As a plug - in hybrid, the BMW Concept Active Tourer also provides a glimpse ahead to future
drive variants in BMW automobiles of the compact class.
The commendation sees the Octavia join other Škoda models — including the Roomster, Yeti and Suberb, but not the Fabia — in achieving top safety marks, and applies to all front - wheel
drive variants in both sedan (hatch) and wagon body styles.
BMW has announced full details including a sub - $ 50,000 starting price for its second - generation X1 compact SUV line - up, all - wheel
drive variants in which go on sale in Australia next month, followed by front - drive models in December.
As a plug - in hybrid, the BMW Concept Active Tourer also provides a glimpse ahead to future
drive variants in automobiles of the compact class.
This is the 2016 Lamborghini Huracán LP 580 - 2, the new rear - wheel -
drive variant in the Huracán lineup.
For 2018 it offers a two - wheel
drive variant in the range - topping trim.
Another downside is that it doesn't come with a four - wheel -
drive variant in India like the Compass.
Not exact matches
Of course, given that Shiller's raw CAPE is also much less reliable than our margin - adjusted
variant, a decline
in the Shiller CAPE,
driven by a statistical artifact of its own construction, will not make stocks any less hypervalued.
The KHS Group now provides the
drive technology for its packaging plant technology
in two different
variants.
According to Nielsen figures, more than 5 per cent of all Australian households bought Coke Ginger
in the final quarter of 2016 and the
variant drove a 4 per cent increase
in overall household penetration for the Coke range, the strongest
in three years.
Some researchers have looked into what role genes might have
in our tendency to cheat, like last year's study on a certain
variant of the dopamine gene DRD4 — and dopamine is the force behind our sexual
drives, survival needs and pair - bonding behaviors.
Comment: This is another
variant of the use of public expenditure to
drive specific industrial outcomes,
in this case by providing a shot
in the arm to the local renewables energy industry.
«HOLES»
in the genomes of severely overweight children have revealed a new type of genetic
variant that
drives obesity.
Jinal Bhiman, a PhD student
in the Faculty of Health Sciences is the lead author of the study, titled: Viral
variants that initiate and
drive maturation of V1V2 - directed HIV - 1 broadly neutralizing antibodies.
If so, and if, as the team's estimates suggest, the
variant became established
in the human population during the last 200,000 years of human history — roughly the time at which anatomically modern humans arose — the gift of gab may have been a
driving force
in their expansion.
But specifically how human
variants of such genes shape our brain
in development — and how they
drove its evolution — have remained largely mysterious.
Advances
in next generation sequencing (NGS) have allowed accurate
variant detection that can uncover the specific genetic mutations that may
drive cancer.
Cancer «drivers» can vary from patient to patient, and there are no practical clinical tools for predicting which
variants in an individual's genome are
driving his or her disease and which are present but not causing disease.
To test whether clinicoanatomic heterogeneity
in AD is
driven by the involvement of specific networks, network connectivity was assessed
in healthy subjects by seeding regions commonly and specifically atrophied
in three clinical AD
variants: early - onset AD (age at onset, < 65 y; memory and executive deficits), logopenic
variant primary progressive aphasia (language deficits), and posterior cortical atrophy (visuospatial deficits).
These types of studies usually contain small sample sizes and focus on identifying large, rare
variants in the genome rather than smaller, more common
variants that may also
drive disease pathology.
Her group uncovered that pediatric high - grade astrocytomas (HGA) are molecularly and genetically distinct from adult tumors.They also identified a new molecular mechanism
driving pediatric HGA, namely recurrent somatic driver mutations
in the tail of histone 3
variants (H3.3 and H3.1).
Our findings indicate that the posterior DMN and precuneus network are commonly affected
in AD
variants, whereas syndrome - specific neurodegenerative patterns are
driven by the involvement of specific networks outside the DMN.
The p.S284X
variant in ANGPTL6
drives the association signal (rs201622589, MAF ~ 0.1 %, odds ratio = 10.13, p - value = 0.042) and results
in complete loss of secretion
in cells.
In the past few years, functional genomics, epigenomics, and regulatory genomics datasets have begun to
drive the formulation and testing of mechanistic hypotheses that link specific genetic
variants within implicated loci to human traits and phenotypes.
Be sure to check out David Zenlea's impressions and well as Georg Kacher's take on the new car, particularly the TTS
variant, which we did not
drive in Oregon.)
Power will likely range from the Ghibli S Q4's 404 hp
in entry - level rear - wheel -
drive models to upward of 500 hp
in all - wheel -
drive variants.
The latest Chrysler 200 exhibits European breeding and is offered
in several trim levels, including the sporty 200S and a V - 6 powered, all - wheel -
drive variant.
In North America, where customers almost always
drive their own the S - class, Mercedes will sell only the long - wheelbase
variant.
All - wheel -
drive variants and the 528i will arrive
in the fall.
While there are already two performance
variants of the current, seventh - generation Golf — the 210 - hp, front - wheel -
drive Golf GTI (220 hp with the optional performance pack) and the 292 - hp, all - wheel -
drive Golf R — Volkswagen wants to add a third hot hatch to its lineup when the eighth - generation Golf comes out
in three years» time.
A performance - oriented M5
variant is surely
in the cards, and we recently spied a prototype that suggested it will be the first M car (beside the X5 M and X6 M SUVs) to feature all - wheel
drive.
Because the S - class is essentially a chauffeur -
driven car
in the all - important Chinese market, Mercedes designed the new luxury sedan first as a long - wheelbase model (W222) and then worked on the short - wheelbase (V222)
variant.
While we don't get the rear - wheel
drive and the wild swept - back appearance of the show car, the 2017 Buick LaCrosse does incorporate a
variant of the Avenir's front grille, with a chrome strip
in the center of the grille linking the two front headlights.
I headed to Toyota's national media
drive in San Diego to
drive several new
variants of the Corolla Hatchback to see how all those changes play out on the road.
In rear - wheel drive form, the 730d completes the 0 - 62mph run in 6.1 sec, dropping to 5.8 sec for the xDrive varian
In rear - wheel
drive form, the 730d completes the 0 - 62mph run
in 6.1 sec, dropping to 5.8 sec for the xDrive varian
in 6.1 sec, dropping to 5.8 sec for the xDrive
variant.
All six of the Boxster and Cayman
variants that we have
driven today scurry out of the pits as two Porsche 918 Spyders roll up silently
in full EV mode.
The clip shows off all three 2013 A5
variants — including the coupe, Cabriolet, and verboten -
in - America Sportback —
driving in a setting that seems to be the Bonneville Salt Flats
in Utah, but quickly morphs into a digitally - altered world of its own.
An M Performance
variant could also be
in the cards since the X2 will be the sportier of the two small, front -
drive - based BMW crossovers.
The engine is mated to a 9 - speed automatic transmission new to the 2019 Envision that sends power to all four wheels via a
variant of the twin - clutch all - wheel -
drive system found
in the Buick Regal GS and TourX.
The new 2018 Lexus LS 500 F Sport package is available
in either rear - or all - wheel -
drive trim for both the regular and hybrid
variants.
Volvo is
in the process of rolling out several gas, diesel, and hybrid
variants, and it is only after all the four - cylinders have rolled out that Volvo will start bringing
in the even - smaller
Drive - E engines.
Performance figures are not quite as strong as the more powerful W12
variant reaching 60mph
in 4.4 sec (0.4 sec slower), with
drive reaching all four wheels via an eight - speed ZF automatic gearbox.
Curiously, with the LS460, the AWD
variants» 4.6 - liter V - 8 is down 23 hp compared to the same engine
in the rear - wheel -
drive models.
Driven here
in top 302bhp 435i form, the 4 - series cabriolet effectively replaces the old 3 - series Cabriolet, with the extra digit now separating the more upmarket coupe and convertible models from the more run - of - the - mill saloon and touring
variants.
Forget the all - wheel -
drive 993 Turbo; short of the Hen's Teeth 993 GT2, the 964 3.6 S is one of the most hardcore and special 911
variants to emerge from Stuttgart
in the 1990s.
Roughly a year after introducing its all - new, seventh - generation Sonata
in 2.4 L, 2.0 T and 1.6 Eco guise, Hyundai offered us a first
drive of its anticipated hybrid and plug -
in hybrid (PHEV)
variants that are set to hit showrooms this summer and winter, respectively.
Orders are being taken now for delivery
in six months, and plans are already underway for a hybrid
variant with a 150 - horse electric motor
driving the front wheels, providing a total horsepower of 889 and short - range electric - only propulsion for city centers.
Additional powertrain
variants — including, importantly, all - wheel
drive — may help Jaguar's sedans gain some ground
in 2013; and the XF roadster also arrives this year.
While we'll get a TDI
variant, the jury is still out on whether all - wheel
drive will come to the U.S. «We will gauge consumer and media reaction to best determine if 4Motion all - wheel
drive will join the SportWagen
in North America,» Horn said
in New York.
Kia seems to be leading the way
in this effort, as news recently surfaced that a turbocharged all - wheel -
drive version of the Kia Soul could soon join the standard gasoline and battery - powered Soul EV
variants.