Sentences with phrase «as a prototype car»

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Prototypes are purpose - built, but GT cars are production cars that started their journey as a vehicle coming down the assembly line in a factory — then they get modified for performance and safety.

One of Arx Pax's prototypes is a scaled - down hover vehicle called the Manta Ray, which zigs and zags as neatly as a remote control car.

As of yet, Google's self - driving cars are prototypes.

The collaboration has seen the production of the extreme Aston Martin Valkyrie, an Adrian Newey - designed hypercar which could well be as fast as an F1 car when the first prototypes are built at the end of the year.

Drivers need to have razor - sharp concentration to get the best lap times out of the car, especially those at the wheel of prototypes as they weave their way through slower racing machines.

With 20 cars in the prototype class this year, the fight for outright victory is set to be as close as it's ever been.

But, in recent weeks, Kubica has been back behind the wheel of single - seaters, testing GP3 and Formula E cars, as well as an LMP2 prototype.

The automaker introduces its Electric Networked Vehicle prototypes, one third the size of a typical car, as a way to reduce big urban auto emissions and traffic congestion

They've produced enough fiber to turn out prototype products, such as lightweight running shoes, futuristic car seats, and stylish ties.

To satisfy the growing demand from emerging markets (electric cars, for example, and renewable energy storage), researchers from Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, and the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, have devised a new battery prototype: known as «all - solid - state,» this battery has the potential to store more energy while maintaining high safety and reliability levels.

Feel the adrenaline rush as you close - in fast on a GT race car in the coldness of night at Le Mans in your Le Mans Prototype; scan your mirrors on a wet day at the Nürburgring as a Porsche 911 GT3 R monster bursts from the fog and cuts past your Renault Clio as if you were standing still.

Pressed on whether the alliance with Mazda on its next - generation Miata rear - wheel - drive architecture (a prototype of the car is pictured) is still on, Marchionne said, «It's potentially part of the Alfa plan, as it's potentially part of another brand.

Our test car occasionally brushed against the engine's rev limiter as a further reminder that we were in a prototype vehicle with a new transmission whose programming wasn't yet perfect.

The Audi A4 prototype spied here exhibits essentially the same silhouette and proportions as today's car, but with a few hints of modern Audi design from sedans like the A3 and A6 thrown in.

As such, and with only 32 cars built instead of the requisite 100 to qualify as a new GT entry), Ferrari was forced to campaign the 250 LM in the more competitive Prototype clasAs such, and with only 32 cars built instead of the requisite 100 to qualify as a new GT entry), Ferrari was forced to campaign the 250 LM in the more competitive Prototype clasas a new GT entry), Ferrari was forced to campaign the 250 LM in the more competitive Prototype class.

Flyin» Miata's latest MX - 5 masterpiece, the RF Turbo — or Rufus, as the prototype I recently spent several hundred miles in is known around the Flyin» Miata shop — is a rare thing in the world of aftermarket tuned cars: It's not different, it's just better.

Speaking earlier this week, Lamborghini's CEO Stefano Domenicali stated, «As you know, this is an entirely new process so the first few cars will be prototypes.»

The car aims to employ similar dynamics to prototype Le Mans race cars — as well as a few tricks from Formula 1 — to deliver an experience that's yet to ever grace the road.

John Warburton explains his fruitful pre-WW1 relationship with the Luton factory and the car's début at Waddington Fell / Auto - biography: Ronald «Steady» Barker — Matthew Bell travels to Wiltshire to meet the incorrigible 93 - year - old motoring journalist and learn about his life and career / 10EX: the full - bore Phantom — An experimental car that was the first post-WW1 Rolls - Royce built purely for speed, David Burgess-Wise drives this fascinating machine / Vintage Revival Montlhéry — In a two - part article, Robin Batchelor describes The Automobile's journey to Montlhéry while David Burgess-Wise reports on the action as the banked circuit reverberated again to the sound of prewar cars and motorcycles / Back on the Road — Michael Ware reports on the restoration of a 1947 Dellow, one of only two survivors of the four original prototypes for this highly effective trials car

From there, it's as you'd expect: a full history of each of the three generations of MR2, from the wedgy 1980s model, though the Ferrari-esque and 1990s - curvy second - gen car, to its rebirth as a lightweight model in the late 1990s, through the little - known MRJ prototype, 1997's MR - S concept (a name that stuck in the US and Japan) to the final production car in 1999.

After the show, test driver Bob Wallace began work on refining the Miura's handling, a job that included driving the prototype to Monte Carlo for the 1966 Grand Prix weekend, where it acted as the course car and where Ferruccio drew crowds to Casino Square simply by sitting in the driver's seat and revving the engine.

IMSA in the USA has gone the route of running slightly modified LPM2 cars as their top - spec DPi (Daytona Prototype International) class in the WeatherTech SportsCar series.

ASTRO II XP - 880 After experimenting with two rear - engined design studies — the 1967 Corvair - based Astro I and the ill - conceived XP - 819 V -8-powered prototype — various departments within the GM hierarchy finally settled on mid-engined sports cars as the most appropriate platform for advanced engineering.

The upcoming i3 city car is already well into development, as we've seen prototypes testing in what looks like near - production bodywork.

Committed to the notion of the Mini as an everyman's car, Issigonis initially resisted the idea of tuning the car for racing but eventually yielded after seeing a prototype from race - car builder John Cooper.

The car wears a prototype carbon - fiber hood and rear spoiler, as well as new 19 - inch wheels, a unique gloss - black front fascia, new mirrors, tinted head - and taillights, Katzkin leather seats, and silver brake calipers.

The first engineering prototype has been completed as a Longnose car and will be unveiled for the first time in public at this week's Retromobile classic car event in Paris, France.

What's the point in covering your prototype car in dazzle camo and fake bits to try to disguise it and then call in a professional photography crew to take stunning shots of your new car looking as bad as it possibly could?

As we roll that platform and the new design philosophy out to our products... these cars are getting fantastic, having driven some of the prototypes.

Nissan has designated the BladeGlider as an exploratory prototype for a future production electric car.

Then he served as, first, creator of Stile Bertone in the Turin suburb of Caprie, then as general manager of that center, responsible for show cars, contracts, prototype construction, and staff.

Although this prototype is heavily disguised, we can see that the XC90 will have a similar greenhouse as the current car, with a longer hood and a curvier rear end to up its style quotient.

Considering the new DPi rules and, as a result, new cars, it's no surprise some of the Prototype class cars suffered on their first outing — a 24 hour race no less, and one which had surprisingly few car - saving safety car periods.

The top class, simply named Prototype, sees more obscure - looking cars (as is typical for endurance racing) but with even more recognisable drivers — the most famous being current F1 driver Fernando Alonso who will be competing in a Ligier.

He's a fixture at nearly fifty IndyCar, Sprint Cup, and prototype sports car races a year — a stocky, formidable figure exuding a sense of self - confidence so robust that critics perceive it as arrogance.

The race - ready car weighed around 750 kg (1,650 lb) and its transverse - mounted, four - cylinder, turbocharged engine (what appears to be a 503E race engine, though other prototypes may have used the 4T - GTE) was reported to produce as much as 750 hp (560 kW).

Several prototypes were tested that year, but the launch of the Nissan Primera in 1990 prompted Ford to made a number of major alterations to the final product, as it saw the new competitor from Nissan to be the benchmark car in this sector, having previously identified the Honda Accord as the class leader.

In addition to celebrating the Shelby GT350 Mustang as its special marque, this year's Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion also will feature Formula 1 cars from 1967 to 1984 and for the first time Formula 5000 cars, fully covering the evolution of historic racing from sports cars in the 1950s to the more exotic cars in the 1960s that led to the sports racers, prototypes and formula cars of today.

Luck was with the No. 009 Aston Martin as the car gained nearly a lap during the first pace car period, and minutes later O'Connell's No. 3 Corvette suffered misfortune when it was forced off the road in the high - speed Esses by an LMP1 prototype.

Land Rover has taken to using camouflage not only as a means to disguise the prototypes and pre-preduction cars, but also a canvas to give sneak peeks at upcoming cars.

The new car incorporated many of the same features as the Volvo VESC ESV prototype, which was an experiment in improving car safety.

Valmet even developed a prototype of an even longer, seven seat limousine as a concept car of an official state car.

Whilst almost all the wheels and bumpers are to production specification, these prototypes and development cars mostly have the i6 boot lids and Citroen CX door mirrors as used on pre-V12 cars.

This goes for aerodynamics as well, which is why Volkswagen has been working overtime on a unique aero package for its electric prototype I.D. R Pikes Peak car.

Westbrook scored three wins in the Grand - Am Rolex Sports Car Series driving a Corvette Daytona Prototype, two of them with Garcia as co-driver.

The intensity is as high as the 24 Hours of Le Mans, with a large field of 45 cars including some very quick prototypes.

He won the 2007 and 2009 GRAND - AM Rolex Sports Car Series Daytona Prototype drivers» championship and is a two - time Atlantic Championship champion as well.

March 16, 2011, Felix Kramer's Nissan Leaf was featured along with a Chevy Volt and a PHEV Prius prototype at the all - electric Cleantech Car Show in downtown San Francisco as part of the Cleantech Forum, in an event co-sponsored by Cleantech Forum and Environmental Entrepreneurs.

We've already seen the interior and exterior of the car, as well as taken a ride in a prototype C - HR, but the full, production - spec C - HR makes its debut.

The car is absolutely fantastic under braking — we're as good as anybody out there, including some of the faster prototypes.»