Sentences with phrase «in sports car engineering»

The Mercedes - AMG GT 4 - Door Coupe lines up alongside the AMG two - door family members, combining the latest in sports car engineering with the comfort of family rides.

The next generation of the 911 Turbo introduced in 1995 set new standards in sports car engineering.

Not exact matches

Ito also confirmed that the CR - Z hybrid sports car is under development and scheduled for release in 2010, and that virtually all of Honda's former Formula One engineers are now working on hybrid development.

The car is remarkably light too; just over 1500 kg at the kerb (a 599 weighs 1688 kg), and this despite what must be a fairly sizeable contribution from the massively strong steel box - section chassis with honeycomb flooring and a couple of heavy duty roll - hoops designed by race - car engineer Max Boxstrom whose credits include the Aston Martin AMR - 1 sports racer that raced at Le Mans in» 89.

Carrying extensive engineering credits under his belt, a spurned Giotto Bizzarini departed Ferrari in 1961 with the intent of stuffing Ferrari's nose in a successful and fast sports car of his own.

All in all, Porsche engineers took more than 150 pounds out of the car that now sports plenty of dark - gray carbon - fiber body panels, spoiler lips, skirts, air intakes, and trim.

Published by Veloce and presented in paperback, the book features a foreword by third - gen MR2 chief engineer Tadashi Nakagawa, which is fascinating in itself - showing that Toyota was just as concerned about the third - generation car's weight as their colleagues over at Mazda are each time an MX - 5 debuts - and then moves into the history of Toyota and its sports cars.

Today's sports car makers are basically in a mad rush to be bestowed with as much Uruguayan engineering know - how as they can.

War Horse Vauxhall — David Burgess-Wise examines the rôle played by the Vauxhall D - Type in the First World War, and drives the example in the manufacturer's collection / The Pomeroy Trophy at 60 — Peter McFadyen tells the story of the VSCC's event for finding the best sports touring car, and explains the arcane formulae behind it / The 1926 - 27 Grand Prix Talbot - Darracqs, part three — In the third and final part of his series about these famous racers, Simon Moore investigates the fate of each / Auto - biography: Cally Callomon — Matthew Bell visits this art director, Vintage car owner and bicycle fanatic, and learns about his career and hobbies / Peugeot Racing Engineers 2: Louis Verdet Sébastien Faurès Fustel de Coulanges looks at the career of this engineer, whose influence spread far beyond motoring / The Ballot 2LS, part eight — Our Publisher concludes his series on the twin cam Ballot 2LS, listing the cars known to have existed but which have now disappearin the First World War, and drives the example in the manufacturer's collection / The Pomeroy Trophy at 60 — Peter McFadyen tells the story of the VSCC's event for finding the best sports touring car, and explains the arcane formulae behind it / The 1926 - 27 Grand Prix Talbot - Darracqs, part three — In the third and final part of his series about these famous racers, Simon Moore investigates the fate of each / Auto - biography: Cally Callomon — Matthew Bell visits this art director, Vintage car owner and bicycle fanatic, and learns about his career and hobbies / Peugeot Racing Engineers 2: Louis Verdet Sébastien Faurès Fustel de Coulanges looks at the career of this engineer, whose influence spread far beyond motoring / The Ballot 2LS, part eight — Our Publisher concludes his series on the twin cam Ballot 2LS, listing the cars known to have existed but which have now disappearin the manufacturer's collection / The Pomeroy Trophy at 60 — Peter McFadyen tells the story of the VSCC's event for finding the best sports touring car, and explains the arcane formulae behind it / The 1926 - 27 Grand Prix Talbot - Darracqs, part three — In the third and final part of his series about these famous racers, Simon Moore investigates the fate of each / Auto - biography: Cally Callomon — Matthew Bell visits this art director, Vintage car owner and bicycle fanatic, and learns about his career and hobbies / Peugeot Racing Engineers 2: Louis Verdet Sébastien Faurès Fustel de Coulanges looks at the career of this engineer, whose influence spread far beyond motoring / The Ballot 2LS, part eight — Our Publisher concludes his series on the twin cam Ballot 2LS, listing the cars known to have existed but which have now disappearIn the third and final part of his series about these famous racers, Simon Moore investigates the fate of each / Auto - biography: Cally Callomon — Matthew Bell visits this art director, Vintage car owner and bicycle fanatic, and learns about his career and hobbies / Peugeot Racing Engineers 2: Louis Verdet Sébastien Faurès Fustel de Coulanges looks at the career of this engineer, whose influence spread far beyond motoring / The Ballot 2LS, part eight — Our Publisher concludes his series on the twin cam Ballot 2LS, listing the cars known to have existed but which have now disappeared

The reason we took on new members for this project was because most engineers dream of developing a sports car in their life, so we wanted to give this opportunity to our younger engineers.

Monkey Business — Anthony Pritchard recalls Harry Lester and his MG specials and the small but determined team who drove them in competition / Brighton Bound — Our correspondent on Veteran matters Elizabeth Bennett reports on the 2001 London - Brighton Run / Rainbow's End — Designed by Frank Rainbow the Swallow Doretti was a brave attempt by an engineering group to make a British sports car for the American market / Baldwin's Brescia — Nick Baldwin has owned a very special Brescia Bugatti for a number of years.

Striking It Riche — This clever re-creation of the beetle - back Swallow uses genuine albeit out - of - period Austin Seven components / Cars In My Life — Maurice Mager continues our popular series with his reminisces of wartime and later motoring / Fastest On Earth — David Venables looks back on nearly 100 years of sub-sonic Land Speed Records / Behind The Elephant Blower — Sensational to look at beautifully engineered but was the Mercedes 540K really a sports car?

A # 50 Bugatti — A.E. Prove recalls a rather special purchase in the»30s... / A Willys - Knight restoration Overland Covers Some Ground by Michael Worthington - Williams / The Austin 12/4 — Paul Skilleter and Peter Woodend examine the car that took ten thousand families to the sea side / White Metalling — Roger Harle of Saunders and Ralph Motor engineers Ltd. de-mythologises this traditional craft / Mercades at auction — Star Sale by Nick Baldwin / The Ulster Seven — John Williams considers two cars which provide low cost motor sport / Wolseleys in the 20's and 30's — Wolseley and Wolseley influences by James Worth.

Fast, fierce and more thoroughly engineered than the Z3 M, its hotrod ancestor, BMW's latest M3 - engined two - seater instantly asserted itself as a very serious contender in the # 40,000 sports car sector.

1920s Delage duo — Dennis Harrison tells us about a 1928 D.M. Weymann saloon and a sporting 1926 DISS / Electro - plating of car parts — In a further article in our series on technical subjects John Teague explains nickel plating and chromium plating / Art and the automobile, Part one — Michael Worthington - Williams on the history of automobile art commenting on some colourful early advertisements / Roydale: British - made Edwardian — The history of the little - known make is recounted for us by Malcolm Jeal / Austin 12/4 restoration — Mike Burgess describes how he rebuilt his 1928 Burnham saloon / 1933 Avon Standard Special — A report on this sporting open 4 - seater from Zoe Harrison / Alvis 12/50 sports saloon — David Hawtin recalls his recent encounter with a 1927 example / Castle Three cyclecar — The story of this Kidderminster - made «runabout» is related by A.B. Demaus / School of motoring — Malcolm Jeal has discovered that training courses were being offered by the Institute of Automobile Engineers in 1920 / MC raid on New England — How some early MGs invaded the USIn a further article in our series on technical subjects John Teague explains nickel plating and chromium plating / Art and the automobile, Part one — Michael Worthington - Williams on the history of automobile art commenting on some colourful early advertisements / Roydale: British - made Edwardian — The history of the little - known make is recounted for us by Malcolm Jeal / Austin 12/4 restoration — Mike Burgess describes how he rebuilt his 1928 Burnham saloon / 1933 Avon Standard Special — A report on this sporting open 4 - seater from Zoe Harrison / Alvis 12/50 sports saloon — David Hawtin recalls his recent encounter with a 1927 example / Castle Three cyclecar — The story of this Kidderminster - made «runabout» is related by A.B. Demaus / School of motoring — Malcolm Jeal has discovered that training courses were being offered by the Institute of Automobile Engineers in 1920 / MC raid on New England — How some early MGs invaded the USin our series on technical subjects John Teague explains nickel plating and chromium plating / Art and the automobile, Part one — Michael Worthington - Williams on the history of automobile art commenting on some colourful early advertisements / Roydale: British - made Edwardian — The history of the little - known make is recounted for us by Malcolm Jeal / Austin 12/4 restoration — Mike Burgess describes how he rebuilt his 1928 Burnham saloon / 1933 Avon Standard Special — A report on this sporting open 4 - seater from Zoe Harrison / Alvis 12/50 sports saloon — David Hawtin recalls his recent encounter with a 1927 example / Castle Three cyclecar — The story of this Kidderminster - made «runabout» is related by A.B. Demaus / School of motoring — Malcolm Jeal has discovered that training courses were being offered by the Institute of Automobile Engineers in 1920 / MC raid on New England — How some early MGs invaded the USin 1920 / MC raid on New England — How some early MGs invaded the USA.

1991: Acura NSX Why it won: It distilled all of Honda's engineering experience and vast successes over the preceding quarter century while establishing new benchmarks for performance, affordability, and technology in exotic sports cars.

Yes, it's getting cliché as a test destination, but the Nürburgring is still one of the preeminent stretches in the world to help engineers properly set up a sports car, and you can bet the crews from Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm know how to use the Ring to their advantage.

We visit lots of aspiring manufacturers and you quickly get a sense of whether they're in it for the long haul; from very early on it was clear that the new Marcos team was very serious about producing desirable, reliable and meticulously engineered sports cars.

Hope comes in the form of Matt Becker, chief of vehicle attribute engineering for DB11, who formerly spent 26 years making Lotus sports cars drive like, well, Lotus sports cars.

United States - based designers and engineers are leading development of the sports car, which Acura will assemble in Ohio.

When the NSX was new, the Honda engineers were quite concerned about the car's straightline stability, as the combination of a 58 percent rearward weight distribution and a relatively short 99.6 - inch wheelbase (the 1997 Corvette C5 with its 104.5 - inch wheelbase had not yet made a long wheelbase respectable for sports cars) seemed to promise lots of excitement in the corners.

Jaguar says Integral Link offered its engineers the benefit of providing both sports - car handling and luxury ride characteristics in an effort to control lateral stiffness without compromising handling.

With development of the Porsche Mission E well under way, (the first prototypes are set to start testing this summer) the Weissach engineers EV focus is in developing the fully electric sub-Panamera four - door saloon rather than hybridisation of its sports car range.

Chevy and Cadillac are also way beyond the badge engineering issues that dominated GM's line - up in the 1980s / 1990s and so we believe it would make good business sense for the two companies to share some of the engineering costs and then let each brand define exactly how their mid-engine sports car would be outfitted.

Toyota ventured into the sports car market in 1967 with the Toyota 2000GT, originally a concept car engineered and built by Yamaha for Nissan as what would become the Datsun 240Z.

Lexus LFA engineer Haruhiko Tanahashi suggested to Autocar that this new Lexus flagship sports car may already be in development.

Designed by Alfa Romeo engineers and made at the Maserati plant in Modena, this captivating coupé with two racing bucket seats uses materials and design solutions like carbon, aluminium, and rear - wheel drive derived from the 8C Competizione along with technologies from Alfa Romeo's latest models, all thoroughly revised to maximise the new car's sporting appeal.

The Vantage GT3 has been designed from the ground up to offer customers the latest in race - car technology and embraces all the experience Aston Martin Racing has learnt from years of engineering and competing in international sports car racing with the DBR9, DBRS9 and the latest Vantage GTE.

Drivers interested in unparalleled speed and advanced engineering will no doubt have considered the 2016 Chevy Corvette Z06, the supercharged sports car that Troy, Albany, and Schenectady drivers are obsessed with.

In creating the Eclipse GS - T, it is as if Mitsubishi engineers set out to build a sports coupe that emulated the exhilarating feeling you get on the roller - coaster ride, that sends cars down and around the undulating track at breakneck speeds.

German engineering has always been in a class of its own, and it was no different with this Mercedes - Benz 540K Special Roadster, which could be driven like a sports car when most automobiles were hard to control.

The 2015 BMW M3 launched as an all - new model of the brand's classic sport sedan, but past models inspired one of its chief selling points: As part of an extensive effort to reduce weight in the car, BMW engineers returned to an inline six - cylinder engine for motivation.

«The Lamborghini Sesto Elemento shows how the future of the super sports car can look — extreme lightweight engineering, combined with extreme performance results in extreme driving fun.

Chrysler Corp., which already produces cars and trucks at a lower cost than General Motors and Ford Motor Co., may widen that gap next year, and the cost advantage could come in the lucrative and booming sport - utility market.Chrysler likely will be the first to use what engineers agree may be one of the most promising drive and traction - control systems on the market.

The BMW engineers have succeeded in making the car's handling more agile and precise, yet without compromising the comfort which is a hallmark of this sport sedan.

«Lamborghini continues to focus on weight reduction as a means to reducing CO2, for example through the investment in carbon fiber engineering, which also contributes to our quest for the best super sports car handling and performance.

Twenty years of sports car design, engineering and production combined with inspirational success in Formula 1 have driven Ron Dennis, McLaren Automotive Chairman, to announce his plans for the ultimate line - up of technology - led and customer - focused performance cars for the 21st century.

In his new role, he is responsible for engineering and administration for GM's motorsports programs in the American Le Mans Series (Corvette Racing), SCCA SPEED World Challenge Championship (Team Cadillac) and the Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series (Pontiac GTO.R and Daytona PrototypeIn his new role, he is responsible for engineering and administration for GM's motorsports programs in the American Le Mans Series (Corvette Racing), SCCA SPEED World Challenge Championship (Team Cadillac) and the Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series (Pontiac GTO.R and Daytona Prototypein the American Le Mans Series (Corvette Racing), SCCA SPEED World Challenge Championship (Team Cadillac) and the Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series (Pontiac GTO.R and Daytona Prototype).

A smaller hiking boot was equally useless; I eventually found a loafer in the closet that let me drive the car smoothly — for the record, I don't have unusually large or wide feet, nor have I ever had this much trouble with pedal interference; since the Conti GT Speed is an automatic - equipped car, there's neither an engineering nor a sport driving reason the brake pedal couldn't be pushed another inch to the left.

The Intercontinental GT Challenge utilizes sports car manufacturers in partnership with GT3 series teams local to the event country, creating efficiencies by transporting engineers and drivers around the world instead of cars and equipment.

Beginning this month, Wesoloski will oversee engineering and budgets for GM's motorsports programs in the American Le Mans Series (ALMS), SPEED SCCA World Challenge and the Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series.

The Dodge Intrepid, a concept sports car created with the 1990s in mind, embodies ideas already making inroads into automotive design and engineering.

«Stelvio is uniquely engineered to challenge two - door sports cars on the track, without sacrificing any of the characteristics you would expect from a premium SUV, resulting in the perfect mix of high performance, capability and Italian design.»

In some ways, you have to feel for the engineers who were tasked in 2016 with creating the Porsche 718 Cayman, a heavily facelifted version of what was already a five - star sports caIn some ways, you have to feel for the engineers who were tasked in 2016 with creating the Porsche 718 Cayman, a heavily facelifted version of what was already a five - star sports cain 2016 with creating the Porsche 718 Cayman, a heavily facelifted version of what was already a five - star sports car.

It is possible the «S» in the model name meant Bentley engineers tailored the car more for sport than luxury ride quality, but the Mercedes - Benz S - class does a much better job of straddling those two worlds.

«I have been involved with the Mazda MX - 5 since the project was first approved in 1986, and was lucky enough to be a chassis engineer on the first model that established the MX - 5 roadster's reputation as an exciting and affordable lightweight sports car.

The highly regarded sports car maker didn't make the jump to manufacturing boats in house, but rather collaborated with Mulder Design and Quintessence Yachts to engineer and produce the AM37.

«The Pentastar engine is suited to meet the requirements for a full range of vehicle applications in terms of power and fuel efficiency including passenger cars, mini-vans and sport utilities,» explained Bob Lee, vice president of engine engineering for Chrysler Group LLC.

«Our global team embraced the challenge to create a new sports car experience, leveraging new technology to deliver incredibly vivid performance in a vehicle that responds intuitively and immediately to the will of the driver,» said Ted Klaus, chief engineer and global development leader of the new NSX.

With what could be a new sports car moving in to fill the gap at the lower end of the market that gives the next 370Z room to expand upwards in price and content — a prospect that could allow Nissan's engineers to finally make good on the promise of a truly world - class entry level sports car.