Sentences with phrase «own car platform»

• Carvana, a Phoenix, Ariz. - based online used car platform, raised $ 225 million by offering 15 million shares at $ 15 apiece.

In 2012, Chinese sales of crossover utility vehicles — SUVs built on a car platform — increased by 18 % and could represent a quarter of all car sales in China by 2020.

Each wants to sell its own car platform to automakers.

Probert: You've got the vehicle developed, you just developed a power train, the only thing advantage about is in your platform scalability, so you can get the power train and interface to work with the Focus so then that platform that same car platform and if you make it in different forms you build it in different countries, you have that ability, you can take that electric vehicle, you can build it in your plant in US, you can take it and you can build it in your plan in St Louis in Germany.

But a partnership between Toyota and BMW to share a new midsize sports - car platform dubbed «Silk Road» should give the project a solid foundation.

The 911 after it will almost certainly be based on a vehicle architecture called SAZ — VW Group shorthand for sports car platform of the future.

That's because Mr. Schaum is leading a program to merge Chrysler small and midsize car platforms — those used for the Dodge Neon, Dodge Stratus and Chrysler Sebring — with the underpinnings from Mitsubishi's Lancer and Galant.

Rather than simply slapping Infiniti badges on a Mercedes and calling it a day, Infiniti used its partnership with Daimler to take Benz's MFA small - car platform (used for the A -, B -, CLA -, and GLA - Class) as a starting point and create a totally new vehicle.

The E-Motion sits on parent company SAIC's new modular electric car platform - a scaleable architecture like VW's MEB.

Unlike an SUV, which is built on a body - on - frame truck platform, a CUV is built off a «unibody» car platform, which make the vehicles drive and behave more like a traditional sedan or coupe.

Not only is the Juke built atop the same B - car platform as Nissan's Cube, but also its wheelbase, overall length, width, and track all trail both the Beetle and Veloster.

The GLB was originally going to be based on a new modular small - car platform shared with Renault - Nissan.

Indeed, the problem with two distinct cars off the same excellent sports - car platform is you're unlikely to find the perfect setup.

Toss the car around, and it displays outstanding balance — a result of Ford's masterful small - car platform.

When you look at the CLC (rendered above by our spy illustrator), it's hard to believe that it's actually riding on a compact - car platform.

SANTA BARBARA — Cross / utility vehicles, quasi-SUVs built on passenger - car platforms, are such a common presence it's hard to imagine how America ever got along without them.

We reported last fall that Volvo may also share this compact - car platform with its parent company Geely.

Volvo's SPA large - car platform is sized at, and priced just a bit below, the midsize Mercedes - Benz E - and GLE - Classes, or perhaps more appropriately, the Audi A6 / Q7.

The Acura MDX is the competitor most often considered: it's priced nearly identically, based off a car platform, and has a V - 6 and front - wheel drive.

But because the Crosstrek is, as it always has been, basically a jacked - up Impreza with more serious four - season tires and fender cladding, not an SUV on a compact car platform and its own blown - out «tophat,» it turns out to be a «tweener, with just a 1.2 - inch increase in wheelbase, 0.6 - inch increase in overall length, and 0.9 - inch wider body compared with the model it replaces.

Critics have suggested the 7 - seat Explorer, which migrates from a body - on - frame architecture to the Ford Taurus sedan's D - segment car platform, will steal sales from the Ford Edge and Flex.

Built on the new Lexus GA - L rear - wheel - drive luxury - car platform, the LC 500h uses an aluminum for the hood, door skins, and front suspension towers, and carbon fiber for the door structures, trunklid, and roof.

It could be based on a small front - wheel - drive car platform, or it might have the underpinnings of a full - sized, four - wheel - drive pickup truck.

And the 9X1 is much more than a compact sports car platform.

It's the first car to sit on the VW Group's new small car platform, its styling is sharper than ever, and its cabin could be the best in the class.

With a high muscular stance, four - wheel - drive and the legendary Swedish crashworthiness on a car platform, it was a hit right out of the box.

They look like SUVs but are based off car platforms rather than truck platforms.

The GS platform (also known as «Project Global» by Mitsubishi) is a compact car platform co-developed and shared by Mitsubishi Motors and DaimlerChrysler.

Crossovers may be all the rage but their buffed - out bodies riding on car platforms prompted us to seek out more substance in our latest comparison: true SUVs.

However, Canton will be producing the 2013 Nissan Sentra, giving it a unibody car platform in addition to the truck and SUV models.

In 2018 Mercedes will launch an all - new compact car platform to underpin the next A-Class, meaning the current version — which has sold strongly since its launch in 2012 — is on the way out.

Oh lordy, can BMW make a rigid car platform.

In 2003, the original Honda Pilot was the first eight - seat crossover to be based on a car platform.

The eighth - generation Fiesta is still based on Ford's global B - car platform, but on top of the tweaks received by the standard car to improve grip, plus the new model's wider track, the ST's chassis has been further tuned by Ford Performance.

Infiniti, Nissan's luxury brand, plans to build a compact car based on the MFA small - car platform from Daimler AG's Mercedes - Benz, Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn said.The new model will mark an expansion of...

Like the RX300, the Santa Fe is based on a car platform (the Sonata) and has 4 - wheel independent suspension, which eliminates the jarring ride that some SUV owners find distasteful.

Both are based on car platforms, both are available in four - wheel - drive — we really need some way to differentiate between car - based SUVs and truck - based SUVs.

«The efficiencies generated by our new global C - car platform will enable us to provide Ford Focus customers with an affordable product offering quality, fuel efficiency, safety and technology beyond their expectations,» he added.

Now that it wears the Corolla name, the iM is also a nice homage to one of the most legendary drift - car platforms of all: the rear - wheel drive 1980s Toyota Corolla AE86.

The 2011 Infiniti M37 is an evolutionary upgrade of Infiniti's mid-size luxury car platform.

The new Focus will be one of up to 10 unique models to be built from Ford's new C - car platform, which is expected to generate total sales in all regions of two million units annually by 2012.

It will be built on the new PQ25 small car platform — first used by the latest SEAT Ibiza.

The Outlander, though, is a «crossover» SUV, based on a car platform, so while it is capable of leisurely, unchallenging off - roading, the all - wheel - drive system is really designed for improved traction in bad weather, not rock - climbing.

«It comes from the car platform and the all - wheel - drive system.»

Ford will show the new Explorer sport - ute, which — unlike every other Explorer produced since the vehicle debuted in 1990 — is based on a car platform, rather than a truck platform.

«The new small - car platform architecture includes an all - wheel drive option,» Erich Schmitt, president of Seat said.

Based on the upcoming Fiat compact car platform this new model would compete against...

The truck - like underpinnings that made the Cherokee a legend among 4X4 enthusiasts was gone, replaced by the same compact car platform used in the now - discontinued Dodge Dart and Chrysler 200.

It will be on the compact car platform the Focus shares.

The new Focus hatchback will be one of up to 10 unique models to be built from Ford's new C - car platform.