• The General Motors Firebird comprises a quartet of prototype cars that General Motors (GM) engineered for the 1953, 1956, and 1959 Motorama auto shows...
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    name "Firebird" was also previously used by GM for the General Motors Firebird series of concept cars in the 1950s. The first generation Firebird had characteristic...
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    and Cutlass, Buick Wildcat II, Chevrolet Nomad station wagon, General Motors Firebird XP-21 and Pontiac Bonneville Special, Cadillac El Camino, Cadillac...
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  • Bennu, Egyptian firebird Huma bird, Persian firebird Firebird (Slavic folklore) Pontiac Firebird, American pony car General Motors Firebird, series of concept...
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  • The F platform, or F-body, was General Motors' rear-wheel drive pony car automobile platform from 1967 until 2002. It was based partially on the GM X platform...
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  • designed by Pontiac, assuming the role previously established by General Motors' Firebirds of the 1950s. Four Banshee "dream cars" were fabricated through...
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    Turbine engines General Motors had been interested in developing gas turbine engines for highway use and showed the General Motors Firebird series of turbine-powered...
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    supersonic planes of the time and by competing concept cars such as the General Motors Firebird III (1959), Chevrolet Testudo (1963), Alfa Romeo Carabo (1968)...
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    The General Motors 60° V6 engine family is a series of 60° V6 engines produced for both longitudinal and transverse applications. All of these engines...
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    often exhibited at motor shows to gauge customer reaction to new and radical designs which may or may not be produced. General Motors designer Harley Earl...
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    including the Firebird II, Firebird III, and initially on the Cadillac Cyclone. Ford Air Transport Service Pentastar Aviation General Motors Air Transport...
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    In addition, during the 1950s and throughout the 1960s, General Motors showcased its Firebirds, a series of experimental cars that were described as having...
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    Museum, Auburn Hills, Michigan EcoJet concept car Fiat Turbina General Motors Firebird Jaguar C-X75 Renault Étoile Filante Rover JET1 Rover-BRM Toyota...
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    bodies. The third-generation Firebird consisted of three models: Firebird, Firebird S/E, and Firebird Trans Am. The Firebird was the base model, equivalent...
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     131–135, 230. "GM's XP21 'Firebird' Exhibited in Motorama". AllisoNews. Vol. XIII, no. 30. Allison Division, General Motors Corporation. January 22, 1954...
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    school buses. In 1977, General Motors began to source a larger selection of V8 engines to supply in the lower model Firebirds, and the Oldsmobile 350/403...
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    prototypes such as the Chrysler Turbine Car, Fiat Turbina, and General Motors Firebirds. In the late 20th century and into the 21st century, there has...
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  • DUKW 1950 Futurliner 1954 XP-21 Firebird I 1955 LaSalle II Roadster 1955 LaSalle II Sedan 1956 Firebird II 1959 Firebird III 1966 Electrovan Experimental...
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    Chrysler Turbine Car General Motors Firebird David Lillywhite (April 2008). "Rover-BRM". Octane. "1963 / 1965 Rover-BRM". Heritage Motor Centre. Archived...
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    Probe instead). The Chevrolet Camaro and Pontiac Firebird escaped a similar fate with General Motors' front-wheel drive "GM-80" program canceled late...
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    Nicolas Prost at the wheel. Chrysler Turbine Car Fiat Turbina General Motors Firebird Rover-BRM Toyota GTV "The Renault Etoile Filante, fastest car in...
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    The history of General Motors (GM), one of the world's largest car and truck manufacturers, dates back more than a century and involves a vast scope of...
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    other General Motors automobiles have been powered by LS- and LT-based engines, including sports cars such as the Chevrolet Camaro/Pontiac Firebird and...
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    1950s by the research division of General Motors Corporation and fitted to concept vehicles, including the Firebird concept cars, Turbo-Cruiser buses...
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    exhaust stood out at the rear of the car Chrysler Turbine Car General Motors Firebird Rover-BRM Renault Étoile Filante Wikimedia Commons has media related...
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    John DeLorean (category General Motors executives)
    He is widely known as founder of the DeLorean Motor Company, as well as for his work at General Motors. DeLorean managed the development of several vehicles...
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  • 2009-06-29. "General Motors Sells Strasbourg Plant to Punch Metals International". 22 December 2012. "Sale of GM Rayong Plant to Great Wall Motors Confirmed"...
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    helped develop the General Motors Firebird, a series of three concept cars shown at Motorama auto shows in the 1950s. The Firebird I, II and III were...
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    position. Races in italics indicates fastest lap. Nissan ZEOD RC General Motors Firebird "2012 – Deltawing – 24 Hours of Le Mans (pamphlet)". Michelin....
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    The Grumman TBF Avenger (designated TBM for aircraft manufactured by General Motors) is an American World War II-era torpedo bomber developed initially...
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