Not exact matches
Setting off in a roundabout fashion for Alaska, (where he
winds up camping in a deserted bus in a deserted valley) he erases as many traces of Who He Is as possible, burning money, ditching his
car and changing his
name.
Nevertheless, he's entertaining some campaign workers, including a young woman
named Mary Jo Kopechne (Kate Mara), who joins Ted for a late - night drive that
winds up with their
car flying off a bridge and becoming submerged in a pond.
As this is a Shane Black script, the girl entreaties the driver — a nearly mortally
wounded private dick
named Mitch Henessey (Samuel L. Jackson)-- to not hit the
cars.
The product is a 230 - mph
car with four active aerodynamic wings, a key that doubles as a USB flash drive, and a look (and
name) inspired by
wind.
(Uh, not me — not in a
car named after a desert
wind but designed to act like an airplane wing.)
Speaking at the
car's launch, John Hennessy, CEO said «We expect the Venom F5,
named for the most powerful tornado speed
winds on the Fujita scale, to be the first road
car capable of achieving more than 300mph and have worked closely with Pennzoil to get us across the finish line».
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.
And some serious Italian
car fiends might even know that, for a time, the company's
naming scheme saw two - seat sports
cars named after
winds (Mistral, Ghibli, Bora, Merak), while the four - seaters took their
names from racetracks (Sebring, Mexico, Indy, Kyalami).
As Maserati uses
wind names into their
cars, there's an exotic
wind name they can choose for the next CUV: the Maserati Faert.
As with many Maseratis from the past, the new
car's
name is inspired by a
wind: the Levante is a warm Mediterranean
wind that can change from a light breeze to an irresistible natural force in an instant, mirroring the character of the first Maserati SUV.
There isn't a huge amount of fun to be had on
winding roads, though; this isn't a
car you'd take out of the garage for a drive in the
name of fun.
Returning to the question of a
name, not sure if this one came up before, but in an e-mail last week I made a quick ref to the e bird (easier to type than
wind car), and I kind of liked it.
When it comes to solving the world's environmental problems, he added, «every single solution drives you to copper — solar power,
wind power, electric
cars, you
name it.»
Granted, there may be products that can help us to green our world, such as a compost bin, a home solar power or
wind energy system, or a cleaner
car or a bicycle, and there are certainly greener alternatives that we can choose when buying products we already use, but for the most part, consuming more resources in the
name of Earth Day runs counter to the core of the responsible environmentalism.