Sentences with phrase «worked on the production car»

To assist in the technology transfer from racing to the production cars, engineers have opened up the lines of communication between the engineers working on the production cars and those on the racing program.

«I worked on the production car during the week, and spent weekends working on the structure of the C5 - R race car,» Wesoloski said.

Alfa didn't buy rights to Pininfarina's design but sources in Italy say Centro Stile tried for months to make the design work on a production car.

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Workers at Tesla's California car factory have been working so hard they are passing out on the production line, say employees.

Workers at Tesla's California car factory have been working so hard they are passing out on the production line and requiring rides in ambulances, the Guardian reported Thursday.

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).

Indeed, now that the SLR in all its guises (see page 126) has long since ceased production, and with that strange process of absolution reserved for less - than - perfect cars slowly working its magic on the enigmatic McMerc, the SLR's fortunes seem poised for a revival.

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.

AMG is working with Mercedes F1 engineers to develop the car, which is about two years from full - on production.

Now, he's working on an actual production car for DS.

Morgan has also worked hard to improve comfort and usability with the AR Plus 4, adding soundproofing throughout the hood and body of the car which you don't see on a standard production Morgan.

The Ferrari «Crystal Ball of Future Values» is out of order again (it caught fire while sitting unused, but that's a different story), but if it were working, it would likely say the Superamerica is one of the few late - model production cars to bet on.

«Many of the people who worked on this project were also instrumental in developing the road car» he said, adding that this insider knowledge meant there were few structural compromises in removing half of the roof and the rear hatch from the five - door production body.

Development work began on the car in August 1964, and production began the week before Christmas.

On the racing side this is easy to do, but when you start working with the road car guys — when you need to make it fit on the production line — it gets complicated.&raquOn the racing side this is easy to do, but when you start working with the road car guys — when you need to make it fit on the production line — it gets complicated.&raquon the production line — it gets complicated.»

With Tesla already working to ramp up Model 3 production and excellent cars like the Chevrolet Bolt already on the road from mainstream, high - volume manufacturers, a mid-2019 entry with a low - volume, high - performance halo hybrid might seem a year (or five) late.

Mini has revealed its fastest production car to date — the second - generation John Cooper Works GP.Set to make its public debut in September at the Paris motor show, the go - fast hatchback builds on the...

When Pontiac rolled out the new version of the Grand Prix in 1997, it became my favorite American car.It still is.But I like the Grand Prix even more now that the gearheads at SLP Engineering have worked their magic on what is definitely the best American - made sports sedan ever built.SLP (Street Legal Performance) is the outfit that made a name for itself by creating the Firebird Firehawk and Chevrolet Camaro SS - cars that were done so well, General Motors made them regular production options that could be ordered through any Pontiac or Chevy dealership.

On the one hand we take carryover systems from elsewhere in the production cars, but we have to make them work with G - specific elements.

Kia hasn't made any official announcements, but Kia Motors president and chief design officer Peter Schreyer confirmed to Australian journalists this week's Detroit Auto Show that it is developing a production version of the Telluride, «Yeah, we are working on that car, actually.»

Porsche said it will hire more than 1,400 new employees in the Stuttgart region to work on the development and production of the first all - electric sports car from Porsche, the Mission E. (Earlier post, earlier post.)

DMC has been working hard on the design, development and finally the actual production of a complete aerodynamic kit for the very successful Lamborghini Huracan LP610 - 4, and they managed to have the full kit mounted onto a customer car complete with custom DMC wheels.

On our early - production test car, the lane departure warning part worked fine, but neither my drive partner nor I could enable lane keep assist (lane departure prevention in Nissan terminology) via the steering wheel button, at least not on the car we drovOn our early - production test car, the lane departure warning part worked fine, but neither my drive partner nor I could enable lane keep assist (lane departure prevention in Nissan terminology) via the steering wheel button, at least not on the car we drovon the car we drove.

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.

[41] The scissor doors were dropped for the production model, and significant redesign work was carried out on the design when the wheelbase and overall length of the car was altered.

A GT Convertible also may be in the works for 1996, along with a special, limited - production two - seat Sunfire roadster version based on the 1994 show car, said Middlebrook.

However, despite recent rumors that the Japanese automaker is working on a rotary sports car, it seems that Mazda doesn't have any actual plans to build a production model.

Rotary aside, the CEO also confirmed that Mazda is working on a new generation of SkyActiv technologies that will find its way into production cars by March 2019.

To that end, and with any luck, expectations this is a forerunner to a production TT RS are lost when it's revealed the concept car is powered by a heavily worked engine based on the familiar EA888 2.0 litre turbocharged four cylinder and not an inline five cylinder.

Fehan responded «It's almost like Christmas everyday when your working at Corvette but today was an especially proud day for all of us, not only on the race team but on the production side as well, winning the North American Car of the Year Award at the Detroit Auto Show was an amazing feat.»

Their work is not completed, as the company «envisages hybrid and electric car production from 2015» but for now have unveiled prototype versions based on this...

Ultimate Motor Works in Longwood, the only authorized Lamborghini dealer in Central Florida, will have a rare car on display next week: a purple 30th Anniversary Lamborghini S.E.Lamborghini is celebrating 30 years in the automobile business with a special production run of 150 of the cars, which are derived from the Diablo supercar.

Yusuke Hasegawa, who has been Honda's F1 head for less than two years, is being reassigned to work on R&D focused on mass production cars with the title «executive chief engineer».

With less than 40 cars left to be made before production of the legendary Bugatti Veyron ends, the company has commenced work on its replacement to be launched in late 2015 or early 2016.

The Indianapolis - based MINI JCW Team competes with a fleet of production - derived MINI John Cooper Works Hardtop race cars closely related to the John Cooper Works Hardtops that are currently on sale at MINI dealerships across the U.S.. For information about the MINI JCW Team visit MINIJCWTeam.com.

Work on the new chassis and engine began in early 2010 at the AMR headquarters in Banbury, UK and the first of a planned production run of six cars ran in early 2011.

Drive.com.au sat down with Orth Hedrick, Kia's head of product planning in the U.S., who said that a production version of the concept car is in the works and there is «an announcement coming soon» on the matter.

While Tata have had Jay Anand work on many sport versions of their cars with souped up performance and sporty bodykits, none have made it to production so far.

So if you thought, for example, about a very revved up, intensive effort to work on the electrification of the vehicle fleet and the production of electric cars in the United States, it could be a very good thing for our auto business, for creating jobs, for manufacturing in Ohio and Michigan, for example — all things that could be quite appealing in many ways and could also have a big impact on greenhouse gases, even though it's not kind of presented as that — as the — that's not — it's not framed in that sense.

To your question, Leo, we are very proud of the work that we've been able to do over the last eight years here in the United States — doubling fuel efficiency standards on cars; really ramping up our investment in clean energy so that we doubled the production of clean energy since I came into office.

Nikolay Voznesenskiy has extensive experience of providing legal support for Russian and international companies, co-ordinating work on major client projects in the metals, fuel and energy, car and food industries, production of industrial equipment, trade and services, including financial services.

As it tries to save money, the company has also pulled almost completely out of Formula E, which — in the absence of a facility to begin work on company's first production car, the FF91 — was one of the only sources of pride for employees, according to multiple people inside and outside the company.

The tech isn't quite ready to start printing out cars on Ford's production line just yet, but the companies told CNBC that they're working toward that seeming inevitability.

That work stoppage was temporary — the company says — because it wanted to focus all of its efforts on getting a production car ready for the Consumer Electronics Show (CES).

While Faraday Future swears that a production version of its supposedly Tesla - slaying (and supposedly very fast) electric car is coming to CES in Las Vegas next month, work has stopped on the Nevada factory where Faraday Future got $ 215 million in tax credits and abatements and $ 120 million for infrastructure improvements.

However, NIO vice president of design Kris Tomasson told Jalopnik that the Eve concept has a lot in common with the production car they're working on, which is designed from the ground - up to be autonomous — with more priority given to passenger productivity, comfort and entertainment within its space.

It's almost certainly never going to see a production release, but it previews the technology, concepts, and designs that Faraday is working on for their future electric cars, which they expect to start producing in just a few years» time.

Back in mid-2015, as GM's engineers were working on turning the Bolt show car into a production vehicle, Reuters reported that GM's annual production goal was between 25,000 and 30,000.

But having seen the company's work in its current state, and having ridden in a prototype and had my head pinned back by its acceleration, I can safely say that Faraday is well on its way to producing one of the most powerful and agile production cars I have ever seen.