Sentences with phrase «car is a successor»

Bertone's bold, angular car was the successor to Pininfarina's svelte 246 Dino, and with a transverse - mounted engine, the design allowed for a 2 +2 seating layout.

The car was a successor to the Esperante GTR - 1 which had competed in the Grand Tourer categories internationally.

This car was a successor to the 1st - generation Octavia in terms of its price bracket.

The car is a successor of SX4 and proved an immediate success for the company.

Not exact matches

The Chiron is the successor to the Bugatti Veyron, which launched in 2005 and became the fastest production car on the planet, with the Super Sport version hitting a top speed of over 260 miles per hour with 1,200 horses.

The car series that serves as a spiritual successor to Top Gear — at least as it existed when it starred Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May — is gearing up for its second season and now we know which guests to look forward to.

The car series that serves as a spiritual successor to Top Gear — at least as it existed when it starred Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May — is gearing up -LSB-...]

I liked Drive, a vigorous 2011 take on Hollywood car - chase movies with noirish undertones starring Ryan Gosling, but its 2013 successor, Only God Forgives, a muddled romp (also starring Gosling) about a mama's boy adrift in the Bangkok underworld at the mercy of a gangster who performed musical numbers between bloodbaths, was parboiled by critics and avoided by audiences like an airborne virus.

One reason for this latest GT - R taking so long to reach fruition has been the decision to base the car off a totally new platform, likely the successor to the FM platform that underpins the Nissan 350Z and the Infiniti G35 and FX35 / 45.

The MX - 5 Miata can only carry so much of the company's Zoom - Zoom spirit, and there's no sign of an RX - 7 / RX - 8 successor, so Mazda needs another performance car to keep enthusiasts returning to showrooms.

Wenders admits that some will look at an i8 and see only what it could have been: a better, more powerful sports car, a successor to the mid-engine BMW M1.

The M5 and its subsequent successors quickly developed a reputation for being the most capable cars on sale.

It's not a successor to the P1, but McLaren lifted functions like variable damping and ride height adjustment tech from its fellow Ultimate Series car, and drivers can choose between Comfort, Sport, Track, and Race modes.

While those numbers will in all likelihood crest beyond the $ 100,000 mark when the car's successor arrives, the XR Gran Turismo will still likely be more affordable than other luxury GT cars like the Aston Martin DB9 and Bentley Continental GT.

Proud Proboscis — Ronald «Steady» Barker pays tribute to one of motoring's most magnificent white elephants the 50cv Renault and its successor the 40cv / The Healey Heritage — Malcolm Green traces the development of the big Austin - Healeys from Donald Healey's Riley - powered cars from Warwick to the Mark III 3000 that was built at Abingdon / Back on the Road — Michael Ware reports on some recent restorations by readers of The Automobile / Austin Seven Ulster Rebuild / Batteries — Workshop / Enfield Underslung — Michael Worthington - Williams relates the story of the Adamson cyclecar / Swooping Kestrel — Brian Heath experiences the pleasure of preselector gear changing at the wheel of a 1937 Riley 12/14 Kestrel / Butler's Babies — The American Austin was one of the first attempts to popularise the European small car in the USA Kit Foster tells its story / Commercially Speaking — Panels & Parts

In Grand Tourer, David Burgess-Wise tells the story of a magnificent car and its party - loving first owner / Delwyn Mallett enjoys the sights and sounds at Goodwood's annual Festival of Speed celebration of history's greatest cars and drivers / Pared - down and powerful, Jaguar's XK150S Roadster was the spiritual successor to the celebrated XK120.

It rated the car as the true successor of the 12C instead of the gamechanger that would be a car with 12C gran touring qualities and the dynamic qualities (and overall experience) of the 675LT.

The spiritual successor to the original Volkswagen Beetle, the car is meant for every man, and for small families.

The AMG GT is a successor to the SLS AMG supercar, and uses that car's same aluminum spaceframe.

The successor to the much - loved first - generation Alpina D3, which was based on the «E90» BMW 3 - series — and also (according to its maker) the fastest diesel - powered production car in the world.

The 1965 Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint GTA can be considered something of a spiritual successor, achieving great success in touring car racing with Autodelta.

Touted as the spiritual successor to the Mk1 Golf GTI, the VW Up GTI has been one of the most hotly anticipated cars of 2018.

While the Porsche 928 is pretty slow by today's fast, luxury grand tourer standards, especially when compared to its spiritual successor, watching the speedometer climb on either car is still impressive, as is the level of handling performance and cornering prowess both exhibit, especially the 928, given its age.

The more we learn about the 720S, the more our expectations grow, but it's even more important for McLaren Automotive as this is the first time the relatively young car company has launched a successor to an existing model line.

As a spiritual successor to well - loved sports cars like the Toyota Supra, Celica, and 2000GT, the Toyota FT - 1 concept is a welcome assurance that there is still passion and imagination stirring in Toyota City.

According to a new report from Automotive News, Lamborghini is looking into a four - seat sports car, and it may even develop a successor to the Miura coupe.

Today's hot hatches like VW's GTI and Ford's Fiesta ST, spiritual successors though they are, still suffer from the weight gain and complexities of modern cars.

TWO - ROTOR XP - 987 Originally planned as a successor to the Opel GT, the Corvette 2 - Rotor show car was an expeditiously rebodied and repowered Porsche 914.

i hope the successor of the 718 gets shorter, why is the car that long.

The Mazda RX - Vision concept, revealed at the Tokyo auto show, is a rear - wheel - drive coupe previewing a successor to the RX - 8 and RX - 7 sports cars.

Meanwhile, Porsche has been tossing around the idea of a successor to the four - cylinder 550 Spyder, but is reportedly concerned that an entry - level sports car would eat into sales of its existing mid-engined roadster, the Boxster.

Although that car hasn't been sold here for more than a year, its successor, the Cadenza, first appeared back in 2009.

The 2014 BMW M4 is the successor to the M3 coupe, one of the purest, most driver - oriented cars BMW has ever made.

Combined with a 365bhp twin - turbo straight - six engine, you have a car BMW is labelling as a spiritual successor to the likes of the original E30 M3 and much loved 1M Coupe.

Although there are still no firm plans for a successor, RX - 8 designer (and son of the RX - 7's designer) Ikuo Maeda is eager to bring the rotary - powered sports car back to life.

Recently, reports supposedly based on «leaked» information, attest that the car will be based on KTM's X-Bow and positioned as an affordable successor to the beautiful 8C Competizione.

While in Munich, we had the opportunity to sample a new M car that might, philosophically, be the closest thing to an E46 M3 successor: the 2011 1 - series M coupe (pictured at top).

Or it could be a successor to the Cadillac XLR, a car Leone still owns.

Despite the release of its successors, the first generation car, known locally as the Maliu (马六, «Horse 6»), continues to be manufactured at FAW's Changchun, Jilin, plant, having sold over 770,000 units as of 2014.

The next Aventador, due before the second - generation Huracán, will retain its naturally aspirated V12 engine, so the Huracán's successor will be the first Lamborghini sports car to be an advanced plug - in hybrid.

The Volkswagen Golf Mk7 (also known as the Golf VII [4]-RRB- is a compact car, the seventh generation of the Volkswagen Golf and the successor to the Volkswagen Golf Mk6.

The Volkswagen Golf Mk5 (codenamed Typ 1K) is a compact car, the fifth generation of the Volkswagen Golf and the successor to the Volkswagen Golf Mk4.

The successor to the original M3 was not designed as the basis for a racing car.

Introduced in 1994 as a successor to the 20 - year - old Aston Martin V8, the Aston Martin DB7 was one of the most memorable Aston Martin super cars produced during the Ford era.

Nissan GTR is a Japanese sport car, the successor of the legendary Nissan Skyline GTR.

For the first time in Mercedes history, the better - equipped successor will be priced virtually the same as the car it replaces.

While the Miata may be the spiritual successor of the Mgs and Triumphs of the»50s and»60s, this modern sports car didn't inherit the oil leaks, cranky engines and unpredictable electrical systems that plagued those old roadsters.

Given the current - generation 1 - series» recent facelift, we won't see its successor for a little while yet; CAR understands that mid-2019 is when it'll reach the market.

The A110 was one of the greatest sports cars of the 1960s and 1970s, so its successor has a lot to live up to.

Race team engineers worked with Corvette chief engineer Tom Wallace and his successor, Tadge Juechter, providing track data and CFD simulations that had been done on the race cars.