Le Sabre concept car

The General Motors Le Sabre was a 1951 concept car (or show car). The Le Sabre was the brainchild of General Motors Art Department head Harley Earl,[1] by a followup to his famous 1938 Y-job. Like all of Earle's projects, it was built to be roadworthy. It was powered by a supercharged 215 cu in (3.5 L) V8 able to run on gasoline (petrol) or methanol (like Indy roadsters of the period did), and had an unusually-placed rear-mounted Buick Dynaflow automatic transmission. This was later changed to a GM Hydramatic. The Le Sabre featured numerous advanced features: a 12-volt electrical system (most cars of the period were 6-volt), heated seats,...

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A Woman's Point of View: Susan G. Komen & Breast Cancer Awareness Month

by Colette Cooley, Cars for Keeps Office ManagerThe month of October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. A gentle reminder to get your yearly breast examination and there are many events that you can participate in to help in the fight of this horrible disease. My dearly loved sister-in-law died of breast cancer last year and there are probably many of you out there that know someone who is fighting this battle.Many women avoid mammograms because it is too painful. I am one of them. I found a better way. You can get a breast exam through Thermography. It is not painful, nothing touches you and it finds anything suspicious sooner than x-ray...

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Bugatti 18/3 Chiron

The Bugatti 18/3 Chiron was a concept sports car designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro. It was a mid-engine design with the same W18 engine found in the EB 118 and EB 218 concept cars. The front resembles as the Bugatti Veyron. The Chiron name comes from famed Bugatti racing driver, Louis Chiron. Fabrizio Giugiaro of Italdesign was responsible for the design with input from Hartmut Warkuss from the VW design center in Wolfsburg. In creating a logical successor to the EB110, they had the unique opportunity to style Bugatti's flagship model. Important design elements de the return of the horse shoe classic radiator, inset front lights, converging...

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Lamborghini Early 1960s

Prior to founding his company, Lamborghini had commissioned the engineering firm Società Autostar to design a V12 engine for use in his new cars. Lamborghini wanted the engine to have a similar displacement to Ferrari's 3-litre V12; however, he wanted the engine to be designed purely for road use, in contrast to the modified racing engines used by Ferrari in its road cars. Autostar was led by Giotto Bizzarrini, a member of the "Gang of Five" of Ferrari engineers, who had been responsible for creating the famous Ferrari 250 GTO, but left the company in 1961 after founder Enzo Ferrari announced his intention to reorganize the engineering staff....

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Lamborghini Origin

Automobili Lamborghini was founded by Ferruccio Lamborghini, the child of viticulturists from the comune (township) of Renazzo di Cento, Province of Ferrara, in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy. After serving as a mechanic in the Regia Aeronautica, during World War II, Lamborghini went into business building tractors out of leftover military hardware from the war effort. By the mid-1950s, Lamborghini's tractor company, Lamborghini Trattori S.p.A., had become one of the largest agricultural equipment manufacturers in the country. He was also the owner of a successful gas heater and air conditioning manufacturer. Lamborghini's...

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Modifikasi Honda Scoopy

Scoopy Honda's retro appearance has been made forcefully. Currently, Honda scooter was already modified. Indeed, the results are not extreme. However, what is done by the three modifiers.Views become more classics with the additional sepatbor ornament on the front, side and rear, including orders and a gold emblem on the front and rear wheels.Another claim results from JJ Airbrush Jaedun Mukhtar, Jakarta. Although minimalist, with a spray gun motif make the appearance Scoopy sweeter. The impression that was strengthened again with ornaments sweetener, from front to back.Let's look at the standard muffler protector, this section switch...

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Sports car

The drive train and engine layout significantly influences the handling characteristics of an automobile, and is crucially important in the design of a sports c...

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McLaren MP4/2

The McLaren MP4/2 was a Formula One car designed by John Barnard of McLaren for the 1984 season. An iteration of it, the MP4/2B, was used in the 1985 season, and a slightly updated version, the MP4/2C, raced in the 1986 season for McLaren. It was closely based on the MP4/1E model that was used as a test car, used in the final races of 1983. Like the majority of its competitors, the car used an all carbon fibre chassis. The car was powered by a TAG Porsche V6 Turbo engine, which was first used in the final few races of 1983, at the insistence of Niki Lauda, who felt that the new engine required race testing before a championship challenge...

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Lamborghini

Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A. commonly referred to as Lamborghini (pronounced [lamborˈɡini] ( listen), is an Italian automaker based in the small township of Sant'Agata Bolognese. The company was founded in 1963 by manufacturing magnate Ferruccio Lamborghini, who set out to create a refined grand touring car. The company's first offerings, the 350GT and 400GT, were noted for their refinement, power, and comfort. Lamborghini gained wide acclaim in 1966 for the Miura sports coupé, which established mid-engine design as the standard layout for high-performance cars of the era. After a decade of rapid growth, hard times befell the company...

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Saab 9-1X

The Saab 9 1X is speculated to be a future subcompact luxury car from Saab Automobile. It would be based on the Saab 9-X Biohybrid concept car shown at the 2008 Geneva Auto Show, and expected to compete with other premium small cars such as the BMW Mini. No production date has been announced. Saab Managing Director Jan-Åke Jonsson said the model would likely not be on the global GM Gamma platform, but did not confirm whether Saab would use a custom platform or a modified GM Delta II platform. Saab intends to build the vehicle at their Trollhättan factory. citation needed Saab's new owner Spyker Cars announced that they had plans to put...

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Fuel cell sports car

A fuel cell sports car is a future vehicle anticipated to arrive with the advent of sophisticated hydrogen fuel cell technology. Although the primary impetus for fuel cell research is cleaner automobile emissions, overall vehicle performance is also a factor. Current fuel cell cars run on relatively low power (80-100 kW) electric motors, but more powerful motors are capable of dramatic performance even when compared to fossil fuel engines. For instance, the Venturi Fetish is an electric (plug-in) car that achieves 0 to 100 km/h times of under five seconds, which has traditionally been the acceleration territory of sports cars. Production...

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Future car technologies

Potential future car technologies include new energy sources and materials, which are being developed in order to make automobiles more sustainable, safer, more energy efficient, or less polluting. Cars are being developed in many different ways. With rising gas prices, the future of cars is leaning towards fuel efficiency, energy-savers, hybrid vehicles, battery electric vehicles and fuel-cell vehicles (Xiang, Jia, Jianzhong, Zhibiao, Yuanzhang, & Qinglin 2008) One major problem in developing cleaner, energy efficient automobiles is the source of power to drive the engine. A variety of alternative fuel vehicles have been proposed...

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