Sentences with phrase «of sports cars on»

This little exotic Italian two seater has enough character to take on all of the sports cars on the market today.

Much of the concern was misplaced, as the Porsche Cayenne turned out to be an SUV that was capable of outperforming the majority of sports cars on the market — with very good off - road dimension rolled into the package.

By the 1930s, the company evolved to become a builder of sports cars on the premise of performance and elegance.

The Corvette Stingray backs its performance capability with the greatest efficiency of any sports car on the market with more than 450 horsepower, delivering an EPA - estimated 17 mpg city driving and 29 mpg on the highway with the seven - speed manual transmission.

Take that silly «comfort» and «convenience» thing out of it, and the 4C is perfect: stunning racy Italian looks, beautiful small turbo engine, fabulous twin - clutch transmission, rigid carbon - fiber chassis, mid-engine balance, and most of all, maybe the quickest and most precise steering of any sports car on the road.

Handling has been improved over the X3 as well, with the X4 doing a passable impersonation of a sports car on winding roads, thanks to a lower ride height and more aggressively tuned suspension.

Not exact matches

That was Gawker Media's model: Its various sites (most of which still exist and are now owned by Univision) focused on topics like sports, cars, productivity, women's lifestyle, and video games.

New CEO Jim Hackett has been trying to convince investors that betting on a Ford turnaround is worth the wager by laying out a plan to get rid of slow - selling, low - margin car models and refocus the company on more lucrative sport utility vehicles and pickups.

Musk notched a milestone in space on Tuesday by successfully launching the most powerful commercial rocket in the world with a Tesla Roadster sports car on board to demonstrate the kind of payload it can handle.

«The specs on the new semi truck and sports car would put both vehicles at the top of their segments... assuming they can be produced and sold as part of a sustainable business plan.

For example, if you're buying a new car and trying to decide if you should go for the leather seats, even though you know you can't afford it, your brain might focus on memories of the wonderful smell and feel of the leather seats in your brother's sports car, when it should be focused on the misery you're going to experience when making your monthly car payments.

The consumer discretionary sector consists of businesses that have demand which rises and falls based on general economic conditions such as washers and dryers, sporting goods, new cars, and diamond engagement rings.

AND, I still can go out for nice dinners, go to sporting events, go on a week or two of vacation each year, go to shows, have nice clothes for work and casual events, drive a decent car, and afford home improvement projects on my house.

Ferrari profit rises on sales of new modelsFerrari NV RACE said Thursday that net profit rose 19 % in the first quarter in part thanks to higher sales of its sports cars, including the new 812 Superfast and 488 models.

The new driverless car service here also coincided with the debut of the XC90 self - driving car, a Volvo sport utility vehicle outfitted with lidar — a kind of radar based on laser beams, wireless technology and seven cameras.

On Thursday, Uber said that it would begin testing self - driving cars in Pittsburgh in a matter of weeks, allowing people in the city to hail modified versions of Volvo sport utility vehicles to get around the city.

China in 2011 slapped duties on U.S. - made large cars and sport utilities as part of a trade dispute.

On the small cap side, Sympowerco's subsidiaries, HOSS Motor Sports and Highline Hydrogen Hybrids Systems, should offer operating holding corps for joint ventures and development of electric motor car solutions.»

@KatMat: your analogy would begin approaching realism if: — during the pledge of allegiance kids were forced to say «one nation under The Orioles» — our nation's currency said «In Dallas Cowboys We Trust» — if millions were slaughtered, tortured and burned to death because they weren't fans of The Pittsburgh Penguins — if NASCAR fans endlessly attempted to have Intelligent Car Driving taught beside Evolution in science class as a possible explanation for how mankind developed — if «the 5 D's» of Dodgeball (Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive, Dodge) were constantly attempted to be made into law so everyone would live by the same ridiculous notions, even if those notions knowingly discriminate — if nutters constantly claimed America was founded on the principles of Darts, even though our country SPECIFICALLY calls for a separation between Darts and State because the founders knew the inherent dangers of Darts becoming government instead of staying in the realm of sport where it belongs

The next step is maxing out the credit cards for a red sports car with a blond bombshell next to him with a little bit of nose candy on his lip and an 8 - ball in his pocket.

By the time you've realized that truth, you're racing down the streets in a boosted sports car, bag of money and assault rifle laying on the back seat.

We wear gold diamond encrusted crosses, we place fish ornaments on our $ 20 - $ 50,000 cars, we sport some of the most embarrassing Christian t - shirts that any self - respecting capuchin would be ashamed to wear and where are all of our table turners?

Idiocy also happens in the name of love, hate, sports, climbing mountains, cars, money, drugs, putting food on the table, video games, curing disease — well, the list could go on.

Last year Ferrari decided to opt out of sports - car racing, after a multitude of very successful seasons, and concentrate on Grand Prix racing instead.

The mechanical stars of a pair of zestful Sports Car Club of America endurance races last weekend on the exacting Road America course at Elkhart Lake, Wis. were bright - red Italian machines, an Osca and a Ferrari.

This was a weekend dedicated to the proposition that the owner of a sports car should turn up in the driver's seat on race day.

The reckless and ebullient Sabich, a bachelor of 27 who flies his own plane and drives souped - up sports cars, who dances on tabletops and attracts beautiful women, has become an exciting ski personality himself.

Despite never winning an F1 race, Cheever still achieved a lot in his varied motorsport career, winning sports car races, finishing runner - up at Le Mans twice, racing in CART and standing on the top step of the podium in IndyCar and winning the famous Indianapolis 500 in 1998.

But, he's decided to focus on how the F1 car of the future could've turned out if the sport had kept with the rules and regulations from the «golden age» of the 80s and 90s.

The drivers start to arrive in the middle of the afternoon, lining up according to racing class: motorcycles and hot rods towed in on trailers on one side, street - legal sports cars in the middle, and, at the very far end of the pit, a couple lines of high school kids flanked on one side by black and white patrol cars.

Article 9.2 of the sporting rules outlines the season - long number allocation, but it also explains that «this number must be clearly visible from the front of the car and on the driver's crash helmet».

The sport got its first look at the new restart rule during the second race of the opening round of the season at Hockenheim after an incident on the first lap brought out the safety car... and it made for an epic run down to the first corner.

New fashions cashing in on the sports car craze, with geometric jewelry and high - intensity colors, are speeding up the style of comfortable old coveralls

Brawn joined F1 as managing director of motor sports with the Liberty Media takeover of the sport, and has shared his thoughts on some of the features of this year's cars.

He's hung on to the sport by a thread in the 10 years since, hopping from team to team, getting in cars thanks to his sheer talent and a lot of luck.

At the meeting Spears, her manager Larry Rudolph and producer Ann Carli, who produced the singer's first feature, Crossroads, pitched NASCAR brass on a story about the daughter of a successful stock car team owner and how the young woman (played by Spears) inspires a former driver to return to the sport.

After this year's Australian Grand Prix had an amount of overtakes that you could count on one hand, it no longer mattered that the cars looked cool and were setting lap records, what mattered to fans was that the whole sport was ruined and Ross Brawn needed to fix things quickly.

A 20 - metre big screen will be assembled in the PPG Canalside car park on Wednesday 17 May 2017, ahead of Huddersfield Town's second leg against Sheffield Wednesday which is being shown live from 7.30 pm on Sky Sports 3.

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This truly was no place for a youth sport health and safety advocate like me to be standing (although not for long; after standing on the sidelines for 15 minutes, I retreated to the safety and comfort of an air conditioned car and hotel lobby).

Not only does it come with two Wheelies vehicles — a sports car and a race car — which are a lot of fun on their own, but it comes with a rampway for tons of twisting, turning racing adventures.

In Real Boys, Harvard Medical School psychiatry professor William Pollack took on what he terms «the Boy Code,» our lingering stereotypes of boys as «tough, cool, rambunctious and obsessed with sports, cars and sex.»

By: Meika Rouda I didn't think much about getting older, all the cliches about midlife crises and affairs and sports cars and a deep reflection on how happy one is and whether life would be better if (fill in the blank)... So I was blindsided last weekend when one of my closest friends called me in -LSB-...]

Slipping into a hard hat and fluorescent waistcoat, King troops through a makeshift car park for a series of photos at the new Tottenham University Technical College, which opens this month, offering a curriculum based on sports science and health technologies.

«I try to imagine how it would be to stand on the surface of this icy object — small enough that a fast sports car could reach escape velocity and drive off into space — and stare up at a 20 - kilometre wide ring system 1000 times closer than the Moon.»

Fisker, a U.S. start - up focusing on the creation of high performance, energy efficient vehicles, plans to sell an $ 80,000 plug - in hybrid sports car by late 2009.

To cool them, air - intake vents around the belly button, like those on the hoods of sports cars, might have evolved.

The study, published in the «ournal of Ornithology, evaluates the effect of outdoor lighting of city roads, cars, streets and sports facilities on three species of petrels which breed on the Balearic archipelago and are under threat: the Balearic shearwater (Puffinus mauretanicus), Scopoli's shearwater (Calonectris diomedea) and the European storm - petrel (Hydrobates pelagicus).

The AeroVironment team tacked on one more key goal: the acceleration of a sports car.

As an analogy, on the same gasoline, a Lamborghini goes faster than some lemon — but not because the chemistry of gasoline combustion is different in the sports car.