Sentences with phrase «built vehicles like»

The «RA» stands for «Record Attempt,» an in - house Subaru designation for specially built vehicles like the tweaked WRX STI race car that set a 4 - door sedan lap record at the German circuit in July 2017.
And yet, I'd say if Toyota wants to reverse its losses, it can't afford not to build vehicles like this.
If only Hummer could figure out how to build a vehicle like this...
«People often tell us that we should build our vehicles like race cars with an inner cage surrounding occupants and crumple zones front and rear in the event of an impact to absorb the energy,» he said.
Honda / Acura will build a vehicle like this sooner or later, but it will be friendlier - looking than the RD - X.
While the Avista is clearly a concept car, it does feature design cues that will carry over to future models and Aldred reminds us to never say never when it comes to Buick building a vehicle like this.

Not exact matches

With the rise of electric - powered vehicles and Tesla's announcement that it's building a 5 million - square - foot factory in Nevada, the lithium used in the production of batteries might seem like a good investment.
Google (GOOG) has already built a prototype of the next generation vehicle that is rounded and compact like a Mercedes - Benz Smart car with a device on the roof that looks like a fast - spinning mini-radar.
But if they did, there are a few extra safety measures built into the vehicle like a flexible windshield and a front end made of a foam - like material.
Tesla's biggest challenge, going forward, is to avoid being such a disruptive upstart in a 100 - year - old business that it gets clobbered by the big, slow carmakers that just happen to be able to flip a switch and build hundreds of thousands of Tesla - like vehicles much faster than Tesla can build actual its cars.
Canadians were introduced to the LJ, a Japanese - built Jeep - like four - wheel - drive vehicle, in the fall of 1980.
«It's not like we're looking to build one or two vehicles this year.
Climate - friendly investments will proceed through the government's green infrastructure fund and its forthcoming infrastructure bank — but the budget also allocates dollars specifically to clean energy priorities like smart grids, energy storage, electric vehicle charging, stronger building codes, and moving remote communities off diesel.
And like autonomous vehicles, the technology is already capable of the task at hand — however, it will take time to build acceptance and trust with customers to allow drones to fly onto their property for any purpose.
As car - hailing becomes an increasingly popular option for commuting and running errands in congested cities such as Beijing, Didi is betting that vehicles purpose - built for such services could start to replace familiar everyday automobiles like the Toyota Camry or the Honda Civic.
While Miller said they see the biggest potential with its traditional ride - share business, Uber will be working alongside Toyota to determine what a «purpose - built» UberEats vehicle would look like.
The first indication that Waymo was positioning itself as a competitor to players like Mobieleye and Delphi came in December, when CEO John Krafcik announced the company was going to build its own sensor technology, the proverbial eyes that self - driving vehicles need to track the road and any obstacles such as oncoming traffic or pedestrians.
Instead, after five minutes, the player and another like - sized athlete stepped out of the vehicle and returned to the building.
Freezing rain happens when liquid water freezes when it hits a surface -LCB- like a building, vehicle, or a road -RCB-.
It's easy to install in any vehicle and looks like it's built to last.»
There may be corporate debt involved but there is no mortgage or similar vehicle for large buildings like that.
But the group is urging politicians to rein NASA in on tasks that it could pay the private sector to do instead, like building vehicles to ferry astronauts to the ISS.
Building cities in a way that slows vehicle demand while delivering high accessibility could prove to be a low - cost option for curbing greenhouse gas emissions, as well as a solution to pressing problems for policymakers like local air pollution and poor public health.
Finding a plug for «leakage» Harstad's theory builds upon the concept of «carbon leakage,» which holds that countries opting out of climate agreements will produce more greenhouse gases as their neighbors take steps to ratchet down greenhouse gas emissions and regulate the sources of such emissions, like coal - burning industrial plants or motor vehicle fleets.
His idea was to spend money like crazy in the design stage, use all the latest materials, build right to the edge of the envelope, and wind up with a vehicle that was dirt cheap to operate.
The hope is to create a prototypical neural net that will help build transparency into autonomous systems like drones or unmanned vehicles.
Burning fossil fuels like coal, natural gas and oil to heat and cool our buildings and run our vehicles takes a heavy toll on the environment, contributing significantly to both local problems like elevated particulate levels and global ones like a warming climate.
Jones and Ph.D. advisor Geoff Hollinger, assistant professor of mechanical engineering in OSU's College of Engineering, have built a framework for the vehicles to plan energy - efficient trajectories through disturbances that are strong and uncertain, like ocean currents and wind fields.
«When NASA develops new technology for launch vehicles like Adaptive Augmenting Control, we want to test it in order to mature the technology and build our confidence in it,» said Tannen VanZwieten, NASA Marshall's SLS flight control lead.
For instance, if the transportation sector one day shifts to a smaller fleet of self - driving vehicles and if builders are able to reduce steel demand by using alternate materials — like, say, wood - framed buildings — it could drastically reduce the overall metal footprint.
Jordana is also living proof that guys barely notice what a girl looks like, per se; she has eczema, isn't especially pretty and is built like a small construction vehicle, but her self - presentation as an unquenchable siren totally works on the depraved young lads of Swansea.
Some of these builds are purely for aesthetics, while others, like call - in points for Lego vehicles which you have unlocked, are a necessity.
Just like the firemen that the story follows, Ladder 49 tells its story in the most workmanlike of fashions, eschewing all pretense to be some slick action vehicle by investing most of its energy in building up the characters.
The world's biggest virtual car festival returns on Xbox One and Windows 10 with Forza Horizon 3 that takes place on the diverse and beautiful lands of Australia as you can drive over 350 of the world's greatest cars in some truly spectacular ways with stunning graphical advancements and an amazing soundtrack with its in - built radio stations that almost makes it like you are inside these vehicles.
Like WB's Maximum Movie Mode, Blu - ray exclusive The Devil's in the Details: Inside the Action with Joe Carnahan is a souped - up commentary with the film's director that includes behind - the - scenes footage, storyboards, animatics, model - building and visual - effects presentations, and an interactive dashboard with info on vehicles and weaponry, as well as a running counter of steps in each plan (at times, Carnahan's audio commentary gives way to video segments with the director as on - screen host for the supplementary video footage.
These thrillingly choreographed sequences of carmageddon build to a jaw - dropping finale, replete with roof - mouthed metronome - like poles that allow road warriors to swoop down and snatch their prey from adjacent vehicles.
The car is being produced by SLP Specialty Vehicles, the outfit behind cars like the Pontiac Firebird - based Firehawk and other GM - based creations, with some 55,000 vehicles built in all over the years.
Like the fact that GM built the world's first hydrogen fuel - cell vehicle in 1966 out of a van.
A decade later, Mitsubishi was looking like it had found its feet again, but in early 2016 it was revealed that the automaker had been fudging fuel - economy numbers on its Japanese - market kei cars for decades, including vehicles sold under its own brand as well as those built for Nissan.
While the clicking noise usually indicates a battery that is too weak to start the vehicle, the battery would not be able to build up enough power to start if it just sits there like you described.
We have spent many years developing products, like home contents, vehicle, buildings, and portable possessions insurance that will not only cover you against the financial risk of loss, theft, or damage, but will also give you tangible benefits, like road assist and home assist.
Unlike an SUV, which is built on a body - on - frame truck platform, a CUV is built off a «unibody» car platform, which make the vehicles drive and behave more like a traditional sedan or coupe.
The entire production run will total only 499 cars, of which 120 are designated for U.S. customers, and if that doesn't seem like many, Franco Cimatti, the MIT - educated engineer who's in charge of vehicle concepts and pre-development at Ferrari, reminds us that Ferrari built only 349 F50 supercars and only 399 examples of the famed Ferrari Enzo.
Indeed, a high - riding, Austrian - built four - wheel - drive vehicle sounds like a quick and easy way to pour a decade's worth of brand equity down the drain.
Although some old - timers may pine for the good ol' days, and say «they don't make»em like they used to,» statistically, vehicles built in the last two decades are among some of the most reliable and longest - lasting.
Since 1998, EarthRoamer has been designing and building self - sufficient expedition vehicles for wealthy adventurers and even celebrities like musician John Mayer.
It would help Rolls - Royce lose its perceived status as the vehicle of choice for the world's robber barons and, instead, to be appreciated as a work of art that's handcrafted, designed, and built by people like you and me.
Volvo has built its reputation on building cars that are among the safest on the road, but while it was once enough to build boxy vehicles reinforced like bank vaults, technology is now playing an increasingly significant role in mitigating or preventing accidents altogether.
Ford Going global Like so many vehicles coming from the Ford Motor Company these days, the next Escape is built on the global C - segment platform that underpins the Focus and a bevy of other small cars (page 66).
Since the inception of the partnership, Cigarette has built a number of boats that inspired by AMG creations like the SLS AMG and G63 AMG sport utility vehicle, but this new boat goes a step further.
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