Sentences with phrase «roadster built»

In 1990, the idea of an open, two - seat roadster built solely for the purpose of having fun wasn't new.

In Geneva it was already confirmed there would also be a Centenario Roadster to follow, in total there would be 20 Coupé and 20 Roadster built, the former with a base price of $ 1,750,000 before taxes while the Roadster would be a little more expensive... but that didn't withhold people to sign the order form... all 40 cars were already sold in March.

The Porsche Boxster is a mid-engined two - seater roadster built by Porsche.

Perhaps the first genuine indication that General Motors executives were serious when they said they were going to revive Cadillac arrived with the 2004 Cadillac XLR, a pricey but undeniably premium luxury roadster built on the same platform as the sixth - generation Chevrolet Corvette.

Factory Five replica of a»33 Ford Roadster built by Tasca Ford's Mod Shop in Cranston, RI with a supercharged 624hp Ford Racing 5.0 - liter engine with a Tremec HD 5 - speed manual transmission.

It's a roadster built for driving, without any fussiness.

One of 1,427 Sport Roadsters built in 1962.

Decked out in the guardsman blue paint with Wimbledon white racing stripes that graced so many of the Cobra roadsters built in the 1960s, the new car is a tribute to Carroll Shelby, who died in May at the age of 89.

Not exact matches

Or that Elon Musk built the Tesla Roadster overnight?

The company first produced the boutique electric Roadster, then built on its success with the luxury Model S, and, in turn, the more accessible Model 3.

Tesla built on its «Ludicrous Mode» by announcing that the only speed that's faster is the next - generation Roadster that it's working on that will hit the streets in four years.

To give investors confidence again, someone needs to be empowered to run Tesla's factory as a full - time job they actually like — not one they're willing to do between building high - speed trains, or rockets, or riding a roadster to Mars on an intergalactic road paved with comet cocaine, while talking themselves out of a fortune.

WOMBSTERS Sirs: Before I read Robert Boyle's clinical report on hot rods (The Car Cult from Rumpsville, April 24) I told myself the pleasure which I derived from building, tuning and driving our roadster had something to do with creativity or, perhaps, expression of individuality.

Tesla Motors is now building on the Roadster's technology to roll out a family sedan and an SUV.

But SpaceX can not just build the Roadsters of the space business.

The success of plug - in hybrid cars such as the Tesla Roadster hinges on building an infrastructure to charge the batteries away from home

Girls who want to build an enviable wardrobe must check out the cotton shorts by Vero Moda and Roadster.

But efficiency and practicality are no more a part of what this design is about than they were in planning and building Duesenberg J or Packard V - 12 two - seat roadsters.

But we can't help looking at the MX - 5 Miata — with luck, one of these two names will go away — and thinking that Mazda has built a car for those of us who were born too late for the English roadster craze.

That car is the 4C, Alfa Romeo's two - seat, mid-engine coupe and roadster that it builds out of carbon fiber and aluminum at a plant in Modena, Italy.

While the company's current product, the Lotus - based Roadster, is partially built in Hethel, England, Tesla had indicated it hoped to build its next offering, the Model S (previously referred to as Whitestar) sedan, in the United States.

That puts that model head - to - head with the 400 - hp Porsche 911 Carrera S. Down the line, a higher output engine for an AMG GT Black Series could put out up to 600 hp, which could conceivably compete with the 560 - hp 911 Turbo S. For now Mercedes - Benz will not build a roadster version of the AMG sport coupe, but it's not impossible that one could arrive in the future.

We will continue to build the AMG brand and portfolio in 2017 with more variants such as the model year 2018 AMG GT R and the GT / GT C Roadsters.»

Yet we forget that Musk drove a McLaren F1 to the very first showing of the Tesla Roadster at Barker Hanger in Santa Monica, California, back in 2006, and as he has struggled to build the company's cars and make them reliable since then, he seems to have acquired a deeper understanding of things automotive.

AM: Do you have any input on the styling of the roadster that Mazda is going to build for Alfa Romeo?

His history includes building hot rods for rock stars (with multiple vehicles for ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons), restorations of iconic hot rods (including the Doane Spencer roadster), and vintage race cars, such as Alex Xydias» So - Cal Speed Shop belly - tank racer from the January 1949 cover of HOT ROD.

Thinking more broadly, there's absolutely an internal conversation about whether to build the popular Mini Superleggera roadster concept.

Lamborghini is building 20 roadsters and 20 coupes, all of which are already sold out.

Oh, sure, the haters will tell you that the Tesla Roadster is powered mostly by hype, that nothing with a top speed of 125 mph deserves to be called a supercar, that it's merely a high - voltage version of the Lotus Elise built by an underfunded start - up masquerading as a grown - up car company.

BMW built just 25 of these gorgeous 507 roadsters between 1956 and 1959, and a bunch of them are in Monterey this week — including the one first successfully campaigned by Hans Stuck in various hill - climb races, and then sold to a U.S. soldier named Elvis Aaron Presley.

That $ 50 - million in Tesla Roadster deposits won't go very far in funding the sports car, and the truck, and more importantly the new production facility the company would need to build or buy (typically at a cost upward of $ 1 - billion) or team up with.

Tesla ended 2017 with Musk now building anticipation for a new semi truck, apparently named «Semi,» which he says will have a 500 - mile range and will begin deliveries in 2019, with a new Roadster model — actually a 2 +2 targa grand - touring car capable of more than 250 mph and 0 - 60 mph in 1.9 seconds — arriving at dealers a year later.

With the previous teaser shot Pagani attached a quote from its founder, Horacio Pagani, that said: «We realized the Pagani Huayra BC was an incredible piece of Engineering so all this technology was built into the Pagani Huayra Roadster...»

But instead of going the same hardtop route as before, Mazda broke with tradition by building the Miata Retractable Fastback, which isn't really a roadster at all.

While Mazda has been wildly successful at selling sports cars along a more basic formula — think the lightweight, four - cylinder roadster format of the MX - 5 — the company built its name with cars powered by Wankel rotary power units.

A new report from the newspaper Kleine Zeitung states that Magna Steyr has been picked as the contractor to build the roadster co-developed by BMW and Toyota.

Built nearly 70 years ago, the roadster was sold, disassembled, and nearly forgotten.

Among the other properties Wangxiang may inherit with its winning bid is the former General Motors plant in Wilmington, Delaware, which formerly built the Pontiac Solstice and Saturn Sky roadsters.

LA car collector Bruce Meyer brought out the nickel - trimmed and appropriately named «Nickel Roadster,» which was originally built in 1993 but never formally judged.

Based on a Lotus Elise, the Tesla Roadster used the British - built aluminum chassis and skin from the Elise and crammed as many laptop - style batteries wherever Tesla's engineers could.

The Radclyffe Roadster led in turn to a Beetle convertible also built by Ringel, although the windshield kept cracking because of chassis flex.

Wolfsburg engineer Rudolph Ringel soon built a racy, two - passenger VW roadster for one of the British administrators, Colonel Charles Radclyffe.

The stars of the show are in Building 4, where the 15 hopeful AMBR winners hover around their roadsters, polishing and dusting until a brain surgeon would say, «Dude, it's clean enough.»

Like other show cars, the Miata Super20 has some cosmetic and performance modifications, but unlike most show cars the Mazda roadster was built to be driven.

She doesn't get that the $ 77,000 Vanderhall Laguna is fully built and buttoned up, no doubt confused by the fact that the funky little roadster has only one wheel in the rear.

Also This Vantage Roadster Will Be Presented With The Entire Booklet Pack Set, A Fully Functional Key Set, A Fully Cleared Hpi Certificate And A Full Factory Build Card Listing All The Options From New, All Ready In Place For The Next Custodian To Keep And Cherish, During Their Own Time Of Ownership.

1955 Ford Thunderbird Roadster custom - built on an Art Morrison tube chassis with a professionally - built body and handmade rear panels and extended rear peak.

1970 VW - Porsche Tapiro The notion of an entry - level Porsche roadster — built with some help from Volkswagen — wasn't a horrible idea, but the blocky styling used on the 914 was divisive, to say the least.

The one - off Miata Super20 was built to celebrate the car's first 20 years on sale, and in this video Motor Trend «s Carlos Lago tests the supercharged roadster to find out how its aftermarket parts affect the car's core personality.

VW dismissed the car as little more than a concept at the time, but several months later, the company showed a roadster variant at the Toyko show, and suggested a limited number — 200 examples, perhaps — could be built at a cost of $ 175,000 a pop.