Sentences with phrase «of competitive cars»

As a result, MINI Countryman arrives in a growing segment that presents an opportunity to attract buyers from a wide range of competitive cars.

Dave Green, an engaging man who's president of Lordstown's UAW Local 1714, typifies the workers you meet at today's factories: accountable, well - educated, and proud of the competitive cars they're building.

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Early on I wanted to drive high horsepower, fast cars, but those types of cars just weren't racing in competitive series where I lived.

Brian Krzanich, Intel CEO, talks about the company's acquisition on Mobileye and its leadership role in the competitive marketplace of self - driving cars.

The competitive pressures were so great to develop self - driving cars in 2015 that the then Chief Executive of ride - hailing firm Uber Technologies Inc, Trevor Kalanick, decided that «winning was more important than obeying the law,» Verhoeven said.

Waymo and Uber are part of a crowded and hotly competitive field of automakers and technology companies aiming to build fleets of self - driving cars that could transform urban transportation systems.

The consultant was convicted of stealing $ 1.7 million through inflated invoices, which he spent on luxury cars and Long Island real estate, while secretly favoring Verizon and undermining the competitive bidding process required by E-rate rules.

Shah's argument about «an inferior competitive landscape» makes no sense, however, although it's of a piece with other Tesla mega-bulls, such as Loup Ventures» Gene Munster, who seems to think that Tesla can basically sell 11 million cars in the US alone.

All it has to do to be competitive in the self - driving world is acquire a fleet of cars, or partner with someone willing to handle that side of things.

When Alan Mulally became CEO in 2006, he fully embraced Ford's heritage and restored its focus on automobiles, insisting Ford could make money in a full range of cars by being cost competitive with foreign automobile plants in the South.

«As congestion increases in the cities, the predictability of the trip by car will be reduced and then the alternatives can become more competitive,» she says.

«I expect the car rental industry to stay very competitive in the short term in both corporate and leisure segments,» said Doyle Gunnell, global project manager of ground transportation at Carlson Wagonlit Travel.

More importantly, retaining talent is crucial for Uber as it attempts the difficult task of being a leader in the ever - competitive market for on - demand, self - driving cars.

Carbon emissions may be a generic social issue for a financial services firm like Bank of America, a negative value chain impact for a transportation - based company like UPS, or both a value chain impact and a competitive context issue for a car manufacturer like Toyota.

In fact, the tariffs could actually lower prices of imports that use steel, particularly in big, competitive markets like cars.

But it's clearly going to be even more delicate given the desire to find new growth industries where Australia has a natural advantage, the potential for scale and a still underdeveloped ability to sell a lot more of its products into international markets on competitive terms (unlike, for example, cars).

His single season at Renault was the most competitive car he raced, though he did manage nine podiums during his career - three of which were on home turf in the USA.

Both drivers will be regarded as Formula 1 greats in years to come, and if both teams deliver competitive cars, 2018 may provide the first signs of defining one great over the other, and that surely provides more motivation for both and in turn, intensifies the rivalry.

The Red Bull RB13 evolved over the course of the 2017 into a competitive car.

Nissan had thrown the kitchen sink at trying to win Le Mans in 1990 by entering five R90Cs and a couple of older R89s, but despite the cars being competitive on pace reliability issues prevented them from being serious challengers, and Jaguar romped home to a 1 - 2 finish; the highest - placed Nissan was only fifth.

Although the car was still competitive McLaren sensed that it was time for a change, but the M16s replacement for 1977, the M24, never managed to achieve the same levels of success.

Hans - Joachim Stuck will be out in a Porsche 962c - a car which remained competitive in various guises in sportscar racing for the best part of a decade.

He also suggested that manufacturers will now be able to join the LMP1 category without having to build a hybrid car, and that hybrids and non-hybrids will be equalised to the same levels of performance to make the top class more competitive.

The cars were more reliable and more competitive - Alonso and Button frequently scored points and the team looked a lot less of a shambles than it had in 2015.

Having spent most of May driving a fast, competitive car and being in the running to win a race for the first time in years, Fernando Alonso says he is excited to go back to Formula 1 to drive a slow, unreliable one where even the idea of a 12th - place finish would seem a bit optimistic.

Sometimes teams you'd traditionally expect to see in the middle or at the back of the grid can come up with a seriously competitive car, seemingly out of nowhere, only to drop back down the order in years afterwards.

Of course I wanted a more competitive car, it was difficult as other teams could make progress whilst we had a big engine deficit.

Nine of the 10 teams have scored points, and even though McLaren hasn't got off the mark the car has looked more competitive in recent races.

If he wins the championship this year and remains in a competitive car for a few more seasons, he would have a realistic chance of matching or maybe even beating Michael Schumacher's record of seven world championships.

It's difficult to guess, to imagine different combinations of cars and engines, etc, but I think we identified very clearly what we are missing so if we can improve that we can be competitive.

Despite being a complete mish - mash the car ended up being incredibly competitive, and won the 1996 event in the hands of Manuel Reuter, Davy Jones and a 22 - year - old Alex Wurz - who to this day is still the youngest ever overall winner at Le Mans.

A nine - race stint in the least competitive car in the field was not much o fa chance to demonstrate what he was capable of, particularly given his initial discomfort with an ill - fitting seat.

In order to simplify the analysis greatly, I'll assume an economy with a single good, and that marginal productivity determines wages perfectly (ie: the market is perfectly competitive) and infinite demand for said good (infinite want is a good assumption in economics, however demand for a single good is often finite, ie: a person may switch from desiring another unit of flour when someone delivers 10 tonnes of it to their door a day, to desiring say a car.

The Tory minister said he wrote to Nissan with a series of four assurances as he went «all out» to allay concerns about Brexit, promising that the government was confident of securing a deal that would keep the car industry competitive.

New jobs come partly by having a vibrantly competitive car industry rather than a failing one and partly due to the logical evolution of the auto industry toward computerization.

«Racing in excess of 150 mph on high - speed ovals will take a significant breakthrough in battery technology for EV race cars, or racetracks, to be competitive in the Indianapolis 500 or NASCAR events,» Waters said.

In most of the publicity, cars and action heroes were associated with males, together with competitive values, individualism, power and strength.

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No sense of competitive racing, no sense of control and an almost total lack of emotional connection between you, the car and the road.

It's a juggling act with having competitive races with the unstoppable force of racers finding ways to make their cars go faster.

Building a car out of aluminum is expensive, in terms of materials, engineering, and manufacturing, but doing so shows Cadillac's dedication to making the CT6 competitive within its segment.

The Ferraris I could not trust after my neighbours told me about their cars (also a 599), McLaren I didn t liked the engine, Aston was not competitive at all, Nissan I didn t like the optics, AMG GT no steeringfeel, Lamborghini I couldn t see anything in the backmirror (I drive a lot of Autonbahn), i8 is not a sportscar in my view... an so on.

In the suddenly competitive domain of interiors, the Ram sets the standard by living up to the radical idea that the cabin of a $ 40,000 truck should be as nice as that of a $ 40,000 car.

While Honda had corrected a lot of the wrongs of the first - gen Insight, mainly by growing it into a 5 - seater with generous cargo room, the car still was smaller than the Prius and it still used Honda's less - competitive mild - hybrid Integrated Motor Assist system.

This is the street - legal variant of the Porsche 911 GT1 race car that was particularly competitive.

Noise — whether from wind or road — is subjectively much lower in the S3 than in competitive cars, and the engine noise that does make it into the cabin has the carefully manicured feel of auditory bonsai, with boy - racer overtones totally absent.

Every time they're completely redesigned, the most competitive car models tend to leapfrog each other — in terms of quality, features and often size.

Always looking for a competitive edge, Ferrari built the 250 LM as an «evolution» of the dominant 250 GTO and tried to register it as a GT - class (production - based) race car with the FIA governing racing body.

As such, and with only 32 cars built instead of the requisite 100 to qualify as a new GT entry), Ferrari was forced to campaign the 250 LM in the more competitive Prototype class.

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