Sentences with phrase «performance cars over»

It slots into a motoring.com.au's «Best Performance Cars Over $ 100K» category, which puts it up against some stiff competition, including Porsches and Ferraris.

Yamaha has a long and detailed automotive history beyond its motorcycle division, developing and building engines for all manner of performance cars over the years — from the humble Ford Puma to the Lexus LFA's screaming V10.

Have owned many performance cars over the years but after my first BMW I found it very difficult to drive other makes and brands.

The broken, lumpen B - roads around evo's Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire homes have exposed many an oversprung performance car over the years, but the S1 absorbs the endless bumps sweetly and without deflection, keeping its four contact patches firmly in touch with the tarmac.

Not exact matches

Ford Motor Co on Monday said it was replacing Chief Executive Officer Mark Fields with James Hackett, the head of the unit developing self - driving cars, in response to investors» growing unease over the U.S. carmaker's stock performance and prospects.

Fellow luxury carmaker McLaren, known for high performance cars such as the new 720S model that debuted in China on Wednesday, is planning to expand its range of electric products over the long - term.

By focussing on the software and driver experience over the vehicle's physical performance, Breitfeld hopes to avoid repeating the same mistakes as Faraday Future — an electric car company that has run into financial difficulties after unveiling its FF91 vehicle at CES last year.

Combining safety, performance, and efficiency, Model S has reset the world's expectations for the car of the 21st century with the longest range of any electric vehicle, over-the-air software updates that make it better over time, and a record 0 - 60 mph acceleration time of 2.28 seconds as measured by Motor Trend.

SUVs have also increasingly taken over the higher end of the market, where large sedans and high performance cars used to dominate.

MG we got something on sunday that we cant argue with (a footballing lesson), playin away suits us better in the big games because we do nt have to put the pressure on and can sit back and counter, but regardless denilson was terrible at his job saturday, his performance guaranteed a loss even if you lot werent on fire, if any other professional in any job on earth went about their job as denilson did sunday then there would be dead bodies dead pets car engines with screws missing doors falling off their hinges gas explosions computers crashing all over earth, i think we can stop chelsea this weekend without denilson and nasri

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There are a number of reasons for this, but part is that I'm not very interested in cars in general, and I'm even less interested in playing a game that makes me repeat sections over and over and over in an effort to get my performance exactly right.

We've known this was the case since the car's debut and the absence of a manual is not at all surprising, but depending on the eight - speed's performance, Audi's choice of transmission could be a point of contention over the car's entire lifecycle.

Doubts have been cast over Alfa Romeo's ability to build a high - performance, rear - driven super-saloon that could seriously mix the practicality of a four - door with the performance of a sports car.

I have a 05» GT model, had it just over 2 years and it's great, for the cost I don't think another car matches it for looks, noise, performance, reliability and did I mention noise: D

So if you crave a new rotary - engined four - door coupe, you'll have to act quickly... We've been one of the most welcoming markets for Mazda's rather revolutionary performance car, with over 26,000 of its 186,000 global sales coming from Great Britain.

Never once during my week with the car did my insides flood with a performance - induced adrenaline rush, but I thoroughly enjoyed my daily drives anyway, savoring engineering that places astuteness over showiness.

Hennessey Performance's upgrades will result in a 60bhp power and a 78 lb ft increase in torque over the standard car's 345bhp produced at 6000rpm and 347 lb ft produced from 2000 through to 4500rpm.

The central theme of this year was «Peaks of Performance - Motorsport's Game - changers», and paid homage to cars so dominant, technically advanced, fast or expensive that rules had to be created to rein them in - think Group B cars, ground - effect F1 cars or some of the wilder sports cars that have dominated racing over the years.

That's only a $ 5,000 increase over the previous entry - level Model S 60, which is how much Tesla usually charges just for adding AWD to a Model S. Given that the new car also has improved performance, a longer driving range, and extra standard features, the 70D's price tag is actually a bargain.

Over the course of the GT - R's life, Nissan has gradually engineered out some of the car's hard edges to bring about the higher degree of civility that tends to be asked of modern day performance cars.

Infiniti says over 750 of its engineers, both in Japan and Europe, fine - tuned the car's feel and performance.

Some manufacturers dismiss it, and the Nurburgring itself has come under scrutiny over safety in recent times, but there's no doubt that this special circuit retains a firm grip on the imagination of performance car enthusiasts.

It has better body control over a cresting, undulating road than any of BMW's high performance M cars and it feels agile, darty and poised in corners.

1991: Acura NSX Why it won: It distilled all of Honda's engineering experience and vast successes over the preceding quarter century while establishing new benchmarks for performance, affordability, and technology in exotic sports cars.

In the midst of launching the Charger and Challenger Hellcat muscle cars, both of which produce over 700 hp, the Dart doesn't fit into the Dodge brand's performance DNA, Kuniskis tells WardsAuto.

While these cars won't necessarily preview the performance cars we'll be driving over the next few years, they're a good indication as to the direction manufacturers are taking in terms of design and technology.

Lotus is far from the first manufacturer to put its sports car around the «Ring, but it's a mark of how serious the firm is about the new car's performance that over 2000 kilometres were covered there in two weeks of testing.

Comfortable and stylish interior and exterior (M - Sport Package) Beautiful interior (Ivory White leather with patterned aluminum and matte blue trim) Excellent performance - the car is always in the right gear and I don't have to use the paddle shifters (Twin Scroll turbo, 240 Hp, 255 ft lbs, 8 speed automatic) Practical - four doors with a hatch After owning BMW's for over 20 years, this car is truly the Ultimate Driving Machine!

The 8 - series isn't all about balanced, complementary elements though; the softer, flowing, more elegant lines of the body that manage the air flowing over the car are contrasted by the aspects relating to the engine and performance.

If you really need a fast, luxurious, 4wd 2 +2 coupe for a quarter of a million, go to Maranello and do it properly with an FF, which has its engine in the right place for a performance car, rather than the Continental's VW - Iltis - derived position, cantilevered out over the front wheels.

So it's amazing that rivals have taken over a decade to respond, even as the third - generation RS6 firmly makes its own mark on the performance car landscape.

Whatever your view on the rise of turbocharging as a catalyst for more power, there's no doubt it's allowed the performance of everything from city cars to supercars to climb at a huge rate over the last decade or two.

You'd need to be sold on the Citroen's styling and image to choose it over more driver - orientated choices from Mini and Ford, given its pricing - # 18,880 is a fair chunk more than you'd pay for a Fiesta ST (# 17,250) or even a MINI Cooper S (# 18,655), both cars that offer more if driving and performance take precedence over style.

There is no doubt: The days when the number of cylinders and amount of displacement determined a car's performance are over.

Performance was explosive, with the MP4 / 4 over three seconds faster around Imola than the next team's car.

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.»

But what's most apparent is the abilities of the PDCC roll bars to slacken off when the car is cruising in a straight line, removing the sort of head toss that could blight a stiffly sprung high performance SUV over uneven road surfaces.

The second design, a Lancia Delta S4, is the car that battled with the T16 over two seasons notching five victories, but ultimately failed to match the Peugeot's title clinching performances.

Thankfully, the weather improved over the next few days, and there were plenty of opportunities to relish the car's awesome performance.

Propulsion-wise it's an electric vehicle, with a 150kW (equivalent to 201bhp) motor combining with a low 1050 kg weight and aerodynamic teardrop - shaped body to provide sports car performance — 0 - 62mph in a just over 4sec apparently, while top speed is 137mph.

The Mégane 265 was certainly one of the firmer cars on that route, and much as I loved its single - minded attitude in placing precision and performance over plushness, I did wonder how many people would be forced to choose a Golf GTI instead, purely to hush the complaints of passengers.

With pretty much every other manufacturer of small performance cars moving to turbocharged petrol engines, it's not hard to see the Clio's naturally aspirated motor as being the end of an era — it's certainly one of the last hot hatches that enjoys being ragged out to over 7000rpm.

Founder and CEO of ARES, Dany Bahar, has voiced his intentions for ARES Design, saying: «We started ARES three years ago with unprecedented demand to work on the personalisation of clients» cars, and have satisfied well over 200 customers with unique interiors, exterior design elements, bodywork engineering and performance upgrades.

Most supermini hot hatches in this price bracket and with this level of performance and dynamic ability were pretty tiring motorway companions, but this car is refined and comfortable over long journeys.

Oettinger has disclosed performance figures for the TCR Germany Street, however: 0 - 62mph takes just over five seconds — placing the car on a par with a Golf R — and the top speed is 170mph.

Earlier in the week we pored through the evo archives, and those of our predecessor Performance Car, to find ten hot hatchbacks that have, perhaps unfairly, fallen from our collective consciousness over the years.

Like those cars, the Benz emphasizes luxury and style over performance.

And that's a very good thing, not only for this car but for future developments, as the engineers at Silverstone Performance are working on a new induction kit with a remapped ECU which should liberate well over 210bhp.

As the 4500rpm limit means the new car's full performance can't yet be judged, I also can't help musing over whether acquiring the car was the right thing to do at all.