Sentences with phrase «performance of cars like»

Unfortunately, many of these drivers are not prepared to handle the performance of cars like the electric SUV.

Not exact matches

He was incredibly successful in raising money for this Better Place thing, like $ 400 million or $ 500 million, but the board of directors weren't happy with the performance of the company, which has only sold 500 cars.

We are all performance enthusiasts, and if we like the car or truck, there will be a whole line of performance enthusiasts we know will like it too.

This is a waste of human potential: it's like driving a high - performance sports car at 20 kilometers an hour.

Pretend you are the CEO of a hot growth company like Tesla Motors (TSLA), the maker of high performance electric cars.

Not only that but my stress levels have nearly disappeared by getting rid of the performance car and other useless consuming debts / bills like cable.

Honda does seem to have been getting on top of things in recent races, so it'll hopefully give us an idea of just how much this upgrade improves the cars performance at a power circuit like Spa.

The car is powered by a 3.4 - litre Mecachrome V6 - not a hybrid like the Toyota, but new rules for this season are supposed to bring the performance of the hybrids and non-hybrids closer together, so competition should hopefully be tight.

Hysteresis, where a material's performance relies upon its history — like the weakening of the rubber in a car tyre due to repeated use — is also a sticking point for Eva Unger, a postdoc at Lund University, Sweden.

Matusik says InstantCAD could be particularly helpful for more intricate designs for objects like cars, planes, and robots, particularly for industries like car manufacturing that care a lot about squeezing every little bit of performance out of a product.

The company is counting on the taxpayer - backed loans to offset up to 80 % of the development cost of the Model S. Tesla has said it expects that car to cost $ 60,000 and compete against the likes of the BMW 5 Series for luxury and performance.

Or it could be that the analytic portions of the brain are like a high performance car: They require more maintenance in old age than an ordinary model.

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If we want electric cars to have anything like the performance and versatility of internal combustion ones, they have to «refuel» reasonably quickly; the idea of exchangeable battery packs is an environmental and practical minefield.

Research so far is decidedly mixed: Some studies have found that, while doing crossword puzzles may make you better at remembering the capital of Burkina Faso, there's little evidence they'll boost your performance at more general tasks, like remembering where your car is parked.

I thought it might be useful for people who are listening in their cars or people who are watching on iTunes or on YouTube, just to hear like what the application of Bulletproof does to someone who has obviously very high - level performance like working as an actor is crazy.

Directed with the equal energy by British director John Hough, whose lean, high - powered action scenes are energized by the dynamic, almost child - like performances of his thrill - addicted characters, it's a classic of seventies speed cinema, where car chase and stunt films were really about rubber hitting — and leaving — the road.

So if you're a fan of motorsports, Project Cars 2 really spoils you with the variety of disciplines, the different types of series and the amazing selection of cars that includes classics like the Ferrari 330 P4 to high performance vehicles such as McLaren P1Cars 2 really spoils you with the variety of disciplines, the different types of series and the amazing selection of cars that includes classics like the Ferrari 330 P4 to high performance vehicles such as McLaren P1cars that includes classics like the Ferrari 330 P4 to high performance vehicles such as McLaren P1GTR.

«Morlando draws great performances out of his two young leads, Quebec's [Sophie] Nélisse and America's [Josh] Wiggins, who are like fugitives out of a French New Wave film, discovering love while also hatching a plan on the run.They've had to suddenly leave their rural homes, in the mythical U.S. state of Great Lakes (according to car licence plates), because Jonas has grabbed a big bag of cash from Casey's abusive bad - cop dad Wayne -LRB-[Bill] Paxton), after furtively witnessing a criminal betrayal that turns into a bloodbath.The two teens take off, with Casey's dog in tow, but Wayne isn't far behind.

In a press - release, Slightly Mad Studios said: «we're proud to announce today that Project CARS will be supporting Project Morpheus giving players a totally fresh and exhilarating new perspective on what it feels like to sit in the cockpit of a high - performance machine screaming around a beautiful location.»

William McGann's I Like Your Nerve (1931) may run a short 62 minutes, but it is full of energy, humor, wit and a young Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. in rare form giving one of his most irrepressible performances as a playboy who knows no bounds or borders (he keeps tormenting border guards with his fancy car) when he and a beautiful, looking real good Loretta Young shows up.

What attracted critical minds like Jacques Rivette, Eric Rohmer, and others to Nicholas Ray and his oeuvre — bored stiff as they were by the risk - averse, respectable, and ultimately neutered «cinema of quality» — was the stamp of the personal and the element of danger they discerned in his films, whether that meant the improvisatory handling of actors with a touch deft enough to coax remarkable performances out of even non-professionals; the «superior clumsiness,» cited by Rivette in «Notes on a Revolution,» resulting in «a discontinuous, abrupt technique that refuses the conventions of classical editing and continuity»; or the purely visual flourishes Ray relished — ranging from the sweeping, vertiginous helicopter - mounted shots in They Live By Night to disorienting, subjective POV compositions like the «rolling camera» during a car crash halfway through On Dangerous Ground, its very title indicating the source of Ray's critical appeal.

Onlookers at Monterey Car Week, however, got the first glimpse at what the future of ultra-elite luxury, technology, and performance will look like in the minds of Stuttgart's best and brightest.

If you like Caterhams, sports coupes or tuned Porsches you're in for a treat, and as ever we've got test drives of the latest performance cars too.

Some of that joy is felt here, but with a $ 18,860 starting price — my test car's sticker hovered near $ 23,000, and that didn't include navigation — it doesn't come close to the experience of driving a performance - oriented model like the Honda Civic Si or Mazda3 s, and it barely manages to hold its own against its competitors» non-performance base models.

Would like to see this and the 718 Cayman S (a brilliant chassis, a true wolf in sheeps clothing) in the upcoming EVO performance car of the year - in fact a manual base «vanilla» Carrera also may make a pretty good showing, far better than M2 / M3 / M4 etc..

The rate of attrition means examples like this RS200 at Joe Macari Performance Cars in Wandsworth (via Classic and Performance Car) are now very rare indeed.

To this mix of thoroughbred coupes, we also added a ringer, the Porsche Boxster S. With a folding roof, a mid-mounted engine, and space for just two people, the Boxster is nothing like the other cars, yet it lands in the same space when it comes to price and performance.

To ignore this and continue producing only performance cars is to risk a fate like that of Kodak, which blithely focused on its profitable film business only to find one day there was no more film business.

Kitman, like many of us, recognized that the car is perfectly comfortable on long stretches of highway, but its performance on the crowded, hectic streets of New York City left him a bit cold.

And now that our Four Seasons fleet now includes high - performance cars like the Chevrolet Corvette Stingray and Ford Fiesta ST, there will be plenty more opportunities for the 2014 Mazda 3 to show that it can measure up to any kind of competition.

The Range Rover Sport SVR is the first car to emerge from JLR's «Special Vehicle Operations division» and promises the same sort of performance as the likes of an X5 M and ML63 AMG, that is, a lot.

Most of all, though, this car reminds us how much we like driving the regular 2015 Ford Focus ST.. The Ford Performance parts installed on this one don't transform the hot hatch so much as emphasize its virtues and soften its flaws.

I've been lucky enough to feel that natural high in road cars, race cars and record - breaking cars, but nothing approaches the stimulant - like effects of the Venom GT's all - out performance.

While this particular prototype features dual exhaust tips instead of the quad ones found on recent M cars, the black side mirrors indicate that it may be an M Sport variant or an M Performance model like the recently released M760i xDrive.

Theoretically, the car can run two flat - out laps of the Nurburgring with very little degradation in peak performance — in contrast to cars like the Tesla Model S, whose quick Ludicrous mode acceleration runs require a full charge and lengthy conditioning procedure for just a few seconds of flat - out performance.

We like the new Kia Stinger GT - S - it's a solid four - star evo car, with a strong mix of performance, handling and refinement.

For anyone who has witnessed me bouncing from one Armco barrier to the next on Gran Turismo this might not seem like a wise idea but at the wheel of the Insignia today is Volker Strycek, Vauxhall's Director of Performance Cars and Motorsport, and once he's danced his way down Hatzenbach and blitzed the rest of the lap I can't help but feel I may have misjudged the GSi.

We found the Accord Sport to be both comfortable and fun to drive in a way Honda has long been known for — not with hit - you - over-the-head performance like an AMG or even the finely tuned poise of a Porsche but with the simple, honest character of a car designed and built well — and built to be used, however you plan to use it.

In terms of space, practicality and a grown - up feel the Proceed is definitely closer to cars like the Golf and Focus, but for performance it's a closer match to the cars in the class below.

However, GTC customers will be able to spec their cars similarly to the GTS and TA models with standalone options like aerodynamic packs, upgraded interior trims, and even a full TA package that match these higher trims in terms of performance and luxury trim.

The low - slung Merc feels like more of a weapon, a car more focused on going hard and fast, and it takes time to get used to the magnitude of the performance on offer.

Buying this car and expecting great performance is a little bit like buying a pair of Air Jordans and trying to dunk from the foul line.

Track mode is the last stop before «everything off,» and the idea is to provide the kind of high - performance traction control that would be outlawed in most actual race cars: flatten the pedal on corner exit and the car will deploy as much power as the tires can handle, just like a Ferrari 458 Italia in race mode.

In fact, given that this special R8 looks to share some elements with R8 race cars like its hood scoop and aerodynamic winglets, this final edition car could very well be some sort of track - oriented performance model.

The trick with modern performance cars is adding these new layers of digital speed enhancements without ending up with a car that feels like a driving simulator.

If the only practical way to use this car is to dress up like you were going to ride a motorcycle, why wouldn't you just get a modern sports - bike for the same performance and (lack of) weather - protection, comfort and practicality at about an 8th of the price?

I particularly like the CTS's performance brakes: they're extremely powerful but unlike the binders in many sporty cars, don't jerk you to a stop at the first tap of the pedal.

Plenty of performance, handles great, loaded with options, and looks like a muscle car.

The bold looks, silly noises and committed suspension do bestow the Competizione with bags of character, and even though it's a capable performance car it feels like an eccentric choice.