Sentences with phrase «engined petrol cars»

With enough of it to embarrass much larger engined petrol cars.

Not exact matches

The use of petrol and diesel engines to power cars will also need to be «much less dominant» and replaced with electric power and biofuels, a policy meeting in the House of Commons heard.

But today Mr Brown said BMW's decision to choose the UK for the production of the new Mini - and to switch building the car's petrol engines from Brazil to Warwickshire - proved the country's manufacturing industry was alive and well.

Those designed to quickly stop and start a car's petrol engine to improve fuel efficiency need a quick burst of power, but for smoothing a domestic solar panel's output, capacity might be more important than speed.

Finally, the car is equipped with a V12 petrol engine to pump the fuel and provide electrical and hydraulic power to the jet and...

According to statistics released by the US Environmental Protection Agency this month, a lawnmower driven by a petrol engine produces as much hydrocarbon in one hour as a car driven 80 kilometres.

Powering the fourth - gen car will be a selection of petrol engines or a CDTi diesel engine.

In petrol engines Fuel injection traditionally used to happen (still happens in most commuter cars) before the intake valve meaning that the air fuel is mixed before entering the cylinder.

A useful 90 kg weight reduction over its predecessor still doesn't make the new Q5 an evo kind of car, but the petrol engined 354bhp SQ5 is closer in spirit, if not execution, to holding the interest of keen drivers.

The 595 Pista is powered by the same 158bhp 1.4 - litre T - jet petrol engine as the standard car — endowing it with a 0 - 62mph sprint of 7.3 seconds.

Acetylene lighting — The story of the development of acetylene for vehide lighting is recorded for us by Dr. C. Brooks / Mercedes at Indianapolis — Martin Flower writes about the successes of Mercedes racing cars at the speedway from 1911 to 1957 / Vauxhall 30/98 — A superb 1922 example of the delectable E-type is described by David Hawtin / The Don Garlits Collection — Zoe Harrison recently visited a fascinating old - car museum in Florida USA / La Buire — made in Lyon — The French La Buire company made their first petrol - engined car in 1904.

However, Despite being slower, the petrol model is the better car to drive and its engine is much more enjoyable.

The 22bhp and 183 lb ft produced by the electric motor adds to the petrol engine's 429bhp and 383 lb ft during short bursts when the car's ECU thinks you need it.

Priced in at # 19,495 for an ST - 2, the new car is capable of 0 - 62mph in 6.9 seconds and features a 179bhp 1.6 - litre EcoBoost petrol engine.

The in - line four - cylinder petrol engine sits behind the front axle, allowing this to be classed as a front - mid-engined car.

Our drive in the plug - in hybrid confirmed that two - electric motors and a four - cylinder petrol engine was more than a match for most large capacity sports cars.

But the Bentayga's real reason for being is the extra appeal this V8 petrol model will have in the lucrative Chinese market, where cars with under 4 - litre engines have significantly lowered tax rates applied.

Likewise, the Cabrio utilises the same brace of three - cylinder petrol engines as the regular car.

Another thing worth consideration, mostly for modern diesel cars (but also modern, turbo charged petrol cars) fitted with Duel Mass Flywheel, is that pressing the clutch while starting the engine reduces the pressure on the wheel which should make it last longer.

As downsized petrol engines are the future of mainstream car powerplants, we can feel pretty good about life.

The twin motors are supplied with current by either a 20 kw / h battery pack (which is incorporated into the central «backbone» of the car) or by a 2.0 - litre turbocharged petrol engine turning a DC generator.

Our item is suitable for petrol engines on lawn mowers, motorbikes, cars, trucks and so on.

He designed his first petrol engine in 1907 and by 1910 was building competition cars that defeated Europe's best.

The latter figure is impressive for a naturally aspirated petrol engine, and ensures UK car tax is free for the first year, and just # 30 annually after that.

Both of these new engines will be available from July, joining three other petrol power plants and two other diesels, all of which are available in three - or five - door cars, a first for the Mini.

In addition the car will feature a turbocharged 2 - litre petrol engine producing 257bhp.

The market will continue to trend away from the internal combustion engine, but Mazda's «right solution at the right time» mentality will ensure that its latest generation of petrol engines will be as competitive as possible until the infrastructure required to power an electric car future has matured.

It's worth noting that renowned Mazda tuning firm BBR has already announced a tuning package for the 118bhp petrol car, lifting its output to as much as 185bhp with a new engine chip, exhaust manifold, induction system and sports exhaust.

With pretty much every other manufacturer of small performance cars moving to turbocharged petrol engines, it's not hard to see the Clio's naturally aspirated motor as being the end of an era — it's certainly one of the last hot hatches that enjoys being ragged out to over 7000rpm.

This particular car uses the same turbocharged four - cylinder petrol engine that powers the inspired Golf R — only stoked from 296bhp to 325bhp — and a dual - clutch DSG gearbox.

Built on the same light and strong platform as the 7 Series (but without that car's expensive Carbon Core), the BMW 5 - series offers a range of petrol, diesel and plug - in hybrid engine options, and will also forms the basis for the fire - breathing M5 super saloon.

The car features a bespoke 276bhp 2.0 - litre turbocharged petrol engine and is designed to form a halfway house between the full - fat performance orientated Giulia Quadrifoglio and the standard Giulia models.

Effectively, the 217bhp petrol car uses the engine from Volkswagen's Golf GTI, while the 276bhp engine is the SEAT Leon Cupra 280's power unit — developments of the EA888 four - cylinder used across the Volkswagen Group empire.

As if to highlight the Forester's unique attributes, that most powerful petrol engine, which is currently more potent than the Subaru BRZ sports car, is set to make up more than 25 per cent of total sales.

That's thanks to four electric motors — two front and two rear, to give the E-tron a novel take on quattro all - wheel drive — which produce a total of 309bhp and 3319 lb ft.. While the former is over 100bhp off a V8 - engined R8, the latter is a stonking ten times bigger than the petrol car's torque output.

Engine choice should be much the same as Mazda currently offers for the car, with 2 - litre naturally - aspirated petrol units and 2.2 - litre diesels.

Ordinarily, it's disappointing when the petrol engine of a hybrid car sparks into life — hybrid hypercars notwithstanding.

Away from the line, then, the P100D is faster than the R8, but everywhere else the petrol - engined car has the advantage.

The car is quiet in lower speeds, but for the quiet drive in a city, I recommend petrol engines.

Diesel, if you'd not noticed, has been given a rather lower profile at the Volkswagen Group in recent years, so while another diesel SQ5 is on the way the car has been launched with a new 3 - litre V6 petrol engine.

If the internet one day becomes full and there's no space left for anything new, all we have to do is delete every video of an electric car outrunning a petrol - engined car on a drag strip.

The battery is charged as the car is being driven through brake energy recuperation as well as with the aid of the petrol engine.

The internal combustion engine — especially a meticulously engineered petrol example — is too much an integral part of a performance car's soul to be supplemented by a boot full of Duracells and AC motors.

This means that the Turbo petrol engine accelerates the car from 0 to 100 km / h in a breathtaking 4.3 s, reaching a top speed of 250 km / h.

The enterprise began to produce petrol engines but after the success of a small number of race cars built on contract by Wilhelm Maybach for Emil Jellinek, it began to produce the Mercedes model of 1902.

The car comes with two petrol engines - 120 PS 1.0 - litre T - GDI turbocharged three - cylinder and 140 PS 1.4 - litre T - GDI turbocharged four - cylinder mill.

Any new scrappage scheme, or low - interest loans aimed at getting drivers out of older cars, would also provide a boost for models with new small - capacity turbo petrol engines; Peugeot, Citroen and Renault have all recently launched such petrol engines.

But it's almost certain to use the same engine range as the saloon car — 161bhp and 188bhp 2.2 - litre plus 237bhp and 271bhp 3.0 - litre diesels, and a 380bhp 5.0 - litre V8 petrol — to drive its rear wheels.

The car is powered by a petrol engine that displaces 799cc.

I expect the slow introduction of the ingenium petrol engine is due to two things only, the relatively small size of JLR and the time available to the number of engineers available compared with the German big three and the low numbers of 2.0 litre petrol engined cars that are sold throughout Europe.