Sentences with phrase «of light car»

Renault sold 532 Clios in the first three months of 2014, representing a small 2.2 per cent share of the light car market, but Australian managing director Justin Hocevar says sales have already surpassed sales targets.

The Barina Spark is not available with an automatic transmission for about 18 months, wiping it off the shopping list for at least half of all Light Car buyers in Australia.

It's about what you'd expect of a light car with a minimal 653 litres available when the split-fold rear backrests are folded flat.

There's no lag to speak of, meaning the ST has that wonderfully elastic delivery of a light car powered by a muscular engine.

There are parts of the lighter cars, the more nimble cars that I prefer of the past: easier to overtake, easier to manoeuvre in combat.

At eight pounds, it is also one of the lightest car seats you can buy.

This should make the CT6 one of the lightest cars in the full - size luxury sedan class, as a Cadillac CTS Vsport weighs in at 4026 lbs.

An all - new compact luxury sport sedan from the GM brand, the ATS is built on a new rear - wheel drive architecture and is being billed as one of the lightest cars in the segment — and in the brand's entire portfolio for that matter.

My Hyundai Elantra was also one of the lightest cars I've ever driven.

As one of the lighter cars out there, the MINI is often praised for adroit road manners, and this reputation is deserved.

Since the kinetic energy involved in a front crash depends on the speed and weight of the vehicle, the Tesla's acceptable rating is based on a more severe crash than the good ratings of the lighter cars.

According to a Carsales Network straw poll (we asked Toyota, Mazda and Suzuki for auto versus manual figures on Yaris, Mazda2 and Swift hatchbacks), up to 65 per cent of all Light Cars sold locally are automatics.

Not exact matches

Eastern Canadian refineries geared to light grades are buying more cheap crude from North Dakota and Texas in place of costly crude they were previously buying from Algeria and the U.K. (How do you suppose those rail cars ended up in Lac Megantic?)

Chinese - made cars made up just 0.76 % of the $ 191.7 billion in new automobiles and light trucks that the U.S. imported in 2017, according to the International Trade Administration data.

To the best of my knowledge, Autodata Corporation's light weight vehicle sales data, which are derived directly from the very corporations who sell cars and trucks in the U.S., never get revised.

In other words, says Surace, the «built environment» presents a far greater opportunity than oft - demonized cars and light trucks, which produce 9 percent of emissions.

Ford Motor Co. built more than three million Pintos in the 1970s, a smaller, lighter car meant to be economical in the face of soaring energy prices (and Japanese competitors).

The man intends to buy some sort of liquor, a lighter, and a bottle of car oil.

These probably won't go away entirely, but a car that doesn't «see» on the same visible spectrum of light as humans won't really need to illuminate the road.

As well, this particular model was fitted with the $ 4,000 option of a roof - integrated solar panel that powers the car's cabin ventilation system, obviously conceived to allow you to quiet any hostile and righteous Prius drivers hurling abuse your way at red lights.

A self - driving Uber was caught on video running a red light, a Google self - driving car collided with a bus, and of course a Tesla failed to «see» a truck that was blocking the road and wound up killing its owner.

The agreement will make the technology standard on virtually all light - duty cars and trucks with a gross vehicle weight of 8,500 lbs.

A car made with the composite material would be at least 15 % lighter, the expected range of the car is estimated around 130 km, and the material can be charged in two ways, by harnessing the energy generated when the car brakes or by plugging the car into an outlet.

The reality is an incredible number of products are now connected to the web, from refrigerators to watches, clothing, cars, thermostats, light bulbs, and alarm systems.

In May 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama announced new fuel economy standards intended to compel manufacturers to achieve an average of 35.5 miles per gallon across their car and light truck models by 2016.

«Automakers have been working to mitigate distraction in vehicles since we developed the first set of distraction guidelines in 2003 — years before this issue entered the broader public debate and a full decade before NHTSA published its guidelines for vehicles,» said the Alliance of Automotive Makers, an automotive trade group made up of 12 car and light truck manufacturers including BMW, Chrysler, Ford, GM and Toyota.

This would make the cars lighter — important because of the weight of electric batteries — but also allowing for more inventive designs.

Sitting in a stopped car at an intersection, waiting for the light to turn green and traffic to clear out of the way so you can get where you're going is no one's idea of fun.

In addition to alerting you to the presence of cars, the bike also employes LED lights synced with a mobile phone to provide directions, and its companion app will devise quicker, smoother routes using road and traffic data gathered from other Valour riders.

It comes with both the traditional AC adapter and one of those cigarette lighter / power connector thingies for recharging in the car.

The company is manufacturing the entire suite of sensors on its self - driving cars, which includes the vision system, radars, and light detection and ranging radar known as LiDAR.

In 2015, Canadians purchased roughly 1.9 million cars and light trucks and assembled roughly 2.4 million, causing a trade surplus in vehicles of around 500,000 units.

The Merc's ambient - lighting is just the latest example of a significant trend in luxury cars: creating a soothing and enveloping, customizable environment inside vehicles.

Uber had faced a long string of serious setbacks: A self - driving car that ran a red light, a lawsuit for allegedly stealing the information to create that self - driving car, a scandal about software designed to deceive law enforcement in cities where the company was operating illegally, and video of Kalanick cursing out a driver.

Waymo claims that Uber and Otto have stolen «Light Detection and Ranging» technology — a core piece of tech for any self - driving car tech company.

A year ago it was cars that held the edge, with light trucks holding 49.5 percent of the US market.

This development, of course, comes in light of a fatal accident involving one of Uber's self - driving cars in Tempe, Arizona.

Mining is big business in Canada — and the metals and minerals we're producing are essential to increase the global supply of solar panels, wind turbines, smart grids, LED light bulbs and electric cars.

I want to be the kind of person who gets rear - ended by someone at a stop light and gets out of the car and asks if the other person is okay.

The carmaker continues to grapple with fallout from a fatal Florida crash of a Model S sedan after both the driver and the car's «autopilot» system failed to detect a white tractor - trailer against a «brightly lit sky.»

Quantifying the damage of Scott Pruitt's proposal to freeze standards for cars and light trucks.

Shares in the company were once again sliding on Monday after the company's C.E.O., Elon Musk, joked on April 1 that Tesla had gone bankrupt, an apparent attempt to make light of concerns that the electric car maker is straining under its debt load.

Demand for cars and light commercial vehicles in Turkey fell to the lowest for the month of April in four years.

Lidar, as in «light radar,» is the component of self - driving car technology that essentially helps the vehicle see.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey used light regulations to entice Uber to the state after the company had a shaky rollout of test cars in San Francisco.

Management expects the move away from cars will enable light trucks to generate roughly 90 % of its North American sales as soon as 2020.

Car and light truck sales in the first quarter were at the highest pace since the fourth quarter of 2007.

Imports from the U.S. rose 3.1 per cent in March due in large part to higher imports of passenger cars and light trucks, while exports to the U.S. rose 1.2 per cent, led primarily by higher exports of crude oil.

On December 14, or the first day of Uber's commercial test, one of the cars ran a red light.

Earlier this year, researchers at the University of Michigan found that the average fuel economy of new, light vehicles (a designation that includes cars, SUVs, vans and pickup trucks) had reached 25.4 miles per gallon, as compared to 20.8 mpg in 2007.