Sentences with phrase «scale production car»

And as a further highlight the BMW 5 Series Gran Turismo is the first large - scale production car from BMW to feature frameless windows in aluminium shell structure.

In the interest of enhanced driving dynamics and safety, the body came with a significant increase in torsional stiffness over the former model, and the fourth - generation BMW 5 Series was the first large - scale production car worldwide made almost completely of light alloy.

What it does have going for it, though, is one of the best interiors and highest perceived quality of any large - scale production car.

Not exact matches

But problems with the Model 3 production is arguably a bigger issue due to the scale and ambitions of this particular car.

Prototypes like the Skycar have been on the verge of full - scale production for almost a century, though, and it may be another hundred years before you can score that most badass symbol of the space age, the flying car.

In terms of production design, did you find yourself having to scale back on things like vintage cars and elaborately costumed crowd scenes to maintain the focus the story needed?

Then there's the production design; the film on staged on a grand scale, complete with car chases involving 1920s automobiles and what seem to be huge sets for the actors to execute the equally ambitious story upon.

This aesthetic has filtered down to every level of car production, regardless of scale.

At over five metres long and close on two metres wide, this probably shouldn't be our sort of car at all, but we swarmed around it, taking in the sheer scale of the sheet metal, admiring the colossal chutzpah needed to put something like this into production.

The company says in 18 months, which seems to be a proper time frame, it will deliver 25 «Founders Edition» road cars, race at the 24 Hours Nurburgring AND will have scaled up its production to produce 250 cars per year here at a factory in the U.S., possibly in Detroit.

Previewed by a four - seat concept car set to make its world debut at the Frankfurt motor show this month, the four - door hatchback retains the distinctive one - and - half - box silhouette, short overhangs and shallow greenhouse treatment of the original A2 — still considered one of the most advanced small cars ever put into large - scale production because of its lightweight aluminum spaceframe construction and 1,973 - pound curb weight.

Volvo Car Corporation plans low - scale production of a fleet... Read more →

Volvo Car Corporation plans low - scale production of a fleet of the vehicle for field testing with customers.

Car production had always been on a small scale and until the advent of World War II halted work only about 700 had been made.

Despite issuing official sketches of the new car, details continue to remain scarce, but in a move aimed at reining in development costs and providing crucial economies of scale, Audi is thought to have held firm to its original plans to base the road - going production version of the well - received Quattro concept on a modified version of the MLB platform that underpins the A5.

Along with the R8 e-tron, Audi also considered a small - scale production of a smaller and lighter zero - emission sports car based on the second e-tron concept displayed at the 2010 Detroit Motor Show.

The vehicle was so highly admired by Edsel Ford's friends that he felt the car could be mass marketed, and thus began the production of the Lincoln Continental on a somewhat wider scale.

The Micro Machines videogame franchise is based upon the best - selling miniature scale car toys invented by Clemens V. Hedeen Jr. at Fun City Toys USA situated in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin in the 1970s and licensed by a former subsidiary of Hasbro named Galoob to start mass production from 1976.

Acutely aware of the car industry's recent sales plunge and weaker domestic demand, government officials are hoping this new initiative will boost sales and new investment once again and discourage carmakers from scaling back their production by shifting to a new market.

Electric cars have existed for a very long time, but unlike fossil fuel - powered cars, they stayed at the pre-Model T stage (no mass production, no economies of scale, no massive R&D;).

This move to scale back production will also impact the number of cars FF planned to produce.

It's only promising up to Level 3 capabilities in the production version of the car, which is about halfway between a car with driver assistance and fully self - driving, according to the Society of Automotive Engineers scale.