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The goal: leave behind as many less powerful cars as you can in the time allotted.

The Big 3 are going back to the future with bigger and more powerful cars as a way to bolster slumping sales and sagging market share, according to preliminary 1991 model information provided fleet customers.

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In his TED Talk, Bloom explains that work - from - home is potentially as powerful and innovative as the driverless car.

As a result testers got one outcome — a diesel - powered car that met all the EPA's emissions requirements — while VW owners got another: a more powerful vehicle that spewed out up to 35 times more nitrogen oxide, an air pollutant, than standards allow.

This fast and powerful two - door sedan does double - duty as a legit business car.

In this group the fear of homosexuality is as pervasive as the passion for fast, powerful cars.

A shiny new Mercedes - AMG GT R will be used as the safety car for the 2018 Formula 1 World Championship, the most powerful car ever used in this capacity.

«Just as seat belt laws and the smoking ban have helped change behaviour in the past, outlawing smoking in cars with children would send a powerful signal and improve public health.

Situated atop a bedrock of all - powerful vibranium, Wakanda has developed technology that positions it far ahead of the rest of Earth — flying cars and everything — but to protect its people from colonial predations, the country's rulers have cloaked their cities and marvels behind invisible shields, the better to pose as «just another» Third World nation.

But for all the flaws in is overall design, Jayne Mansfield's Car has a handful of powerful scenes, most involving Thornton as a damaged WWII veteran and Duvall and Hurt as men who loved the same woman, but feel inclined to suspend their rivalry after she passes.

Social dramas or «message films» expressed powerful lessons, such as the harsh conditions of Southern prison systems in Hell's Highway (1932) and I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932), the plight of wandering groups of young boys on freight cars during the Depression in William Wellman's Wild Boys of the Road (1933), or the lawlessness of mob rule in Fritz Lang's Fury (1936), or the resourcefulness of lifer prisoner and bird expert Robert Stroud (Burt Lancaster) in John Frankenheimer's Birdman of Alcatraz (1961), or the tale of a framed, unjustly imprisoned journalist (James Cagney) in Each Dawn I Die (1939).

Now 300 hunk Rodrigo has been cast as the powerful owner of an international car racing team who becomes a rival for her affections, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The 2015 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 now has much more ammo for competing in the horsepower wars, as its whopping 650 hp makes it one of the most powerful cars sold in the U.S.. It's bested only by the 651 - hp Ferrari FF, the 662 - hp Ford Shelby GT500, the 700 - hp Lamborghini Aventador LP 700 - 4, the 730 - hp Ferrari F12 berlinetta, and wild hybrid hypercars including the 887 - hp Porsche 918 Spyder, 890 - hp McLaren P1, and 963 - hp Ferrari LaFerrari.

The Vulcan, which made its world debut at the 2015 Geneva auto show, is powered by a 7.0 - liter V - 12, which is being billed as the most powerful normally aspirated car in production.

Others to consider include the similarly priced Infiniti Q30, and you might see the Lexus CT 200h as a rival to the A3 e-tron electric car, or perhaps the less powerful TDI units.

Playing as a cop, you get points for busting racers, and unlocking higher - performance police cars and more powerful pursuit features.

Porsche 911 GT2 / / $ 198,875 (as tested) / / Lap Time: 1:47.9 Stuttgart's latest rump - shaking tour de force is the fastest and most powerful roadgoing 911 to date, the most expensive new Porsche you can buy, and one of the most remarkably talented rear - engine cars ever built.

Analysts expect that the latter to increase as we get toward the year's end, giving car buyers some help dealing with steep sticker prices — and also greasing the wheels of the marketplace to keep the surprisingly powerful auto - sales recovery rolling along.

If Piech, Winterkorn and the powerful union leader Bernd Osterloh fail to agree on a candidate, the group may be split into two separate units, one serving as roof for luxury and sports cars, the other one being the new home of the volume brands.

There's no better way to travel U.S. highways than at the wheel of an American car, especially one as powerful as the SHO, which eats up the long stretches of open road in the emptiness of the West.

The others are desirable examples of Mopar muscle: a 1966 Dodge Coronet 500, its squared - off lines hiding a Hemi V8 as powerful as that V8 Vantage, and one of the all - time great stock cars, a 1970 Plymouth Road Runner Superbird.

As well as being more powerful than the standard GTB, the 488 Pista's engine is lighter, too, thanks to the use of inconel exhaust manifolds and a lighter crankshaft and flywheel from the Challenge car, plus the use of titanium conrods and a carbonfibre intake plenuAs well as being more powerful than the standard GTB, the 488 Pista's engine is lighter, too, thanks to the use of inconel exhaust manifolds and a lighter crankshaft and flywheel from the Challenge car, plus the use of titanium conrods and a carbonfibre intake plenuas being more powerful than the standard GTB, the 488 Pista's engine is lighter, too, thanks to the use of inconel exhaust manifolds and a lighter crankshaft and flywheel from the Challenge car, plus the use of titanium conrods and a carbonfibre intake plenum.

The meaning of «premium» is ever fuzzier as the ability, quality and technology gap closes; Peugeot's view is that «premium» now means nothing more than having big, powerful cars at the top of the range which can shine their glory on the humbler machines below.

In fact, the 2014 M235i now boasts the most powerful gasoline motor in a M Performance vehicle — as distinct from a full - on M car, since of course those are all powered by small Hadron Colliders.

They are comfortable, powerful cars with enough creature comforts for long trips and as a daily driver.

As seen in these renderings, a Buick Avista convertible would keep much of the design that made the coupe concept car so appealing: Buick's elegant, wide - mouth nose; powerful, massively flared rear haunches; and sensuous shoulder lines that grace the bodysides.

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The upgradeable, app - loving Audi Connect lets users stream video, link smartphones to the car's data plan and powerful onboard antennae, and perform cool functions such as Picture Navigation: Use a photo via the onboard Google Street View, or have a friend send a snapshot, and the nav system can set a destination based on the photo's geo - coordinates.

It's no surprise that yet another Porsche sits near the top of this list, as the legendary Porsche 911 sports car lineup has ballooned into 16 separate models ranging from sporty to unbelievably powerful.

As six - figure cars go, the Aston Martin Vantage is far from the most powerful, but its entertainment factor involves more than straight - line speed.

There are no plans to produce a road - going version as yet, the car designed to be a powerful track special for Seven owners to aspire to (note its Seven-esque grille above the front splitter).

This is mostly due to the fact that today's CTS - V is considerably larger and more powerful than the outgoing model, now that the ATS - V has arrived as Cadillac's entry - level performance car.

When Mazda's highest - volume car went in for a redesign for the 2010 model year, it emerged with a more powerful engine (in the «s» models, at least), an additional gear for its manual and automatic transmissions, a plethora of new luxury features, and new styling led off by a front end that West Coast editor Jason Cammisa described as «an anime gremlin wearing an I've - been - naughty grin.»

He adapted to myriad changes in suspension, aero and, of course, powertrains, over the years, recalling his first stint in the Audi V - 12 TDI car as «the most powerful car he's ever driven.»

While the new Ford Shelby GT350 Mustang might not be as crazy powerful as the old supercharged GT500, with its absurd 662 horses and 200 - plus - mph top speed, there's no reason to believe the new car won't deliver fantastic performance.

It's as though this Bentley ticks all the boxes on what a ultra-luxury car should have: it has a specialized, high - end audio system designed by Naim and bespoke to the car; it has ornate, cross-hatched metal detailing; and a powerful 500 - hp 4.0 - liter V - 8 engine.

To close out the 997 generation, a new 911 GT2 RS rolls forth this fall as the fastest, most powerful production car ever to wear a Porsche crest.

True, the Ibiza's interior doesn't provide the same amount of space as the Jazz, and the Spanish car isn't quite as powerful or as quick, but it is more economical and — perhaps most importantly for anyone reading evo — more rewarding to drive.

The torque - vectoring effect is nowhere near as profound as that in more powerful cars that can send more power to the rear, such as the Porsche Cayenne and the Audi S4.

It made it to the USA as the Pontiac GTO, and when it arrived on UK soil in 2004 it became the most powerful road car ever to wear the griffin badge.

The family car of our group, the Honda Accord, steps on a few toes, but it does so with an enthusiastic smile, its powerful V - 6 growling as I blip the throttle and downshift into second.

There's even scope for a more powerful 22kW charger to be fitted to the next Formula E safety car - Qualcomm says a 22kW charger could fill an i8's empty battery in as little 15 minutes, and perhaps more impressively, it could even fill the much larger battery of the all - electric i3 in less than an hour.

It would have been nice to see a non German car in the test, specifically the Giulia Quadrifoglio lighter but as powerful as the C63 and with the balance of the M3 it does set the standard for the class - looks better too!

Think of your car's computer as only as powerful as the inputs (or sensors) that are wired up to it.

There's plenty of it, of course, but this engine — which is pretty dull if impressively powerful in the standard car — seems to have a more exciting delivery, really building in intensity as it howls up to the limiter.

Allowing light output more than two times as powerful as LED alone, Audi says the laser technology be used for the first time on this year's R18 Le Mans car.

Stay tuned for more info on the most powerful Cayman yet as we get closer to the car's Geneva debut.

With body - on - frame construction and a fairly agricultural 1.3 - liter overhead valve engine, the MG was far from modern or refined in post-war America, but it gave thousands of people their first taste of what a sports car should feel like and served as a gateway drug to both racing and more expensive, more powerful sports cars.

, that is utter nonsense and as wind and solar increase they will displace water and create power from hydro dams and sea wind farms into a totally clean electric infrastructure running clean electric steel forging, electric welding and electric aluminium smelting that will create these simple powerful cars for a much brighter future.

This success would pave the way for many more M - cars, all of them more powerful, most of them excellent drivers» cars too, but, as we discovered in 2007 when we brought together 13 different M models for our «Ultimate M Test» story, none of them could quite match the magic of the E30.