Sentences with phrase «road car engine»

Mounted in the middle you'll find the most powerful McLaren road car engine ever.

Those efforts include 355bhp which, AMG claims, gives the 45 motor the highest specific output of any road car engine save the V8 in the back of the McLaren P1.

The power output of the road car engine should be in the area of 550 hp.

The driveability requirements for a road car engine are completely different and the duty cycle puts very different demands on the combustion chamber design.

To allow the car to operate on pump gas, the rev limit is capped at 11,000 rpm, which still marks a world record for a road car engine.

They're built by the same team that builds the road car engines and are 100 % stock internally.

The # 132,020 Audi has the more exciting engine — its normally - aspirated V10 is one of the most thrilling road car engines currently being built — while the # 137,553 Porsche feels even faster than the GT C and would be easier to use day - to - day.

[59] The engine aims for higher efficiency and is said to herald «a new generation of high performance racing engines from Honda» and innovations during the engine's development will «further increase the efficiency of [Honda's] road car engines».

Not exact matches

If Tesla succeeds, million of electric cars will hit the road and the demise of the internal - combustion engine will be hastened.

The shift away from pure fossil - fuel engines has been so fast that 2017 sales of cars using some form of electric battery power topped out at 52 percent, according to the Norwegian Road Federation (OFV).

In episode 1 we find out how engine innovations from the racetrack have ended up in road cars, and meet some leaders in the sport to find out what makes them tick.

You could maybe use it to power that engine-less F1 showcar that you have sitting on your driveway, or if you're feeling particularly mad, you could swap it with the engine in your road car.

The current engines are much more road relevant with their hybrid systems and electric cars are becoming much more common, but Verstappen hopes F1 doesn't go fully - electric for some time:

This was a huge reason behind the introduction of the current engine formula, as small - capacity turbo engines with a hybrid element were all the rage in road cars when F1's 1.6 - litre V6 hybrid units were first announced.

The new engine formula will still have to remain technologically relevant to road cars and ensure that F1 stays as the «pinnacle of motorsport», so chances are they'll still be hybrids of some kind.

It won't have the road cars W12 engine either, unfortunately (imagine how a racing version of that might sound!)

The hum of an engine, vibration of the road, and the snug feeling of the car seat all work together to have a calming effect for many babies.

Projected carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from cars could remain level at three gigatons through 2050 despite many more personal vehicles on the road with only minor and affordable changes to existing engines, chassis and systems, according to a new report.

For example, because rickshaws have less mass and smaller engines, their CO2 emissions are about one third those of private cars, the latter of which consequently contribute as much as 90 percent of India's total urban road passenger transport emissions.

Auto industry experts predict that more than 50 percent of cars on the road by 2020 will use a relatively new type of fuel - efficient engine.

The Chevrolet Volt, which GM plans to introduce in two years (reportedly at a mid - $ 30,000 base price), is a new breed of gasoline - electric hybrid, cars powered by a battery - powered electric motor that can be recharged on the road with an internal combustion engine.

Think of a holiday road trip's effect on the climate this way: The amount of heat a car contributes to the atmosphere because of its carbon emissions may be 100,000 times greater than the actual heat given off by its engine.

Volkswagen and EPA have not yet disclosed how the defeat software manipulated performance in VW engines, but it may have run cars richer on testing rigs, cutting NOx emissions and keeping regulators happy, while running lean on the road, improving fuel economy and keeping customers happy.

Acceleration was louder and slower (the 2.0 liter engine with 164 horsepower has been revised making the car quicker than before) than I wanted from this car and road noise was noticeable.

In rally - car spec, the GT86 retains the 2.0 liter flat - four engine found in the road - going Toyota GT86 / Scion FR - S / Subaru BRZ, but adds a few key modifications to push power output to 235 hp and 170 lb - ft of torque — compared to 200 hp and 151 lb - ft in the regular car.

One of the most extraordinary and beautiful cars ever to reach production, the world's first hypercar (hitting close to 220mph while the McLaren F1 was still climbing off the drawing board) was vilified at its birth in 1992, by those who'd put down a deposit on its original # 361,000 price (which would rise to over # 400,000 by launch), for not having the 500bhp V12 engine, four - wheel drive and scissor doors promised in the concept and, at nearly 7ft wide, being too big for British roads.

But it's very much designed as a race car; the engine is designed by Aston Martin racing, certainly couldn't use that car very easily on the road, and it's not road - legal.

Ferrari's 250 series of cars was the first indication of volume production from the brand, with race cars and road cars sharing many chassis and engine components and more body styles on offer than ever before.

Admittedly, as the engine doesn't really get going until after 3000rpm it's less of an issue when you're enjoying a quiet road and from about 4500rpm it definitely pulls harder than the standard car.

The engine is said to be pretty close to the one found to the production car, being built in the same factory in Ohio and keeping the road - going NSX's block, crank, valvetrain, sump and cylinder heads.

He also was responsible for the glorious Alfa Romeo 8C 2900 (Le Mans, right), the Lancia Aurelia, and the V - 6 engines found in various Ferrari road cars.

Most car engines are open to the road on the underside so dirty, oily water and dust will splash and blow up from underneath.

Noise — whether from wind or road — is subjectively much lower in the S3 than in competitive cars, and the engine noise that does make it into the cabin has the carefully manicured feel of auditory bonsai, with boy - racer overtones totally absent.

A true page out of the traditional Ferrari history book, the 1964 Ferrari 275 GTB / C Speciale contains within a 320 - hp (70 hp more than the standard GTB road car), 3.3 - liter dry - sump V - 12 engine with six Weber 38 DCN carburetors, mated to a five - speed manual transaxle transmission.

His daily driver was a prototype McLaren road car — the M6GT — which used a tuned Chevrolet V8 engine.

The road car's gas engine has 500 hp.

Yet the FR - S is a better and more rewarding car to drive — at least on a handling course; we haven't driven it or the BRZ on public roads yet — than many cars that have turbos, large - displacement engines, transaxles, big rubber, or all - wheel drive.

So now, in the interest of maintaining parity, Mazda decided to have all left - hand - drive ND race cars built at Long Road Racing and sold with sealed engines, transmissions, and engine control units.

The engines are then sent to HPD in California for dressing final prep, sensor kits, etc.» The road car's gas engine develops 500 hp.

The engine is the same 1.6 - litre four - cylinder, the shell is the same as the road car's, and things like suspension pick - up points (and the type of suspension itself) remain the same.

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Higher trim levels with the same engine configuration do see the emissions creep up to the point where road tax is no longer free, but it'll still keep your company car tax payments sensible.

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«We have an F1 engine that is used to idling at 4500rpm, now idling at 1100rpm; it still revs to 11,000 rpm in the road car.

Race is the default setting, hinting at the car's target destination, but switching to Road mode reduces engine power with a lower rev limit.

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If the engine work is comprehensive, the chassis goes even further: new springs, dampers, electronic systems, wheels, tyres and a new generation of carbon - ceramic brake that uses, for the first time in a road car, a ceramic pad material.