Sentences with phrase «of using sports cars»

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We use plastics for a huge portion of the products we use every day, from household items to car parts to packaging to sporting goods.

The circuit was initially built for the Formula 1 United States Grand Prix of Indianapolis which was contested from 2000 - 2007 and has since been used for sports cars and motor cycles.

The FIA met with various groups, including stakeholders in the sport, Liberty Media, and engine manufacturers from both within and outside of F1 in order to try and decide what engines F1 cars should use in 2021.

Sky Sports News, and their collection of slimy used car dealers masquerading as transfer «experts», is not for me.

Although it's impossible to keep kids out of harm's way all the time, you can help to prevent injuries by taking simple safety precautions, like childproofing your home, making sure kids always wear proper safety gear such as helmets when participating in sports, and using car seats and seat belts for kids at every age and stage.

A bill sponsored by state Sen. Terry Gipson would only allow expenditures «promoting the nomination or election of a candidate» or for carrying the duties of public office, and would more clearly define the «personal use» ban to cover a range of specific non-campaign-related expenses, including mortgage and rental payments, clothing, cars and sporting events and concerts.

The genius of the system is that for those people without swimming pools, five - floor mansions and three sports cars, their carbon use might be sufficiently low for them to gain money through going greener.

Titanium alloys are a favorite of the aerospace industry and are increasingly used in such consumer products as cars, computers, and sports equipment.

Dr Andrew Bell, of the Sheffield Methods Institute, used statistical analysis to work out who the sport's most accomplished competitor is — looking at who is the best driver because of their talent, rather than because they have a good car.

A new class of female professionals emerged who use the car to take their children to school or a sports club, shopping around, call upon her hairdresser, and be at work in time.

It is in fact the story of a young woman, Anastasia (Dakota Johnson), who enters into a explicitly stated sexual contract with wealthy kinky guy Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan), and uses that contract to consistently outmaneuver him, taking him from what he wants (contractual sex), to get what she wants — love, marriage, cuddling, mansions, sports cars, jewelry, and other things that arrive in the conclusion to the trilogy, Fifty Shades Freed.

Although the seats could use a bit more bolstering for hard driving, the cockpit is otherwise perfectly matched to the XFR's bipolar proficiency of being both a sports car and a luxury touring sedan.

PRIOR to our session at the Bedford Autodrome, I think it's fair to say we knew the circuit would play into the hands of the Cayman R. Mid-engined, lightest of the bunch and sporting carbon - ceramic brakes, the bare - bones Porsche is in all probability the one car here that will be bought with trackday use pretty high up the purchaser's list of priorities.

It's no sports car — or a Toyota Prius, for that matter — and the hybrid side of its personality still seems like a little bit of an afterthought (I drove with the lightest of all possible feet, and I rarely got the car to go full electric, despite not using any accessories or climate control), but it does its job well enough.

These sports car bona fides could have been used to turn the Volvos into buckboard - riding, 1.0g - cornering beasts; instead they were used, along with exceptionally well - tuned damping, to control the pitch and roll of the big - body cars without sacrificing comfort.

We've browsed dealers, classified sites and auctions, and here's our pick of the best used classic, sports and performance cars on sale - as chosen by evo staff.

But as Manuel Lage has discovered the first car to bear the name was an Alfonso Hispano - Suiza / Americans to the Rear — Rear engined designs — Part Three / Americans to the Rear — Concluding his series on American rear engined cars Karl Ludvigsen examines the role played by General Motors / Epicyclic Gearing — Workshop — Part Two / Settlers Special — A cut - down 1933 Riley Monaco shipped to Vancouver by an ex-pat in the»50s formed the basis for Miles Fenton's ideal supercharged special / Racing in the Rain — Alan Smith has been using his camera to good effect at motor sporting events for over 50 years / Ards TT 75th Anniversary — John Payne reports on the 75th Anniversary of the Ards TT / The Little Engine that could — Gavin Farmer celebrates the Jowett Bradford / It's quicker by Rail — Brian Heath's subject this month is a 1939 Railton long chassis special limousine.

The Orange Edition is the first in a line of new «Club Series» models in the GT86 range, which Toyota is using to celebrate the company's motorsport heritage both old and new - the latter comprising R3 rally and CS - Cup race versions of the compact sports car, among other efforts such as the Yaris WRC.

Vintage Armstrong - Siddeleys — Bill Bishop writes about these high quality Coventry - made cars of the 1920s / 1938 Rootes Talbot — The restoration of a 3 - litre sports tourer is described by David Hawtin / «It was fun then» — Part one of an article by Bill Boddy recalling motoring memories from over fifty years ago / VSCC Wessex Trial — Tom Threlfall reports this event in his «Diary of a dilettante» / Retromobile Show Paris — Peter Russell drove to Paris in February to bring us his report / Invicta S - type in the rain On his rain - soaked excursion this month — The Editor drove an open 1931 4 1/2 litre / Vulcan in the twenties — Michael Worthington - Williams describes the diversity of engines used by this Lancashire - based manufacturer / Austin Seven sports re-creation — John Williams tells about the rebuilding of a 1924 «works» two - seater.

It also has an exposed metal valve cover, which is heavier than the plastic cover used on other Mazdas, but engineers felt it was worth the extra weight to have a prettier engine on display under the hood of a sports car.

CARS.COM — A sub-4-second zero - to -60-mph time is nothing to sneeze at, and it used to be the stuff of high - priced sports cars.

Yet while the Cayman is an outstanding sports car in its own right, it doesn't have that direct - connection feeling the Alfa does — a totally plugged - in, non-insulated experience you just can't find anywhere else outside of a used Lotus Elise.

A smaller steering wheel is used to give the BRZ that sports car feel, while a tachometer with digital speedometer is placed in the center of the gauge cluster to relay the most important info to the driver.

Striking It Riche — This clever re-creation of the beetle - back Swallow uses genuine albeit out - of - period Austin Seven components / Cars In My Life — Maurice Mager continues our popular series with his reminisces of wartime and later motoring / Fastest On Earth — David Venables looks back on nearly 100 years of sub-sonic Land Speed Records / Behind The Elephant Blower — Sensational to look at beautifully engineered but was the Mercedes 540K really a sports car?

1946 H.R.G. Aerodynamic — This interesting but not very successful sporting car is assessed by H.R.G. expert Ian Dussek / Registration records, Part 6 — David Hales continues his series of articles explaining what records survive and where / 1932 Singer Junior restored — David Hawtin talked to the owner of this splendily restored family saloon and discovered why it was an advanced design for its day / Origins of the small car — The development of the early voiturette is traced for us by Bryan Goodman / Car badges — In Part I of this article Michael Worthington - Williams illustrates well - known and not - so - well known examples / 1934 TT Ford V8 — The Editor describes this inexpensive but capable performer that excelled in road racing trials and sprints / Brooklands 200 - mile race — The last race using the outer circuit was run in 19car is assessed by H.R.G. expert Ian Dussek / Registration records, Part 6 — David Hales continues his series of articles explaining what records survive and where / 1932 Singer Junior restored — David Hawtin talked to the owner of this splendily restored family saloon and discovered why it was an advanced design for its day / Origins of the small car — The development of the early voiturette is traced for us by Bryan Goodman / Car badges — In Part I of this article Michael Worthington - Williams illustrates well - known and not - so - well known examples / 1934 TT Ford V8 — The Editor describes this inexpensive but capable performer that excelled in road racing trials and sprints / Brooklands 200 - mile race — The last race using the outer circuit was run in 19car — The development of the early voiturette is traced for us by Bryan Goodman / Car badges — In Part I of this article Michael Worthington - Williams illustrates well - known and not - so - well known examples / 1934 TT Ford V8 — The Editor describes this inexpensive but capable performer that excelled in road racing trials and sprints / Brooklands 200 - mile race — The last race using the outer circuit was run in 19Car badges — In Part I of this article Michael Worthington - Williams illustrates well - known and not - so - well known examples / 1934 TT Ford V8 — The Editor describes this inexpensive but capable performer that excelled in road racing trials and sprints / Brooklands 200 - mile race — The last race using the outer circuit was run in 1924.

Unlike many modern sports cars, the Camaro ZL1 makes use of a standard torque - converter automatic instead of a fancy dual - clutch setup.

In Monte Carlo — and bust, Tom Clarke and Will Morrison explain how one man's love of using his in competition led to tragedy / Preston Tucker aimed to give Americans their safest and best cars yet, as Karl Ludvigsen relates in Preston Tucker's bid for glory / Often maligned by sports car purists, the Vale Special of the 1930s, Made in Maida Vale, offered brisk motoring at reasonable cost.

There has also been a rise among collectors who are using the 911s as a platform to build customized versions of the European sports cars from prominent builders.

Kazunori Yamauchi may have been challenged to make the sixth installment of his Gran Turismo video game seriously bigger and better than ever, but in doing so, he in turn challenged 22 automakers to create futuristic sports cars for use in the new Gran Turismo 6.

Even for British sports car loyalists used to the quirky nature of Triumphs, MGs, and Healeys, driving a Morgan is an experience unto itself.

Yes, it's getting cliché as a test destination, but the Nürburgring is still one of the preeminent stretches in the world to help engineers properly set up a sports car, and you can bet the crews from Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm know how to use the Ring to their advantage.

If the only practical way to use this car is to dress up like you were going to ride a motorcycle, why wouldn't you just get a modern sports - bike for the same performance and (lack of) weather - protection, comfort and practicality at about an 8th of the price?

If the block function worked, I'd use it to block all the annoying ticks who deny that Uruguayan engineering has been absolutely crucial to the design and machining of modern sports cars.

Ferry Porsche's dream car was «a small, light sport car that could efficiently use the power of its engine».

Choosing style over function, the speedster uses an «uncompromising roofless design that expresses the raw excitement of an open - top ultra-high performance sports car,» anchored by the car's rear speed humps which rise «to form streamlined cowls that flow back from the seats, representing Zagato's signature double - bubble roof.»

And for Porsche, it really is about the taking part rather than the winning: racing the hybrid GT3 R will be «a «racing laboratory» that will provide invaluable knowledge and insight on the subsequent use of hybrid technology in road - going Porsche sports car».

Our top - spec LTZ test car sported the obligatory touch screen, but there are still plenty of knobs for easy access to the most - used audio and climate - control functions, and buttons are grouped to help make everything easy to find.

A Ferrari 599 equipped with a sport exhaust system — the first of two cars we sampled — is capable of inflicting auditory pain on small animals miles away and is, we feel, too passionate for everyday use.

These Sports Series McLarens are designed to be more useable every day than Woking's more focused efforts, lowered sills being one of several attempts to make the car less of a hassle in daily use.

Mazda's rich rotary history was forged with the popularity of the RX sports car, ranging from the compact RX - 3, to the lithe and athletic RX - 7, to the RX - 8 (pictured in gallery below) that departed the world — and brought an end to production - car use of rotary engines — in 2012.

It's no sports car — or a, for that matter — and the hybrid side of its personality still seems like a little bit of an afterthought (I drove with the lightest of all possible feet, and I rarely got the car to go full electric, despite not using any accessories or climate control), but it does its job well enough.

They've used all that lovely 911 and sports car heritage to sell us the dream of sporty versions of inherently unsporting machines.

Built on the same platform as the Urban EV concept, it takes the form of a compact sports car, and uses many of the same retro - inspired details as its hatchback cousin.

You will find a diverse selection of used hybrid cars, sedans, trucks, mini-vans, SUVs, sports cars and more all at one location.

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Although the term «mid-engine» can mean the engine is placed anywhere in the car such that the centre of gravity of the engine lies between the front and rear axles, it is usually used for sports cars and racing cars where the engine is behind the passenger compartment.

As a full - service new 2018, 2019 and used BMW dealership, we offer our customers not only the finest selection of new BMW sports cars and luxury SAVs in Murrieta, but an expansive inventory of used cars and Certified Pre-Owned BMW vehicles as well.

The special rally version of the Falcon and Comet and early AC Cobra sports cars of 1962 used a high - performance version of the 260 with higher compression, hotter camshaft timing, upgraded connecting rods, valves with larger diameter valve stems, stronger valve springs and a four - barrel carburetor.