Sentences with phrase «classed as a road car»

The Radical SR8 LM that went round in 6 min 48sec last year did so on the same tyres it drove to and from the circuit on, yet some would say that a Radical is too specialised to be classed as a road car.

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When the road followed the unpredictable curvatures of a mountain, body roll obviously was not as well snubbed as in the best sports cars, but it was mighty impressive for a four - door luxury sedan and is without a doubt best in its class.

Its list price of 137,504 euros in Germany (no UK price has been announced yet, but that equates to around # 110K) puts it ahead of far more accomplished cars like the Porsche Cayenne Turbo but the appeal of the G - Class is that it's not a conventional SUV; Mercedes calls it a «performance off - roader», and says it's better viewed as an extremely posh Land Rover Defender rival.

As we've noted in previous updates, the 2013 Cadillac ATS is one of the sportiest sedans in its class, a car engineered for attacking racetracks and curving back roads.

Meanwhile, a 2006 Ferrari F430 GT2 race car used as a test car brought $ 225,500, a Honda - powered 2011 Lola B1143 LMP2 IMSA car that won its class at the 2011 12 - Hours of Sebring and Road America brought $ 112,750, and a 2012 HPD ARX - 03 LMP2 IMSA car with several class wins to its name in 2012 fetched $ 110,000.

• New front - wheel drive record set on Magny - Cours GP circuit, with a 2 mins 1.51 secs lap • WTCR driver, Esteban Guerrieri, achieves record lap in standard production car with road tyres • Record further reinforces Civic Type R's position as a class benchmark • Type R Challenge 2018 aims to break records at 5 legendary European race circuits

Combining hot - hatch performance with exemplary fuel efficiency through the new two - litre, four cylinder TwinPower turbo engine, the BMW 125i extends BMW's on - road dominance of the luxury compact class as the only rear - wheel drive car in the segment.

Corvette Racing's Oliver Gavin, Tommy Milner and Richard Westbrook had the lead of the GT class firmly in hand just as the six hour mark was about to tick over for the 1000 - mile Petit Le Mans event at Road Atlanta when a steering failure temporarily side - lined the No. 4 car in the pits.

Identical Maserati's won the first two races of the 2016 European GT4 series as well as runner up in the GTS class of the Pirelli World Challenge at Road America, indicating how competitive these cars are.

You're not gonna find another car in this class at this price point that handles as well or feels as good on the road as the CX - 5 It's basically the best.

We've driven the C200 4Matic on various types of roads (including gravel), and in Comfort mode the ride was as refined as a one could hope for from a car in this class.

DTM cars are specialised Formula - style racers with massive aerodynamic downforce, all disguised as Audi A5, BMW 4 - Series and Mercedes - Benz C - Class road cars.

There are definitely cars in this class that are more fun on the road, nearly as practical and priced more competitively.

Challenged along what Top Gear called the most beautiful road in the world, the Romanian Transfagarasean, the Mercedes - Benz S - Class Coupe turned out to be — as claimed — the quietest car in the world, together with the S - Class limousine, even at speeds exceeding 180 km / h.

As for the current high - society road testing, Motor Trend says it got the following official response from Chevy: «A key goal for the Corvette Stingray was to develop a car that had world - class levels of performance, design, and technology.

At 4,807 mm long it's not quite as big as a Mercedes S - Class Coupe though (5,027 mm), and once acclimatised to the Bentley's proportions it's not a difficult car to place on the road.

The trailer shows how chaotic racing can get in Project Cars 2, with multiple classes of cars crowding on the same track, such as a Renault Clio road car going head to head against a Ferrari superCars 2, with multiple classes of cars crowding on the same track, such as a Renault Clio road car going head to head against a Ferrari supercars crowding on the same track, such as a Renault Clio road car going head to head against a Ferrari supercar.

The automobile had been invented and entered mass production in the early 1900s, but just as the internal combustion engine started to prevail over electric cars at that time and mass production took hold with Ford's Model T bringing some cars and trucks into upper middle class households and into use by businesses and farms, the Great Depression and World War II dramatically reduced private personal consumption, so for the two decades from about 1929 until the several years after World War II that it took to convert factories from war production to civilian peacetime production, the automobile industry's private sector sales were greatly suppressed, domestic civilian road and bridge construction came to a near halt during World War II as government funds were diverted to the war effort, and domestic oil consumption was likewise suppressed.

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