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Firebird II (1956, left) and III (1959, right) The General Motors Firebird comprises a quartet of prototype cars that General Motors (GM) engineered for the 1953, 1956, and 1959 Motorama auto shows. The cars' designers, headed by Harley Earl, took Earl's inspiration from the innovations in fighter aircraft design at the time. General Motors ...
VEB Sachsenring, the manufacturer, tried to respond with an updated Trabant, the Trabant 1.1, that was first shown in 1989 and featured a new four-stroke engine by Volkswagen, but this proved too little too late to save the outdated car, and production of the new version lasted only about one year.
The Northrop Grumman Firebird is an intelligence gathering aircraft designed by Northrop Grumman's subsidiary Scaled Composites which can be flown remotely or by a pilot. At Scaled, it is known as the Model 355. It was unveiled on May 9, 2011. [1] [2] It was first flown in February 2010 and is considered to be an optionally piloted vehicle (OPV ...
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The Pontiac Firebird is an American automobile built and produced by Pontiac from the 1967 to 2002 model years. [1] Designed as a pony car to compete with the Ford Mustang , it was introduced on February 23, 1967, five months after GM's Chevrolet division's platform-sharing Camaro . [ 2 ]
As a result of the strike, 1,100 partially completed cars were scrapped or otherwise disposed of because it was not economically feasible to update them to the more stringent 1973 vehicle standards. After the strike GM opted to move Nova production away from Norwood to protect the model from future labor problems.
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