Sentences with phrase «powerful road cars»

Big heavy, powerful road cars don't necessarily fare well.

horsepower from its 6.3 - liter V12, the F12berlinetta is one of the most powerful road cars Ferrari has ever built.

Then, after many years in which AMG produced outrageously powerful road cars, the small carmaker from Affalterbach draw the attention of Mercedes, which acquired 51 % of the company in 1999.

This would make it the most powerful road car Alpina has ever produced.

The Fastest Ferrari — For Now Ferrari holds the F12 Berlinetta is the fastest, most powerful road car it's ever built.

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.

Jethro Bovingdon takes to the roads around Koenigsegg's production facility in the most powerful road car evo has ever tested — the one metric horsepower to one kilogram One: 1.

With a specific output of 160bhp per litre, this could Citroen's most powerful road car ever produced, squeezing 50bhp more out of the engine than Mini have managed with the Cooper JCW.

Total power is rated just shy of 700bhp, at a Lamborghini Aventador matching 690bhp, which would comfortably make this Audi's most powerful road car should it make production as we hope (and expect!)

Marking the ultimate evolution of the brand's W12 - engined Continental GT, it's also the most powerful road car the firm has ever made, with a peak output of 700bhp at 5900rpm.

Spot the flaw in this press release: «The new Seat Leon Cupra 300 is the most powerful road car in the brand's history.»

It's also the most powerful road car the company has built to this day.

The Corvette Z06 is the latest, fastest and most powerful road car to ever wear the Corvette badge.

There's more power here than a Ferrari F12 Berlinetta (before the LaFerrari appeared, that was the most powerful road car Ferrari had ever sold), the McLaren MP4 - 12C or the Porsche 911 Turbo.

Prepare yourselves as Seat is looking to take Frankfurt by storm with the new Leon Cupra R, the automaker's most powerful road car in history.

The addition of a # 6700 package of options means the BMW M5 Competition Package is the most powerful road car BMW has ever built

Almost without exception, the most powerful road car is made into a convertible and that car almost instantly becomes the most desirable car in the line up.

Last week, on the run - up to the 2014 Goodwood Festival of Speed, Land Rover revealed the most powerful road car they've ever created — the Range Rover Sport SVR.

Not exact matches

In one powerful example of the new capabilities around that time, Carnegie Mellon graduate student Dean Pomerleau used simulated images of road conditions to teach a neural network to interpret live road images picked up by cameras attached to a car's onboard computer.

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).

Even the high - performance M6 is, in essence, a powerful grand touring car that feels more at home on the highway than on winding roads.

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.

Speaking at the car's launch, John Hennessy, CEO said «We expect the Venom F5, named for the most powerful tornado speed winds on the Fujita scale, to be the first road car capable of achieving more than 300mph and have worked closely with Pennzoil to get us across the finish line».

The most powerful 911 road car to date, the GT2 RS has been Mr Porsche GT himself, Andreas Preuninger's project but it's Walliser who's in overall charge.

Not that an AWD car is for people who can't drive... far from it, but it does give piece of mind and comfort to many, and that feeling of being planted on the road in a powerful car.

Follow a more powerful sports car along a broken B - road and it'll spend its time weaving and braking around road imperfections, the driver wincing at the prospect of buckling a wheel, but in the Swift, you can simply breeze along.

Though with the standard VXR happy to exhibit torque steer on bumpier roads, a more powerful Superchips equipped car is likely to follow suit.

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).

The Focus ST has so much grip and poise that the scenery on the back roads outside Ada, Michigan flashed by more quickly than would have been the case in many other road cars — even those far more powerful and expensive.

In spite of the large wheelbase of the car this is a nimble and powerful full size sedan that can be a smooth luxury ride and with the push of a button in the sport mode can really pull ahead and offer an incredible ride through the winding canyon roads to the open highway.

The optimum is an early apex but in most cases feeling for this needs care only in a very powerful car with limited grip or when the road is wet.

In a more powerful car it's sometimes worth trying a later apex but because most people don't, the road is dirty and you lose whatever you might have gained.

After the smaller, lighter, more powerful 2016 Chevrolet Camaro debuted in the summer, we hurriedly took the car out testing on public roads and on the race track to see whether the sixth - gen Camaro is the best one yet.

Those tight uphill hairpins make all but the most powerful cars feel breathless... on a less extreme road I suspect the ST would feel more muscular.

This car will be able to go up and down reasonably steep hills, but it is not a powerful car, and it is definitely not an off road car.

The Civic Type - R road car sends 306bhp through its front wheels — enough to make it the most powerful front - drive car in its class — but the racing version is set to develop 350bhp.

Infiniti designers set out to create a sports car with a powerful road presence to match its top - notch performance.

On the road that'll let you enjoy the playful balance of a powerful rear - wheel drive car without the risk of becoming a reluctant YouTube star.

Like the 208, its resemblance to its road car relative doesn't extend far beyond pasting some carryover headlights onto an uber - powerful race car.

While the Mini, with its 34 hp engine, was never the most powerful car on the road, it proved ideal for driving on the compact streets of European cities.

The F12berlinetta was named «The Supercar of the Year 2012» by car magazine Top Gear The naturally aspirated V12 engine produces 740 PS (730bhp) at 8250 rpm and 690 N · m (509 lb · ft) of torque at 6000 rpm, making it the fourth-most powerful Ferrari road car to date, only surpassed by LaFerrari, F12tdf, and 812 Superfast.

On the road, the Cobalt SS happily motors along in rush - hour traffic, exhibiting none of the often high - strung temperament that some other powerful small cars have.

The «4C» name recalls Alfa Romeo's great sporting tradition: the acronyms 8C and 6C in the 1930s and 1940s distinguished racing and road cars fitted with powerful eight and six cylinder engines.

With enhanced performance, sharper dynamics and more powerful design language, AMR takes Aston Martin's road cars to new and exciting extremes.

Adjust the seat and start up the powerful engine and feel how this car acts like it's ready to head out on the road and be the right one for you to enjoy.

Powerful rear - wheel drive gives you a true sports car feel and enhances your control on the road.

The Corsa VXR is a thrilling car to drive on country roads: its powerful engine provides impressive performance, while excellent grip give reassurance that the car is able to handle all that power.

However, before you can even feel how powerful this car is out on the road, it's exterior look lets you in on the secret ahead of time.

The current Chevrolet Corvette Z06 is powered by the supercharged LT4 V8, which delivers 650 horsepower and 650lb - ft of torque, making it the most powerful production road car that General Motors has ever offered.