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2. Buick Riviera - Wikipedia

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   The Buick Riviera is a personal luxury car that was marketed by Buick from 1963 to 1999, with the exception of the 1994 model year. As General Motors ' first entry into the personal luxury car market segment, the Riviera was highly praised by automotive journalists upon its high-profile debut.

3. Bill Mitchell (automobile designer) - Wikipedia

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   Mitchell gave GM designers the assignment of combining Rolls-Royce and Ferrari styling cues to create Buick's classic 1963 Riviera. According to a popular story, Mitchell got the idea for the Riviera in Paris. He had originally envisaged the design for Cadillac Division, as a new La Salle, "a baby Cadillac". The Riviera also featured frameless ...

4. Automotive lighting - Wikipedia

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   Cars in the US only have red tail lights, and no blue lights; a vehicle displaying a red (forward-facing) light (flashing or not) coming towards a driver, or from behind the driver (in rearview mirror) indicates that an official emergency vehicle is coming, requiring the driver to yield, pull off to the side of the road, or otherwise get out of ...

5. List of Buick vehicles - Wikipedia

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   Changed dynamically from two-door car to four-door car. Electra: 1959 1990 C-body (RWD) (1959–84) C-body (FWD) (1985–90) 6 Full-size luxury car: Invicta: 1959 1963 B-body: 2 Full-size car succeeding Century: LeSabre: 1959 2005 B-body (1959–85) H-body (1986–99) G-body (2000–05) 8 Full-size car succeeding Special: Riviera: 1962 1999 E ...

6. Buick - Wikipedia

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   The source of this design feature was a custom car of Buick stylist Ned Nickles, which in addition had a flashing light within each hole each synchronized with a specific spark plug simulating the flames from the exhaust stack of a fighter airplane. The flashing light feature was not used by Buick in production.

7. Buick Estate - Wikipedia

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   Buick Estate is a nameplate that was used by the Buick division of General Motors, denoting its luxury full-size station wagon from 1940 to 1964 and from 1970 to 1996. The Estate nameplate was derived from the term country estate in wealthy suburban areas and estate car, the British term for a station wagon.

8. Twilight Sentinel - Wikipedia

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   The Twilight Sentinel system uses a photoelectric cell to measure ambient light levels. This cell is typically mounted on the dashboard of the vehicle. [7] The system is designed to activate the vehicle's exterior lights when the ambient light falls below a certain threshold, typically corresponding to twilight conditions.

9. List of vehicles with hidden headlamps - Wikipedia

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   The vast majority of hidden headlamps are on cars, however, there are a handful of vehicles included in the list that do not fit this category. These include motorcycles , buses and trains . Hidden headlamps have rarely been installed on vehicles since the turn of the millennium, with only low volume production vehicles being manufactured since ...