Sentences with phrase «first m car»

It may lack autonomous driving and hybrid powertrain technology, but the BMW M2 promises something far more important: a pure and undiluted driving experience in the tradition of the German car maker's very first M car, the original M3.

It's the first M car with all - wheel drive, the first M car with a torque converter automatic and also the first M car with a turbocharged engine!

It was BMW's first M car with an all - wheel drive platform and one of the fastest trucks on the market.

This new super sedan, codenamed F90, gets an upgraded, stronger version of its predecessor's powerplant but also breaks new ground at M Gmbh by becoming the first M car to have its engine coupled with all - wheel drive and a conventional automatic gearbox.

These measures were called for, since the M5 is also the first M car to get all - wheel drive capability, thanks to the new M xDrive system.

Though the Hommage won't make production, the car on which it is based is often labelled, unofficially, as the first M car.

It'll be the first M car to feature a retractable hardtop, and also the first to carry the option of BMW's new seven - speed transmission

With the exception of the sub brand's X models, this is the first M car capable of pushing and pulling you out of trouble.

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.

The previous - generation E46 M3 arrived on our shores only in coupe and cabriolet form, but its predecessor — the E36 M3, the first M car to achieve widespread sales success — was available in coupe, cabriolet and, four - door sedan form.

His first was The Cars that Ate Paris, a black comedy about an outback community using tricked - out murder vehicles to off tourists from the city — five years before George Miller would tread similar territory with Mad Max.

The first is the car's weight, considering the addition of a retractable roof can add a few pounds.

Not exact matches

Tesla is the first new car manufacturer ever to join the list.

Tesla did not disclose its «first pass yields» to CNBC.This number indicates what portion of a manufacturer's new cars were created using standard processes, not requiring the extra effort and expense of rework.

While Toyota introduced its first hybrid car, the Prius, in 1997 in Japan, it wasn't until 2001 that the vehicle became available worldwide.

Uber at first claimed the human driver had been in control when that happened, but reporters at The New York Times obtained internal documents showing that the car failed to recognize the light.

The Prius was one of the first original cars powered by both gas and electricity.

It's unlikely that someone will hold a press conference somewhere like Apple did with the first iPhone that broadcasts the final arrival of the robot car, because we'll already be there by then.

The first question Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) asked Marie (Franke Potente) when they agreed to drive across Europe together in The Bourne Identity was if she kept her old car in good repair.

Tesla's Model 3 production problems were first revealed in early October when the automaker reported it had produced just 260 of its new Model 3 electric cars in the third quarter and delivered only 220.

When Maoli left logistics for luxury car sales, he brought Gabriele with him and took over his first dealership, Lexus of Route 10 in Whippany, N.J. And that's when they discovered that the rarefied world of luxury autos also had a lot to learn from the hotel business.

A City of Vancouver survey of 2,500 residents this year indicated that, for the first time, fewer than 50 % of trips within the city were made by car.

«I'm not exaggerating when I say AVs will have as big an impact on our cities and society as the arrival of the first cars over 100 years ago,» says Barrie Kirk, head of the Canadian Automated Vehicles Centre of Excellence (CAVCOE), which is striving to build an ecosystem of organizations to supply the market's needs.

The app was quick and easy to use, and the drivers proactively made sure the cleanliness of the car was first rate, and the temperature and even the music were all to my liking.

In an attempt to connect with millennials, the Ontario Toyota Dealers Association (OTDA) launched TMatch, an online tool that's supposed to help first - time buyers find the perfect car for their lifestyle.

And with traditional automakers slow to cannibalize their combustion engine vehicles, he thinks it's going to be hard for them catch up to on electric, despite the production problems plaguing Tesla's new Model 3 sedan, its first vehicle aimed at the mass car - buying market.

Boothe: When I first started to visit car plants, designers would be carving designs out of clay to put into a wind tunnel to see what their resistance was.

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles CEO Sergio Marchionne, who is retiring in 2019, got there first: he saw that passenger cars weren't selling in the US, so he shifted the carmaker's production to more profitable, more in - demand pickup trucks and SUVs.

The international community has been aggressive in trying to solve for this vulnerability — first prompted by South Korean regulators looking into a spate of complaints in 2013 linked to cars from the Korean carmakers Hyundai and Kia, and a few others.

The company still faces the wrath of the U.S. Justice Department, which is nearing a decision on whether to criminally charge GM over its failure to disclose the problem and recall affected cars after it staff first discovered issues with the switch in 2001.

Although the German automaker has a long and storied history of producing rugged utility vehicles alongside its luxury cars, the X-Class is the brand's first true pickup.

But citing people with knowledge of the probe, Bloomberg reports that Wells Fargo (wfc) is being accused of seizing cars without first receiving the proper documents, resulting in an investigation by the Department of Justice and bank regulators

For emergency evacuation or supply - gathering missions, there's a helipad and a garage with a rotating floor for making a fast getaway with the car pointed front - first toward the door.

However, In this age, no new buildings, cars, phones, computers and other high - tech products are created without a detailed plan and a mock - up first.

Freeman Shen of WM Motor says the firm is aiming at the «middle» of the electric car market first in China and then globally.

First, you probably won't own the car to begin with, but second, even if you do, it would be like projecting aggression over how shiny your shoes are.

Car demand is waning now but the need for speed isn't, so the automaker is rolling out a fresh hot rod that's a sign of the times: its first race - ready SUV.

Oh, one other prediction, which probably won't happen this year, but is inevitable: the media (and public) will freak out the first time a robot car accidentally kills someone, with calls to slow development inevitably following.

In 1997, when the first Toyota Prius went on sale in Japan, Conceptromec president and founder Stéphane Bégin wasn't worried how electric cars would affect his company.

It's the first car from Fisker Coachbuild, which was co-founded last year by Henrik Fisker, the former head of design at Aston Martin.

When the exhibition resumed after the First World War, car makers, which had yet to begin mass production, were flooded with orders from customers who had to wait months for delivery.

Now that the GT is starting to be delivered to owners — only 250 in the first year of production — we can see what race - car elements influenced and in many ways determined the design.

Last year, Hyundai launched its first mass - market pure electric car IONIQ, but the vehicle's per - charge driving range is much shorter than offerings from Tesla and GM.

To play «backseat DJ,» you first need to connect your Spotify account with your Uber profile; when you request a ride, a music bar will appear at the bottom of the Uber app and you can select a playlist from your Spotify account while you wait for your car to show (although this only works if you get a music - enabled car, a detail that's apparently stressing out Uber drivers with older vehicles who fear they'll be penalized for not offering the service).

It's not for nothing that car buying experts often advise skipping the first year of a new model.

The S7, which was introduced in 2002, is the first car his company, based in Irvine, California, has built from scratch.

It also wants to be relevant in this next decade — and it's taking the very first step in a more flexible approach to getting cars on the road.

When Chase first started Zipcar, the popular service which allows consumers to rent cars by the hour or the day, she says she was criticized for not making the company non-profit.

Not only was electric automaker Tesla — the brainchild of iconic entrepreneur Elon Musk — on the list for the first time, but more traditional car manufacturers Ford and BMW ranked in the top 10.

«The noteworthy thing about Tesla,» Musk says, «is that it's the first electric car that is competitive with a gasoline car as a product.»