Sentences with phrase «made good sports car»

Europeans generally understand that a dirty great engine pumping out sufficient power to light a small town doesn't necessarily make a good sports car.

Despite what Porsche marketing might say, it's pretty hard for me to ignore the fact the change to this system was driven massively by EPA mileage standards rather than making a better sports car.

This light weight helps it accelerate more quickly, stop shorter and handle better — essentially making it a better sports car.

Not exact matches

«I never want to turn by back on IndyCar; I'd like to do the Indy 500 each year because I know I can do a good job for a good team, and I still have some options to drive there full time, but if I can make it happen, I think sports cars is the way to go.

Now all the sport has to do is make it easier for the cars to overtake each other... Oh well, we can dream - one step at a time for now!

Pros: plenty of cup holders (2 for child and 2 for you), good size cargo area with reasonable access, car seat connects and releases easily, generous recline, durable, zippered canopy is great when you don't need full protection, simple fold Cons: cup holders are not large enough to hold kids sports bottle, suspension (or lack of) makes even small bumps in sidewalks jarring, unfolding isn't as easy as folding

The Tesla Roadster, a $ 100,000 high - performance all - electric sports car, is made with a carbon - fiber body panels and an aluminum chassis for better efficiency.

They simply must have that red sports car, based entirely on how they feel driving it, not by whether it is a good choice to make for the family or for the budget.

A few ways or things to describle myself well I'm a very easy person to get along with I enjoy traveling and playing sports, I'm also into cars I'm currently going to UNLV playing football and yes i am good ha, what elese actully if you want to know more make yourself noticed and ill update you...

But since time travel has not been perfected yet (outside of recalled sports cars, phone booths and H.G. Wells novels), Fincher did the next best thing: he made his own Die Hard!

The new all - aluminum XK is touted as the saviour of the company and it may well be, offering the opportunity to extract design from the stagnation of retro looks, but surely a smaller, less expensive sports car would make Jaguar exciting to younger buyers again.

The car has a stanced look, sitting 0.8 inches lower than a standard Golf on its sport suspension and 0.2 inches lower than a GTI, making the big, 18 - inch wheels that are unique to the R fill the wheel wells even better.

Combining the practicality, comfort and usability of a family car with the explosive performance and engaging handling of a dedicated sports machine, these models manage to tug at the heartstrings while also making a well - informed case to the head.

We'll see if that actually pans out, but for now it's exciting to see that Toyota is making good on their pursuit of more engaging and driver - focused cars, with TMG and rally sport as an excellent testing ground for the GT86 / Scion FR - S.

Being proud members of that group, we were surprised to learn that sometimes, a manual does not always make a sports car better.

I know from direct experience that sports cars don't make good four - doors.

Modern sports cars do a pretty good job of making the boring parts of a journey interesting.

In Monte Carlo — and bust, Tom Clarke and Will Morrison explain how one man's love of using his in competition led to tragedy / Preston Tucker aimed to give Americans their safest and best cars yet, as Karl Ludvigsen relates in Preston Tucker's bid for glory / Often maligned by sports car purists, the Vale Special of the 1930s, Made in Maida Vale, offered brisk motoring at reasonable cost.

Malcolm Robertson experiences a 1938/1939 example / 1904 single - cylinder Cadillac — Peter May writes about his restoration of and attachment to an early model B «one - lunger» / The Westcar and the Heron — Two little - known 1920s makes — both produced by the same company — are described by Michael Worthington - Williams / BMW 328 — ahead of its time — This month the Editor samples a Frazer Nash version of what was perhaps the best sportscar of the 1930s / Maudslay history 1902 - 1914 — Nick Baldwin writes about the company that first introduced overhead camshaft engines and pressure lubrication / Three Vintage Sports - Car Club events — Tom Thelfall reports on driving tests at Brooklands the Pomeroy Trophy at Silverstone and the Exmoor trial / Non-skid & puncture - proof tyre covers — The story of a remarkable invention that profoundly influenced the development of vehicle road tyres.

Kazunori Yamauchi may have been challenged to make the sixth installment of his Gran Turismo video game seriously bigger and better than ever, but in doing so, he in turn challenged 22 automakers to create futuristic sports cars for use in the new Gran Turismo 6.

It's good to have a hard core sports car, but you get tired of it quickly, so Peugeot is trying to satisfy all clients by making the car a comfortable daily driver when it needs to be and an efficient sports car when also needs to be.

Of all the automakers to make it to the century mark, the Italian purveyor of sports / luxury cars might be one of the least well - known.

This hardcore sports car makes 475 hp from a six - cylinder engine in standard form, and an even more intense 911 GT3 RS with more power and performance is rumored to in the cards for the Geneva show as well.

Like the best British sports cars, it establishes its brilliance not on paper (although its performance numbers would be impressive among any other company) but rather through the way it makes a driver feel behind the wheel.

That would not only help at the track — where the additional output could be matched by gripper tires and still maintain that near - perfect balance or power and handling, but it would go a long way to make this very special sports car as good in normal driving as it is at its limits.

Inside there was little to truly distinguish the GTi (Rallye models were more overt in their sporting intent), though the cloth seats of earlier cars made way for leather and Alcantara items in phase 2 cars, as well as white - faced instrument dials.

Now, the starting price of a 2011 MX - 5 comes in at $ 23,905, still making it one of the best sports cars on the road for the money — if not the best.

Aside from a few chintzy trim pieces, our 3.5 SE test car's leather - trimmed interior — replete with the same white start button you'd find in a G35, well - bolstered sport seats, dual - zone climate control, and an optional Bose stereo that makes the side mirrors shake — was hardly that of a poor man's car.

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.

Really, this is just the latest derivation of a recipe that BMW first served back in the 1990s, when the Bavarian automaker was the first to make a full - size luxury sedan handle as well as most sports cars.

That it's capable of making a pretty good first of being a sports car while cosseting you like you're sitting in your favourite armchair at a gentleman's club while smoking a Montecristo No. 2 after a jolly fine lunch is a stroke of genius.

By putting the Mission E project into production, the German sports car maker is making a significant commitment to the technology — as well as investing

By putting the Mission E project into production, the German sports car maker is making a significant commitment to the technology — as well as investing $ 700m at Stuttgart - Zuffenhausen, and creating more than a thousand new jobs.

It's one thing to make a rear - or mid-engine sports car even faster and better performing, but it's something else entirely to make a vehicle capable of extreme winter performance, logic - defying track capability, serious towing capacity, and everyday usability.

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Obviously, having the well - calibrated stability control system to save your butt helps your confidence, but the underlying chassis balance we felt at GingerMan is also crucial to making the new Viper feel like a modern sports car.

One can always find excuses, such as well - used tires or Rockingham's tight infield corners, but in the end the SLS didn't make the grade in this company because it's really a GT rather than a hard - core sports car.

Our test car was fitted with this option, as well as ceramic brakes, Porsche Torque Vectoring, a sports exhaust and Sport Chrono, making it the 718 Boxster S in its most focussed form — for the time being at least.

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.

I agree with Rod and TJ they should stick to what they're good at - making sports cars.

That switch makes this Corvette a true dual - purpose machine — a sports car as well suited to daily commuting as it is to trouncing those expensive blue bloods on track day.

A solid plan made better by the fact that I'd be in our 2014 BMW M235i, one of the most balanced and enjoyable sports cars I've ever driven.

Every enthusiast knows this is the cauldron that makes or breaks the best sports cars in the world.

And for the third generation of the TT, the globally largest tuner of cars produced by the Volkswagen Group provides a body kit that makes this sports car look good from any angle, too.

The Nissan Maxima is a cross between a four - door sports car and a more sedate family sedan, but it carries it off pretty well, and its newer styling makes it look a lot cleaner and more aggressive.

Overview The luxurious Genesis isn't a hardcore sports car, but that makes it easier to live with on a daily basis Pros Sound that commands respect, understated looks, luxurious and refined interior that's also user - friendly, V6 power Cons Droning sound on highway, too heavy to be really sporty, manual shifter is terribly vague Value for money Good What would I change?

A solid sports sedan recipe, but specs alone don't make a good car.

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The good news is that it doesn't matter, as the 86 is still a quick, lightweight and genuinely fun sports car that should make any driving enthusiast happy.

Its sports car performance, roomy and well - made interior and loads of available safety and luxury gear made the Subie a joy to drive.