Sentences with phrase «decade later the car»

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Which is to say that — albeit decades too late for Keith Moon — we finally have a luxury car you can drive through the shallow end of a swimming pool.

The latest study published in June 2012, showed that high school students in the United States had significant progress over the past two decades in improving many youth risk behaviors associated with the leading cause of death in their age group, car crashes.

We take such lack of a fourth wall for granted in 2018, but some of the most thrilling parts of the new HBO documentary The Zen Diaries Of Garry Shandling are the types of things Shandling staged for the camera: outtakes from decades of television appearances, remnants of the «true» Garry Shandling that was the late comedian's eternal quarry, captured for posterity on programs ranging from The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson to Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee.

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.

A couple of decades back, somewhat awestruck, I held a simple — primitive, really — wooden car model as old as I was, nothing more than a block of wood that had been sliced longitudinally at an angle on both sides sometime in the late 1930s so its transverse cross section became a symmetrical trapezoid.

Since the early 1960s, turbocharged cars had seemed to promise rocketship - style thrust with scooter - style fuel economy, and finally as the decade ended, turbos had become the latest technology at the Indy 500.

This was the first car to be built as a series production model, and it was designed to be mechanically simple and inexpensive — a formula Henry Ford would perfect a decade later with the Model T.

Altogether, Horacio Pagani Competicin made just four cars, but they caught the eye of Argentina's (and, to Pagani, the world's) greatest driver, Juan Manuel Fangio, whose influence certainly smoothed the way for Automobili Pagani to source its engines from Mercedes - Benz decades later.

For decades the BMW 5 Series has ruled the executive car roost - and the latest G30 version is no exception.

But the CTR3's ambition — as well as exceeding that of the original and now legendary 469bhp CTR «Yellow Bird» and the 520bhp CTR2 that followed a decade later — reaches beyond even that of Porsche's fastest ever production car.

So here we are a decade later and the Fit is in its third generation and I've just spent a week driving one, this time with a 6 - speed manual, all the better to take full advantage of what the car's 1.5 - liter four - cylinder engine provides.

Pointy, wedge - shaped, with scissor doors and a louvered rear window, this late -»60s concept set the tone for two decades of concept car...

And now, a decade later, the car's production run is complete.

McLaren's latest thought process culminates in the P1, a hybrid supercar that will probably become a technological signpost, just as its first road car, the F1, did two decades ago.

Alfa Romeo is set to launch eight new cars later this decade, with the first one being the Alfa Romeo Giulia that was unveiled

The term «sleeper car» goes back to the 1950s, when American manufacturers started building high output cars that would eventually spawn into muscle cars a decade later.

This car was shipped to the USA in January 1982 to the Wichita, KS area, by the late 80's and appears to have stayed there for decades.

Catch All The Latest Videos, Subscribe To Volvo, the Swedish car manufacturer has been famous since decades for its thoughtful and world - class safety features committed towards public safety.

A technological masterpiece conceived for Group B racing, the 959 was ahead of its time in practically every area, offering spectacular all - wheel drive performance and computer systems that wouldn't arrive in other high - end cars until a decade later.

Now, nearly a decade later, Mitsubishi says it intends to bring its little i MiEV electric sedan to the U.S. market and Nissan has also been working on an electric car.

Buick scored another first in 1939 when it became the first company to introduce turn signals, which did not appear on other car brands until almost a decade later.

Over two decades later, the automotive service and sales chain of TR Sawhney Group is clocking a turnover of Rs 850 crore and holds a market share of 17 percent of Maruti cars sold in Delhi.

The Java «city car,» made largely out of recycled materials and the clear inspiration for Ford «city car» one decade later, died for similar reasons.

That heritage would have been fine, but it came about a decade too late, because just as the Aviator hit the market, the consumer tide turned away from truck - based SUVs to the more carlike crossover SUVs, so named because they crossed over from the car side, rather than the truck side.

The technology made its debut later that decade in a new Subaru, the tiny Justy economy car.

Later in the decade, we'll see more cars with fuller integration of self - driving technologies; already we have cars that pretty much steer themselves.

It took the Germans nearly three decades to develop their first luxury car, the 501 (followed by the V -8-powered 502), also known as the «Baroque Angel,» but they sold it alongside microcars and economy cars such as the Isetta, 600, and 700 in order to stay afloat due to the financial hardship the company experienced in the late 1950s.

Molly McQueen, granddaughter of late actor Steve McQueen who starred in the 1968 film Bullitt, was on hand to help introduce the new car, and amazingly, so was the «original» Bullitt Mustang: the Highland Green 1968 Ford Mustang GT that served as the movie's hero car five decades ago.

All these years later, the car has been restored to running, driving condition, although the body has been left unrestored, exhibiting the patina of its decades of storage.

Almost a decade later and we're on the cusp of fully autonomous cars and gasoline - free powertrains.

The Lamborghini Gallardo era has come to an end in late November 2013 when the final production unit was completed at the factory in Sant «Agata... a bright red LP570 - 4 Performante marked number 14,022 after almost a decade of V10 Raging Bulls, this specific car will be delivered to a private collector soon while the production line will be prepared to start building the successor that will be unveiled at the Geneva Auto Show in 2014.

The RX gives the sense that it was built to withstand the coming decade or longer, a feeling altogether lacking in many German cars of late, and coupled with rock - steady resale values, 90 % of the metal on Lexus lots will be sold on perceived integrity alone.

Positioned to compete against the Mercury Cougar and Pontiac Firebird in the upper end of the pony car market segment, [7] it was «a rather late response to the wave the Ford Mustang had started over half a decade earlier with its April 1964 introduction.»

Also, if we make the auto industry invest billions of dollars in improved fuel - efficiency, how will the industry react if we ask them to abandon these investments and switch to carbon - free cars a decade or two later?

More than three decades later, electric cars are finally being offered to mainstream consumers.

And car ownership in Turkey, though still low by Western standards, has jumped from 56 cars per 1,000 inhabitants in 1997 to approximately 90 a decade later.

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