Automobile

Automobile

Of or relating to any vehicle, usually designed to carry passengers, that operates on ordinary roads and typically has four wheels and a gasoline or diesel internal-combustion engine.

Industry: Automotive

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Axle tramp

Automotive; Automobile

A form of wheel hop that occurs on cars with live axles, caused by the axle repeatedly rotating slightly with the wheels and then springing back.

B-pillar

Automotive; Automobile

The roof support between a car's front door window and rear side window, if there is one.

Balance shaft

Automotive; Automobile

A shaft designed so that, as it rotates, it vibrates in a way that reduces or cancels some of the vibration produced by an engine. Not essential to an engine's operation, balance shafts are ...

Ball joint

Automotive; Automobile

A flexible joint consisting of a ball in a socket, used primarily in front suspensions because it can accommodate a wide range of angular motion.

Beam axle

Automotive; Automobile

A rigid axle supporting the non-driven wheels. Also called a dead axle.

Beltline

Automotive; Automobile

The line running around a car's body formed by the bottom edges of its glass panels

Tuned intake and exhaust systems

Intake and exhaust systems that, by harnessing the pressure pulses and resonances inside the various passages and chambers of the intake and exhaust manifolds, increase the flow of intake charge into ...