleet of 27 Flexity Swift LRVs was built by Bombardier; the Siemens "type II" LRVs are mechanically, but not electronically, compatible with the current fleet of 27 "type I" vehicles, so while the two generations will be able to run on the tracks at the same time and either type would be able to push a malfunctioning unit of the other type, multiple-unit consists may only be assembled of one type.

Miramar Air Show

The MAGTF area with rotor-wing and tilt-rotor aircraft representing units based at Miramar and nearby Camp Pendleton, and infantry units from Pendleton and other installations demonstrating M1 Abrams tanks, LAV-25 Light Armored Vehicles, support vehicles, artillery systems and infantry weapons;

Navajo Nation Police

There are over 200 vehicles in the Police Department's fleet ranging from SUVs including: 4x4 Chevrolet Tahoes, 2WD Pursuit Tahoes, 4x4 Chevrolet Blazers, 4x4 Chevrolet Suburban and 4x4 Jeep Libertys to Sedans: Chevrolet Impala and Ford Crown Victoria.

North Western Operational Command

On 7 November 1990 Tank Army had 764 tanks T-62 and T-72, 208 infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers, 212 guns, mortars and multiple rocket launchers.

Oxford Bus Museum

In 1984 the vehicles were moved to the museum’s present location on the site of the goods yard at Hanborough railway station, where covered accommodation was erected, being extensively refurbished in 2001 with support from the Heritage Lottery Fund.

PCC streetcar

The PCC technology was exported to Europe, with La Brugeoise et Nivelles (now the BN division of Bombardier) of Bruges, Belgium, building several hundred streetcars that saw service in Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent, The Hague, Saint-Étienne, Marseille and Belgrade (the latter city buying vehicles initially used by the Belgian Vicinal railways).

Police Information Technology Organisation

The UK government Police National Computer (PNC) project was evolved in the early 1970s, and was launched in 1974 with Stolen Vehicles as its initial database.

POMCUS

Originally, POMCUS sites were primarily simply guarded, fenced-in lots of pre-loaded, maintained vehicles and weapons systems ready to roll, although the precursor to POMCUS sites was a series of underground storage areas liberated from the Germans in Pirmasens and the outlying areas Husterhoeh Kaserne utilized to store combat-readied armor.

Post Office Sorting Van

British Rail built ninety-six of these vehicles between 1959 and 1977, to several similar designs, all based on the Mark 1 coach design.

Powermat Technologies

In 2011 General Motors announced that it would integrate Powermat's wireless charging technology into certain vehicles in its 2013 Chevrolet Volt line, and would also invest in the private company.

Qubad Talabani

Throughout the mid-nineties, Qubad worked on and off as a car-mechanic for a dealership that specialized in Lancia, Suzuki and Maserati vehicles.

Range safety

Space vehicles for sub-orbital and orbital flights from the Eastern and Western Test Ranges were destroyed if they endangered populated areas by crossing pre-determined destruct lines encompassing the safe flight launch corridor.

RECC

REVA Electric Car Company, one of the first companies to introduce electric vehicles worldwide

Sevel Argentina

As part of the rationalization effort, production of passenger vehicles was to take place in Fiat's large El Palomar plant, while commercials, tractors, vans, and heavy vehicles were to be built in Fiat's factory in Ferreyra, Córdoba province.

Squad 51

Squad 51 is a 1972 Dodge D-300 truck, one of 3 different rescue squad vehicles ("squads") that were used in the filming of the television series Emergency!

Stuart Devlin

In 1966 a Stuart Devlin fine silver sculpture was commissioned by Ford of Britain to celebrate the release of the new Mk IV Ford Zephyr & Zodiac range of motor vehicles.

Subaru Outback

The "Outback" name has been utilized on two different Subaru branded vehicles.

Suhail Al Zarooni

He also has a large collection of life-size vehicles which include a custom-made Hummer H1, a Maybach, a red Bugatti EB110 GT and a rare BMW K1 Motorbike.

Suicide door

Suicide doors were especially popular with mobsters in the gangster era of the 1930s, supposedly due to the ease of pushing passengers out of moving vehicles, according to Dave Brownell, the former editor of Hemmings Motor News.

Tillingbourne Bus Company

As well as a large number of Bedford vehicles, which continued to be bought new until the late 1980s, the fleet also included the AEC Reliance, Leyland Leopard, Leyland Tiger and Volvo B10M models, and the first two Dennis Lancet single-deckers to be built.

TPz Fuchs

In May 2013 the vehicles were transported back to RAF Honington so engineers from Rheinmetall Landsysteme could assess their condition to enable cost estimates to be drawn up with the possibility of returning the vehicles to service or selling them if they are no longer required by the British Armed Forces.

Trolleybuses in Valparaíso

Almost two-thirds of its vehicles were built in 1946–52 by the Pullman-Standard Company, and they are the oldest trolleybuses in regular service anywhere in the world.

Trolleybuses in Wellington

The trolleybus fleet peaked at 119 vehicles, including Crossley Empire, British United Traction RETB1 (in various forms) and Volvo B10M and B58 models.

VBTP-MR Guarani

On the 26 November 2009, the Brazilian Defence Minister, Nelson Jobim, announced that President Lula had authorized the start of production for 2044 new vehicles with the new name Guarani, formerly known as Urutu III.

XLT

a High end trim for GMC vehicles (LT is the Chevrolet version of this trim)


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