Sentences with phrase «weeks with a car»

(my first week with the car) Easiest to get in and out of for a Supercar.

During my week with the car, most times when I parked it someone would approach to chat.

Never once during my week with the car did my insides flood with a performance - induced adrenaline rush, but I thoroughly enjoyed my daily drives anyway, savoring engineering that places astuteness over showiness.

As a precaution, they had asked for a full working week with the car.

But that's the extent of the foibles for the rest of my week with the car.

The Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion is the largest event held during the famed Monterey Classic Car Week with cars only being accepted on the basis of the car's authenticity, race provenance and period correctness.

I encountered both during my week with the car — and the grip that rubber delivered was outstanding.

In our week with the car, we drove it more than 600 miles in mainly freeway driving and through the winding coastal roads of Northern California.

In our week with the car, we observed just over 17mpg in mixed metro driving with a driving style more focused on performance than on economy.

In a week with the car, we couldn't really get the hang of the accelerator, one aspect that could become really nagging in the long run.

The 500e's estimated range compared to its actual range deviated wildly during my week with the car.

We never got over the desire to do fast launches at every opportunity during our week with the car.

Obviously, I had fun with the Fiat 500 Abarth during my week with the car.

During my week with the car, I saw an average of 21 mpg.

We enjoyed our week with the car, and found a fun cruiser with a good deal of style.

My first week with the car I helped a friend move and didn't realize how tiny her alley way was.

Based on a week with the car (MY2014), the claimed fuel economy superiority may be tough to realize in real - world driving (especially in the face of the new, more fuel - efficient diesel in the 2015 Jetta, earlier post) but overall, the Cruze Diesel is a worthy challenger, and a very good and thrifty drive, especially on the highway.

I averaged 19.8 mpg during my week with the car, reflecting about 75 percent freeway time and 25 percent city driving.

To find out, I spend a week with each car, back - to - back, and flogged each at the Circuit of the Americas racetrack.

There's a lot of information available to the driver through MMI, the Multi-Media Interface, especially once you've spent a couple weeks with the car and figured everything out.

As evidenced in our first review, it became clear the Accord would have a shot at claiming our top award after our first week with the car: «From the bold new look to the long list of useful tech, the totally redesigned 2018 Honda Accord is the most advanced, most sophisticated midsize sedan on the market.

During our week with the car, we charged it only on a 120 - volt outlet, plugging it in every night before Jimmy Kimmel.

My week with the car yielded an average of 18 mpg, a respectable figure considering that a healthy portion of that time was spent dicing the canyons of Malibu.

Headroom is equally limited in the front, and if it were not for the XK's 16 - way power - adjustable seats, we would have spent our week with the car nursing a cricked neck.

During my week with the car, I found that the adaptive cruise control was pretty good at keeping traffic frustrations at bay.

But the new Camaro may have the biggest fan base; during our week with the car people stared, took pictures, came over to chat when we parked, and nearly hit us as they swerved over lanes to get a closer look.

The reoccurring theme that kept popping up during my week with this car is that the 2018 Hyundai Sonata SEL is proof that you don't have to spend $ 30,000 + to get a great Sonata.

We went back to trade in the car to get a different one (three things broke in first week with car) and our third salesman never bothered to call us and try to make a deal.

I found myself driving conspicuously at the speed limit on the highway my whole week with the car.

I found some things to quibble about during my week with the car.

I kicked off the week with a car crash — a galoot with a ciggie in one hand and a mobile phone in the other ran up the back of my bomb.

Not exact matches

I ended up coming to work an hour later, and during my drive over the next few weeks, listened to the entirety of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (13 hours) which filled my car time with purpose.

Toyota Motor (tm) on Thursday said that company President Akio Toyoda met with U.S. Vice President - elect Mike Pence in Washington earlier this week as the incoming U.S. administration pressures automakers to build more cars locally.

We didn't know what happened for almost two weeks, as the helicopters hauling car - sized bags filled with (as we found out later) lead and sand were flying over our house every 20 - 30 minutes.

Short sellers have been at the losing end of a tug - of - war with Tesla investors in 2017, with some surrendering in recent weeks following nearly $ 2 billion in losses as shares of the electric car maker approach record highs.

«This car wasn't road - legal until a couple weeks ago — I've never taken it up here with a passenger!»

CALIFORNIA UPDATES SELF - DRIVING REGULATIONS: The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) released updated fully autonomous car regulations earlier this week, allowing fully autonomous cars with no driver on public roads.

The Japanese car maker will be showing off its «active safety research vehicle, Intelligent Transport Systems and 2013 Lexus LS — equipped with the world's most advanced pre-collision safety system» — at the Consumer Electronics Show this week.

And AMD is working with Tesla (tsla) to develop the likely more critical AI chips needed to make self - driving cars a reality, CNBC said last week.

So if you need a car for a week, it makes more sense to go with a traditional rental company.

Rules for cars were scheduled to play a prominent role over the past week, but the top U.S. negotiator on the issue was hurriedly summoned back to Washington on the first day of the talks to meet with representatives from American auto companies.

Still, the lawsuit has hobbled Uber's self - driving car program, with Uber attorney Bill Carmody telling the court last week that the case «is the biggest in the history of Uber.»

So with such an innovative and potentially cost - reducing scheme in place, how is it that Better Place has only managed to sell 500 cars in nine months, a fact that led the company's board to fire founder Agassi just a few weeks ago?

After a week - long standoff with regulators last December when Uber argued that its cars do not meet the state's definition of an autonomous vehicle because they require constant monitoring by a person, Uber moved its self - driving cars from San Francisco to Arizona, a state with fewer regulations for autonomous vehicles.

Last week, Musk said cars currently in production — which include the Model S, Model X, and future Model 3 — will be built with new hardware to allow them to be fully driverless, pending further software validation and regulatory approval.

In the early days, Lunny would sit down each week with the general manager at a local car dealership to explain the value his agency was adding.

The drawing - packed U.S. patent, awarded last week, sheds some much - anticipated light on how Google's autonomous car could interact with pedestrians.

Among the many events currently taking place as part of Social Media Week, Tumblr founder David Karp sat down Wednesday with John Bell, Global Manager of Social@Ogilvy, to chat about all things Karp — including his dog Clark, his affinity for car commercials, and best of all, his favorite Tumblr.

Avis Car Rental this week announced the launch of a new marketing campaign, which once again features the famed founder, along with a few other familiar faces including: Alexandra Wilkis Wilson and Alexis Maybank, the co-founders of online luxury retailer Gilt Groupe and Baratunde Thurston, the comedian co-founder of Cultivated Wit, a digital content and product development company.

Within a week, he realized that all of his friends, all of the people he played golf with were all linked to his car business.»