And here's why: The 2012 Buick Regal GS just unveiled at the Los Angeles Auto Show really is a bona
fide performance sedan, fitted with sport suspension, a turbocharged (and direct - injected) 255 - bhp 4 - cylinder Ecotec engine and a 6 - speed manual transmission.
It's the latest in Nismo's product onslaught, as Nissan's official tuning arm becomes a bona
fide performance brand.
It has all the ingredients to help establish the N badge as a bona
fide performance brand and convince any cynics that Hyundai are a real player in this market.
Even with the CVT, the WRX feels like a bona
fide performance car with slingshot - like acceleration, direct steering, and a rewardingly rigid suspension.
Not exact matches
The lesson for brands is: play up your high -
performance bona -
fides — if you already have a strong positive perception with consumers.
For the most part, his bona -
fides are from the indie world, beginning with an impressive
performance in «Hedwig & the Angry Inch,» followed soon enough by Larry Clark «s «Bully.»
Grounded by a host of superb
performances, especially on the part of Jamal Woolard, Naturi Naughton, Antonique Smith, Anthony Mackie and Derek Luke, this relentlessly - unapologetic immorality play about a bona
fide ghetto gangsta» is apt to entertain even Joe Six - Pack to the extent Middle America is inclined to buy into the Hip - Hop Generation's mantra, «Don't hate the playa, hate the game.»
Stealing every scene he's in, is a bona -
fide New York Jewish actor, John Garfield, who begged to do the film and gives a powerhouse
performance.
Reynolds is a good enough actor that Wade Wilson's pain and despair and confusion register as strongly, and are as important to the character and his
performance, as the fourth wall - shattering sassiness and boyish irreverence that hasn't just made ol' Pool a bona
fide pop culture icon but have transcended the movie and bled all over pop culture.
Donna's stand - up is bona
fide, and that makes her believable in a way that a less natural
performance would not.
Taylor - Joy is on the path to becoming a bona
fide scream queen — she first landed on the radar with her tremendous
performance in The Witch, as well as Morgan.
Yet even when the «cut scores» (the point selected on the scale above which students pass and below which they fail) on these improved state tests are set at the level of bona
fide readiness for the next grade, the results of a child's test
performance are apt to be reported to his parents (and himself) in misleading terms.
Appropriately, Bentley showed off its bigger - is - better Mulsanne in Texas, underlining the brand's
performance bona
fides with the Bentley GT3's participation in the Pirelli World Challenge race at Austin's Circuit of the Americas.
But whereas the former of those was a military prototype and the latter a luxury version of that, the Urus is a bona
fide luxury SUV by modern standards, with enough
performance to create a new class of SUV — if Lamborghini's marketing department is to be believed.
I don't think we're going to disagree about the F - Pace's
performance bona
fides or its handling prowess.
Priced from $ 90,900 (plus on - road costs), the British - built Sport challenges comers including the Audi Q7, BMW X5 and Mercedes - Benz GLE - Class, yet offers bona
fide off - road ability and impressive towing
performance to boot.
We didn't have time to get a decent appreciation of the bona
fides of the range claim, but I can vouch for the step - off
performance of the IONIQ Electric in Sport mode.
Performance bona
fides established, neither of the two models is a prima donna; they are both very easy to drive at more rational speeds, and can be lugged in a higher gear at low rpm without complaint.
Most muscle car reviews would start in the engine bay, but I'm convinced that the Shelby GT350 is no muscle car; it's a bona
fide sport car with track - focused
performance.
The tuner - car feel is entirely absent: the Focus ST has its own variable - ratio steering, a 10 - mm lower suspension, a wider - mounted rear suspension, and special tires that give it an authentic set of
performance bona
fides.
Please join us on 12 October 2012 for a special
performance by bona -
fide, 100 % unadulterated soul singer, Lee Fields & the Expressions.
The meek sheeplike willingness this art world / market to be co-opted into bona
fide, 100 percent genuine, pre-sliced, easy to handle, low calorie «
performance art» such as the recent Jay Z stunt at Pace Gallery.
Where an employer finds that the
performance of a job by a handicapped person would create a safety hazard to his or her employees or to the general public and before he or she refuses an employment opportunity based on a bona
fide occupational requirement, the employer shall support his or her findings by establishing that the safety hazard has been evaluated on the basis of
Where an employer refuses an employment opportunity to a handicapped person on the basis that the person's physical handicap could, as a result of the
performance of the job and whether or not reasonable accommodation is made, cause an unreasonable risk to himself or herself, and before he or she refuses such employment opportunity based on a bona
fide occupational requirement, the employer shall show that the exposure of the person to the risk would likely result in the disruption of the employer's business.
Amicable Negotiation The parties agree that, both during and after the
performance of their responsibilities under this Agreement, each of them shall make bona
fide efforts to resolve any disputes arising between them by amicable negotiations and provide frank, candid and timely disclosure of all relevant facts, information and documents to facilitate those negotiations.
Firms who wish to do business with us now clearly understand that there is a bona
fide opportunity to gain a competitive advantage over other companies vying for our business, not just by complying with our request for diversity metrics but also in our assessment of their diversity
performance relative to their peers.»
Curtis Properties Corp. v. Greif Companies (236 A.D. 2d 237)- cause of action in quantum merit reinstated (see, Curtis Properties Corp. v. Grief Companies [212 A.D. 2d 259]-RRB-; broker engaged as exclusive buyer's agent; broker may proceed both on breach of contract and quasi-contract theories where there is a bona
fide dispute as to the existence of a contract or the contract does not cover the dispute in issue; quantum meruit recovery is proper where the defendant wrongfully has prevented the plaintiff's
performance of a written agreement; broker negotiated lease terms for principal with a third party which principal used to negotiate their own lease terms with their current landlord.