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Fleetwood became a public company in 1965, reporting annual sales of $18.5 million. [2] The company became part of the Fortune 500 in 1973, remaining there for nearly three decades. [ 3 ] By 1989, Fleetwood RVs sales reached the one billion dollar milestone; five years later, it hit the same milestone in its sales of manufactured homes.
The Fleetwood line was redesigned for the 1989 model year to include skirted rear wheels. The Fleetwood coupe remained on the 110.8 in (2,810 mm) wheelbase, while the sedan's wheelbase increased by 3 inches (76 millimetres). The slightly revised Fleetwood coupe, with extended front and rear styling, was sold from 1989 and ended in 1992.
In 1993, the 180 hp (134 kW) 350 cu in (5.7 L) L05 V8 became standard in the newly-renamed Cadillac Fleetwood. In 1994, the L05 was replaced with an iron-headed small-block Chevrolet Corvette LT1 V8 with 260 hp (194 kW), which the Fleetwood used until discontinued at the end of the 1996 model year.
The Miss GEICO offshore powerboat racing team was founded by John Haggin, who retired from the team in 2010. Today Miss GEICO is owned and operated by AMF Riviera Beach which is owned by Marc Granet, Scotty Begovich, Scott Colton, Gary Stray, Gary Goodell and sponsored by the American insurance company GEICO.
Throughout the 1950s, demand was increasing for a diesel-engined Land Rover. [5] Diesel technology had improved, making small-capacity, high-speed engines practical. Diesel power had also become prominent in industrial and agricultural uses throughout the world, and fleet users of Land Rovers were often in the situation where their Land Rovers were the only petrol-engined vehicles in their ...
The 2004 Land Rover Discovery II was the last mass-produced vehicle to use it. The last Rover-badged vehicle that used the Rover V8 was the Rover SD1, which was discontinued in 1986 and replaced by the Rover 800, which used a 2.7 litre variant of the Honda C engine as its top engine choice.
At the 2008 IAA (Hannover Motor Show), Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles revealed the all wheel drive Caddy 4Motion range teamed with the 1.9 TDI engine and manual transmission. [22] Early in 2010, the Caddy Maxi range will receive the 4Motion drivetrain. [23]
An EMD GP40X is a 4-axle diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between December 1977 and June 1978. [1] Power for this unit was provided by a turbocharged 16-cylinder 16-645F3B engine which could produce 3,500 horsepower (2,610 kW). 23 examples of this locomotive were built for North American railroads. [1]