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    Fender (vehicle) (redirect from Wing (car))
    objects into the air at other cars or pedestrians in front of the vehicle. In British English, the fender is called the wing. (This may refer to either the...
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    1940s (that ultimately evolved into Indy cars). Today, they are essentially the same car as a winged sprint car, only without wings. In fact, many of them...
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    In the automotive industry, a gull-wing door, also known as a falcon-wing door or an up-door, is a car door that is hinged at the roof rather than the...
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  • A Formula One car or F1 car is a single-seat, open-cockpit, open-wheel formula racing car with substantial front and rear wings, and an engine positioned...
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    A wing is a type of fin that produces lift while moving through air or some other fluid. Accordingly, wings have streamlined cross-sections that are subject...
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    A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of cars state that they run primarily on roads, seat one to eight people, have...
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  • wing. The Superbird's unique styling was a result of homologation requirements for using the same aerodynamic nose and rear wing when racing the car in...
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    Plymouth Superbird (category Muscle cars)
    placed upon the car's rear axle. For nearly 30 years the mathematic formula used to determine the exact height of the enormous wing was thought to be...
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    Downforce (redirect from Rear wing)
    tunnels).[citation needed] The overall shape of a car resembles an airplane wing. Almost all road cars produce aerodynamic lift as a result of this shape...
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  • problems with the car for it to work properly. His 1966 cars used a dramatic high wing for their downforce. His Chaparral 2J "sucker car" of 1970 was revolutionary...
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    Wing Chun (Cantonese) or Yongchun (Mandarin) (Chinese: 詠春 or 咏春, lit. "singing spring") is a concept-based martial art, a form of Southern Chinese kung...
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    which the body of the car is hollow and the sides are slabs; in the air it rolls sideways so that the slabs become a biplane wing. The cabin remains upright...
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    term "spoiler" is often mistakenly used interchangeably with "wing". An automotive wing is a device designed to generate downforce as air passes around...
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  • ransacked Mall Car. Grace takes Jesse under her wing and they visit the next car; Apex members take Alan to be "stabled", and MT stays in the Mall Car to look...
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    (corner), lead-on, and top-turn. Generally the "King" tracks are used for wing-car racing, where un-banked "flat" tracks of various designs are used for scale...
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    Right-wing populism, also called right populism, is a political ideology that combines right-wing politics with populist rhetoric and themes. Its rhetoric...
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    Aero Warriors (category Controversial racing cars)
    aero car is the Dodge Charger Daytona, which was a redesign of the Charger 500 and had a more radical aerodynamic nose as well as a high-mounted wing at...
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    Ferrari 312T (category 1975 Formula One season cars)
    improved air flow to the rear wing. All the hard work came to nothing though as the pioneering Lotus 79 ground effect "wing car" took on and beat all comers...
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    DMC DeLorean (category First car made by manufacturer)
    sports car manufactured and marketed by John DeLorean's DeLorean Motor Company (DMC) for the American market from 1981 until 1983—ultimately the only car brought...
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     58, no. 842. April 19, 1973. p. 160. Kosner, Anthony Wing (February 22, 2013). "The Sports Car, The Laptop And The Science Behind The Golden Proportion"...
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    Dodge Charger Daytona (category Muscle cars)
    Spoiler II for additional information about the aero cars. The 1971 Daytona 500 had only one winged car, the #22 called "mini motor," which finished 7th....
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    Toyota GR Supra (category Cars introduced in 2019)
    in the Launch Edition, while the red cars have a black interior. All Launch Edition cars have red coloured wing mirrors, all-black wheels, and an individually-numbered...
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    increase top speed and promote overtaking. It is an adjustable rear wing of the car, which moves in response to driver commands. DRS often comes with conditions...
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    McLaren F1 (category First car made by manufacturer)
    to the car as a result (some cars, including Ralph Lauren's, were sent back to McLaren and fitted with the prototype mirrors). The original wing mirrors...
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  • pivoting variable-incidence wing-mounted several feet above the rear of the car on struts. As opposed to an aircraft wing, it generated downforce instead...
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    Triple-Decker Wing". Car Throttle. Retrieved 4 December 2022. Escort Cosworth co-designer Frank Stephenson talks about the design influence behind the car's wild...
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    hardtop with gull-wing doors, or a custom convertible. Burton also imports and sells the Lomax in the Netherlands. The Burton Car Company was founded...
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    feels poor when he has regular car doors, rather than doors that go "like this" (gesturing as if his arms were gull-wing doors) or "like this" (gesturing...
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    Rotorcraft (redirect from Rotary-wing)
    from another aircraft, or by being towed into the air behind a car or boat. A rotary wing is characterised by the number of blades. Typically this is between...
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    aerodynamics in Formula One by introducing the Lotus 78, known as the "wing car". The car used what is commonly referred to as "ground effect", with the physical...
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