He won his first championship in in the Ground effects BT49-Ford, and became the first to win a drivers ' championship with a turbocharged car in.

Opel's first turbocharged car was the Opel Rekord 2. 3 TD, first shown at Geneva in March 1984.

The first example of a turbocharged bike is the 1978 Kawasaki Z1R TC.

The first turbocharged diesel truck was produced by Schweizer Maschinenfabrik Saurer ( Swiss Machine Works Saurer ) in 1938.

Notable achievements included the introduction of the first turbocharged engine in 1962 ( the Turbo Jetfire ), the first modern front-wheel drive car produced in the United States ( the 1966 Toronado ), the Vista Cruiser station wagon ( noted for its roof glass ), and the upscale 442 muscle car.

P2 cars can weigh much less — first 675 kg, then 750 kg and now 825 kg — but are restricted to 3400 cc V6 or V8 normally aspirated or 2000 cc turbocharged powerplants.

In September 2006 Tatra introduced its Euro4 compliant turbocharged T3D engine with the SCR exhaust technology and in February 2008 the worlds's first Euro 5 compliant aircooled diesel engine based on T3D engine

DAF was also one of the first to introduce a turbocharged diesel engine into their trucks, which in these years became very evident with their 3600.

The first turbocharged two-stroke diesel engine was commissioned in 1952 with larger and more innovative designs to follow.

In 1984, the first commercially available turbocharged PRV V6 was sold in the Renault 25 V6 Turbo.

The Saab 99 turbo was one of the first " family cars " to be fitted with a turbo after the 1962-63 Oldsmobile Turbo Jetfire ; other contemporary turbocharged automobiles were very " specialised " vehicles and were difficult to drive.

In Spring of 1962 Chevrolet really committed itself to the sporty image they had created for the Corvair by finally introducing a Convertible version and then offering a high performance turbocharged " Spyder " option for Monza coupes and convertibles, making the Corvair the first production automobile to come with a turbocharger as a factory option, with the Oldsmobile F-85 Turbo Jetfire a few weeks later in 1962.

It was announced in mid-2009 that Ford would begin production of a direct-injection, turbocharged four-cylinder " Ecoboost " version of the Falcon ; it will be the first rear-wheel-drive application of Ford's new four-cylinder EcoBoost engine, and will begin production in 2012.

As with the first generation, the turbocharged WRX and STI variants were available in numerous specifications with a myriad of limited edition variants sold.

The first generation Cirrus was sold in Mexico with a turbocharged version of the 2. 4 L DOHC I4 engine and a 4-speed automatic transmission with AutoStick.

The Gol 1. 0 16V Turbo, launched in 2000 with a 112 hp 1. 0-litre turbocharged gasoline engine, was the first one of its kind in South America, as was the flexible fuel vehicle Gol Total Flex, available since 2003.

The XR-7 returned and for the first time, its standard engine was not a V8 or V6, but a turbocharged four-cylinder engine.

Their new ' Sirius ' engine was offered in turbocharged form for performance enthusiasts in some markets, while for economy, an ' Astron ' 4D55, the first diesel engine in a Japanese passenger car, was also offered.

From 1989 to 1991 the 90 also offered the first 20-valve engine from Audi since the turbocharged engine used in the Audi Sport Quattro.

The 2. 0L turbo is the first direct-injected turbocharged production car capable of running on any blend of gasoline or E85 ethanol.

The Starlet GT Turbo is high performance model of the fourth generation Toyota Starlet, first introduced in 1990 as a successor to the 70 series Starlet 1. 3 Turbo R. The EP82 GT turbo was powered by a turbocharged version of a Toyota's E Engine, the 4E-FTE with CT9 turbocharger.

* 1958 – Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D. C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U. S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.

* 1853 – The first passenger rail opens in India, from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane.

One of the most successful designs of this period was the Douglas DC-3, which became the first airliner that was profitable carrying passengers exclusively, starting the modern era of passenger airline service.

By the 1950s, the development of civil jets grew, beginning with the de Havilland Comet, though the first widely-used passenger jet was the Boeing 707, because it was much more economical than other planes at the time.

At first there was no passenger service, for south of the station was the Akihabara cargo docks, where goods from all over the world would flow into Kanda by river and be hauled up the east bank of the canal to be ticketed at the central cargo transport window.

In 2011 passenger traffic at Bulgaria's three major airports-Sofia, Varna and Bourgas-grew up to near 10 % on the year to 3. 89 million in the first half of 2011, due to rise of customers using international routes and launch of new destinations.

The company's car production at the Yokohama plant shifted towards military needs just a few years after the first passenger cars rolled off the assembly line, on April 11, 1935.

* 1980: Mercedes produced the first passenger car turbo-diesels ( Mercedes 300 SD ).

* 1986: The Fiat Croma was the first passenger car in the world to have a direct injection turbodiesel engine in ( 1986 ).

* 2008: Subaru introduced the first horizontally opposed diesel engine to be fitted to a passenger car.

* 2010: Mitsubishi developed and started mass production of its 4N13 1. 8 L DOHC I4, the world's first passenger car diesel engine that features a variable valve timing system.

Their first passenger car was the F89 using the body from the prototype F9 made before the war and the two-cylinder two-stroke engine from the last F8.

The first purpose-built passenger car, dubbed Experiment, was attached, and carried dignitaries on the opening journey.

It was the first time passenger traffic had been run on a steam locomotive railway.

* 1825: George Stephenson opens the Stockton and Darlington Railway the first steam train railway for passenger traffic in the world.

* 1895 – The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D. C., to New York, New York, the first U. S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.

* 1928 – Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean ( she is a passenger ; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic ).

* 1973 – A Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near Goussainville, France, killing 14, the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft.

* 1948 – The storming of the cockpit of the Miss Macao passenger seaplane, operated by a subsidiary of the Cathay Pacific Airways, marks the first aircraft hijacking of a commercial plane.

John Robert Taylor was born in Pencaitland, East Lothian, and entered his first sidecar race at the age of 19, as the passenger to Kenny Andrews ( 1974 ).

The first inter city passenger railway, Liverpool and Manchester Railway, opened in 1830, making exclusive use of steam power for both passenger and freight trains.

The experiment aimed to prove that a living passenger could survive being launched into orbit and endure weightlessness, paving the way for human spaceflight and providing scientists with some of the first data on how living organisms react to spaceflight environments.

It is the first steam hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets and include a tunnel.

* 1807 – The Swansea and Mumbles Railway, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, becomes the first passenger carrying railway in the world.