Sentences with phrase «much shorter car»

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Last year, Hyundai launched its first mass - market pure electric car IONIQ, but the vehicle's per - charge driving range is much shorter than offerings from Tesla and GM.

For relatively shorter trips, it's becoming much more desirable to simply take the car.

In much the same way most people would never purchase a new car with a 30 - year loan, purchasing quick - turnaround inventory, bridging a seasonal cash flow gap, or ramping up to fulfill the needs of a new contract might be better suited for a short - term loan.

FIA president Jean Todt likes the looks of the car too, and also praised how much the technology has advanced in such a short space of time:

In short, says Brooks, they wanted to make sure they didn't get another Days of Thunder, the much - reviled (at least in racing circles) 1990 Tom Cruise film, which featured, among other cinematic inventions, scenes of Robert Duvall as a good - ol» - boy team owner who assembles stock cars in a barn.

Our kids are pretty good in the car — I wrote my road trip tips mostly for myself and my own sanity because I loathe them so much — so the short drive time is a big plus in my book.

We found that short car trips put our colicky daughter to sleep and gave us some much needed time to talk and reinvest ourselves into our relationship, hence our frequent, morning trips to Dunkin' Donuts.

Certainly everybody that I saw in my short time was extremely interested in purchasing a car and if they happen to be from the more upwardly mobile kind of middle class, they were very interested in buying not a fuel - efficient car but a hummer even, you know, pretty much following the exact same model as the American aspiration or, you know, the «American dream» model and certainly the suburbs seem to be a growing trend and if you noticed that, Philip, you know, I visited a suburb called Orange County outside of Beijing and it really looked like Orange County and they even had like the palm trees and everything and I saw these in all the cities I visited Chongqing, Chengdu, various other cities that I visited, they were ringed by suburbs and the folks who live there, you know, the privileged few were using cars to commute into the cities for work.

«If you are in a car and want to stop within a certain fixed, short distance — without too much jerk — it's best to apply the brakes evenly rather than all at the end so passengers feel a constant deceleration force,» he says.

Birds in their mist nets had much shorter wings than those killed by the cars.

In short, he pretty much is a car.

That Larry the Cable Guy has nearly acquired name - above - the - title privileges for Cars 2, leapfrogging past even the first film's Owen Wilson in star billing, should tell you all you need to know about Pixar's crass and uncharacteristically threadbare cash - grab, spun not so much from the thread of 2006's Cars as from that feature's spawn of short films, each of which stars Larry the Cable Guy's stupid, bucktoothed tow truck.

Music can make short and long car trips much more enjoyable!

In short, it feels like much of the latent potential in the standard car has finally been realised.

In concert with the snick - snick of the short - throw six - speed gearbox, the light, progressive clutch, and the easily modulated brakes, the Miata provides as much driving pleasure as any sports car that costs three or four times as much.

Despite looking much bigger than last year's car, the 2013 Acura RDX is only about an inch longer than before and it's only an inch and a half longer than the shortest offerings in this segment.

-- 185 / 60 HR -14 Yokohama tires, somewhat short of the correct footwear, in our opinion, as much as we love performing low - speed handbrake turns in this car.

The car is short but tall and wide, and you see too much headliner and not enough windshield from the driver's seat.

The Delphi Audi relied on six long - range radars, four short - range radars, three vision - based cameras, six lidars (laser - based radar systems), a localization system, intelligent software algorithms, and a full suite of active safety systems — a kitchen sink's worth of tech that underscores how much extra equipment automated cars will likely need.

Grip in the corners is phenomenal, the suspension feeling short in travel, the whole car much more connected to the surface of the road than either a V8 or DBS.

Put your foot down and the car accelerates much more quickly than its 201 - hp rating would suggest; short - shift the 2.0 - liter engine / six - speed manual and it's a smooth, quiet experience.

Funny; I'd assumed this car had quietly slipped into the night, much like the short - lived Chrysler Crossfire SRT6.

And although the V - 6 made our car a monster in the merging lane, senior editor Joe Lorio pointed out that it's easy to spin the front tires while getting away from a stoplight (especially in the rain), probably from the combination of so much power, short initial gearing from the CVT, and the soft suspension setup.

In short, this car can do pretty much anything and everything you can think of, and importantly, pretty much anything the Mercedes S - Class can do.

Instead, the intakes have been moved to the top of the decklid and pushed all the way to the rear of the car, resulting in much shorter plumbing.

The old car never lacked much when it came to generating headline numbers, nor was it short on pure brute force or aural drama.

That number will depend very much on where the car is used and how often its driver charges the battery pack (city - only drivers could potentially use very little fuel at all, long - distance owners won't see much benefit from petrol - only running) but it finally gives BMW a competitor in the increasing plug - in luxury market: Porsche and Mercedes - Benz already sell short - range plug - in hybrid luxury saloons.

The 1M's short wheelbase and lack of roll mean that it can feel quite a snappy car over the limit, but with the throttle set to Sport (the one and only setting you can change) you have the perfect tool to keep the rear wheels spinning just as much as you want - once sideways it seems to stabilise sweetly, albeit with a lot of tread being shed from the tyres.

Unlike the estate car lines of the Clubman, the Countryman coupé will have a shorter rear overhang, sloping roofline and much shallower side windows.

My wife drives the car now only for short, local trips and not much highway.

This car is shorter than a Honda Civic, yet somehow much roomier inside, making it a breeze to parallel park in the city while still...

That's largely a product of the A5's good looks, though; short of a revised fascia and small S5 badges, there's not much to set apart from the base car on the outside.

Other testers have noted the Energi falls short of its EPA ratings, so much so some gasoline - engine - only cars do as well or better on efficiency.

Surprisingly, there hasn't been much interest in the car so far — with the bid reaching just $ 5,200 so far, way short of the «Buy It Now» price of $ 40,000.

During the address, chairman Rupert Stadler said that «co-operation» with Porsche (basically nicking its J1 EV platform) had lowered the potential development costs for such a car by hundreds of millions of Euros and made possible a much shorter production timescale that should see it hit showrooms in 2020.

The short front overhang in particular is highly unusual for a front - wheel - drive car, and is just as much a classic BMW styling cue as the short overhang at the rear, the long wheelbase, the Hofmeister kink in the rear side windows and the L - shaped rear lights.

In simulated panic stops from 60 mph at our test track, an M4 coupe covered 106 feet, which is a short distance but pretty much expected for a performance car in this rarefied class.

Motor Trend has put the Coda Sedan on it's short list for the 2013 Car of the Year award, marking a much needed victory for the LA based automaker.

If you have a short enough commute, a plug - in hybrid can function largely as an electric car for much of the workweek.

For fans of «1970s» style, the thump - thump of a great stereo, and — perhaps most importantly — sweet brown cars, our»70s Edition example rolls in pretty much everything you could possibly want in the Beetle Convertible (short of the 2.0 T engine and DSG gearbox) for $ 28,595.

Its short wheelbase doesn't allow much time between jolts, so it is not for those who prefer big - car comfort.

We didn't expect Dodge / Fiat would be on our short list, but it drove much better than a Toyota LE, the 2011 update almost remakes the car (we drove a 2010 rental, and wouldn't have bought that), and we could get a Crew GC equipped exactly as we wanted for $ 3 - 9K less than less well - equipped competitors during the May minivan sale.

It's allegedly because the marketing types reckon this car's sheer size - you can get it in both short and long wheelbase versions - limits its outright sportiness in comparison with the XKR and XFR, and possibly because the whole «R thing» may now be under review, given that Honda and Volvo, among others, use much the same nomenclature.

It was able to reach the same speeds we got out of the all - wheel drive car, albeit with much more effort and for shorter periods of time.

During our short stint in the car, we were impressed with its overall style and functionality, while being happy to see much of the 6 - Series grand touring oriented handling characteristics were maintained in this category - defining grand tourer.

The two cars have an identical wheelbase, which means the rear passengers of the Scirocco will most likely enjoy the Golf's generous rear knee room, but the Scirocco is longer, wider and shorter than the Golf GTI, lending it a much sleeker profile.

The fifth generation, featuring yet another new platform with an optional long - wheelbase version and near car - like ride and handling, was introduced in» 07; the long wheelbase became standard the following year and the short - wheelbase model was discontinued in favour of the LWB's much smoother ride.

And according to the company, not only has this long - hood - short - tail masterpiece been developed at the Nurburgring, AMG has also never thrown in so much motorsport technology in a car before.

There's only so much a compact car with a short wheelbase can do to avoid pavement bumps.

While shorter and much lighter than the previous generation, these cars still had a big car look and ride.