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Autoworld is a museum of vintage cars located in the South Hall of the Parc du Cinquantenaire/Jubelpark in Brussels, Belgium.The museum displays a large and varied collection of over 250 European and American automobiles from the late 19th century to the 1990s and is notable for its collections of early and Belgian-produced vehicles, including Minervas and several limousines belonging to the ...
This first list concerns the motorways that start from the ring of Brussels to other cities and are clockwise: A1 towards the north, A2 towards the north-east, A3 towards the east, etc. The motorways A5, A6 and A9 have never been built. A1 This motorway links Brussels - Mechelen - Antwerp - to the border of the Netherlands onwards to
Work began on a factory on the south side of Brussels in October of that year, and by 1949 cars were emerging from it. There was also an agreement to assemble Studebakers, but most of the volume over the next couple of decades came from the Volkswagen business. The factory was sold to Volkswagen in 1970 and is today known formally as "Audi ...
The European Motor Show Brussels is an auto show held biennially in Brussels, Belgium. The number of visitors is around 270,000. The number of visitors is around 270,000. The show is organized by the Belgian and Luxembourgish Automobile Federation (FEBIAC), and is scheduled by the Organisation Internationale des Constructeurs d'Automobiles .
[5] A trades union demonstration in December 2006 was joined by between 15,000 and 25,000 people, and considerable political pressure was applied in defence of the auto-industry jobs involved. Sensitivities were already at a high pitch because of the acrimonious closure in 1997 of the Renault plant at Vilvoorde on the north side of Brussels.
An auto show (also: motor show or car show) is a public exhibition of current automobile models, debuts, concept cars, or out-of-production classics. The five most prestigious auto shows, sometimes called the "Big Five", are generally considered to be held in Frankfurt , Geneva , Detroit , Paris and Tokyo .
Gillet designed and completed the first Vertigo prototype with the 3.0-litre Alfa Romeo V6 engine for road use in 1991, and shown at the 71st Brussels Auto Show in January 1992. [5]
Depiction of Auto-5 in 1909 catalog. The Browning Auto-5 was the first mass-produced semi-automatic shotgun. Designed by John Browning in 1898 and patented in 1900, [4] it was produced continually for almost 100 years by several makers with production ending in 1998. It features a distinctive high rear end, earning it the nickname "Humpback".