Sentences with phrase «for production vehicles»

Also fitted were titanium connecting rods, another first for a production vehicle, enabling the engine to spin at up to a screaming 8,000 rpm.

This setup allows for 8 inches of wheel travel in the front and 11 inches in the rear, which is pretty darn respectable for a production vehicle.

There is a logo in the lower grille, which looks neat, and the hood looks sleek enough for a production vehicle.

For the moment, however, fuel cells for production vehicles remain a way off.

- Superior peak performance for electric - drive production vehicles - Racing driver Markus Winkelhock piloted the new electric sports car with 280 kW output - Michael Dick: «To us, electric mobility means dynamics and driving pleasure» The future of electric mobility at Audi is highly dynamic: The R8 e-tron has set a world record for a production vehicle with an electric drive system on the Nürburgring Nordschleife — the toughest test track in the world.

On Wednesday, the group announced an agreement with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles to join in the development of a semi-autonomous and fully autonomous technologies for production vehicles with the German automaker and the technology companies.

Audi says it soon will use this construction technology for a production vehicle.

The 7.3:1 ratio is higher than the average conventional 7 - speed automatic transmissions used on high - displacement engine - equipped vehicles, making it among the world's highest ratios for production vehicle use, according to JATCO, (excluding DCTs and manual transmissions).

The 7.3:1 ratio is higher than the average conventional 7 - speed automatic transmissions used on high - displacement engine - equipped vehicles, making it among the world's highest ratios for production vehicle use (excluding DCTs and manual transmissions).

Their efforts have gained them five production - car records: the highest top speed for a production vehicle at 277.9 mph (beating the 267.8 mph achieved seven years ago by Bugatti's Veyron Super Sport); the 0 -400-0 kph record at 33.29 seconds; the flying kilometer on a public road at 276.9 mph; the flying mile on a public road at 276.9 mph; and the highest speed on a public road at 284.6 mph (besting the Nazis who set the previous record of 268 mph in 1938 with a Mercedes - Benz W125).

Faraday Future has also stopped work on its North Las Vegas factory and will likely miss the shipping deadline for its production vehicles.

In a shock unveiling reminiscent of a Steve Jobs «One more thing...» surprise, Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed that the car will be incredibly fast for a production vehicle.

The automaker has taken its high - performance model, the Stelvio Quadrofoglio powered by a 505 - horsepower twin - turbocharged V6, and challenged the Nurburgring, where it ran the 12.9 - mile Nordschleife circuit in just under eight minutes, faster than any other production SUV and a respectable time for any production vehicle.

«All the credit goes to the GM engineers who develop air conditioning systems for production vehicles,» said Wesoloski.

As for C - V2X, Qualcomm believes its system can be ready for production vehicles as early as 2020.

The design of the cabin doesn't seem all that outlandish for a production vehicle, even though the instrument panel and center console look like they're from a Lamborghini rather than a Kia.

The GT R moniker has been chosen instead of the GT3 badge used by the race car, as the «GT3» designation has been exclusively registered by Porsche for production vehicles — the Germans also won the recent legal battle with Aston Martin surrounding the same subject.

Near the end of the 1960s European automakers began experimenting with mechanical fuel injection for production vehicles.

The Trophy 8:08 is a reference to the car's Nürburgring lap time, which stands as the current front - wheel drive record for a production vehicle around the famed 20.832 km Nordschleife.

The Veyron won worldwide fame with a record setting top speed record of just over 267 mph for a production vehicle.

But the e-Evolution's technologies will be adopted for production vehicles Mitsubishi wants to bring to market starting around 2020.

Reports of self - driving Volts, if you heard any, were of a test fleet being developed, not an option for production vehicles.

Because aerodynamics plays a key role in maximizing driving range, GM designers created an aerodynamically efficient design for the production vehicle.

Modern wheels give the truck a fresh look, though Ford will likely use stronger units for the production vehicle.

Mercedes - Benz's driver assist features are at the cutting edge of the industry for production vehicles, due to early research and investment in the technologies.

All this resulted in the Performante setting the lap record for production vehicles on the Nürburgring Nordschleife — at 6 minutes 52.01 seconds, the uprated Hurácan was five seconds quicker than the Porsche 918 Spyder and nearly eight seconds ahead of its Aventador SV stablemate.

Audi will soon use this technology in a similar form for production vehicles.

«We expect that like its predecessors, some of the learnings and innovations from these latest race tires will be included in future tires for production vehicles,» said Baker.

Hot - Stamped Stiffener Ring - In a world's first for a production vehicle, the 2019 RDX uses both an inner and an outer hot - stamped stiffener ring at each front door opening.

Although the claimed capabilities of Audi's system are fairly modest, the system itself does break new ground for a production vehicle.

That makes it 11.1 seconds quicker than the Porsche 918 Spyder and 6.1 seconds quicker than the previous holder of the Green Hell lap record for production vehicles, the Lamborghini Huracan Performante.

From a standing start, Dodge's hottest muscle car can pop a wheelie for 2.92 feet, a Guinness - certified record for a production vehicle.

Depending on how much they soften it for the production vehicle, it could make for an aggressive and distinctive hatch or small crossover.

The exterior retained the aluminium body panels of the XJ220 concept, but for the production vehicles, Abbey Panels of Coventry were contracted to provide the exterior panels.

On 26 June 2010 this lairy orange and black Bugatti Veyron Super Sport, with 1200hp (882kW) if you don't mind, set a new landspeed record for production vehicles.

Range Rover Sport took on all 14,100 ft of Pikes Peak, Colorado Springs, USA and set a world record for a production vehicle.

Sleek isn't just about style though — Mercedes - Benz claims that the CLA has an incredibly low.23 coefficient of drag, which is a record for a production vehicle.

If the battery state of charge is low and the car is stationary, the HSG will automatically restart the engine, which then charges the lithium polymer battery pack — an energy storage technology Hyundai was one of the first to market with for production vehicles.

For the production vehicle, this audio system uses 23 speakers and almost 2,000 watts of amplification.

Set by Porsche works race driver Kévin Estre, the 911 GT3 RS» record lap is 24 seconds faster than the best time achieved by the previous GT3 RS model, and just seven seconds slower than the 911 GT2 RS» record lap for production vehicles.