Sentences with phrase «drive continental»

The all - wheel drive Continental GT changed the face of the luxury coupe market and attracted a wider audience to the Bentley marque.

Editor's note: In 2002, the all - wheel drive Continental GT stunned the automotive world following its unveiling at the Paris Show.

The LS was notable not only as an eventual replacement for the largely unloved front - wheel - drive Continental, but as the first Lincoln in a long time available with a stick shift.

In an effort to further reduce model overlap, the front - wheel drive Continental was developed for vehicles that neither Cadillac nor the Lincoln Town Car were marketed against: European and Japanese - produced luxury sedans.

Behind the wheel, the all - wheel - drive Continental proved solid and quiet at speed.

How can we give a rigorous account of the processes that drive continental drift?

During the 12 - day at - sea experiment called GLAD (Grand Lagrangian Deployment), the research team deployed 300 GPS - equipped custom drifter soff the UM Rosenstiel School research vessel F.G. Walton Smith in a region where wind - driven continental shelf currents mix with buoyancy - driven Mississippi River outflow currents and deep eddy - driven currents in the Gulf of Mexico.

We come away from our time with the 2014 Continental GT V8 S with a rekindled appreciation not only for the sensory feast that these cars provide but also with the realization that the V8 S is the best - driving Continental yet.

Driving the Continental, it felt like I was sitting in an airport's VIP lounge, a much calmer and more relaxing environment than general seating at the gate.

«The experience of driving a Continental GT3 - R is awe - inspiring, and takes the dynamic abilities of our Grand Tourer to new heights.

Not exact matches

Last month, the CEOs of American Airlines, United Continental and Delta Air Lines asked to meet with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to discuss allegations that Gulf states are unfairly subsidizing state - owned carriers, driving down prices and crowding out competition on key routes, accusations those carriers deny.

Airline stocks sink after United Continental's growth plans raised concern it could drive down fares.

In continental Europe, Canada and Japan, economies have been characterised by very low rates of both economic growth and inflation (driven importantly by very low rates of wages growth).

One more time: American religious empiricists never were as intimidated by reductionism or as driven to pure descriptions as were the Continentals because these empiricists saw how to be relativistic to cultural conditions without being merely subjectivistic.

He speaks of the Continental Congress and Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr. being driven to their knees by the force of the tasks set before them.

«Driven by the robust performance of our fundamental operating indicators and continuous expansion, both geographic and into adjacent businesses, in 2015 Arca Continental's outstanding results distinguished us in our industry and the markets we serve,» the company says.

When you're driving across the continental U.S. for hours on end, the roads are indeed long and winding.

Daneyko roused himself slowly, dressed and drove from his house in Roseland, N.J., to the players» parking lot at the Continental Airlines Arena, his hockey home for more than 13 years.

He is a high liver who drives a gleaming ivory Lincoln Continental.

A 20 - minute drive to Grand Case is highly recommended, there are several worthy examples of classic Continental and «modern» French cuisine that should be explored.

If I blend analytic and continental archives, it was because I was driven to do so by my work on Hannah Arendt.

Moscow has attacked two small countries in continental Europe in the last five years (Estonia via a concerted cyber coercion campaign in 2007, Georgia via a major ground invasion in 2008); routinely drives strategic bombers around UK airspace; and parked an aircraft carrier group in the Moray Firth earlier in 2012.

«This project will investigate how materials coming into the system drive shallow earthquake rupture and influence the shape of the continental margin.

The Earth's lithosphere is divided into several plates that are in constant motion, and today's geologists have a good understanding of what drives these plate movements: heavier ocean plates are submerged beneath lighter continental plates along what are known as subduction zones.

The team found that the subducting slab — a portion of the oceanic plate that slides beneath a continental plate — is the dominant driving force behind the deformation of the mantle.

Rock movement along the Denali fault drives the uplift of the mountains, which form at bends in the fault, where previously fractured suture - zone rocks are pinned against the stronger former North American continental margin.

Lamb, a geologist at Oxford University, invokes an array of foodstuffs — Viennese schnitzel, fudge cake, hot syrup — to explain how a continental plate diving under South America drove the mountains upwards.

Mantle convection is the driving force behind continental drift and causes earthquakes and volcanoes on the surface.

Of course, long before climate change threatened the snowpacks, unbridled trapping and poisoning had driven most wolverines from the continental U.S. Wolverines hung on in the northern Rockies, but the thin populations in Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota and the Northeast were gone by the middle of the 20th century.

We determine that this difference is driven by the growth and retreat of large continental ice sheets that are present in the cold ice - age climates; these ice sheets reflect a lot of sunlight and their growth consequently amplifies the impact of CO2 changes.»

«We hypothesise that CO2 outgassing from continental volcanic arcs drove major climate shifts,» says McKenzie.

The findings, published yesterday in the journal Nature, show that during the past 11,000 years, wind patterns have driven relatively warm waters from the deep ocean onto Antarctica's continental shelf, leading to significant and sustained ice loss.

Multidecadal variability of the continental precipitation annual amplitude driven by AMO and ENSO

Driven by Nielsen's growing sales network in continental Europe, Pandora flourished, blazing a trail for branded fashion jewellery.

Rumors Video Roundup: 60 Seconds on Bentley Continental GTC V8, Real - Life Lexus Video Game, Nissan GT - R Driven

The Bentley Continental GT has established itself as one of the more obvious answers to the question that many truly rich people eventually ask themselves: What can I drive, now that I've had multiple Mercedes - Benzes, Porsches, and BMWs?

I've had the opportunity to drive around a 1996 Lincoln Continental before I purchase it (or another car) and it runs great except that the rear air bags have a slow leak and the Check Ride Control...

As such, the Continental will most likely ride on either a version of the same Volvo - based D3 platform under the current MKS or a stretched CD4 platform from the Fusion; as deputy editor Mac Morisson says, «that doesn't sound like an exciting driving proposition.»

Still, if not for those 18 - inch Michelin tires (17 - inch Continentals on the SL and SV, and 16 - inch Hankooks on the rental lot S model, which wasn't even invited for Nissan's first drive), we wonder whether there would be enough difference for the average test - drive customer to notice the difference.

This is the swan song for the current Continental GT, which I first drove in July 2003 in Scotland, and a memorable drive it was.

But there are signs of age, and it is certainly time for the new Continental, which is going on sale in early 2011 and which we will be driving soon.

Bentley's new saloon has been developed entirely under parent company VW's watch, and could gain four - wheel drive like its Continental GT stable mate.

Thanks in part to some healthy brand cooperation, the all - new Continental GT is now state - of - the - art driving car, too.

I'm 6» 5» tall drive 33,000 local and trans - continental miles a year in amazing comfort.

The Continental GT is again powered by a 6.0 - liter W - 12 engine driving all four wheels.

Price: $ 183,000 Engine: 32 - valve DOHC V - 8 Displacement: 6.2 liters (379 cu in) Horsepower: 563 hp @ 6800 rpm Torque: 479 lb - ft @ 4750 rpm Transmission: 7 - speed dual - clutch automatic Drive: Rear - wheel Steering: Hydraulically assisted Suspension, Front: Control arms, coil springs Suspension, Rear: Control arms, coil springs Brakes: Vented discs, ABS Tires: Continental ContiSportContact 5P Tire Size F, R: 265 / 35 YR -19, 295 / 30 YR -20 L x W x H: 182.6 x 76.3 x 49.3 in Wheelbase: 105.5 in Track F / R: 66.2 / 65.0 in Weight: 3573 lb EPA Mileage: 14/20 mpg

This month the mag team went all continental with a trip to Maranello and a first drive of the new Ferrari F430.

Only the overly boosted electric steering distances you from the calm fluidity of the Continental driving experience.

Driving a prototype example of the Continental GT, we were delightfully impressed.

Bentley's Continental GT Speed provides more performance from its W12 and adds four - wheel - drive security, but it doesn't have the interior space, the sense of occasion or the detailing offered by the Dawn.