It became the single most-produced armored fighting vehicle of Nazi Germany throughout the war, and was employed in infantry support and offensive armored operations as well as in the defensive anti-tank role.

For example drive straps are now commonly employed to transfer torque as well as lift the pressure plate upon disengagement of vehicle drive.

Locksmiths may be commercial ( working out of a storefront ), mobile ( working out of a vehicle ), institutional ( employed by an institution ) or investigational ( forensic locksmiths ) or may specialize in one aspect of the skill, such as an automotive lock specialist, a master key system specialist or a safe technician.

Since Patton's group traveled in the only three automobiles employed by the Pershing forces, this small foray eventually resulted in the United States ' first motorized vehicle attack.

* It was the first missile in the world that employed multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle ( MIRV ).

While some saw it as " the dignified feeling of old ladyhood ", " a grave sentiment of mourning ", or a " perfect symbol of motherhood ", others employed it as a fitting vehicle for mockery.

The vehicle McClelland employed to establish the presence of an achievement motive was the type of fantasy a person expressed on the Thematic Apperception Test ( TAT ), developed by Christiana Morgan and Henry Murray, who note in Explorations in Personality that "... when a person interprets an ambiguous social situation he is apt to expose his own personality as much as the phenomenon to which he is attending ... Each picture should suggest some critical situation and be effective in evoking a fantasy relating to it " ( p531 ).

M2 infantry Bradleys also have firing ports for a number of M231 Firing Port Weapons ( FPWs ), providing a means for the occupants to fire from within the vehicle and replacing the top-side gunners on the M113-based Armored Cavalry Assault Vehicles ( ACAV ), though the M231 is rarely employed.

A chauffeur is a person employed to drive a passenger motor vehicle, especially a luxury vehicle such as a large sedan or limousine.

Four-wheel steering ( or all-wheel steering ) is a system employed by some vehicles to improve steering response, increase vehicle stability while maneuvering at high speed, or to decrease turning radius at low speed.

As the Independence struggle was gathering steam playwrights broaching issues of nationalism and subversive ideas against the British, yet to dodge censorship they adapted themes from mythology, history and legend and used them as vehicle for political messages, a trend that continues to date, though now it was employed to bring out social, personal and psychological issues rather than clearly political, though street theatre broke this trend in coming decades in post-independence era, like IPTA-inspired, Naya Theatre of Habib Tanvir did in 1950s-90s, Jana Natya Manch of Safdar Hashmi did in 1970s-80s.

* Harvester ( forestry ), a type of heavy vehicle employed in cut-to-length logging of trees

Moving radar is employed, as the name implies, when a police vehicle is in motion and can be very sophisticated, able to track vehicles approaching and receding, both in front of and behind the patrol vehicle.

Becker and Fagen were employed at the time as staff songwriters for ABC Records, and they formed the band as a vehicle to promote their songs.

The combination of high fuel efficiency and low mass engines means that a single stage to orbit approach for Skylon can be employed, with air breathing to mach 5. 14 + at 28. 5 km altitude, and with the vehicle reaching orbit with more payload mass per take-off mass than just about any non-nuclear launch vehicle ever proposed.

Gearing is employed in the transmission, which contains a number of different sets of gears that can be changed to allow a wide range of vehicle speeds, and also in the differential, which contains the final drive to provide further speed reduction at the wheels.

It is not uncommon for older hearses to be employed as a first call vehicle.

The compressed natural gas ( CNG ) variant was the only non-electric vehicle in the line-up, even though it employed the same up-stretched platform.

Beginning in the early 1990s, HID lamps have been employed in motor vehicle headlamps.

Rice would be based during the ' challenges ' in a large blue truck, and for her frequent trips to persuade companies and people to take part she initially employed the use of a Volkswagen based beach buggy, and then went on to use a kit built Dakar 4x4 vehicle in the 1990s.

It was the main transport vehicle for motorized infantry of the Soviet Army and is still employed in former Soviet Union countries.

The StuG III was the most-produced German armored fighting vehicle of any type built during the war years, with some 9, 400 examples built from January 1940 through March 1945.

However, the Western Allies ' air-to-ground aircraft were so greatly feared out of proportion to their actual tactical success, that following the lead up to Operation Overlord German vehicle crews showed reluctance to move en masse during daylight.

To counter the threat of the Russian T-34s, another, more powerful 50 mm gun was introduced, only to give way to a larger 75 mm cannon, which was in a fixed mount as the StuG III, the most-produced German World War II armored fighting vehicle of any type.

Some vehicles mount more machine guns ; for example on the German Marder, one machine gun fires from the rear of the vehicle, and the Russian BMP-3 has two machine guns mounted in the hull facing forward.

Some of the latest designs ( such as the German Puma ) are intended to allow a light, basic model vehicle which is air-transportable to be fitted in the field with additional protection, thereby ensuring both strategic flexibility and survivability.

Since the launch of the third generation MX-5, Mazda consolidated worldwide marketing using the MX-5 name, though enthusiasts in the US still refer to it as Miata, a name that means " reward " in Old High German, and the vehicle in 2012 was still marketed by Mazda in the US as the MX-5 Miata.

Even the idea and concept behind the Ampera was rooted in Opel with Frank Weber, the former " Global Vehicle Line Executive and Global Chief Engineer electric vehicle development ," being originally an Opel employee who was moved to the USA in order to advance the development of this concept in GM's home country instead of the German outpost that is Opel.

This and other differences, in particular Steiner's vocal rejection of Leadbeater and Besant's claim that Jiddu Krishnamurti was the vehicle of a new Maitreya, or world teacher, led to a formal split in 1912 / 13, when Steiner and the majority of members of the German section of the Theosophical Society broke off to form a new group, the Anthroposophical Society.

Disabled German Wespe 105 mm self-propelled artillery vehicle.

When released the Trabant was technically equivalent to the West German Lloyd automobile, which had an air cooled two-cylinder four-stroke engine in the same size vehicle.

War meant production changed to military vehicles, the Type 82 Kübelwagen (" Bucket car ") utility vehicle ( VW's most common wartime model ), and the amphibious Schwimmwagen which were used to equip the German forces.

* ATF Dingo, a German heavily armored military infantry mobility vehicle

Modern light rail technology has primarily German origins, since an attempt by Boeing Vertol to introduce a new American light rail vehicle was a technical failure.

Villeneuve was seen driving a VW before stopping and saying at the camera that he has nothing against German guys ... much less for the " allemandes ", referring to the vehicle and German girls — a reference to his rivalry with Michael Schumacher and for the incident at the 1997 European Grand Prix.

* Beetle tank, one name for the Goliath tracked mine, a German World War II armoured fighting vehicle

The vehicle is in some ways considered the British equivalent of its German contemporary the Volkswagen Beetle, which enjoyed similar popularity in North America.

The Volkswagen Kübelwagen ( literally translated as " tub truck ", for its resemblance to a metal bathtub on wheels ) was a light military vehicle designed by Ferdinand Porsche and built by Volkswagen during World War II for use by the German military ( both Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS ).

Despite lacking four wheel drive, a mainstay of the American military Jeeps, the vehicle proved very competent at maneuvering its way over rough terrain, even in a direct comparison with a contemporary standard German army 4 × 4, and the project was given the green light for further development.

ATF Dingo, an infantry mobility vehicle of the German Army based on the Unimog U 5000 chassis

The Unimog also serves as a technical platform for armored vehicles like the ATF Dingo, a mine-protected utility and reconnaissance vehicle used by the German Forces in international missions.

The choice of overlapping / interleaved road wheels allowed the use of slightly more torsion bar suspension members, allowing any German tracked military vehicle with such a setup to have a noticeably smoother ride over challenging terrain, but at the expense of mud and ice collecting between the overlapping areas of the road wheels, and freezing solid in cold weather conditions, often immobilizing the vehicle so equipped.

Local residents say that a German vehicle exploded just before the Bayard rock, possibly after triggering a mine laid by US soldiers.