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The Smart Forfour (stylized as "smart forfour") is a city car (A-segment) marketed by Smart over two generations. The first generation was marketed in Europe from 2004 to 2006 with a front-engine configuration, sharing its platform with the Mitsubishi Colt. The second generation was marketed in Europe from 2014 after an eight-year hiatus, using rear-engine or rear electric motor configurations. It is based on the third-generation Renault Twingo, which also forms a basis for the third-generation Smart Fortwo. A battery electric version was marketed as the EQ Forfour beginning in 2018. The petrol-powered Forfour was discontinued in 2019 as production of all Smart internal combustion models ended at that time. Production of the EQ Forfour ended in 2021. It was indirectly replaced by the larger Smart #1 crossover. First generation (W454; 2004) Production The car was produced at the NedCar factory in the Netherlands in conjunction with Mitsubishi Motors. This is the same factory t ...
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Smart (marque)
Smart (stylized in lowercase) is a German automotive brand, marque established in 1994. Smart Automobile Co., Ltd. is a joint venture established by Mercedes-Benz AG and Geely, Zhejiang Geely Holding Group in 2019 and aimed at producing Smart-badged cars in China to be marketed globally. The venture is headquartered in Ningbo. Originally, Smart was known for producing microcars and Subcompact car, subcompacts, primarily the Smart Fortwo, Fortwo and Smart Forfour, Forfour, at Smartville, Hambach, France, Smartville in Hambach, Moselle, France and additionally at Renault's Revoz plant (Novo Mesto, Slovenia). Since its restructuring in 2019, the brand now produces small battery electric vehicles at a manufacturing plant in China, with distribution, marketing and aftersales activities in Europe handled by Smart Europe GmbH, which is headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany. The marque was founded in 1994 by Micro Compact Car AG (MCC), a joint venture between Swatch, SMH and Daimler-Benz. ...
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Mercedes-Benz OM639 Engine
The OM639 is a turbocharged inline-three diesel engine produced by Mercedes-Benz, in collaboration with Mitsubishi Motors. Design The OM639 is based on the four-cylinder OM640 engine and features a dual mass flywheel, exhaust gas recirculation, and Euro 4 emission standard compliance. It is transversely mounted behind the front axle and inclined 60 degrees due to the sandwich floor design used in the Smart and Mitsubishi models, so the engine slides underneath the floorpan instead of into the cabin in the event of a head-on collision to improve safety. Models OM639 DE15 LA R * 2004–2006 Smart Forfour 1.5l CDI * 2004–2009 Mitsubishi Colt 1.5 DI-D OM639 DE15 LA * 2004–2006 Smart Forfour 1.5l CDI * 2004–2009 Mitsubishi Colt 1.5 DI-D Reception Due to the relatively low sales of the cars the engine was placed in to (compared to the class leaders), the engine is in a niche between owners. At the time, the 70 kW version was the world's most powerful ...
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VDL NedCar
VDL Nedcar is an automotive manufacturing company in Born, Netherlands. It is the largest automotive factory in the country, with a production capacity of 240,000 vehicles a year. Since December 2012 it has been owned by the Dutch industrial conglomerate VDL Groep. Previous owners were Mitsubishi Motors and Volvo Cars. The company had its origins in a DAF car factory which opened in 1968. VDL Nedcar currently hen?is closed, because the contract with BMW Group was not renewed. Location VDL Nedcar in Born is located in Limburg, a province in the south of the Netherlands. VDL Nedcar has direct access to the ports of Rotterdam, Zeebrugge, Antwerp and Hamburg. Nearby is an inland barge terminal and a rail terminal, supported by airports such as Maastricht/Aachen, Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Brussels, Cologne and Düsseldorf. Area development and expansion of VDL Nedcar In 2019, VDL Nedcar and the province of Limburg signed an agreement on the sale of land around the factory, in ...
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Smart Fortwo
The Smart Fortwo (stylized as "smart fortwo") is a two-seater city car manufactured and marketed by the Smart (marque), Smart division of the Mercedes-Benz Group for model years 1998–2024, across three generations — each using a rear-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout and a one-box design. The first generation was internally designated as the ''W450'', launched at the 1998 Paris Motor Show. The second generation ''W451''-build series was launched at the 2006 Bologna Motor Show. The third generation Fortwo (2014–2024) was internally designated as the ''C453'' build series, and debuted globally on July 16, 2014, at the Tempodrom in Berlin along with a closely related four-door version, the Smart Forfour, co-developed and sharing the same platform and engines with the third-generation Renault Twingo#Twingo III (2014–), Renault Twingo. Marketed in 46 countries worldwide, Fortwo production had surpassed 1.7 million units by early 2015. The brand name ''Smart'' supposedly de ...
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Renault Twingo
The Renault Twingo is a city car made by the French company Renault from 1992 to 2024 across three generations. The name is a portmanteau of ''twist'', ''swing'', and ''tango''. The first-generation Twingo (two door, front engine) debuted at the Mondial de l'Automobile, Paris Motor Show on 5 October 1992, receiving its formal market launch in left-hand drive, continental European markets beginning in April 1993. Renault launched the second-generation Twingo (two door, front engine) in the summer of 2007 – and the third-generation Twingo (four door, rear engine) debuted at the Geneva Motor Show#2014, 2014 Geneva Motor Show, receiving its formal market launch in September 2014. Production of the Twingo ended in the summer of 2024, to be replaced by the upcoming, all-electric Renault Twingo E-Tech. __TOC__ First generation (1993) The original Twingo was launched in April 1993, was sold in European Left- and right-hand traffic, LHD markets until August 2007, and received inte ...
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Getrag
Getrag (), stylized as GETRAG, was a major supplier of transmission systems for passenger cars and commercial vehicles. The company was founded on 1 May 1935, in Ludwigsburg, Germany, by Hermann Hagenmeyer; as the ''Getriebe und Zahnradfabrik Hermann Hagenmeyer GmbH & Cie KG''. Headquartered in Untergruppenbach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Getrag manufactured and developed passenger car transmission products and solutions for the important automotive markets Europe, Asia, and North America with 24 locations and about 12,500 employees worldwide. In 2011, the company had a turnover of three billion euros. The company had three joint ventures: Getrag Ford Transmissions headquartered in Cologne with Ford Motor Company, Getrag (Jiangxi) Transmission Co. Ltd. with Jiangling Motors Corporation., Ltd. and Dongfeng Getrag Transmission with Dongfeng Motor Corporation. In addition, Getrag supplied transmissions to a variety of automotive manufacturers, including BMW ( Mini), Daimler ...
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Mitsubishi Colt
The Mitsubishi Colt is a nameplate from Mitsubishi Motors that has been applied to a number of automobiles since 1962. It was first introduced with a series of Kei car, kei and subcompact cars in the 1960s, and then for the export version of the subcompact Mitsubishi Mirage, Mirage between 1978 and 2002. Chrysler, Mitsubishi's longtime partner, also used the name when applying its long-running practice of rebadging Mitsubishi vehicles as the Dodge Colt, Dodge and Plymouth Colt captive imports for the North American market between 1970 and 1994. The most recent version was a subcompact car model manufactured between 2002 and 2013, sold under the Colt nameplate internationally. Mitsubishi replaced this series in 2013 with a newer generation which reverted to the Mirage name. In addition to these small cars, "Colt" in the Mitsubishi vernacular has been used for unrelated vehicles of various forms as discussed below. The name has also been disaffiliated from Mitsubishi as an indepen ...
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Senova D20
The Senova D20 is a subcompact sedan and hatchback produced by BAIC under the Senova brand. Originally called the Beijing Auto E-Series when launched in 2012, the subcompact hatchback and sedan was renamed to Senova D20 in 2014 with the launch of the Senova brand. History The original Beijing Auto E-series was listed and priced on the Chinese market with prices starting at 53,800 yuan and ending at 86,800 yuan. The E-series is available with two engines sourced from Mitsubishi, with the E150 model being powered by a 1.5 liter engine and the E130 model being powered by a 1.3 liter engine. File:2014 Beijing Auto E-150 (Senova D20) hatchback, front 8.9.18.jpg, Beijing Auto E-Series hatch front File:2014 Beijing Auto E-150 (Senova D20) hatchback, rear 8.9.18.jpg, Beijing Auto E-Series hatch rear File:2014 Beijing Auto E-130 (Senova D20) sedan, rear 8.9.18.jpg, Beijing Auto E-Series sedan rear On the 2014 Guangzhou Auto Show in China, the facelifted Beijing Auto E-Series was intro ...
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DaimlerChrysler
Mercedes-Benz Group AG (formerly Daimler-Benz, DaimlerChrysler, and Daimler) is a German multinational automotive company headquartered in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is one of the world's leading car manufacturers. Daimler-Benz was formed with the merger of Benz & Cie., the world's oldest car company, and Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft in 1926. The company was renamed DaimlerChrysler upon the acquisition of the American automobile manufacturer, Chrysler Corporation in 1998, it was renamed to Daimler upon the divestment of Chrysler in 2007. In 2021, Daimler was the second-largest German automaker and the sixth-largest worldwide by production. In February 2022, Daimler was renamed Mercedes-Benz Group as part of a transaction that spun-off its commercial vehicle segment as an independent company, Daimler Truck. The Mercedes-Benz Group's marques are Mercedes-Benz for cars and vans (including Mercedes-AMG and Mercedes-Maybach). It has shares in other vehicle m ...
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Electrohydraulic Manual Transmission
The automated manual transmission (AMT) is a type of transmission for motor vehicles. It is essentially a conventional manual transmission equipped with automatic actuation to operate the clutch and/or shift gears. Many early versions of these transmissions that are semi-automatic in operation, such as '' Autostick'', which automatically control only the clutch – often using various forms of clutch actuation, such as electro-mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, or vacuum actuationDrivemaster Service Information
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– but still require the driver's manual input and full control to initiate gear changes by hand. These systems that require manual shifting are also referred to as clutchless manual systems. ...
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Mitsubishi 4A9 Engine
The Mitsubishi 4A9 engine is the newest family range of all-alloy straight-4, inline four-cylinder piston engine, engines from Mitsubishi Motors, introduced in the 2004 version of their Mitsubishi Colt Supermini car, supermini, and built by DaimlerChrysler-owned MDC Power in Germany (previously a joint venture)."Newly Developed Compact, Aluminum Gasoline Engine"
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The engine project was begun as a joint effort by Mitsubishi Motors and DaimlerChrysler (DCX), with Mitsubishi handling the development of the engines and MDC Power GmbH, a company previously jointly established by Mitsubishi and DCX, handling production. The 4A9 is Mitsubishi's first four-cylinder engine family to adopt a high-pressure die-cast aluminum block. ...
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Straight-three Engine
A straight-three engine (also called an inline-triple or inline-three) is a three-cylinder piston engine where cylinders are arranged in a line along a common crankshaft. Less common than straight-four engine, straight-three engines have nonetheless been used in various motorcycles, cars and agricultural machinery. Design A crankshaft angle of 120 degrees is typically used by straight-three engines, since this results in an evenly spaced firing interval. Another benefit of this configuration is perfect primary balance and secondary balance, however an end-to-end rocking couple is induced because there is no symmetry in the piston velocities about the middle piston. A balance shaft is sometimes used to reduce the vibrations caused by the rocking couple. Other crankshaft angles have been used occasionally. The 1976–1981 Laverda Jota motorcycle used a 180 degree crankshaft, where the outer pistons rise and fall together and inner cylinder is offset from them by 180 degrees ...
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