Sentences with phrase «cars compete on»

Whereas normal race cars compete on smooth, even race track surfaces, a rally stage consists of dips, large rocks and jumps.

Today, the British journalist Chris Harris has uploaded a video in which we can see the same cars competing on road and on track.

It features Tuners, Exotics, and American Muscle cars competing on urban street and drift tracks.

Not exact matches

Tesla's sudden change in fortune stands in marked contrast to Fisker Automotive, a competing alternative car company now on the verge of bankruptcy and at the center of controversy over $ 192 million in federal funding that it's unlikely to pay back.

Especially if you have a day job, it's probably unrealistic to find the time to pour over financial statements and speculate on earnings reports in hopes of competing with Wall Street analysts who use satellite images to count the number of cars in the parking lots of major retailers.

It's great that Google (Alphabet) is working on self - driving cars, but it can compete on a lot of other things beyond advertising against Google.

After struggling to compete against larger chipmakers like Qualcomm in smartphones and tablets, Nvidia is now increasing its focus on using its Tegra mobile chips in cars and is already supplying companies including Audi, BMW and Tesla.

Sloan realized that GM couldn't compete on price, so GM created multiple brands of cars, each with its own identity targeted at a specific economic bracket of American customers.

«There's a lot of companies in Ontario, and indeed in other parts of Canada, who are wonderful at technology and can develop the software, the sensors, the security systems that these cars will need and they will be able to compete on a huge multi-billion-dollar global market.»

The testing has been going on for months as automakers and technology companies like the ride - hailing service compete to be the first with cars that operate on their own.

«More or less, Chinese brands already compete with them on a similar level in electric cars.»

For example, even though moderate moves in the yen's value will have little effects on China directly since it does not compete head - to - head with Japan's high - end electronics and car exports, it causes an imbalance with other competing nations.

If you have «miracles» on the menu and prophetic utterances (i.e. competing with the psychic hotlines and HDTV), personal growth (read gospel flavoured new age narcissism) and groovy music it gives you an edge over the poor guy next door (read your competition — i.e. the small potatoes pastor who has even less than you) and you will drive a better car and be considered a man of G - d but only if you are successful (i.e. attract crowds) otherwise you are a loser whether you have a shepherd's heart or not.

McLaren's Eric Boullier has said that the team spent so much time trying to simply make the car work that it gave up on certain aspects of trying to compete

Ginetta recently revealed it's new G60 - LT - P1 LMP1 car, something it's hoping will be good enough to take on the might of Toyota and actually compete for the WEC title this season.

Muffled thoroughly in foul - weather gear as protection against biting winds, iceboat sailors will haul their craft hundreds of miles on car top or trailer to compete with each other.

And with some teams — most notably PepsiCo - backed Hendrick Motorsports featuring popular drivers Chase Elliott, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jimmie Johnson, and Kasey Kahne — having contracts in place with companies that compete against Monster in the marketplace, there's been some rebuffing to display Monster logos on its cars outside the track.

They'll be tested on a virtual version of the ROC circuit on Assetto Corsa and will also be tested in real cars, with the fastest driver being crowned eROC Champion and then going on to compete in the main event.

Shaping a city is typically a matter of striking a balance between competing priorities — cars versus people on foot, privately owned buildings versus public space.

Big tech firms are competing with traditional car companies like Ford to map our world in the detail required to get driverless cars on the road

«On road courses today, EVs already can compete with the fastest cars in the world,» Waters said.

The company is counting on the taxpayer - backed loans to offset up to 80 % of the development cost of the Model S. Tesla has said it expects that car to cost $ 60,000 and compete against the likes of the BMW 5 Series for luxury and performance.

In fact he first tried to get a railroad to carry them in what we call piggyback manner — that is to say a truck trailer still on its chassis, attached to a flat car on a railroad — but the railroads after the war had their own problems and they lacked the kind of flexibility he would have needed; and also they felt themselves to be competing directly with the trucking companies and they hoped to drive them off the field essentially.

The supercar will compete in the Pikes Peak International Hill climb in Colorado Springs on 24 June 24, seeking to beat the existing electric car record of 8:57.118 minutes... Read more →

Players will choose from 30 authentic Hot Wheels cars to compete in 24 stunt challenges on 12 different tracks set in environments such as Buccaneer Bay, Jurassic Jam, Zero Gravity Zone, Tiki Island, Spider Alley and Lava Land.

«From coast to coast, drivers will explore America and compete to become the greatest motorsports champion, by collecting a wide variety of exotic cars, bikes, boats and planes, and dominating the motorsports scene on the land, on the water and in the air,» read a press release announcing the release date.

More choices, more opportunities, more strategy, greater risks and greater rewards SEAMLESSLY CONNECTED — Socialize and compete via Online Track Days, have players from around the world take the place of AI - controlled drivers in your solo play, and get news updates on the Driver Network around you PRO ESPORTS RACING — Skill & Behavioural - based matchmaking, create your own Online Racing Seasons, and Live Broadcast and Spectator functionality YOUR HOME FOR RACING — Your own personal, customisable Test Track to tune and test your cars.

With more than double the track content of 2009's hit, players will enjoy a career as an elite professional driver, competing in off - road racing events on the intense, weather - beaten rally stages of Europe, Africa and the US and pushing car control to the limit in all - new, Gymkhana inspired showpiece challenges.

From the appearance of the credit «written and directed by Brian De Palma» overlaid on the sleek outer casing of an Apple MacBook Pro to a shot of a car driving into and destroying a parking - lot Coca - Cola machine, there's a through line of anticorporate humor that juxtaposes the ideas of «art» and «product» — never more so than in an amazing, extended split - screen scene in which footage of a ballet performance competes for our attention with a knowingly clichéd, Halloween - style slasher - on - the - loose set piece.

But there would be no reason for GM to hold on to Chrysler (competing with Buick and fancy Chevys), Dodge (Pontiac), Fiat (small cars selling well only regionally), or Alfa Romeo (requires boatloads of cash to develop new product).

The basic Cayman competes with the dynamically inferior Audi TT S (# 40,315) and BMW M240i (# 35,420), although to match those cars on kit, one must dip rather heavily into the options list.

Along with the 60 cars on display and competing for Best in Show, hundreds of other concours winners have been invited to attend.

Stefan Marjoram was there with his camera and sketchbook to record some of the weekend's highlights / Röhr: «the world's safest automobile» Werner Schollenberger presents the first English - language account of this short - lived German manufacturer and its advanced but ultimately unsuccessful cars / «Eleganza» with a German accent — Paul d'Orléans, himself a judge in the event's motorcycle class, reports from the Concorsi di Villa d'Este 2015 / Back on the Road — Michael Ware describes the restoration of a 1908 Straker - Squire that competed at Brooklands before the First World War

Pontiac had long pined for a two - seat sports car, only to be rejected by GM management on the grounds that such a car would compete too closely with the Corvette.

On the one hand, it allows these cars to further compete against esteemed foreign sport sedans (and be taken seriously).

The Infiniti Q30 is based on the same platform as the Mercedes - Benz CLA250 and GLA250 compact luxury cars, and it will compete in the same segment as those models, as well as against vehicles like the Audi A3 and Acura ILX.

And on the Dakar, it's a huge operation — considerably bigger than a modern WRC team, with 110 drivers, mechanics and support staff working together to look after the cars, and two vast «T4» support trucks lumbering after them that compete in a special lorry class but also provide technical support on - stage when it's needed.

The support cars are GPS tracked too, with fines and penalties applied to competing cars for anybody who exceeds speed limits on the road section — even if it was a support car that committed the offence...

24 equally - detailed cars can now compete on the same track too, up from 16.

The two - door went on to compete in the European Touring Car Championship, where it won in 1985.

The automaker defied critics just by making an award - winning luxury car on the first try, but Hyundai doesn't want to simply be in the luxury segment, it wants to compete with BMW, Mercedes, Lexus, and Cadillac, and that meant major changes for the 2015 Hyundai Genesis.

The ipad bolted to the top of the dashboard or in front of it look on competing cars looks exactly what it is - a naff afterthought and poor design.

And in 2013's Car of the Year contest, it proved more than capable of competing with some of the best supercars of the last decade on some of the world's best roads.

With a heavy reliance on carbon fiber in the Chiron's monocoque, rear end, underbody, lighting trims, and the exterior shell, Bugatti claims its rigidity matches LMP1 race cars that compete at Le Mans.

Theses young designers have all embraced the GT R theme extremely well and placed their designs at some point in the future.I also think they have taken the view of GT R being a brand name and that there could be a range of cars within starting with the concept of a hot hatch and then stepping on up through three or four further models all pitched to compete with other companies niche models.Good luck to you all.

Those cars will compete not against Citroen's traditional rivals, but on a higher plane.

Polestar Performance hope to use experience of running the C30 that competes in the Swedish Touring Car championship and transfer this to the road, using aerodynamics influenced by the race car on the road going versiCar championship and transfer this to the road, using aerodynamics influenced by the race car on the road going versicar on the road going version.

Genesis models, designed under the direction of former VW design director Luc Donckerwolke, will be based on RWD platforms that are not to be shared with Hyundai's commodity cars, and this potent combo all but assures that the new brand can compete with sales numbers closer to Cadillac, if not Lexus, Mercedes, and BMW, rather than, say, Lincoln and Acura.

Another alternative is the latest Aston Martin Vanquish, a 5.9 - litre V12 - engined GT car that can't compete with the F12 on pure firepower and thrills, but it makes a very appealing case for itself with svelte and subtler looks, it's gargling growl is easily a match for the Ferrari's wail in tone, at least, and its brilliant balance and well - judged grip levels make it friendlier and more approachable than the F12.

At the same time, Mazda must prove that it's capable of producing a top - tier sports car that can take on the best in the business, and do it with a new, more efficient rotary engine that has enough power to compete.