Sentences with phrase «time on a production car»

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After drawing down $ 192 million of nearly $ 500 million in potential financing, it triggered loan covenants when it botched production deadlines, failing to deliver cars on time.

It will be the fastest production car ever made, but the question is if it would arrive on time.

On - time production is critical for the company, since it will only be able to make its first dollar profit in 2013 if it delivers cars on schedulOn - time production is critical for the company, since it will only be able to make its first dollar profit in 2013 if it delivers cars on schedulon schedule.

Volkswagen AG plans 15 new - energy models over 3 - 5 years, its China chief told a green car conference in Beijing on Saturday, predicting - like the government - that Chinese production of electric and plug - in hybrid vehicles would grow almost six times to 2 million annually by 2020.

On Time Travel Mater, director Gibbs, editor Torbin Xan Bullock, and production designer Anthony Christove discuss emulating the looks of past eras» films and the story implications for the Cars universe.

The video transfer is beautiful, and the extras are excellent, including insightful audio commentary by Zemeckis, Gale and Kurt Russell, a series of radio commercials that perfectly reflect the times, as well as some local car commercials Kurt Russell appears in for the lot that the production actually shot on.

Starting things off, there's an audio commentary from director Mark Hartley, joined by «Ozploitation Auteurs» Brian Trenchard - Smith, Antony I. Ginnane, John D. Lamond, David Hannay, Richard Brennan, Alan Finney, Vincent Monton, Grant Page, and Roger Ward; a set of 26 deleted and extended scenes, now with optional audio commentary from Hartley and editors Sara Edwards and Jamie Blanks; The Lost NQH Interview: Chris Lofven, the director of the film Oz; A Word with Bob Ellis (which was formerly an Easter Egg on DVD); a Quentin Tarantino and Brian Trenchard - Smith interview outtake; a Melbourne International Film Festival Ozploitation Panel discussion; Melbourne International Film Festival Red Carpet footage; 34 minutes of low tech behind the scenes moments which were shot mostly by Hartley; a UK interview with Hartley; The Bazura Project interview with Hartley; The Monthly Conversation interview with Hartley; The Business audio interview with Hartley; an extended Ozploitation trailer reel (3 hours worth), with an opening title card telling us that Brian Trenchard - Smith cut together most of the trailers (Outback, Walkabout, The Naked Bunyip, Stork, The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, three for Barry McKenzie Holds His Own, Libido, Alvin Purple, Alvin Rides Again, Petersen, The Box, The True Story of Eskimo Nell, Plugg, The Love Epidemic, The Great MacArthy, Don's Party, Oz, Eliza Fraser, Fantasm, Fantasm Comes Again, The FJ Holden, High Rolling, The ABC of Love and Sex: Australia Style, Felicity, Dimboola, The Last of the Knucklemen, Pacific Banana, Centrespread, Breakfast in Paris, Melvin, Son of Alvin, Night of Fear, The Cars That Ate Paris, Inn of the Damned, End Play, The Last Wave, Summerfield, Long Weekend, Patrick, The Night, The Prowler, Snapshot, Thirst, Harlequin, Nightmares (aka Stage Fright), The Survivor, Road Games, Dead Kids (aka Strange Behavior), Strange Behavior, A Dangerous Summer, Next of Kin, Heatwave, Razorback, Frog Dreaming, Dark Age, Howling III: The Marsupials, Bloodmoon, Stone, The Man from Hong Kong, Mad Dog Morgan, Raw Deal, Journey Among Women, Money Movers, Stunt Rock, Mad Max, The Chain Reaction, Race for the Yankee Zephyr, Attack Force Z, Freedom, Turkey Shoot, Midnite Spares, The Return of Captain Invincible, Fair Game, Sky Pirates, Dead End Drive - In, The Time Guardian, Danger Freaks); Confession of an R - Rated Movie Maker, an interview with director John D. Lamond; an interview with director Richard Franklin on the set of Patrick; Terry Bourke's Noon Sunday Reel; the Barry McKenzie: Ogre or Ocker vintage documentary; the Inside Alvin Purple vintage documentary; the To Shoot a Mad Dog vintage documentary; an Ozploitation stills and poster gallery; a production gallery; funding pitches; and the documentary's original theatrical trailer.

Alongside a production ready NSX, Ford lifted the lid on its GT concept, both two cars we had been waiting a long time to see.

So then, the 2017 Ford GT proved itself as one of the best, most track - capable production cars of all time, which led to our stable of drivers rethinking its character on the road as well.

Who Dares Wins — Douglas Blain reckons the SS100 a real prewar masterpiece — is definitely his type of car / The Bradley Tapes — The first in a new series recalling the life and times of renowned motoring journalist WF Bradley / A Celebration Of Speed — David Venables reports on the ever - popular Festival of Speed at Goodwood / Jumble Giant — Michael Ware previews the grandady of them all — the September Beaulieu Autojumble / Bean's Talk — JonathonWood tells the tale of an early attempt at mass production / Best Buy — Michael Bowler selects some more first cars for under # 10000 / Bespoke Motoring — Malcolm Green's in - depth guide to special bodied MGs from 1929 to 1955 / French Connection — Michael Worthington - Williams on the cars of Marcel Violet.

To give you a point of reference on the spectrum of speed, here are the times of some assorted production cars that tackled the fabled circuit.

That said, I managed to get a hand - held time: During my two open laps, with a full tank of fuel, hot tires, no curb clipping (apex cones were on all curbs), and using Plus R mode, I managed a 1:54.9 — a time, I am told, that would put the car mid-pack in an SCCA Super Production class event at this track.

All of this performance potential combined earlier this year to set a blistering lap time of 7 minutes, 50 seconds on the challenging Nürburgring racetrack, beating the previous front - wheel - drive production lap record, not to mention more powerful sports cars.

Panoz on Wednesday evening announced that his DeltaWing (and it is his) will race for the final time at the 24 Hours of Daytona in 2017; and his new goal is to race again in the GT ranks, possibly with an all - electric version of his latest production car, the Esperante Avezzano.

It set a record for a front - wheel - drive production car on the Nürburgring Nordschleife with a time of 7 minutes, 43.80 seconds.

Okay, it's full disclaimer time here, because while the car we drove was pretty much production ready, we only got to drive it on snowy Arctic roads.

The real news is that Faraday Future plans to break ground on a new factory north of Las Vegas, Nevada, within the next few weeks, and will deliver its first production car in «only a couple of years» time,» says senior vice president for research and development Nick Sampson.

Though this model has been a long time coming, as previewed by the Urban SUV Concept in 2013, the Japanese - market Vezel, and the announcement earlier this year at the New York auto show, the production car will finally go on sale this winter.

At the time BMW said it had no plans to put the car into production, although we noted that the concept's lack of show - car flourish could suggest it was close on the horizon.

The automaker's first all - electric production vehicle may be trailing cars like the Model S to market by several years, but Porsche is counting on fast charging stations several times more powerful than Tesla's Superchargers to help close the gap.

That lap time puts it 2 seconds behind the Radical SR8 and 9 seconds behind the SR8 LM for the fastest production car lap around the «Ring — according to the Wikipedia entry on the subject — and about 15 seconds ahead of the Gumpert Apollo and 2010 Dodge Viper ACR.

All production vehicles for sale in the current calendar year are considered, with the following restrictions: the vehicle must be on sale by January; it must be priced below 2.5 times the average car price for that year; the manufacturer must provide a vehicle for testing; and only substantially changed vehicles and the past year's «10Best» winners are nominated.

The 2014 Lexus IS F is in its final year of production, and this four - door muscle car has flown largely under the radar during its short time on the market.

We're not sure at what point a car actually becomes a «production» car, but that's a tag Land Rover are putting on the new Range Rover Sport SVR as it takes to the Nurburgring and comes away with a time of 8 minutes 14 seconds — the fastest by a production SUV.

A lot of technology on production cars — that is, the cars we drive on the street — has, over time, trickled down from the racing world...

Chrysler entered into a venture in which it now distributes the high - performance Alfa line, produced by Fiat Lancia of Italy, in the United States.The last time Chrysler and an Italian automaker got together on anything was the ill - fated TC by Maserati, a joint design - develop - build pact in which the car lasted about three years in prototype form and about three months once it made it into production.

No... That's the short answer — based on both journalist and racer reactions during Australia's Best Driver's Car (ABDC), although Kent Youlden (Luke's dad) and a two - time Australian production car champion in his own right — perhaps summed it up best: «It's a difficult car to easily drive.&raqCar (ABDC), although Kent Youlden (Luke's dad) and a two - time Australian production car champion in his own right — perhaps summed it up best: «It's a difficult car to easily drive.&raqcar champion in his own right — perhaps summed it up best: «It's a difficult car to easily drive.&raqcar to easily drive.»

The last time Chrysler and an Italian automaker got together on anything was the ill - fated TC by Maserati, a joint design - develop - build pact in which the car lasted about three years in prototype form and about three months once it made it into production.

-- Set a production - car lap record on the 4.1 - mile Grand Course West at Virginia International Raceway with a time of 2 minutes, 37.25 seconds

Driver / Corvette engineer Jim Mero and the car moved up to seventh on the unofficial list of production - car «Ring times on Wikipedia.

«By the time Nissan Intelligent Driving technology is available on production cars, EVs will be able to go great distances on a single charge,» said Design Director Mitsunori Morita.

Initial projects are currently in development to implement the technology in production tail lights and will be shown for the first time on a concept car (likely the C - BEV) at Frankfurt.

Following the 918 Spyder and the 911 GT2 RS, the new GT3 RS is the third production Porsche sports car with a notarized lap time of less than seven minutes on the «Green Hell.»

SPY SHOTS The production - ready Dodge Challenger is on the prowl, and CAR has caught it undisguised for the first time.

This time we did notice a different engine cover on these shots... the louvres returned, we've seen these on photos before but a different cover was shown on other test cars that featured a glass center with fins on the sides, however a recent article by «Only The Best» in which they state they actually saw the production car already, mentions a «Miura» style engine cover too.

The production - ready Dodge Challenger is on the prowl, and CAR has caught it undisguised for the first time.

With a shift time of 0.1 second, among the fastest for street legal production cars, this transmission changes gears quicker than any human could ever hope to shift on their own.

While not the fastest car on the road, it certainly was faster than other models in production at the time.

DETROIT — Chevrolet today announced that the 2019 Corvette ZR1 set a production - car lap record on the 4.1 - mile Grand Course West at Virginia International Raceway with a time of 2:37.25.

The evolution of the 12 - cylinder boxer engine saw it equipped with four valves per cylinder: the most powerful engine mounted on a production sports car at the time of its launch.

I think 500's had no resale anyway and making the turbo standard makes it easier on production to just build one engine and most cars over time see a power in tin the base model.

Around the same time Holden shutters its Adelaide production for good on October 20, the Lion brand has confirmed the European - produced small car will appear, joining the Astra hatch and newly arrived Astra sedan.

Acura's California Design Studio was responsible for the look of the sedan, which features a sharper grille than we're used to seeing on the automaker's production cars, though the sedan is very recognizable as an Acura — something that automakers at times fail to achieve with concepts not slated for production.

Design Director Mitsunori Morita says: «By the time Nissan Intelligent Driving technology is available on production cars, EVs will be able to go great distances on a single charge.

That means it's not ready for production now, and not for a long time, if ever, but you should see Acura cars take on this look in the future.

The successor to the best - selling racing car of all time built in a production series of more than 1,400 units is based for the first time on the 911 GT3 RS, with the weight of the racing model reduced significantly versus the lightweight road - going version.

This engine was an enlarged and tuned version of the mass - production 4.4 - litre V8 donk seen in lesser E39 5 Series cars, and for the first time in its life the M5 was produced alongside its siblings on the regular BMW production line.

A pre-production version of the new Type R claimed the title of world's fastest production front - wheel - drive (FWD) car on April 7, 2017, setting a record lap time of 7 minutes 43.80 seconds on Germany's legendary Nürburgring Nordschleife (North Loop), more than three seconds faster than the previous FWD best.

A pad on the center console offers up handwriting recognition and support while selecting the right option box will get you a 24 - inch — yes you read that right — heads - up display which is the biggest available in any production car as of the time of this writing.

Kia fueled some rumors at the time that it was considering a production version of the car but never followed up on it.