The Four Wheel Drive Auto Company, more often known as Four Wheel Drive (FWD), was a pioneering American company that developed and produced all-wheel drive...
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A four-wheel drive, also called 4×4 ("four by four") or 4WD, is a two-axled vehicle drivetrain capable of providing torque to all of its wheels simultaneously...
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NAPCO (Northwestern Auto Parts Company) was a four-wheel drive (4x4) vehicle parts manufacturing company founded in 1918 and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota...
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pioneering American firm Four Wheel Drive Auto Company. Additionally, General Motors began manufacturing a line as "all-wheel drive" as early as the late...
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FWD Model B (category All-wheel-drive vehicles)
The FWD Model B was an American built four-wheel drive truck produced by the Four Wheel Drive Auto Company that saw widespread service with American and...
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Jeep uses a variety of four-wheel drive systems on their vehicles. These range from basic part-time systems that require the driver to move a control lever...
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Quattro (meaning four in Italian and stylized in lower case) is the trademark used by the automotive brand Audi to indicate that all-wheel drive (AWD) technologies...
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generally found in rear-wheel-drive and four-wheel-drive vehicles. By far the most common layout for a front-wheel-drive car is with the engine and transmission...
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Brockway Motor Company, The Corbitt Company, The Four Wheel Drive Auto Company (FWD), Ward LaFrance Truck Corporation, and White Motor Company. They were...
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A rear-engine, front-wheel-drive layout is one in which the engine is between or behind the rear wheels, and drives the front wheels via a driveshaft,...
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Auto Union AG was an amalgamation of four German automobile manufacturers, founded in 1932 and established in 1936 in Chemnitz, Saxony. It is the immediate...
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Audi A6 (category All-wheel-drive vehicles)
front-wheel-drive or Torsen-based four-wheel-drive, marketed by Audi as their quattro system. The A6 has also been used as the basis for the company's Allroad...
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Company. Chingchee in Pakistan Auto rickshaw, Karachi Auto rickshaw, Karachi Auto rickshaw, Lahore Auto rickshaws, commonly known as three-wheelers,...
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Mitsubishi 3000GT (category Vehicles with four-wheel steering)
The Mitsubishi 3000GT is a front-engine, all-wheel/front-wheel drive grand touring/sports car manufactured and marketed by Mitsubishi from 1990 until...
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Porsche Panamera (category Vehicles with four-wheel steering)
generations, using a front-engine, rear or all-wheel drive configuration. The Panamera debuted at the 13th Auto Shanghai International Automobile Show in April...
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BYD Auto Co., Ltd. (Chinese: 比亚迪汽车; pinyin: Bǐyàdí Qìchē) is the main automotive subsidiary and brand of BYD Company, a publicly listed Chinese multinational...
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with four 25 kW (34 hp) motors. Other concept cars presented at auto shows include: Chevrolet Sequel, 2005; Mitsubishi MIEV, 2005; Hi-Pa Drive Mini QED...
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rear-wheel drive (rather than front-wheel drive) for most models. The F20/F21 is the first 1 Series to offer an optional all-wheel drive (called "xDrive"...
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Nissan Stagea (category Vehicles with four-wheel steering)
Japanese tuning company Autech. The 260RS uses the 2.6L RB26DETT coupled to a 5-speed manual transmission and features ATTESA E-TS all-wheel drive from the R33...
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the poverty line. The Four Wheel Drive Auto Company was founded in 1909 in Clintonville as the Badger Four-Wheel Drive Auto Company. The Seagrave Fire Apparatus...
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Toyota RAV4 (category Front-wheel-drive vehicles)
Vehicle with 4-wheel drive", or "Robust Accurate Vehicle with 4-wheel drive", although not all models come equipped with the four-wheel drive system. For...
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truck) under license from the Clintonville, Wisconsin based Four Wheel Drive Auto Company for the U.S War Department. In 1935, the Kissels manufactured...
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with front drive but usually with rear drive. A variant on the 'one at the front' layout was the Scott Sociable, which resembled a four-wheeler with a front...
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and leading in the automobile world. The company planned to manufacture four-wheel drive automobiles, auto-trucks and motor-cars. Robert E. Twyford succeeded...
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Bajaj Qute (category Bajaj Auto)
Indian company Bajaj Auto and is aimed primarily at the Indian domestic market. The Bajaj Qute was the first four-wheeler manufactured by Bajaj Auto. It...
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In automotive design, a front-engine, front-wheel-drive (FWD) layout, or FF layout, places both the internal combustion engine and driven roadwheels at...
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In automotive design, an RMR, or rear mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout is one in which the rear wheels are driven by an engine placed with its center...
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Automotive industry in the United States (redirect from American auto companies)
However, rural roads were still a problem for military vehicles, so four wheel drive was developed by automobile manufacturers to assist in powering through...
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Audi (category Companies based in Baden-Württemberg)
Latin. The four rings of the Audi logo each represent one of four car companies that banded together to create Audi's predecessor company, Auto Union. Audi's...
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The Suzuki Jimny (Japanese: スズキ・ジムニー, Suzuki Jimunī) is a series of four-wheel drive off-road mini SUVs, manufactured and marketed by Japanese automaker...
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