Sentences with phrase «of grand touring cars»

Ask any owner of a grand touring car if cargo is important and they will tell you «Yes!»

Stanley worked with Chevy designers to create a unique personalized vehicle in the spirit of a grand touring car.

Not exact matches

Ferrari builds three types of cars: sports cars, Grand Touring or «GT» cars, and of course rare and exotic hypercars, such as the current LaFerrari, which sells for more than a million bucks.

Outright winners John Surtees of Britain and Ludovico Scarfiotti of Italy were masterful, the fourth - place car and Grand Touring winner, driven by Americans Roger Penske and Augie Pabst, was «perfect» as Roger termed it.

If it's a cold night in Chicago, pack the kids in the car and take a grand tour of local neighborhoods with the best holiday lights.

In a bid to keep his very expensive racing team afloat, famed race car driver Briggs Cunningham created a line of high - performance grand touring sports cars, including this gorgeous 1952 Cunningham C3 Continental.

Both cars are tremendous athletes - a key component of their grand - touring personas.

Instead of the Grand Touring's navigation system, moonroof, and eleven - speaker stereo, it was the 6's high - bolstered sport seats with leather upholstery that got our attention, since this is a driver's car.

Excess road noise and a little bit of harshness over sharper bumps are the car's main faults in grand touring — style driving, and both appear to be largely to do with the narrow sidewalls.

On the latest episode of Ignition, host Carlos Lago takes the grand touring car to the drag strip and Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca to see how well it performs.

Slotting between the entry - level Sport and the well - equipped Grand Touring trim levels, adding the Club treatment to a 2015 Miata gave the car a new front air dam, black headlight housings, blacked - out mirror caps, black headrest roll bars, a stripe decal on the side of the car, body - color dashboard trim pieces, gray 17 - inch wheels, and a rear diffuser.

The current Mazda3 was on the vanguard of the movement to add more premium features to small cars, and my Grand Touring test example is evidence of that trend.

In The great all - rounder, Simon Charlesworth discovers what makes the car so appealing to drive / For this month's Auto - biography, Matthew Bell travels to Milan to meet Corrado Lopresto — the well - known collector and view his 150 examples of Italian exotica / In Dealing with a Delage disaster, Douglas Blain tells how a major mechanical failure almost took the sole - surviving 1914 Delage Grand Prix car off the road for good, while Philip Guilfoyle explains how modern technology was used to create a brand new engine block / Doomed by its audacity and now largely forgotten, the Hotchkiss - Grégoire was a technological tour de force.

War Horse Vauxhall — David Burgess-Wise examines the rôle played by the Vauxhall D - Type in the First World War, and drives the example in the manufacturer's collection / The Pomeroy Trophy at 60 — Peter McFadyen tells the story of the VSCC's event for finding the best sports touring car, and explains the arcane formulae behind it / The 1926 - 27 Grand Prix Talbot - Darracqs, part three — In the third and final part of his series about these famous racers, Simon Moore investigates the fate of each / Auto - biography: Cally Callomon — Matthew Bell visits this art director, Vintage car owner and bicycle fanatic, and learns about his career and hobbies / Peugeot Racing Engineers 2: Louis Verdet Sébastien Faurès Fustel de Coulanges looks at the career of this engineer, whose influence spread far beyond motoring / The Ballot 2LS, part eight — Our Publisher concludes his series on the twin cam Ballot 2LS, listing the cars known to have existed but which have now disappeared

Automobiles of the world — The monthly extract from «Automobiles of the World» / Twin Cam Rarity Rare Nacional Pescara cars / 1939 Hotchkiss Grand Sport — The editor drives a prime example of a performance car of the thirties / Lucas Motoralities — In the first of a series of articles on lighting Peter Card looks at the products which enabled Lucas to dominate the British market in the early days of motoring / Edwardian Tourists — An album recording a 1913 tour provides an interesting insight to motoring as it once was - a relaxation for gentlefolk / Marendaz Special Handsome is as handsome does?

Grand Touring — Edward Eves looks at the early years of Hispano - Suiza / From Red TO Green — Alan Smith recalls the day when Vanwall finally vanquished Ferrari / Cars In My Life — Some Math is memories by Peter Bloor / Mystery Midget?

This $ 33,000 2016 Mazda6 Grand Touring, with its sumptuous and nicely bolstered leather seats, was one of the most expensive cars in this comparison, though Capparella priced out a «decently equipped»» 6 Touring and came up with a competitive sticker price of $ 25,815.

That said, this Maserati Alfieri concept is an excellent, if too busy, expression of the classic grand touring ideal: a two - person car meant for high - speed long - distance travel with grace and elegance.

Just as there isn't much point in burdening this excellent and very comfortable grand touring car with a wide variety of inappropriate sports - oriented features that are clearly antithetical to its true purpose, which is surely long - distance travel in great comfort.

Tesla ended 2017 with Musk now building anticipation for a new semi truck, apparently named «Semi,» which he says will have a 500 - mile range and will begin deliveries in 2019, with a new Roadster model — actually a 2 +2 targa grand - touring car capable of more than 250 mph and 0 - 60 mph in 1.9 seconds — arriving at dealers a year later.

Thanks to the 2008 NC Miata Grand Touring with a power - retractable hardtop that my wife, Donna, and I own, I was part of the four - car drive with two NAs and the new ND featured in David Zenlea's wonderful story.

Mazda says older, wealthier Miata buyers are more likely to choose the Grand Touring trimline and are more likely to choose the automatic, but some of us chose the GT for its heated seats, which enhances its appeal as a four - seasons sports car.

Bolain says to think of the LC 500 as «a grand touring car with the heart of a sports car.»

[39] The 2014 Mazda6 Grand Touring also won in a comparison against the 2013 Honda Accord EX-L in the June 2013 issue of Car and Driver.

Ryan Eversley won both races of the 2010 SCCA World Challenge Mid-Ohio Grand Prix in the touring car class.

You get a lot of car for the money on the CX - 9 grand touring Read full review

The car fits the «classic» definition of a GT «Grand Touring» car; a road going, lightweight, semi-luxurious coupe, built on a high performance chassis.

Garcia, 28, of Barcelona, Spain, has raced with distinction in the European Touring Car Championship, the World Touring Car Championship, and the Grand - Am Rolex Sports Car Series.

The BMW 5 Series for 2014 represents one of the most complete luxury car lines in the industry, offering a base turbocharged sedan, a powerhouse high - performance M version, diesel - powered and V8 models, a hybrid and a somewhat controversially styled Grand Touring wagon / SUV.

In 1998 with the withdrawal of Nissan Motors due to financial problems and Honda, to concentrate on its Formula One program and also realising it would be less expensive for them to race their NSX in the Japanese Grand Touring Championship series (although both Nissan and Honda did take part in British Touring Car Championship after leaving JTCC; those programs, however, were run by their European branches), it left Toyota as the sole factory manufacturer to have cars competing using their Corona EXIVs and Chasers.

Its top - of - the - line grand touring interior would look just fine in a car costing twice as much.

The competition consists of seven classes of vehicles: grand touring (GT); grand touring amateur (GTA); grand touring sport (GTS); grand touring Cup (GT - Cup); touring car (TC); touring car A-spec (TCA); and touring car B - spec (TCB).

The popular Series boasts a paddock of more than 70 race cars and consists of six classes of vehicles: grand touring (GT); touring car (TC); grand touring sport (GTS); touring car B - spec (TCB), touring car A (TCA) and Porsche GT - Cup (GT - Cup).

The combination of the silky smooth V12, automatic transmission and power steering make it a fantastic grand touring car, with ample room for luggage and even an occasional extra passenger.

Beginning May 1, Aston Martin customers will be able to lease their favorite grand touring car for a fraction of the cost of owning one.

The BMW 507 is one of the most utterly beautiful cars BMW has ever made and it's one of the best looking grand touring cars...

A field of 14 Daytona Prototypes took the start of the race along with a grid of 44 of the slower roadcar - based Grand Touring class cars.

The CX - 5 Grand Touring, the top trim line that, came equipped with all of Mazda's driver assists, including forward collision warning, smart city and highway braking (the car brakes automatically if you don't), rear cross traffic alert, adaptive cruise control, blind spot detection, and lane departure warning.

The word supercar later came to mean a «GT» or grand touring type of car.

The Vision IsoRivolta draws upon Zagato's 98 - year history of building stunning sports and grand touring cars, using the company's signature design cues, such as the double bubble roof and dual rear humps.

The test car was a Grand Touring with the $ 2,180 GT Technology Package, which includes Radar Cruise Control, the sensor for which is mounted behind and to the right of the grille logo.

Borgman s Used Car Center of Grand Rapids brings you this well - equipped, red 2015 Chrysler Town Country Touring a classy minivan with a refined V6 engine that provides smooth power and good fuel efficiency!

«From the onset, GT - R has pushed the envelope by combining the class and refinement of Grand Touring vehicles with the power and precision of a racing car.

In Sport mode with the adaptive suspension firmed up, the near -4,000-pound Stinger felt planted through gradual, high - speed bends and handled side - to - side weight transfers remarkably well with an acceptable amount of body roll for a grand touring - type car.

The 550 is one of the last great V12 Ferraris and with a manual gearbox, this really is a fabulous Grand Touring car.

After the release of the Lexus brand in the Japanese domestic market in 2005, Lexus sanctioned the entry of four SC 430 coupes in the Super GT series of the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship in the GT500 class.

The crazy Lamborghini Marzal was the pinnacle of 1960's space - race - inspired grand touring concept cars.

This fully equipped Mazda3 s Grand Touring hatchback ran over $ 27,000, pushing the price point of an economy car.

Source: Edmunds * When designing the Maserati Ghibli, Maserati drew on its rich experience as creators of the finest grand touring cars in history.

Some might argue the Nissan GT - R is more a grand touring car than a sports car, but given the way it goes, calling Nissan's supercar a grand tourer is something of an insult.