Sentences with phrase «regular production cars»

The reason some of the other cars aren't on here is because these are only regular production cars.

When the decade began, the main mission of a futuristic concept car was to draw auto show attendees to an automaker's display, where regular production cars also would get noticed.

In the mid -»80s Honda was the first company to pioneer four - wheel steering in regular production cars.

It had 5,000 very hard test drive miles on it, and a spokesman for Saab said our 900 SE convertible tester was one of the very first built and not typical of regular production cars.

The key to keeping costs down, Kimber discovered, was to use tried and true mechanical components from regular production cars - a formula used to this day.

At $ 61,000 and change, the Allante is the most expensive regular production car you can buy from an American manufacturer.

Cadillacs with the V -8-6-4 engine lasted for only 1981 in regular production cars but the engines were continued in limousines in 1982 before being dropped.

While the Audi I'm test - driving is a regular production car, the fuel inside it is a new, ultra-potent kind of biofuel that has only a quarter of the per - gallon carbon footprint of petroleum - derived fuel.

The latter lifts the M3's standard 425bhp output to 444bhp, with a healthy torque output of 406 lb ft.. While top speed remains limited to 155mph, it's enough to launch the M DCT model to 62mph in four seconds flat, or a tenth quicker than the regular production car.

Mercedes hopes to bridge the gap between its regular production cars and its commercial vehicle line with the X-class.

What's amazing is that Moers predicts that much of this technology will actually make its way to regular production cars.

Ford is adding a 1.0 - liter EcoBoost three - cylinder engine — the first three - cylinder engine Ford has built for a regular production car — and an new eight - speed automatic transmission to its line - up.

And in addition to fore - and - aft adjustment, the steering wheel may now also be adjusted for height as on the regular production car.

In response to a voluntary effort by European manufacturers to reduce CO2 emissions, BMW has taken a two - prong approach to not only boosting the fuel economy of its regular production cars, but also by creating a new range of vehicles that takes advantage of the latest advances in hybrid and electric technology.

Plus, it meets Dodge's durability standards for its regular production cars and carries the same warranty as every other Challenger.

Fitted to a prototype version of the soon - to - be-introduced M235i Coupe, the advanced system has been developed by BMW's Technik division in Munich, Germany as part of a program that aims to make cars fully autonomous by the end of the decade, when vital juristic changes to road worthiness laws across the globe are expected to allow such technology to be introduced to regular production cars.

This was then covered in hide as opposed to the vynide material that covered the dashboards in the regular production cars.

Ford started offering their new turbocharged 1.0 - litre three - cylinder EcoBoost unit in the Focus from 2012, having never before built a regular production car engine with fewer than four cylinders.

This system, developed to production standard by a development consortium under the leadership of BMW offers a standard of data transfer capacity never seen before - and BMW is the first carmaker in the world to use FlexRay technology in a regular production car.