Sentences with phrase «in standard car»

In fact, there has been a wholesale acceptance of these new features in the last five years in the standard car package offerings versus the option list or extras.
They also offer optional protections not found in standard car insurance policies.
Several car insurance companies specialize completely in non-standard car insurance, while some other auto insurance companies that do business primarily in standard car insurance also write high - risk insurance policies.
For example, just like in a standard car crash, how attentive the driver was and how well they were following traffic laws influences liability, but how well the brakes were maintained and how often they were inspected by the company also comes into play.
According to MODEC, its zero - emission vans will each save 21 tons of carbon dioxide a year — a figure they equate with driving 51,000 miles in a standard car.
It's based on the MQB chassis but features several new engines that aren't available in the standard car.
It doesn't have the back seats found in the standard car, but these were quite cramped for such a large car, and only really suitable as extra storage space.
I would not be surprised to find that this car is less rigid than its hatch counterpart, as the rear end seemed a little less aware of what the front end is doing than it does in the standard car.
This 2.0 - liter TFSI engine from a Golf GTI puts out a healthy 200 horsepower in the standard car, but in this example, it churns out a whopping 460 horsepower.
We have a boot spoiler, new side skirts and bumper intakes, but not a lot else - the front end is already quite aggressive, and just needs a change in colour scheme to bring out the inner rage that's lurking in the standard car.
The springs are stiffer than in the standard car, but the electronically controlled dampers retain their «bumpy road» setting, which means it's never uncomfortable.
In the standard car are touches like bird's eye maple and dual automatic climate control as well as heated front seats.
It raises the engine's output significantly from 431hp in the standard car to 500hp, and increases torque from 550Nm to 600Nm.
While having turbocharging allows the engine to develop more power — 365bhp in the standard car and 414bhp in the Carrera S model — and more torque, one of the main issues to overcome with the new engine was keeping that key 911 engine sound.
The usual NISMO cosmetic enhancements are still present and accounted for, and inside, front passengers are treated to a pair of even more aggressive seats, improving what were already well - shaped buckets in the standard car.
The negatives: The suspension is under damped in the standard car - the demo car I drove had the optional adaptive setup and this is absolutely essential if you want decent handling.if I had the choice again I'd have paid the # 800 but really you shouldn't have to.
The dedicated Sport suspension system is a step up from the set - up offered in the standard car and then there's the carbon - fibre.
Sure, the radio, speakers and some of the soundproofing have gone and there are pieces of moulded carbonfibre where denser material would be found in the standard car.
Inside, the Boss's look is subtle - at least in the standard car.
It's unusual these days to find carbonfibre making only one appearance, at least in the standard car — just the prop shaft linking the engine and gearbox — but with a kerb weight of 1620 kg it doesn't seem to have done the SLS too much harm...
There's plenty of it, of course, but this engine — which is pretty dull if impressively powerful in the standard car — seems to have a more exciting delivery, really building in intensity as it howls up to the limiter.
Its front axle responds instantaneously to steering inputs — incidentally the steering feels much more direct and communicative here than it does in the standard car — and it holds a line with real resilience and barely a trace of understeer.
The brake discs measure 300 mm front and 262 mm rear, the largest in the Ceed range, whilst the steering has been tuned for a more sporting feel, removing the selective variable ratio steering in the standard car.
The combined result is a dip in the standard car's 1,996 kg kerb weight of 18 kg, making that diet sound about as successful as the ones most of us embark on each January.
The engine in the standard car needs to be revved but doesn't encourage you to do so.
In short, it feels like much of the latent potential in the standard car has finally been realised.
Instead of trying to find better batteries to put in a standard car, their approach would be to put more or less standard batteries in a better car — that is, a car that would get more performance out of the limited power.
Research indicates that some infants, particularly those born at less than 37 weeks gestation, may be subject to transient episodes of bradycardia, apnea, and oxygen desaturation when traveling in a standard car safety seat.
In standard cars, the juice can help power the onboard electronics — the dashboard, the air conditioner, the radio.

Not exact matches

Drivers in California will have access to GM's all - electric vehicles, in addition to standard cars such as Buick Regal or Chevrolet Impala.
OTTAWA — Rising gasoline and car prices fuelled the first significant spike in Canada's cost of living since February last month, lifting the annual inflation by half a point to 1.2 per cent — still low by historial standards.
After investigating certain car models, South Korean safety officials asked a United Nations body in charge of global transport regulations to look at developing new standards for glass.
«When you have evidence of a problem like this, regardless of what the standards say, automakers should develop a better approach,» says David Friedman, who served as NHTSA's acting administrator in 2014 and is now director of cars and product policy and analysis at Consumers Union, the policy and mobilization division of Consumer Reports.
That's for two nights in a standard five - star hotel room, two pub meals for two, two restaurant dinners for two, car rentals for two days, two pints of beer, four liters of soft drinks or water and some shopping: a pair of jeans and sports shoes.
Since 2011, the rail industry has voluntarily adopted tougher safety standards for all new cars, but with literally only a handful of tank car - makers in North America and a huge boom in oil - by - rail shipments, demand far outstrips supply.
The U.S. - based Railway Supply Institute, whose members build more than 95 per cent of all North American tank cars and lease more than 70 per cent, said about 55,000 new tank cars will have been put in service between 2011 — when the new voluntary safety standards were adopted — and 2015.
Negotiators are now said to be settling on a system that sets the regional content standard at 75 per cent, and helps car companies get credits to meet that standard if they invest in high - value research and pay workers more than $ 15 an hour.
One factor in its favor is the growing and monied class of tech - savvy consumers who are willing to pay for novel, customized experiences — and for whom a standard car off the assembly line may pale next to the thrill of the next newest, shiniest thing.
In May 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama announced new fuel economy standards intended to compel manufacturers to achieve an average of 35.5 miles per gallon across their car and light truck models by 2016.
Steel tubing in the chassis and framing helps make the car strong enough to meet or exceed road - worthy safety standards.
The expenses of a personal car or truck used for business can be deducted in one of two ways: claiming actual costs or relying on an IRS standard mileage rate.
You'll need a clear space 100 feet in diameter to take off and land, the company said, but the vehicle will fit in a «standard - construction single - car garage.»
Regulators have given Mercedes - Benz a license to test the new E-Class standard - production cars in autonomous mode, announced the company's parent company Daimler (ddaif) AG at CES, an annual consumer electronics industry trade show in Las Vegas.
Opportunity 3: embed cellular data access in the car as a standard, and then allow you to choose which speech - recognition cloud server you want to connect to (Siri, Google, Jarvis, Alexa, etc.), who would offer car - control applications, running in your car (and the cloud), rather than your phone.
Given that not everyone has the same air quality standards it's possible that cars with the «defeat device» installed don't violate the rules in all countries, which is something that regulators around the world are going to have to determine.
The car comes in two battery types: standard and extended range.
Car analysts at the financial research firm Bernstein agree that European standards are not as strict as those in the US.
The CPM Group anticipates palladium demand to reach an all - time high this year, up 3 percent from last year, on tightened emissions standards and the purchase of larger cars and trucks in the U.S. on lower fuel costs.
Aside from standard features such as adaptive cruise control, Volvo's technology was crafted so that both cyclists and careless pedestrians are detected when they suddenly jump in front of the car.
Anyone who's filled up the tank of a rental car while on a motoring holiday in Europe knows just how low Canada's fuel taxes really are by international standards.
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