Sentences with phrase «used on production cars»

Michelin is happy because these tires are closer to the ones used on production cars than normal racing tires, and Formula E organizers believe the lack of grip makes the racing more dramatic.

Pricing for the McLaren P13 — the name will not be used on the production car — is expected to start at the equivalent of $ 200,000.

Not exact matches

Airline processes, car production, even a pen sitting on your desk could have been created using a software bot.

Having acknowledged the need to turn from the overdependence on fossil fuels to more environmentally friendly sources of energy, the government has tried to encourage the production of automobiles that use alternative sources of fuel by trying to give tax incentives to any buyers of such cars.

In the expected but annoying department, the film's original Walt Disney Pictures logo (the one used only on Disney - Pixar productions through Cars) has been replaced with the elaborate company - wide WDP logo introduced in the summer of 2007.

Prior to the 757, Mazda had partnered with other motorsports engineering firms on their prototype race car chassis designs and used a two - rotor engine directly linked to the 13B rotary unit found on production RX - 7 models.

Acura's signature «jewel - eye» LED headlamps — also found on the RLX sedan and the forthcoming NSX super car — trickle down to the MDX, but the thin LED driving lamp assemblies used in the lower front fascia of the earlier concept were ditched on the way to production.

It's also the first production vehicle to use a new, 10 - speed automatic transmission that Ford has co-developed with General Motors for longitudinal - engine cars (the two also are working on a 9 - speed for transverse - engine models).

Winds of Change — Long - term Tatra owner Delwyn Mallett surveys the pioneering use of wind tunnels in automotive body design, focussing on the influential work of Hungarian aerodynamicist Paul Jaray / The very first Jaguars — Celebrating 80 years since the first use of the Jaguar name, Paul Skilleter looks at William Lyons's initial forays into mass production and explains what these early cars are like to live with / Vintage Revival Montlhéry 2015 — David Burgess-Wise reports from the historic banked circuit south of Paris and from the hundreds of rare pre-1940 cars and motorcycles entered selects his personal highlights / «Home, Allaston» — Mike Allaston's family photograph albums detail the careers of his father and grandfather as professional chauffeurs.

McLaren threw everything it had at the P1, using it as a test bed on which to perfect and trial technology that would underpin and inspire later, larger production volume cars.

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.

The production car does without the blacked - out C - pillars used on the show car, but the production - spec GLA45 is available with black anodized beltline trim, chrome grille louvers, and gloss black exterior trim, all part of an optional Night appearance package.

The new car uses the same 315/40 18 Nitto NT05R drag tyres on both the front and rear axles, and is the first production car to come with radial drag tyres as standard.

Partially automated driving systems are in production today, not only on the 2014 Mercedes - Benz S - Class and its suite of active safety technologies, but also on lower - end cars like the 2014 Infiniti Q50 which uses an industry - first steer - by - wire system to control an active lane departure system among other semi-autonomous systems.

Let's be frank here: This is not a spiffed - up production car but a racer - ized car that you can use on the street.

The concept isn't due to make production and isn't currently road legal, being based on an unregistered pre-production car used for testing the current FK8 Civic Type R, but Honda does have plans to put the car on the road, and project chief Alyn James told evo that the project didn't require many compromises from the regular production model.

Whilst almost all the wheels and bumpers are to production specification, these prototypes and development cars mostly have the i6 boot lids and Citroen CX door mirrors as used on pre-V12 cars.

The Corvette C6.Rs» LS5.5 R is a naturally aspirated race engine, based on the Corvette Z06's 7.0 - liter LS7 engine (which in turn was developed with the 7.0 L race engine used in the C6.R GT1 cars), built on production cast - aluminum cylinder blocks.

Based on the SRT Viper model — the lightest vehicle in the lineup, the 2014 SRT Viper TA package builds upon the legendary on - track capability of the American hand - built supercar using a majority of pre-developed components straight from the SRT stable, that are combined into a carefully balanced package that extract the most out of the Viper ultralow center of gravity, 50/50 weight distribution and largest contact patch in the production car world.

Some are lightly disguised future production vehicles, while others exhibit an environmentally friendly theme.Here's a look at a few of the more interesting concept vehicles on display at the show, which closes Monday: AUDI ALLROAD QUATTROThe German automaker has been building all - wheel drive cars for years, so it's no surprise that a beefier version of the A6 station wagon is on the way.The Allroad Quattro show car uses many of the same mechanical and suspension parts as the A6 wagon but wears a sport - utility wagon body complete with large fender flares and huge tires.

Expected to be one of the most frugal SUVs on the market when it arrives here in late 2014, the new BMW X5 eDrive plug - in hybrid vehicle could use less petrol than the Toyota Prius, with the near - production concept car unveiled at the Frankfurt motor show in September sucking down juice at a rate of just 3.8 L / 100 km.

The additional width will come from enhancing the flares on the cars as the rules still require the team to use the Corvette ZR1's production fenders and chassis.

Styling on all three of the concepts is consistent, and foreshadows some of the cues that the brand's production cars will use in the future.

Superb fit - and - finish and impressive ergonomics made these mid-sized four - door cars lovely places to spend long journeys in, and it's not uncommon to see used models with steep mileages that are as well screwed together on the inside as they were when they rolled off the production line.

If reaction to a concept car is strong, an automaker may decide to build the car or at least use some of its features and styling cues on a production vehicle.

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.

The package was used on Jaguar's most aerodynamic production cars to date, the XE and XF, as well as the F - Pace.

The car is homologated based on the 991 GT3 RS road car, and uses the production car's 4.0 - litre flat - six with around 500 bhp, running through a six - speed paddle - shift sequential gearbox.

[25] Chrysler also used the Bendix «Electrojector» fuel injection system and only around 35 vehicles were built with this option, on its 1958 production built car models.

[26] The EFI system in the Rambler ran fine in warm weather, but suffered hard starting in cooler temperatures and AMC decided not to use this EFI system, on its 1957 Rambler Rebel production cars that were sold to the public.

The Lonsdale Yellow car also had distinctive slightly smaller 5 inch driving lights and one piece blanking plate only subsequently used on four other production cars.

With rules now more permissive as far as designs go, Mazda came up with a race car that uses many of the Kodo styling cues seen on the company's production cars.

Unlike some cars, the production A110 stays relatively true to the design of the concept car on which it is based, using the same central infotainment screen, centre console, quilted leather, and digital dash as found on the inside of the concept.

The grille — which is blanked off, since electric cars don't need radiators — will be used on future production Audi electric cars.

The Scirocco Cup racing cars will use tried and tested components from Volkswagen production models with CNG engines ensuring that the competition cars are not only reliable, but that the innovations learned on the racetrack will be directly applicable to their street cars.

The electrics and mechanicals are all tried and tested - the petrol engine is based on the same unit the firm used in its rally cars - while the hybrid drive system will have been extensively tested before being put into production.

First used at the end of the 1980s on the Superproduction version of the R21 Turbo, the independent steering - axis front axle was first introduced on a production car on the Mégane Renaultsport.

If you want to get a lot of car for your money, check out the 1990 - 96 Infiniti Q45, one of the best used - car buys on the market.During its six years in production, the manufacturer's price of the original Q45 ranged from about $ 39,000 to more than $ 55,000.

Bugatti was stripped of the world record for fastest production car on April 5, after it was discovered that the speed limiter was removed on the Veyron Super Sport used for the test.

The new wheels are wrapped in massive Pirelli PZero Trofeo R 305 / 30ZR19 tires - the first use of this kind of tires on a production car.

Based on FIA regulations for the GTE series, which specify that the engine must be used in a production car, this means that power comes from the 488 GTB's force - fed, 3.9 - liter V - 8, a brand - new unit that pumps an impressive 660 horsepower and 560 pound - feet of torque in the road car.

Audi will be adding a 48 - volt electrical system to its cars, with examples on how the 48 - volt technology will be used in production cars to be revealed later.

Lexus says these 10th Anniversary Special Edition models are the very first time the brand has used a matte - finish paint on a production car since it offered the top - dog LFA supercar.

While the new Audi concept has been engineered to showcasing the sort of driveline technology to be used on the upcoming RS3 sedan, Audi officials suggest the definitive production car will receive a milder tuning.

But Chrysler, Toyota, Ford and several other automakers used mountain bikes mounted on car carriers to demonstrate the youthful appeal of concept and production vehicles.

While the smooth - surfaced Vision Ultimate Luxury is unlikely to reach production in its unconventional three - box form with distinctive split - window treatment, various elements of its exterior design, including its bold chromed grille, are expected to be used on a new Mercedes - Maybach production car based on the forthcoming third - generation GLS.

However, while the concept rode on a 102.3 - inch wheelbase, the production car is likely to use a wheelbase similar to that of the existing A5, at 110.6 inches.

I love seeing racing tricks being used cleverly on production cars.

A minimum of 100 cars was needed to homologate the new model for FIA regulations, and while a handful of them were skinned in aluminum, most production cars were built primarily in steel with alloy used on the doors and deck lids.

The Kuwait / Geneva car also had a regular six speed manual transmission and thus AML confirmed the Sportshift box, as used on the race cars, was not to be offered on production road cars.