Sentences with phrase «official test the car»

To be frank if some official test the car on this road, the promotion would be different.

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Now, California's motor vehicles officials face an end - of - year deadline to write regulations that will allow driverless cars to go from testing to use by the public in June 2015.

TEMPE, Ariz. / DETROIT (Reuters)- Arizona officials said on Tuesday they saw no immediate need to tighten rules on the testing of self - driving cars in the state in reaction to a fatal accident involving an Uber autonomous vehicle that has focused attention on the safety of the new technology.

Unlike California, where Uber had been testing since spring of 2017, Arizona state officials had taken a hands - off approach to autonomous vehicles and did not require companies to disclose how their cars were performing.

He'll be back in a race car this week though when he takes part in Formula E's official pre-season test at Valencia.

We haven't had any official 2017 car reveals but manufacturers have been busy testing them out, giving us a glimpse of what's to come.

It surely won't be long until we get an official reveal of the car as it has to be submitted to the FIA for Balance of Performance testing later on this month.

WRC3 is the only Official game of the World Rally Championships — packed with more than 50 + Official Race Teams (from WRC, Class 2 and Class), 35 + different cars (including the brand new Volkswagen Polo R WRC test car, Renault Twingo R2 and the Proton Satria Neo S2000), every track from the championships (83 stages in total — including all of the Super Special Stages) and a completely re-designed career mode.

That goal, which doubles as Diaz's own insistently self - deprecating joke about her flat chest, drives Elizabeth to do all sorts of disreputable things, like steal proceeds from a school car wash (where she reels in customers via a skimpy Daisy Dukes outfit) and compete for a salary bonus by drugging a state official (Thomas Lennon) and filching a test so that her class will perform better than all others, and especially that of ultra-cheery rival Amy (Lucy Punch).

But it certainly delivers the numbers — the official maximum is 154mph and we saw an indicated 162mph on a stretch of derestricted Autobahn when we first tested the pre-facelift car in Germany.

Cars made by Mercedes - Benz, BMW and Peugeot are using up to 50 per cent more fuel than their official laboratory tests suggest.

Although our crafty spy photographers had already caught the car testing without disguise, the fourth - generation 2016 Toyota Prius finally makes its official debut in Las Vegas.

While there was no official confirmation the car would go into production, our spy photographers spotted several prototypes testing over the years.

As an example, I've had testers look over the car before starting the official test and point things out to me, or adjust things like headlamp aim, that would otherwise have failed the test.

The video is launched alongside official Twitter, Instagram and Facebook feeds for the Jaguar Racing team, and shows a car in testing livery negotiating what appears to be the twisting Mallory Park circuit.

Dodge has tested a 2016 Dodge Viper ACR at a long list of race tracks around the U.S., where it absolutely decimated 13 official SCCA production - car track records.

We received our first serious snow dump in Ann Arbor last week, but the Automobile Magazine fleet of Four Seasons test vehicles was ready for the cold, since we had fitted each car with a set of winter tires from various manufacturers well before Thanksgiving with the assistance of the Tire Rack, our official wheel and tire partner.

Though the test looked for high NOx emissions, officials were surprised that many of the cars tested also produced high levels of CO2.

With the absurdly lofty expectations of modern hyper - powerful performance cars, the 650 - horsepower 2017 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1's high - speed testing amounts to mere warning track power, as it «only» produced a two - way official top speed of 198 mph.

Being a relatively lightweight car with pretty efficient engines should make the MX - 5 cheap to run; during our real - world fuel economy test, the range - topping 2.0 - litre unit returned an incredible 47.9 mpg (up 7mpg on Mazda's official claimed figure).

Today's test was the only opportunity for Chevy's factory team to evaluate its new cars on the 8.5 - mile course before the start of official practice and qualifying on June 15.

You now have the chance to enjoy the power of luxury by test driving the Aston Martin Rapide S. With official Aston Martin dealers situated around the world you can experience the world's most beautiful four - door sports car in over 140 locations.

One of the benefits of the small turbocharged engine found in the test car was that the official fuel economy figure quoted by Hyundai is 56.5 MPG.

Few drivers can achieve their car's «official» fuel economy figures from the NEDC tests, so the WLTP has been established as a replacement protocol, and one that can be implemented around the world.

Following time spent at the Californian Infineon track in January and the official Sebring Winter Test, the Northamptonshire (UK)- based driver reflects on progress to date: «Sebring was very successful and gave us a chance to run for the first time against some of our 2012 opposition with our brand new C6.R cars.

Plump for the 15 - inch wheels, which are available on any model, and the official combined fuel consumption for the new Prius is 94.1 MPG, or 85.6 MPG with the larger 17 - inch wheels fitted on the test car.

A team of engineers including Trubiani have played an extensive role already in the car's calibration — some travelling to the Nurburgring for official General Motors testing.

The added strength, say Honda officials, improves performance in the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's Overlap Barrier Test, where the car is driven into a small fixed object (think pole or tree) just off center at 40 mph.

Compared to the official test figure of 49.6 MPG, this is a fairly decent return, and shows the benefits of having an engine powerful enough that it isn't straining to pull the car along.

If you love the 1997 Mazda Miata - this week's test car - you better get one now, because the»98 model that rolls into showrooms in the fall is going to look different from the 1990 - 97 models.Mazda officials are worried that their small roadster - which they claim triggered the current sports car craze - is in danger of being overshadowed by the Bmw Z3, Porsche Boxster, Mercedes - Slk and Plymouth Prowler.So Mazda's designers went back to the drawing board and came up with a new face and some other styling changes for the Miata.

Under the guidance of Pierre - Henri Raphanel, Bugatti's official test pilot who in 2010 set the world speed record (431.072 km / h) for production cars in a Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport, participants take their Veyron through every conceivable situation they could encounter on public roads, and also complete safety training on an exclusive track.

Even though the cars I test drove were pre-production models, Chevrolet officials said the seats in production cars would be virtually the same.

During the seminar, Dave Sherman of American Marketing Consultants, an independent auto testing firm hired by Lincoln, compared the Continental to such cars as the Lexus LS 400 and the Cadillac Seville STS - the two vehicles Lincoln officials believe are closest to the Continental in appeal and quality.

Later that day, Bugatti's official test driver Pierre Henri Raphanel drove the Super Sport version of the Veyron on Volkswagen's Ehra - Lessien (near Wolfsburg, Germany) high - speed test track to establish the car's top speed.

Only a few days ago did Volkswagen reveal in full its all - electric I.D. R Pikes Peak race car, and today the automaker has declared official on - track testing is underway.

The officials are an incredible 3.4 sec in the case of the AMG and just 3.6 for the Porsche (with the $ 4790 Sport Chrono pack fitted to the test car... 3.8 sec without).

Our test RS came with a «NOT FOR SALE» Monroney sticker, so we're not 100 percent sure what the official, out - the - door pricetag is, but using the online calculator at Ford to equip a similar car, we're looking at $ 35,960 plus $ 875 in destination charges, which accounted for the RS2 package which includes heated seats.

In 2008 and 2009 the LFA was entered in the Nurburgring 24 - hour race, the intention being to push the car hard under testing conditions prior to its official launch as a production - ready model at the 2009 Tokyo motor show.

Porsche's official test - driver Walter Röhrl completed the Nürburgring Nordschleife with the 996 GT3 in 7 minutes 56 seconds, a feat which was used by Porsche to promote the car.

As you can see in this latest batch of spy shots, Porsche doesn't bother covering its test cars with camouflage foil anymore, a sign that the official reveal is imminent.

Sadly, it's impossible to verify how safe the Toyota C - HR is, as there haven't been any official crash tests conducted for the car at time of writing.

The figure varies with the topography of the road; official claims based on the controversial European test cycle procedure for hybrid cars puts its range at 22.4 miles, although Porsche engineers suggest the real world range is actually between 11.2 and 22.4 miles.

That said, we did test both the AMTs on a hilly road with quite a steep incline and although there is no official hill hold or hill start assist, the gearbox does stop the car from rolling backwards after abou a foot or so and holds the car in place till you use the throttle to move forward again.

Not untypical of any test car, this didn't equate with the official combined figure of 5.5 L / 100 km although more time with the Focus would have probably pulled the real - world average down a bit.

«Together with MMC, we deliberately chose to test the car over two months of the most unpredictable weather conditions with frost, thaw... in order to test the real - life driveability of this plug - in hybrid electric car in various, and most demanding, weather conditions,» said Andrey Pankov, CEO of MMC Rus, Mitsubishi Motors» official Distributor in Russia.

VED rates for the model tested come in at # 130 for the first year - included in the car's OTR price - because of an official CO2 figure of 106 g / km and then # 130 standard rate since the mild hybrid system qualifies it for the # 10 alternative fuel discount.

Last month, a federal judge - ruling in the automaker's unprecedented challenge to safety officials - told Chrysler to recall the cars because their rear seat - belt anchors failed a government safety test.

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Coming as something of a surprise and in other ways not, the test car's fuel consumption was an unexpectedly low 10.5 L / 100 km, or way better than the official 13.0 L official figure.

The Anniversary 208 GTi is able to accelerate to 100km / h in 6.5 sec (6.8 for the regular 208 GTi) which makes it the fastest of the bunch, yet according to the official figures it's also cleaner and more economical with a combined fuel consumption of 5.4 L / 100 km and a CO2 figure of 125g / km (our test car fell well short of the claimed economy figures at 7.5 L / 100 km).