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Ilinga

Ilinga was an Australian car manufacturer founded in Melbourne by Tony Farrell and his partner, Daryl Davies, in business from 1974 to 1975. The AF-2 was unveiled at the 1975 Melbourne Motor Show. It is a luxury two-door coupe with four seats. It featured featured a digital clock, remote locking doors, cassette player with radio, electric windows, and air conditioning. With a claimed top speed of , and a kerb weight of . The company only produced two prototypes of the AF-2, out of 15 orders, with one in the Museums Victoria collection. It was powered by a modified 4.4-litre Rover V8 engine from the Leyland P76, producing . Plans for a four-door model in 1974 were scrapped before the factory was abandoned with broken Borg-Warner gearboxes littering the floor, as the transmission manufacturer refused to provide further assistance. US $328,000 was spent before the company finally folded after just a year in business. The word "ilinga" is a term in a Australian Aboriginal language meaning 'towards the horizon'.

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Ilinga was an Australian car manufacturer founded in Melbourne by Tony Farrell and his partner, Daryl Davies, in business from 1974 to 1975. The AF-2 was unveiled at the 1975 Melbourne Motor Show. It is a luxury two-door coupe with four seats. It featured featured a digital clock, remote locking doors, cassette player with radio, electric windows, and air conditioning. With a claimed top speed of , and a kerb weight of . The company only produced two prototypes of the AF-2, out of 15 orders, with one in the Museums Victoria collection. It was powered by a modified 4.4-litre Rover V8 engine from the Leyland P76, producing . Plans for a four-door model in 1974 were scrapped before the factory was abandoned with broken Borg-Warner gearboxes littering the floor, as the transmission manufacturer refused to provide further assistance. US $328,000 was spent before the company finally folded after just a year in business. The word "ilinga" is a term in a Australian Aboriginal language meaning 'towards the horizon'.

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  1. date of foundation: 1974 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

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  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the date of foundation is "1974". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  4. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369185431

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