Sentences with phrase «more traditional car»

These types of policies are offered by more traditional car insurance companies and allow drivers to pay monthly premium payments that provide coverage for parts and repairs of included parts and systems.

Using polymer, as opposed to a liquid catalyst of the sort used in more traditional car batteries, allows for a gradual discharge of energy, thereby optimizing battery efficiency.

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.

Not exact matches

So if you need a car for a week, it makes more sense to go with a traditional rental company.

More like an Apple Store than a traditional car dealership.

Like slot - based intersections, roundabouts allow many more cars to enter an intersection at the same time than traditional stoplights do, often without having to come to a stop.

The car company is one of several that are exploring alternatives to traditional car ownership, including more flexible on - demand models.

The company's UberSELECT option provides more - luxurious cars and is typically more expensive than its standard service — but typically less expensive than hiring a traditional limousine.

Pay - per - use services such as car - sharing and ride - hailing are starting to challenge traditional car ownership in some in some of China's most congested cities, such as Beijing and Shanghai, while global automakers are starting to bill themselves as «mobility» companies that do more than just build and sell vehicles.

On the other hand, he said, if you pay by the hour and need the car for a whole day, a Zipcar can cost more, depending on the model, than a traditional rental car.

For years, U.S. consumers have been shifting away from traditional passenger cars in favor of larger and more comfortable pickup trucks, SUVs and crossovers.

If you can manage to hail down a minivan or sedan type taxi you will have a much easier time, as these vehicles are easy to install a car seat in and have much more room than a smaller, traditional taxi.

Traditional plastic baby carriers — such as the ones that can double as car seats — don't have the same advantages as babywearing carriers, even though they more or less do the same thing.

These seats are sturdier than your traditional car seats, so you might want to look at the weight of each seat as well — but remember, the more weight, the less jostling your child will feel.

While most traditional car seats tend to stick to a very neutral color pallet, child booster seats tend to show a little more flair.

Two Unique Positions for Infants & Toddlers In Stage 1, the Fit2 ® functions like a traditional rear - facing infant car seat, offering more reclined seating with removable head and body support to accommodate newborns and smaller infants from birth to 12 months.

Which could also be used to start whittling Inhofe's gas guzzler down to more traditional circus car proportions.

Traditional lead - acid batteries (like the one that starts your car) produce energy for as little as one - tenth the cost of lithium batteries, but they wear out more quickly and are heavy.

The control system also feels more like a traditional arcade racing game because of the speed and power of the cars, not to mention the extremely entertaining ability to destroy just about any object in the game such as fences, bins, cars and a variety of other destroyable objects.

Metz's film makes the matches as exhilarating as any car chase and as impactful as a prize fight, owing more to Raging Bull than the traditional, staid ways that tennis is captured on television.

We all play games in different ways and our varied lifestyles and predilection for consuming multiple forms of media simultaneously mean that we've taken a much more \» sandbox \» approach with Project CARS than a traditional racer would.

It looks great, with a return to a more traditional Indy car overall design, but with many forward - thinking elements and still incorporating the great advances in safety the series has made in recent years.

There's a new sense of purpose about the latest generation of Jaguars, particularly the ones powered by the all - new, 503bhp 5 - litre supercharged V8, that gives you confidence that they can retain their traditional strengths while competing with ostensibly more sporting cars.

The changes definitely distinguish the coupe from the sedan's more traditional styling, but I'm not convinced they make the car any more attractive to younger buyers.

A true page out of the traditional Ferrari history book, the 1964 Ferrari 275 GTB / C Speciale contains within a 320 - hp (70 hp more than the standard GTB road car), 3.3 - liter dry - sump V - 12 engine with six Weber 38 DCN carburetors, mated to a five - speed manual transaxle transmission.

The Maserati Levante looks to take on fairly traditional sporty - crossover proportions, with a long and low hood the swoops down to the company's signature grille and squinty headlights, strong character lines that define the car's shoulders, and a tapering greenhouse that produces fatter, more aggressive rear fenders.

It is loud, and the idle is busy and offbeat, but unlike the traditional muscle - car burble, it's crisper and more aggressive.

Unlike an SUV, which is built on a body - on - frame truck platform, a CUV is built off a «unibody» car platform, which make the vehicles drive and behave more like a traditional sedan or coupe.

By selling more of its cars to traditional customers, Swearingen hopes Mitsubishi can keep values of used models higher, allowing the company to offer lower lease rates and thus grow sales.

Aren't crossovers supposed to be more practical than traditional cars?

It should emit a suitably rorty sound — in his role in charge of Kia and Hyundai's performance models, Biermann is directly working with powertrain engineers, and places great importance on a car's aural appeal — though this will likely be achieved using sound generators, due to the environmental and social implications of the more traditional loud exhausts.

For half a century, from Boyle Heights near downtown into East L.A., past the pawn shops and muffler garages and taquerias along Whittier Boulevard, Angelenos have been cruising their cars at a pace that would embarrass a glacier in an internal - combustion riff on the traditional Mexican paseo — where young men and women would gather in town squares to eye each other and mingle, the more determined men arriving on horses decked out like parade floats.

All three cars here use a traditional torque converter auto» box, rather than anything more racy such as a twin - clutch unit (as in the old S5).

However, for those who still appreciate the touchy feely approach to car purchasing Polestar will open 80 Polestar Spaces around the world in key retail areas to allow customers to order their cars in a more traditional way.

The proportions are more akin to a fastback than they are a traditional three - box car, but that's no bad thing, as the steeply raked roof and short tail give the Viziv a seriously purposeful stance.

The 2 - series based car used the more traditional transmission because it's 25 kg lighter than the DCT, but the greater benefit comes from the extra control it grants the driver.

From its looks to its performance, the X6 holds to the idea of a driver's car more closely than the X5, but it does so without losing traditional SUV characteristics, like a taller seating position and cargo versatility.

Ultimately, time has proven that traditional rear - wheel drive (and no doubt the benefits of Japanese build quality) is the more successful formula for a sports car.

Confirming as much in a 2016 letter to Google, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it agreed with Google that its self - driving car will not have a «driver» in the traditional sense that vehicles have had drivers for the last hundred years or more.

Note that for a more linear, traditional measurement, GPM or Gallons per Mile (or liters per km) is a better way to compare the fuel consumption of different cars.

Smart still runs a staggered tyre setup to mitigate its short wheelbase and rear - engined layout - the front tyres are 185 - section to the rears» 205 — but there's more front grip than in the old model and indeed more than most traditional city cars.

The base car, officially called the SRT Viper but referred to simply as the SRT by Chrysler engineers, is geared toward more traditional Viper buyers and has manually operated, cloth - upholstered seats as standard.

Various parts of the GT's design have been created with 3D scanning and printing, while a more traditional hand - applied primer, paint and lacquer process accounts for the 120 hours that go into perfecting the car's exterior finish.

Although the Mulsanne is a new car, its mechanical layout is decidedly traditional, much more so than that of the Continental family.

Rather than unleash a terrifying amount of tech to make a big car do things it really shouldn't be able to do, the 575 relies instead on a more traditional recipe of feedback, chassis balance and depth of character to not only entertain, but to draw you relentlessly into the experience.

Given the choice, we'd tend to spend our hard - earned cash on a more traditional vehicle than an upright crossover, but we're not too blinded by driving sports cars to understand that the raised driving position, greater ground clearance, interior volume and even the styling of such vehicles make them desirable purchases for some.

Its purpose is much simpler — it would allow fire engines, ambulances and police cars to broadcast a signal to others in the area to warn drivers much sooner than a traditional siren would, allowing cars more time to get out of the way.

CVTs became common in hybrid cars because they are considerably more efficient than both manual and traditional automatic transmissions, and their popularity skyrocketed from there as automakers competed for the best possible fuel economy ratings.

Audi denies claims that it is pursuing a car along the lines of the urban concept for series production but insists lessons learned in its construction will have a positive effect on its more traditional models.

The car - based Highlander crossover has a more traditional look, although it is roughly the same size as the 4Runner.