Sentences with phrase «of basing the car»

Instead, the Turbo suffers the same busy, stiff - legged hobble of the base car.

Aesthetically, the Veloster Turbo is even more extroverted than the base car, with a gaping grille in place of the base car's convoluted fascia.

Compared to the Carrera RS, it wasn't nearly as sharp, but it offered a noticeable boost over the regular Carrera 2, despite sharing the engine, brakes, and transmission of the base car.

Instead of the base car's 350kW version of the 4.0 - litre biturbo V8, the GT C has 410kW, which is actually 26kW more than the GT S Coupe and only 20kW shy of the GT R's hard - core motor.

Automakers often say on - board navi is costly compared to Garmin or TomTom because the car incorporates a larger, automotive grade LCD, though here the LCD is part of the base car.

I would advise against the GS in favor of a base car because of that splitter.

While other tuners are still in the design phase and can only show either virtual renders or «in progress» shots of the base car being scanned renowned German exotic car tuner DMC has already completed an entire aerodynamic kit for the brand new Lamborghini Huracan... and not only produced it in clear carbon fiber... but also have it installed on a stunning Verde Mantis V10.

That means a 2.0 - litre engine producing over 350bhp, a six - speed sequential gearbox from Xtrac, a retention of the base car's front - wheel drive layout, and front and rear subframes made by RML.

Ed Campbell wrote about the Sport Package on Teresa Edington's car: The sport package existed only in 1992 (I believe) and basically gave a GTC look to a few of the base cars.

Buy for the price of a BASE CAR!

But we'd opt for the $ 25,535 Two Eco model, which only requires $ 500 above the cost of the base car and delivers the best fuel economy of the entire line.

Of course, not all Hondas have what it takes to become a show car, but the automaker's American division is out to prove that the tiny Fit is as good of a base car as the Civic.

Audi has the choice of basing the car on the architecture of the next A5, or recycling the Volkswagen Group's new MQB platform, which already sees duty in the new Mk7 Golf and Audi A3.

Not exact matches

Europcar has formed a partnership with a small car rental business based in Esperance in an attempt to increase its share of Western Australia's mine - specific vehicle rental market.

The Taiwan - based firm's new Wisconsin manufacturing facility will make LCDs, which will «be used in everything from self - driving cars to aircraft systems and in the fields of education, entertainment, healthcare, safety and surveillance, advanced manufacturing systems and office automation, among others,» Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said in a statement.

Two San Francisco - based startups, RelayRides and Getaround, are working to change these inefficiencies — and snag a piece of the nation's $ 20 billion car - rental market.

Perth - based car dealer network Automotive Holdings Group is flexing its muscles in Australia's truck and bus market, announcing a number of acquisitions in NSW and Queensland.

Perth - based Automotive Holdings Group will incur a $ 35 million write - down hit from the closure of some of its underperforming businesses, in response to the weak market for car retailers combined with recent regulatory changes by the corporate watchdog.

And firms like Mojio, a Vancouver startup whose products are in pre-market testing, is one of several firms that are targeting the vast base of cars that don't have touchscreens at all, but whose owners would like to reap the benefits of constant connectivity.

Perth - based car dealer network Automotive Holdings Group has taken its franchise count to 150 with the acquisition of a New Zealand Holden dealership and approval to create a new Nissan dealer at the

Tesla has pulled off plenty of impressive engineering feats, but its skilled hype - based marketing schemes are also changing the way cars are sold

«There are two ways to connect a car: There's the original telemetry readings, but the new phase, now that we have 4G is infotainment devices, and the vehicle as a hotspot,» says Larry Zibrik, vice-president of Market Development at Sierra Wireless, a Vancouver - based company that's become a global leader in the modules that allow machines to communicate over cellular networks.

Quite the opposite: The business of making cars drive themselves will be worth US$ 87 billion by 2030, according to Boston - based technology consultancy Lux Research.

The Geneva - based billionaire also owns Circuit Mont - Tremblant and is a bit of a sports car enthusiast — in 2011, he owned 25 Ferraris.

The arrival in Australia of a US - based website could give used - car buyers more power per transaction.

Its previous mailers included imagery of brake pads, oil cans, and car parts — equipment that was unrecognizable to its car - novice customer base.

Toronto - based Drven is just one of thousands of startups worldwide focusing on the rapidly growing field of car and traffic technology.

• Fair, a Santa Monica, Calif. - based car - leasing app, raised funding of an undisclosed amount.

Emissions Analytics, a U.K. - based consulting company, says it has tested the real - world emissions of more than 400 diesel cars.

In a recent research note, he pointed to the possibility, based on Apple's reported hiring of a large number of auto industry veterans, of Apple changing gears entirely and building a car.

• Knorr - Bremse, a Germany - based car parts maker, will continue its pursuit of Haldex (OM: HLDX), despite the Swedish company's management withdrawing its support for a takeover because of expected regulatory opposition to a deal, according to Reuters.

Russ Corsi, who worked nearly 32 years for Pittsburgh - based PPG, a global supplier of auto glass, says larger sunroofs are also more prone to weakening over time as the pane absorbs impacts from bumps in the road, twists and turns of the car's frame, and «thermal shock» — the expanding and contracting from sudden temperature changes.

In 2009, for example, the German government amended its rules so that inspections of emissions performance would be based solely on readings from a car's own «onboard diagnostic» system, effectively ceding total control to the automakers.

In an effort to get that deal, the U.S. appears to have backed away from one of its most contentious demands and is no longer insisting that 50 per cent of cars be made in the U.S., and is now floating a different formula based on autoworker salaries.

Your chances of surviving cardiac arrest — which can strike in healthy people, and kills more Americans each year than Alzheimer's, breast cancer, cervical cancer, colorectal cancer, diabetes, HIV, car crashes, prostate cancer, and suicides combined — vary immensely based on your zip code.

At the moment, everything in a car from a design point of view is based on a 100 - year - old package — engine in the front, and a driver holding a steering wheel behind.

The partners at Toronto - based mobile strategy and development shop BNOTIONS were so excited about the idea of the Internet - connected car that they went out and bought the latest Tesla Model S, just to get their employees thinking about it.

Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the car rental service has a fleet of 2,000 vehicles, 10 percent of them hybrids, available to drivers from Toronto to Minneapolis to Boston and Washington, D.C..

For instance, CarPlay can run on a system that's based on QNX, simply handing control of the car's screen and audio over to the iPhone when it's connected.

Diane Stinson, certified ergonomics professional and president of Calgary - based company HealthWorks Inc., recommends thinking of your chair as a car seat.

QNX, which made more than 60 % of the core software inside the world's car infotainment systems in 2011, has partnered with The Weather Network to send location - based weather data to drivers, and the intelligent dashboard system in many of Nissan's 2013 models, for instance, will feed drivers real - time local fuel prices, flight - status information, and points of interest supplied by Google.

Perhaps for this reason, many people who invest in start - ups tend to favor companies that are based on small, executable ideas over grand strategies like Martian colonization or the resurrection of the electric car.

• FusionZONE Automotive, a portfolio company of Primus Capital, acquired MotorWebs, a Seattle - based web design company focused on car dealership websites.

Using its online design tool, customers can start with a base model and customize almost every detail of their car.

When leasing, the consumer pays a percentage of the car's price in monthly installments, as opposed to taking out a loan based on the full price.

And there is also no doubt that Apple's devices have benefited from group infatuation, a phenomenon that has often favored a product or a class of designs based on an allegiance that the devotees themselves have difficulty defining in coherent terms, as by people willing to pay high premiums for German engineering even after decades of Consumer Reports evaluations have failed to demonstrate any stunning superiority of German cars over Hondas and Toyotas.

In collaboration with nine international industrial partners, which include Greece - based INASCO, Belgium's Nanocyl and Chinese - owned Volvo Cars, the research team is in the midst of a three - year, $ 5 - million materials - development project.

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.

Saddington, who is the CTO of VinWiki, an Atlanta - based start - up that provides automotive histories for used cars, also runs a cryptocurrency forum called The Bitcoin Pub and two YouTube channels about the cryptocurrency.

Soon the «Proactive Assistant» feature of iPhones will begin to execute advice based on customers getting in their car or entering their homes.