Sentences with phrase «on production cars»

I love seeing racing tricks being used cleverly on production cars.

Michelin is happy because these tires are closer to the ones used on production cars than normal racing tires, and Formula E organizers believe the lack of grip makes the racing more dramatic.

In regular - speak, we hope that means Subaru will take a cue from the bold stance of the Viziv 2 and push its design envelope on its production cars further than it normally does.

Design Director Mitsunori Morita says: «By the time Nissan Intelligent Driving technology is available on production cars, EVs will be able to go great distances on a single charge.

Many of the car's features eventually were adopted on production cars.

«By the time Nissan Intelligent Driving technology is available on production cars, EVs will be able to go great distances on a single charge,» said Design Director Mitsunori Morita.

To assist in the technology transfer from racing to the production cars, engineers have opened up the lines of communication between the engineers working on the production cars and those on the racing program.

Built in South Africa and imported into the United States as a kit — thus avoiding many of the federal regulations placed on production cars — the Brock Coupe comes to your local dealer (the nearest is in Georgia) lacking an engine and transmission.

The illuminated grille will be sacrificed on production cars, not least for safety and regulatory reasons.

A lot of technology on production cars — that is, the cars we drive on the street — has, over time, trickled down from the racing world...

The British automaker previewed its styling with the DB10 in Spectre, and it will be interesting to see how much influence the company's latest creations, like the Vulcan, has on its production cars.

If teams like Corvette, Aston Martin, and Porsche must build cars based on race machinery and not on production cars, the costs will soar and eventually the class will suffer.

Both the MX - 5 Miata Speedster Evolution and MX - 5 Miata RF Kuro are based on the production car - the soft - top and RF «retractable fastback» models respectively, but each features a range of small changes influenced by the race - prepared MX - 5 Global Cup car.

Perhaps the best - known Vision GT car, Bugatti's concept came while Chiron hype was at its peak, and previewed many of the visual features we were to see on the production car, from its inset headlights to the huge curve along its flanks.

Pricing for the McLaren P13 — the name will not be used on the production car — is expected to start at the equivalent of $ 200,000.

The GTR is ostensibly a race car inside, at least in terms of feel and materials - being based on a production car, and lavished with the sort of attention you'd expect with something bearing the McLaren badge, it feels a lot less thrown - together than some racers.

It has the widest front tires on any production car, carbon - ceramic brakes that would stop a runaway Kenworth, and aerodynamic tuning that generates 150 pounds of downforce at 150 mph.

The electric championship's newly - unveiled BMW i8 is equipped with the world's first 7.2 kW wireless charger, the Qualcomm Halo, and arrives with the objective that the technology will appear on production car option lists by 2017.

Probably the best brakes on a production car.

The former two could well sit on the production car's options list, however.

But on the production car it strikes us as an oddly shaped appendage that looks out of place.

An uprated eight - speed ZF auto is the only transmission offered and the shift speeds are said to be as fast as you can make them on a production car without them being uncomfortably so.

While the cars are powered by the 20B rotary engines, the car is in fact built on a tube frame chassis and not on the production car.

Exterior features include hand - polished black paint which is the darkest - ever exterior colour seen on a production car, black gloss - finished Spirit of Ecstasy figurine on the bonnet, darkened badging and chrome detailing, composite carbon - fibre alloy wheels with aluminium hubs.

Nineteen - inch wheels and tires, and exterior mirror housings mounted on chromed arms and tail lamps turned 90 degrees from their position on the production car give the rear end more horizontal emphasis.

Huge 420 mm front and 380 mm rear brake discs — claimed to be the largest on any production car — provide stopping power.

It's the biggest, strongest braking system ever fitted to a Bentley, featuring the largest front brake system available on any production car — the brake discs measure 440 - mm in diameter at the front and 370 - mm at the rear.

Leave it to the auto engineers of Japan to come up with four - wheel steering on a production car.

The most striking part of its exterior are its very unusual door handles that are unlike any door handles I've ever seen on a production car, plus the front and rear fascias.

«I worked on the production car during the week, and spent weekends working on the structure of the C5 - R race car,» Wesoloski said.

Infiniti not only is the first automaker to reach the U.S. market with a «full active suspension» but it is introducing an all - new model and chopping the top off another.The Q45's full active suspension, the first offered on a production car, will be available in 1991 as a $ 4,000 option.

The Trofeo was raced in the series until 2010, when Maserati released the GranTurismo MC, also based on a production car.

They are the biggest on a production car at 15.4 inches up front with six piston calipers.»

It also promises to make the car more efficient: we averaged as low as 8.0 L / 100 km according to the car's trip computer, with one insider suggesting the real - life reading will be well into the sevens on the production car.

The result is the deepest, darkest and most intense black ever seen on a production car surface.

Not so much with the 370kW engine, but it would be great to see that full body kit on a production car one day.

The windshield is the biggest on a production car and necessitates a massive set of sun visors.

Choose the GranLusso trim and you get exotic wood, leather and even natural silk from Zegna (a first on any production car) while the GranSport trim gets a cabin with carbon - fibre design elements.

First used at the end of the 1980s on the Superproduction version of the R21 Turbo, the independent steering - axis front axle was first introduced on a production car on the Mégane Renaultsport.

Ford Performance says it had to come up with completely new testing standards for the car, since winter tire evaluation on a production car like this had never been done before; this involved trials of different tires, in northern Michigan and in Sweden.

This is the first production application of ultra-high performance Pirelli PZero Trofeo R tires, and believed to be the widest front tire on any production car.

But this might change on the production car especially when the new XUV has been given a revised fascia.

The braking system is the largest and most powerful ever fitted to a Bentley, and the largest front brake system available on any production car.

The new wheels are wrapped in massive Pirelli PZero Trofeo R 305 / 30ZR19 tires - the first use of this kind of tires on a production car.

It is not there on the production car nor the earlier leaked GS images.

In reality, the concept version was based on the production car, not the other way around.»

As well as relying on cameras, radar and ultrasonic sensors, Traffic Jam Pilot is the first automated driving system to be offered on a production car to employ a laser scanner.

Lexus says these 10th Anniversary Special Edition models are the very first time the brand has used a matte - finish paint on a production car since it offered the top - dog LFA supercar.

Alfa didn't buy rights to Pininfarina's design but sources in Italy say Centro Stile tried for months to make the design work on a production car.

It also began to preview the more aggressive wedge shape found on the production car twins.