Generally, when colliding with a moose at high speed, the car's bumper and front grille will break the moose's legs, causing the body of the moose to fall onto the car's hood and delivering the bulk of the animal's weight into the windshield, crushing the front roof support beams and anyone in the front seats.

Open-wheel car, formula car, or often single-seater car in British English, describes cars with the wheels outside the car's main body and, in most cases, one seat.

Citroëns still sold in large quantities in spite of not changing the body design, but the car's low price was the main selling point and Citroën experienced heavy losses.

Like airbags, pretensioners are triggered by sensors in the car's body, and most pretensioners use explosively expanding gas to drive a piston that retracts the belt.

An unusual feature of the " torpedo " body exhibition car, was that with push of a button the front half of the car body would open showing the engine and the car's front seat interior.

The car's body and suspension was also changed to be lower, longer and wider.

Vigoreaux body was found gagged, stabbed, and burned inside the car's trunk.

Police responded to the scene and found the body of the car's owner, 20-year-old Cindy Hudspeth, in the trunk.

Variants of the bumper sticker have developed in recent years, including vinyl decals meant to be applied to a car's rear windshield, and chrome emblems to be affixed to the body of the car itself, generally on the rear ( the " Jesus fish " and its " Darwin fish " counterpart are popular examples ).

The frame, fenders and hood were made of steel ; the rear of the car's body was made of wood.

The body was strengthened and fully galvanised on later models, virtually eliminating the earlier car's strong tendency to rust.

The K16 82 hp variant is exactly the same as the version, apart from a restrictive throttle body designed to lower the car's insurance group ; the Spi features single-point fuel injection rather than the multi-point of the later engine.

In the degree not the entire height of the bump can be absorbed, the car's body will lift at that side.

In an ordinary steel-sprung car, this anti roll bar effect would mean that the car's body at the bump-absorbing side would lift, while it would tend to drop at the other side.

The investment also included an advanced die-casting plant to manufacture the aluminium engine casings, and a stake in a brand new Pressed Steel Company motor pressings works which manufactured all the new car's body panels.

The 2002 HRT 427 featured a full carbon fiber body, a heavy-duty 900Nm clutch mated to a custom T56 six-speed manual gearbox hand built by Tremec for HSV, two Sparco Pro 2000 seats, a half roll cage, fully adjustable dampers on double ' A ' arm aluminum front suspension, AP Racing six-piston racing brakes, and ram air induction, a Motec instrument panel, and weight reduction bringing the car's weight down to just 1575 kg ( 3472 lb ).

; Crossover ( or CUV ): A loose marketing term to describe a vehicle that blends features of a SUV with features of a car — especially forgoing the body on frame construction of the SUV in favor of the car's unibody or monocoque construction.

When Exner joined Chrysler, the car's body was fashioned by engineers instead of designers — leading to what many thought were old-fashioned, boxy designs on Chryslers of the 1940s and early 50s.

This goal was aided by a conscious effort to reduce the number of panels needed to build the car's body — a remarkably low 215, reportedly only 5 more than for a Mini.

BMW used CAD tools, still unusual at the time, to design the car's all-new body.

Some of the car's weight may have been due to its pillarless " hardtop " body style, which lacked a " B " post.

Because of this, the car's body did not rust, and it was proclaimed in advertising to be " its own garage ".

This type of controller is called an open-loop controller because no measurement of the system output ( the car's speed ) is used to alter the control ( the throttle position.

Galleys are kitchens aboard ships or aircraft ( although the term galley is also often used to refer to a railroad dining car's kitchen ).

* Executive car, British term that refers to a car's size and is used to describe an automobile larger than a large family car

Sprague's system used an overhead wire and trolley pole to collect current, with electric motors on the car's trucks.

Some of their famous sound effects included a rapid bongo drum take used for when a character's feet were scrambling before taking off, a " KaBONG " sound produced on a guitar for when Quick Draw McGraw, in his Zorro-style " El Kabong " crime fighting guise, would smash a guitar over a villain's head, the sound of a car's brake drum combined with a bulb horn for when Fred Flintstone would drop his bowling ball onto his foot, an automobile's tires squealing with a " skipping " effect added for when someone would slide to a sudden stop, a bass-drum-and-cymbal combination called the " Boom Crash " for when someone would fall down or smack into an object, a xylophone being struck rapidly on the same note for a tip-toeing effect, and a violin being plucked with the tuning pegs being raised to simulate something like pulling out a cat's whisker.

and its space-saving front-wheel drive layout – allowing 80 per cent of the area of the car's floorpan to be used for passengers and luggage – influenced a generation of car makers.

The most important of these is the GTO, short for " Gran Turismo Omologato ," the Italian for " Grand Touring, Homologated " used by Ferrari as a badge to announce a car's official qualification for racing.

The jack handle also served as the wheelbrace and could be used to remove the nuts that held the front wings on-part of the car's design to facilitate easy maintenance.

The Gremlin used the AMC Hornet automobile platform, but its abrupt hatchback rear end cut the car's overall length from.

The extra length was used to improve rear-seat legroom and access which enhanced the car's credentials as a ' genuine ' four-seater.

It used the same platform as the Citroën Xantia, though without that car's sophisticated hydropneumatic suspension system.

The Thunderbird's wheelbase frame was mostly a shortened version of that used in other Fords while the car's standard Y-block V8 came from Ford's Mercury division.

The car's designers had intended that the headlights could be retracted, with the lenses facing skyward when not in use ; a similar arrangement was used many years later on the Porsche 928.

Contestants who used such calculators were often called " Curta-crankers " by those who were limited to paper and pencil, or who used computers linked to the car's wheels.

A cold air intake is an aftermarket assembly of parts used to bring relatively cool air into a car's internal-combustion engine.

The Traction Avant used a longitudinal, front-wheel drive layout, with the engine set well within the wheelbase, resulting in a very favourable weight distribution, aiding the car's advanced handling characteristics.

Wolfsburg was able to ramp up production carefully: directly before Passat production started the lines were used to assemble small volumes of the car's Audi 80 sibling which had been launched a year earlier.

Over time the car's reliability became suspect due to a problem with the quality of electrical connector used.

The hydropneumatic self-leveling suspension ( featuring grapefruit-sized metal spheres containing nitrogen, acting as both springs and shock absorbers ) gained a very sophisticated electronic control system called Hydractive, which used sensors in the steering, brakes, suspension, throttle pedal and transmission to feed information on the car's speed, acceleration, and road conditions to on-board computers.

The car's electrical contacts, called " pickup shoes ", are generally fixed directly to the chassis, and a round guide pin is often used instead of a swiveling flag.

CFD has similarly been used as a tool to simulate aerodynamic conditions but through the use of extremely advanced computers and software to duplicate the car's design digitally then " test " that design on the computer.

Critics also attacked the car's excessive weight and its semi-independent rear torsion beam suspension / twist-beam rear suspension, ( like a previous generation Volkswagen Golf ), which was seen as a step backwards from the acclaimed fully independent rear suspension used in the Bravo / Brava, and which resulted in handling many found uninspired and uninvolving.