Mazda and NSU signed a study contract to develop the Wankel engine in 1961 and competed to bring the first Wankel powered automobile to market.

Also in the late 19th century, the automobile was being developed, and in addition to horse-drawn models, early 20th century ambulances were powered by steam, gasoline, and electricity, reflecting the competing automotive technologies then in existence.

These first two automobile ambulances were electrically powered with 2 hp motors on the rear axle.

The firm entered the automobile business with the Ligier JS2, a mid-engined sports car for the road initially powered by a Ford V6 and from 1971 by the same Maserati V6 engine as the Citroën SM.

Production of the electric automobile, powered by a rechargeable lead acid battery, began in 1907.

* The BFG-Citroën of 1982 was powered by a flat-4 1, 299 cc Citroën automobile engine and shaft drive.

The smallest automobile production inline-four engine powered the 1962-1970 Mazda P360 Carol kei car.

A jump start, also called a boost, is a method of starting an automobile or other vehicle powered by an internal combustion engine when the vehicle's battery has been discharged.

With the advent of the automobile in the late 19th / early 20th century, racetracks were designed to suit the nature of powered machines.

This was a completely battery powered urban concept car whose batteries were recharged by regenerative braking, thus increasing the range of the automobile.

In his decision, the judge wrote that the patent covered any automobile propelled by an engine powered by gasoline vapor.

Designed for a 12 volt automobile electrical system, it could also be powered by a 12 volt lantern battery.

In the early days of the automobile, a creative attorney " Selden " claimed to have a patent for the internal combustion powered version.

Such devices can either be of the " pancake " type, where a scrap automobile is flattened by a huge descending hydraulically powered plate.

Additional German-operated landing craft sent to Italy via rail for the invasion included twelve Siebel ferries ( catamaran rafts powered by automobile engines driving water screws and armed with a mix of 88mm and 20mm flak guns ), six Type 39 Pionierlandungsboote ( carrying 20 tons of cargo, 2 light vehicles or 45 infantrymen and unloaded via clamshell doors at the bow ), six Type 40 Pionierlandungsboote ( a larger version of the Type 39, carrying 40 tons of cargo, three or four light vehicles or 80-90 fully equipped infantrymen ), a company of eighty-one Sturmboote ( Type 39 Stormboats, small plywood boats carrying up to six infantrymen and powered by 30 hp outboard motors ) plus an assortment of large inflatable rafts ( carrying 25 infantrymen each ).

A 12-volt trickle charge system charged used golf cart batteries in homes, which in turn powered automobile tail light bulbs hanging from the ceilings and walls.

This record was not broken by any automobile until 1911, although Glen Curtiss beat the record in 1907 with a V-8 powered motorcycle at.

This machine was tested as a towed sailplane in the Autumn of 1961 and is to be powered by a converted " B " Ford automobile engine from a 1938 Funk monoplane.

The Anderheggen was a Dutch automobile ; the short-lived light 4hp four-seater vis-à-vis, powered by a water-cooled Abeille engine, was manufactured in Amsterdam from 1899 to 1902.

" By March 1902, after overcoming difficulties procuring factory space, and a devastating flood of the Schuylkill River, Duryea was manufacturing one three-wheel, three-cylinder, gasoline powered automobile each week.

The gasoline powered Curved Dash Oldsmobile is credited as being the first mass-produced automobile, meaning that it was built on an assembly line using interchangeable parts.

Mini 4WD was first created by the Japanese company Tamiya in 1982 as a powered variant of common plastic automobile model kits.

They also built the first compression-ignition powered automobile.

It met these problems by the creation of the state automobile maintenance unit ( more popularly called the motor pool ), a centralized operation for the maintenance and control of all state transportation.

The fact that sticks out in this voluminous record is that the bulk of Du Pont's production has always supplied the largest part of the requirements of the one customer in the automobile industry connected to Du Pont by a stock interest.

The American Automobile Association, computing the cost for two people to vacation by automobile, comes up with an average daily expenditure figure of $29.

The automobile expenses are about the only vacationing cost they can't either eliminate or pare down drastically by camping along the way.

Willow Run, General Electric's enormous installations at Louisville and Syracuse, the Pentagon, Boeing in Seattle, Douglas and Lockheed in Los Angeles, the new automobile assembly plants everywhere -- none of these is substantially served by any sort of conventional mass rapid transit.

They overflowed the parking lot, making progress by automobile difficult.

Implementation of Georgia's automobile title law was also recommended by the outgoing jury.

The 1957 romantic drama film An Affair to Remember involves a couple who plan to meet atop the Empire State Building, a rendezvous that is averted by an automobile accident.

Bicycles and horse buggies were the two mainstays of private transportation just prior to the automobile, and the grading of smooth roads in the late 19th century was stimulated by the widespread advertising, production, and use of these devices.

Since May 2009, the portions of Broadway through Duffy Square, Times Square, and Herald Square have been closed entirely to automobile traffic, except for cross traffic on the Streets and Avenues, as part of a traffic and pedestrianization experiment, with the pavement reserved exclusively for walkers, cyclists, and those lounging in temporary seating placed by the city.

Bézier curves were widely publicized in 1962 by the French engineer Pierre Bézier, who used them to design automobile bodies.

The car became known as the AMX-400 and it is now owned by an automobile collector.

In Cadillac Motor Car Co. v. Johnson, ( decided in 1915 by the federal appeals court for New York and several neighboring states ), the court held that a car owner could not recover for injuries from a defective wheel, when the automobile owner had a contract only with the automobile dealer and not with the manufacturer, even though there was " no question that the wheel was made of dead and ‘ dozy ‘ wood, quite insufficient for its purposes.

Canada's automobile industry, on the other hand, has been dominated by American firms from its inception, explaining why Canadians use the American spelling of tire ( hence, " Canadian Tire ") and American terminology for the parts of automobiles ( for example, truck instead of lorry, gasoline instead of petrol, trunk instead of boot ).

* Hudson Commodore, an automobile produced in the 1940s and 1950s by Hudson Motor Car Company

* Holden Commodore, an automobile produced by the Holden division of General Motors in Australia

* Mazda Capella, a model of automobile manufactured by Mazda

Before the Datsun brand name came into being, an automobile named the DAT car was built in 1914, by the, in the Azabu-Hiroo District in Tokyo.

DKW engines were used by Saab as a model for the Saab two-stroke used in their new Saab 92 automobile manufacturing venture, in 1947.

The first commercially successful automobile, created by Karl Benz, added to the interest in light and powerful engines.

* European Domestic Market in the automobile industry, A slang term used by some North Americans to describe the European Economic Area

Now more than 85 % of the Faroese population is accessible by automobile.

The firewall in an automobile ( indicated by the red line )