Sentences with phrase «percent of car parts»

By 2015, for example, both Europe and Japan will require that 95 percent of car parts produced there be recyclable.

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It's been found that «86 percent of people who spend cash on luxuries like expensive cars, jewelry, and electronics are non-millionaires trying to act the part by purchasing luxury brands.»

Citi said the target increase was to reflect a higher implied valuation for DRB - Hicom's remaining Proton stake, a government grant accompanying the deal and the sale of a 51 percent stake in British sports - car brand Lotus to Geely for around 556 million ringgit, which was also part of the deal.

As part of the deal, Mercedes owner Daimler will take a stake of up to 5 percent in the 100 - year - old maker of the DB9 and Vanquish sports cars.

Currently, under NAFTA's «rules of origin» standards, a car has to have 62.5 percent of its parts made somewhere in North America in order to not face tariffs while being shipped and sold across borders.

WASHINGTON, DC — Today the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), as part of a coalition of food, farm and oil industry groups, filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court asking that it reverse the DC Circuit Court's August 2012 decision to dismiss its challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) decision to allow gasoline containing 15 percent ethanol («E15») to be sold for cars manufactured in the 2007 model year or later.

A 2009 study conducted as part of Partners for Child Passenger Safety found that kids between 4 and 8 were 45 percent less likely to sustain moderate to serious injuries in crashes when they were restrained in high - back or backless booster seats to lap - and - shoulder seat belts alone — and this reduction in injury risk went up to 67 percent for kids in post-1998 car models.

Her plan would have allowed DOE to issue grants covering 50 percent of the costs of industry projects such as retooling plants to make advanced cars or parts.

Another 4 percent could come from parts of the Climate Action Plan that are already in progress — including finalized fuel standards for new cars.

Rather than a hard cutoff at 75 percent domestic - parts content, as the AMI did in past years, the index now disqualifies cars below the top 40 percent of all domestic - parts content ratings among U.S. - built models.

The body of the TNGA - based Prius is said to be 60 percent stiffer than the outgoing car thanks in part to the use of high - strength steel for 19 percent of the structure, and there are profound effects on not only crashworthiness but also handling precision.

Rolls - Royce, part of BMW Group but not included in BMW's sales release, sold 1,140 cars, up 2.6 percent.

Good on McLaren for fully overhauling arguably its most important supercar, with 90 percent new parts and a design that's both stunningly futuristic and aware of its roots in the historic F1 road car.

This svelteness is thanks in part to the new car's extensive use of aluminum construction, comprising nearly 40 percent of the entire car.

The US - built Toyota Camry took the top spot in 2015 and 2016 as the most American - Made car with over 75 percent of its parts and manufacturing coming from the United States.

They use seven factors each year to decide the Kogod Made in America Auto Index, including where the body, interior, chassis, and electrical parts are manufactured (50 percent); where the engine (14 percent) and transmission (7 percent) are made; site of inventory, capital, and other expenses (11 percent); where research and development is done (6 percent); where the car is assembled (6 percent); and where the profit margin goes (6 percent).

It even has more power than the factory - produced customer race car, according to Audi, with which it shares about 50 percent of its parts.

Additionally, by keeping part of the drivetrain in back, a rear - wheel - drive car usually has weight distribution closer to the optimal 50 percent front and 50 percent rear than can be achieved with a FWD system.

Also, to be 100 percent clear, the Eos is no part of the VW's diesel debacle: It's motivated by a 200 - horsepower turbocharged gas engine that gets the car galloping with 207 lb. - ft.

BMW also claims the mill provides a 25 percent improvement in fuel economy over the outgoing V10 thanks to the inclusion of features such as brake - energy recuperation, an alternator that disengages under acceleration and an automatic stop / start function — all part of the German car maker's EfficientDynamics initiative.

Technically speaking, it is closely related to the road version of the sports car with around 50 percent of the same parts.

On top of being the best at car sales and parts sales, we rank in the highest 2 percent for customer satisfaction — and have done so for 11 consecutive years.

Mitsubishi has said it plans to reduce the number of passenger car models it offered by 40 percent and replace all those models with one «smart utility wagon,» a hybrid that would be part car, part sport - utility and would offer four - wheel - drive.

For the most part, the cars I'm playing with are in GTS specification, with their black accents, loud exhausts, and high level of standard equipment, about thirteen percent of buyers are ticking the GTS box for their Boxster, Cayman, 911, Panamera, or Cayenne.

The V class gets only 10 percent to 15 percent of its parts from the passenger car division - climate controls, the interior, engine and switches, said Volker Heuer, senior vice president of van and light truck deployment.

The core of the car is a body - in - white that has steel at its core, but aluminum is so prevalent that it makes up about 50 percent of the external body parts.

A study undertaken by the Australian Conservation Foundation and the University of Sydney supports the fact that the decision whether to drive to the shops or not is not a major factor in reducing emissions: «Shopping habits represent such a large part of greenhouse gas emissions that even if every household switched to renewable energy and stopped driving cars tomorrow, total household emissions would fall by less than 20 percent», the Sydney Morning Herald reports, quoting the study.

Driver training discount - Some car insurance providers will offer a discount, usually between 5 to 15 percent, for driving training courses, while others do not since it is part of the licensing process.

Relativity's goal is to introduce a highly automated rocket construction process that relies on nearly 100 percent 3D printed rocket parts, to create custom, mission - specific rockets that can launch payloads the size of small cars, or much larger than those of some of its cubesat - targeting competitors.