Sentences with phrase «car modeled after»

It's a more - refined sports car modeled after the full sedan 6 - series and has advanced features for comfort such as a 20 point adjustable heated front seat and parking cameras.

Also recalled Tuesday were 253,000 of Mattel's die - cast cars modeled after «Sarge» in the cartoon movie «Cars» that contain lead paint.

In keeping with the tradition of Lamborghini to name car models after famous fighting bulls, the Huracan is named a bull who fought with distinction in 1879.

Not exact matches

After investigating certain car models, South Korean safety officials asked a United Nations body in charge of global transport regulations to look at developing new standards for glass.

This came a month after a voluntary recall of 123,000 Model S cars due to an issue with steering technology.

In a new software update for Model S cars sold after October 2014, Tesla owners can now activate «Autopilot» — a mode that enables the car to steer, change lanes, and avoid other cars and obstacles.

After all, over 115,000 people preordered Tesla's Model 3 before even seeing the car.

After announcing that the first 30 customers would receive the Model 3s on July 28, Musk wrote «production grows exponentially, so Aug should be 100 cars and Sept above 1,500.»

HITTING THE SKIDS: Tesla tumbled 6.6 percent to $ 281.86 after the electric car maker said it lost $ 745 million in the first quarter as it is still struggling to produce more of its lower - cost Model 3 sedan.

Tesla Inc investors gave a rare rebuke to iconoclastic Chief Executive Elon Musk on Wednesday after he cut off analysts asking about profit potential, sending shares down 5 percent despite promises that production of the troubled Model 3 electric car was on track.

«After verifying through internal testing that the Model S would achieve a NHTSA 5 - star rating, Tesla then analyzed the Model S to determine the weakest points in the car and retested at those locations until the car achieved 5 stars no matter how the test equipment was configured,» the company said in a release.

The Model 3 is the Palo Alto, California - based company's fourth car, after the Roadster sports car, the Model S sedan, and the Model X sport utility vehicle.

Press and hold the model variety - 70, P90D etc - then after a few seconds the car speeds off to the left of the screen, revealing a photograph of Tesla employees waving to the camera.

Tesla coaxed Model 3 production to 2,270 cars per week in April, the electric automaker confirmed today, after CEO Elon Musk took drastic steps to boost manufacturing.

Uber launched UberCommute just a few weeks after that article; given that the economics of UberCommute are approaching those of self - driving cars, that means the company is ahead when it comes to figuring out the business model as well.

Telsa has been forced to lock down the autopilot feature in its latest Model S cars after drivers have been found to be doing really strange things with it.

The lighthearted tone of the tweets — which came a few hours after Mr. Musk teased «important news» coming soon — contrasted with recent analyst reports that warned of serious financial strains on the company as it struggles to ramp up production of the Model 3 compact car.

The carmaker continues to grapple with fallout from a fatal Florida crash of a Model S sedan after both the driver and the car's «autopilot» system failed to detect a white tractor - trailer against a «brightly lit sky.»

Tesla Inc. is suspending production of the Model 3 sedan for at least the second time in roughly two months, just after Chief Executive Elon Musk admitted to mistakes that hindered his most important car.

The stock then fell in after - market trading after the carmaker said it would voluntarily recall all Model S cars built before April 2016 to retrofit a power - steering component.

A Tesla owner is thanking his Model X's Autopilot system on Tuesday, after his electric car saved him from what could have...

Tesla Inc. is temporarily suspending production of the Model 3 sedan for at least the second time in roughly two months, just after Elon Musk admitted to mistakes that hindered his most important car.

Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) earnings will also be in focus after Chief Executive Elon Musk on Wednesday cut off analysts asking about profit potential in the company's first - quarter's earnings call, sending shares down 4 % in after - hours trading, despite promises that production of the troubled Model 3 electric car was on track.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently confirmed another upcoming feature for the Model 3 on Twitter, stating that the mass market electric car would have auto - dimming high beams after a future over-the-air software update.

In contrast to the surge in retail sales in June, households tended to delay their purchases of motor vehicles until after 30 June when the price of cars was expected to fall and a number of new models were launched on the Australian market.

FREMONT — Shares of Tesla Inc. traded lower Tuesday after reports that the company had shut down production of its Model 3 mass - market electric car...

The Model S» zero to 60 time of 2.8 seconds is 0.3 seconds faster than that of the Model X, but Drag Times learned that the two cars are «pretty much even after launch.»

After Joshua Brown, 40, of Canton, Ohio, was killed driving a Tesla Model S in the first fatality involving a self - driving car, questions have arisen about the safety of the car's technology.

After General Motors Company (NYSE: GM) revealed its Chevrolet Bolt concept car at the North American International Auto Show, Cars.com Executive Editor Joe Wiesenfelder told Benzinga he didn't know how much of a threat it would be to the Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) Model S. The...

In March, the occupant of a top - of - the - line Tesla Model X with the system engaged died after the vehicle hit a highway barrier in Northern California, was hit by two other cars and caught fire.

Some models may extend that range to 30 pounds, but after that, you will have to buy two new car seats.

All the models of this car seat that are produced after 2013 have the new buckle.

For expectant parents who are car lovers, whether classics, hot rods or trucks, could think about naming their little one after their favorite make or model.

After deciding on the category of car seat, it then comes down to which brand and model.

Washington D.C. — admittedly not a city that anyone looks to as a model of municipal management — recently opened streetcar service ten years after having bought the cars and laid the tracks.

Unlike most RC cars which are 1:10 scale, the XTR is 1:8 scale so it's a little closer to the real car it's modeled after.

All the tank cars on the 109 - car train were newer models built after 2011 know as CPC 1232, the railroad said, and not the older DOT - 111 cars that have been criticized for being prone to puncture in accidents.

But since Coddington worked in front of the camera at a time when models were responsible for their own hair, makeup and accessories, her ability to improve a shoot by styling herself was such that British Vogue editor Beatrix Miller offered her a job as a junior fashion editor at the publication two years after the car accident.

It's too early in the investigation of Joshua Brown's tragic death after his Tesla Model S collided with a semi-truck in Williston, Florida, to determine exactly what role the car's Autopilot mode played in the crash, though it's probably not too early to say that the Silicon Valley automaker has set back automated technology by at least a year or two.

Last week, Jaguar Land Rover confirmed that all new production models launched after 2020 would feature some form of electrification, from mild hybrids to full battery electric cars.

The Unplugged team got its start building outlandish, SEMA - friendly performance cars such as Schaffer's daily driver — a 2012 Nissan GT - R with a full carbon - fiber body and Lexan windows — and began working on Teslas three and a half years ago after Schaffer bought a Model S.

All 2016 GLI models also receive Volkswagen's Automatic Post-Collision Braking system, which applies the brakes after a crash to help prevent the car from hitting anything else.

After passing through the pass, there is absolutely zero question whatsoever in our minds that the new Continental GT is an eminently more capable car dynamically than the outgoing model thanks to a number of key updates, chief among them a move to from the aging D1 platform to the VW Group's MSB component set — a far more rigid underlying structure with greater packaging flexibility that also underpins the Porsche Panamera.

Although these glitches were in all likelihood related to the cars» early production status and to the extremely hard use, it deserves a quick fix — after all, just about the last thing Lexus can afford is a quality problem associated with its halo model.

After five years on sale the little hot hatch is being discontinued, relatively small sales of around 250 cars per year in the UK and an impending new Twingo base model putting paid to its appearance on the price lists.

HID lights are available only on the top - of - the - line six - cylinder model, but in all but the base model, the headlights automatically turn on after four swipes of the wipers (a safety feature that we wish the government would mandate, along with automatic - on headlamps for cars with always - illuminated gauges).

As one of only 137 1970 Challenger R / T models with the 426 Hemi engine and a four - speed manual transmission, this Dodge was already pretty special when Escalante's father bought it new after falling in love with the car at the Detroit auto show.

With trim models named after the Rice Crispy cereal guys (Pop, Easy, Lounge, Trekking, Trekking Plus), this is definitely a car targeted toward the hipster, millennial crowd.

After all, this was no clay model but an actual running, driving car.

It's no secret that Volkswagen cranked up the incentives on its remaining gasoline cars late last year after the automaker had to stop selling its diesel models due to emissions problems.