Sentences with phrase «road car prototype»

Ranged from right to left were the fluorescent red Bertone road car prototype, an utterly original, lime green production car, an immaculate, Marlboro - liveried Group 4 rally car, and the Fenomenon concept car from the 2005 Geneva motor show.

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On a sunny Saturday morning, I made my way up from Business Insider's suburban New Jersey road test center to Miller Motor Cars in Greenwich, Connecticut where Bugatti stored its two Chiron prototypes.

In the late 1990s manufacturers went bonkers with the GT1 regulations and produced cars more akin to full - blown Le Mans prototypes than the road car - based category it was meant to be.

Nissan has shown off a prototype sweat - sensing car seat which it says could help prevent road accidents.

Its prototype autonomous cars have driven farther than any other company's offering, even on some public roads in California and Texas.

Many skyscrapers — and even homes — have such fuel cells today, but the prototype cars on the road — ranging from GM's fuel cell Chevy Equinox to BMW's hydrogen - burning 7 Series sedan — have proved too expensive so far to fulfill the Bush administration's dreams of a hydrogen car economy.

In the future, this technology could help self - driving cars anticipate future events on the road and produce more intelligent robotic assistants in homes, but the initial prototype focuses on learning simple manual skills entirely from autonomous play.

More than that, you've got everything from your Le Mans Prototypes to road cars like a Ford Escort.

The pack introduces several new cars all of the Japanese variety, ranging from road legal sports cars to a winning Le Mans prototype.

Livonia - based Roush Enterprises, for example, was chosen to build Google's self - driving car prototypes that are now testing on public roads in Austin, Texas and near the company's headquarters in Silicon Valley.

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

Google's autonomous car prototypes began on - road testing earlier this year, with Google aiming for 10,000 miles covered each week driving around Mountainview, California and Austin, Texas.

Back in February, when I first traveled to England for the unveiling of the Senna prototype, I remarked on the considerable, seemingly impossible challenge McLaren had undertaken in attempting to produce a road car worthy of its namesake, the late three - time Formula 1 world champion Ayrton Senna.

The car aims to employ similar dynamics to prototype Le Mans race cars — as well as a few tricks from Formula 1 — to deliver an experience that's yet to ever grace the road.

John Warburton explains his fruitful pre-WW1 relationship with the Luton factory and the car's début at Waddington Fell / Auto - biography: Ronald «Steady» Barker — Matthew Bell travels to Wiltshire to meet the incorrigible 93 - year - old motoring journalist and learn about his life and career / 10EX: the full - bore Phantom — An experimental car that was the first post-WW1 Rolls - Royce built purely for speed, David Burgess-Wise drives this fascinating machine / Vintage Revival Montlhéry — In a two - part article, Robin Batchelor describes The Automobile's journey to Montlhéry while David Burgess-Wise reports on the action as the banked circuit reverberated again to the sound of prewar cars and motorcycles / Back on the Road — Michael Ware reports on the restoration of a 1947 Dellow, one of only two survivors of the four original prototypes for this highly effective trials car

We visited Honda's global research and development center this week to drive an engine and transmission development prototype of the car ahead of its arrival on U.S. roads later this year.

DETROIT — Google plans to test its autonomous car prototypes on northern California roads «later this year» says Chris Urmson (below, right), director of the Internet search engine giant's self - driving car project.

Racing «sports cars,» like the incredibly efficient (but also insuperably ugly) Prototype racers that now fight for overall victory at Le Mans, have absolutely no visual linkage to anything any of us would want to be seen driving on the road.

Following the construction of the CLK LMs and the CLK GTR road cars, the project would end in 1999 by being replaced by the Mercedes - Benz CLR Le Mans prototype.

Luck was with the No. 009 Aston Martin as the car gained nearly a lap during the first pace car period, and minutes later O'Connell's No. 3 Corvette suffered misfortune when it was forced off the road in the high - speed Esses by an LMP1 prototype.

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Saturday's race at Road Atlanta is not just the end of the 2016 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, it's the end of an era for the Corvette Daytona Prototype race cars which will be replaced with the Daytona Prototype international (DPi) race car in 2017.

«We are exceptionally proud of the Atlantic design prototype, and believe we have created another groundbreaking car that looks and will drive like nothing else on the road in this class,» said Henrik Fisker, co-founder, Executive Chairman, and Design Director of Fisker Automotive.

The sports cars and prototypes are back at Road Atlanta this weekend for Saturday's Petit Le Mans.

«With vehicles that span the spectrum from exotic prototypes to production - based cars and fuels that range from cellulosic E10 and E85 ethanol to clean diesel and hybrids, the Green Challenge is a true benchmark for race teams to compare their engineering capabilities,» said Steve Wesoloski, GM Racing Road Racing Group manager.

Mazda will return to prototype racing in 2005 with the introduction of the Courage C65 LMP2 car at the American Le Mans Series race at Road Atlanta.

After delivering 100 customer cars McLaren stopped production after seven prototypes, 64 road cars, 5 special F1 LMs (built to commemorate victory at Le Mans in 1995), three F1 GTs (road going versions of the long tail 1997 F1 GTR race car) and 28 F1 GTR road cars.

The Range Rover Sport SVR, the fastest road car ever built by the British SUV specialist, made its Goodwood debut in the form a development prototype, marking the birth of JLR's new performance

Although the full details on the car aren't out yet and the preliminary photos show a prototype that will be further revised before the official launch, Aston Martin promises that the AM - RB 001 will be «an unprecedented fusion of form and function» and a vehicle that will be «entirely useable and enjoyable as a road car, but with the capability to perform like no road car before it on a race track.»

To celebrate its 50th anniversary, Lamborghini has built the Lamborghini Veneno, which Lamborghini describes as «a racing prototype and road - going super sports car.»

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.

Having already revealed the car's driveline and chassis at the Nürburgring 24 - hour race in April, AMG has now confirmed that the first in a series of running prototypes of the Project One has hit the road in testing.

Its first road car (M6GT prototype aside) was the F1 of 1993.

This year, SEAT has once again succeeded in surprising visitors to its stand in Geneva with a concept car that showcases the look of a forthcoming road - going model: the Altea Freetrack Prototype.

While our tip that the road - going Countryman WRC could be on show at Frankfurt didn't come off, a prototype version of the car does exist and will feature a unique widebody to set it apart from other Countryman models.

The Certificate of Authenticity is for all Ferrari road cars over 20 years old and is also available for Ferrari F1, Sportscars and Sport - Prototypes, with no restrictions on the age of the car.

Bringing together the technology from the Yaris Hybrid and the performance engineering from the TS030 Hybrid, a motor racing car developed under Le Mans Prototype rules, the Toyota Yaris Hybrid - R concept commits to maximizing the joy of driving on road as well as on track.

High downforce cars like the IndyCar or the Le Mans prototypes stick to the road beautifully at high speeds, while older cars with older - style bias ply tyres will slip and slide everywhere, demanding a high level of finesse just to get the car slowed down for a corner, let alone with other cars trying to battle you for position.

And the most advanced plug - in hybrid car prototypes use only one fifth as much gasoline per mile as the average U.S. car on the road today.

From the early days of Dale Vince's prototype electric car to the day that the «Nemesis» finally hit the road, naysayers have been complaining that it is just another flashy sports car, or that it's not really «wind - powered».

The company released a video of the FF 91 prototype driving on public roads earlier this year, where it's rubbing elbows with cars like the Model S.

As of June 2016, there are 58 self - driving Google cars on public roads across 4 states, 24 of which are the larger Lexus SUVs while 34 are the newer prototype vehicles.

While most opine that the FFZero1 will be the car they are going to show, a prototype was spotted on the roads.

It's also demonstrating a self - driving car with a prototype sensor suite on the roads of Silicon Valley.

It showed off at CES prototype of its F015 concept car, which the automaker says is 15 years from becoming reality on the roads.