Sentences with phrase «few production cars»

In 1995 Activa prototypes» active anti-roll-bar was introduced in the Xantia Activa, making it one of the few production cars to have active suspension.

A lightweight material pioneered in racing circles, carbon - fiber has an undeniable air of exoticness and only a few production cars have ever employed the relatively expensive composite in their exterior panels.

700 horsepower, a figure very few production cars can claim.

Perhaps the draw is knowing that few production cars will ever offer the subdued look.

Our 2014 Design of the Year, the BMW i8, is certainly an innovative car from a styling perspective, being one of the few production cars in recent memory to hew so closely to its wild concept car roots.

Not exact matches

North American production of the Focus compact car and Fiesta subcompact will halt in May, while the midsize Fusion lives a few more years before it departs.

A production version of the coupe is slated to arrive in the next few years as part of BMW's big push to over 12 all - electric cars by 2025.

The lighthearted tone of the tweets — which came a few hours after Mr. Musk teased «important news» coming soon — contrasted with recent analyst reports that warned of serious financial strains on the company as it struggles to ramp up production of the Model 3 compact car.

He also promised that the tiny electric car company would be cranking out «a few million cars» by 2025, putting it eye - level with BMW in terms of production and far surpassing the company's 2014 production tally of just 33,000 units.

The action is grounded to the few locations and scenarios the production could manage (a car chase is rather ingeniously constructed out of what appears to be nothing but existing footage of real - world car accidents).

Daybreakers conjures a convincing mood, punctuated by a sharp production design, vivid creature - feature gore splashes, and a few inventive action sequences (a car shoot - out, where Edward has to avoid scorching light shafts made from bullet holes, is a film highlight).

If you take away a few of the Trail» ster's exaggerated show - car bits like giant foglights, a retractable canvas roof, and oversized wheels and tires, it's not a stretch to imagine the modifications Kia would make to create a crossover - ified Soul for production.

Built on a Maserati GranTurismo MC Stradale chassis with nearly 10 inches chopped out of it, the 4.7 - liter, V -8-powered show car with a curvaceous body reportedly needs few changes to be production - viable.

Infiniti managed to carry the wild styling of the 2013 Q30 concept to the production car with very few changes.

Some have even made it into physical form, and a few of those have ended up, in some form at least, as production cars.

Fewer than 9,000 were built during the car's six - year production run.

Citroen - based CDW Special that nearly made it into production / Sunbeam three - litre — the car that STD built / Spirit of a Silver Ghost — article on daughter of the chauffeurs who drove AX 201 during its years of private ownership / Bentley's first Lagonda was built to challenge Rolls - Royce — Michael Bowler tries a 1938 V12 / Australian government bought a fleet of 1942 Chryslers in 1944 — one left assigned to the Prime Minister the next year / Automobile Summer Challenge / Austin Ulster and three - litre Bentley get a few problems sorted — Motorhouse

You can go a few years between sales of a 250 GT SWB because Ferrari made only 90 production cars.

James ~ Why do some car models stay in production forever (911, Beetle, Accord) while others only last for a few years before a similar but slightly different one replaces it?

Ford GT production has already begun with the first few customer cars already trickling out.

Sure, it builds the fastest production car on the planet and has previewed a few very appealing green sports car concepts in the Porsche 918 Spyder and the Audi E-tron.

:) for the money, it is a great value if you look up the upper end Mercedes AMG, and few other mass production cars, that do exceed the 200k mark these days.

Though automatic parking and automatic steering assist have been in production cars for a few years now, Tesla is pushing ahead with the first application of an automatic lane - change feature.

At the time, it was good enough to set a new front - wheel drive production car record at the «Ring, though a few months later Renault took the title away with its Megane R.S. 275 Trophy - R, which completed the feat in just 7 minutes, 54 seconds.

We're promised that the production MissionL, which will get a more normal name, will be the start of a Skoda «model offensive» that will see the brand launching a new car every six months or so for the next few years.

The Ferrari «Crystal Ball of Future Values» is out of order again (it caught fire while sitting unused, but that's a different story), but if it were working, it would likely say the Superamerica is one of the few late - model production cars to bet on.

«Many of the people who worked on this project were also instrumental in developing the road car» he said, adding that this insider knowledge meant there were few structural compromises in removing half of the roof and the rear hatch from the five - door production body.

Though there are few specifics so far on the roll - out of these technologies, Volkswagen promises they will soon launch «in compact cars,» and promises that they are all «close to production.»

With 300 the new benchmark and so many series production cars now capable of 200, we could all be forgiven for thinking membership of the 200mph Club is as exclusive as Amazon Prime, yet the flippancy is misplaced — truth is, relatively few of us can claim to have driven at more than 3.333 miles per minute.

The real news is that Faraday Future plans to break ground on a new factory north of Las Vegas, Nevada, within the next few weeks, and will deliver its first production car in «only a couple of years» time,» says senior vice president for research and development Nick Sampson.

The cars can't break; she has to manage production at the right pace; and she has to manage incentives so they don't take over and ruin the gains that have been made in the past few years.

It was the first production car to feature an airbag standard, and as late as 1991 there were only a few other manufacturers in Europe who offered an airbag.

These Dutch - engineered and built tandem two - seaters might be kind of gimmicky, but Clarkson and a few other notable European journalists gave very enthusiastic reviews, and though these have since ceased production, they're now being used as the basis for a car / bike / gyrocopter called the PAL - V.

A bit further down the range, the new S3, to be launched towards the end of this year, will come in three - door form only, but we can expect a few subtle styling modifications over the standard A3 - perhaps a different grille, and some unique alloys - for the production car.

While still exceedingly rare and terribly expensive, these production cars could be bought new or are now in the marketplace with just a few miles on them.

First shown to the public at SEMA last November, the Venom F5 is now on display for an international audience only a few feet away from Koenigsegg, Hennessey's new rival for the top speed production car world record.

Depreciation is usually the single highest expense in the first few years of ownership; while no vehicle is immune from this corrosion — save for rare cars with limited production — buyers can cut their losses by selecting vehicles that depreciate slowest.

Lotus initially planned to produce just a few thousand cars, with production ending in 2000, but the strong demand has seen production of the continually evolving model continue to this very day.

But despite its undeniable ability to tear up roads at speeds few current series production road cars could ever hope to match, it lacks the sheer occasion that comes with driving the Ferrari.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has revealed an alcohol - detection vehicle technology that could be launched on the mass production cars in a few years and it will be able to save thousands of lives each year.

The Fiesta is the UK's best - selling car and has been in production for almost eight years, so niggles should be few and far between.

The concept car provides a few valuable hints as to what to expect from the production model, but technical specifications are still a mystery.

Some are lightly disguised future production vehicles, while others exhibit an environmentally friendly theme.Here's a look at a few of the more interesting concept vehicles on display at the show, which closes Monday: AUDI ALLROAD QUATTROThe German automaker has been building all - wheel drive cars for years, so it's no surprise that a beefier version of the A6 station wagon is on the way.The Allroad Quattro show car uses many of the same mechanical and suspension parts as the A6 wagon but wears a sport - utility wagon body complete with large fender flares and huge tires.

BW's announcement of a five-fold increase in production capacity suggests that the technology may become quite commonplace in European cars in the next few years, at substantially lower markups.

These cars still have quite a few years before they hit production, and in the meanwhile there are already a few other carmakers putting their EV products into the market — for example, we have cars like the Mitsubishi i - MiEV and the Nissan Leaf in the non-premium market, and US automaker Tesla in the premium market.

Yes, a few bits on the concept Coupe won't follow through to the production car — like the missing door handles — but to all intents and purposes the shape will, which means a compact SUV that has a coupe roofline and a less practical nature, and will be Mercedes» answer to the BMW X4.

The car he drove was a production vehicle with only a few changes made for safety.

Honda's new CR - V mini sport - utility began arriving at U.S. dealerships this week after a few weeks» delay, caused by its brisker - than - expected sales in Japan.There just weren't enough of the cars to go around, so Honda had to wait until a second plant began production in Japan before the U.S. introduction.This is Honda's first attempt at building a sport - utility, and it already has won a lot of raves.

Originally the worldwide production run for this car was expected to be as few as 250 models.

The Mustang II was built not as a styling exercise — the production car's design had already been pinned down — but instead to give the public an idea of what they'd be seeing in showrooms in a few months.