Every 10% reduction in car weight results in a 6% to 8% decrease in gasoline consumption.
Apart from developing more fuel efficient engines, the mileage of a car can be boosted by reducing the car weight.
Toyota is one of several heavy-weight car manufacturers and technology companies researching autonomous vehicles.
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At present, regenerative braking adds between 20kg and 30kg to an F1 car's weight.
So the only sensible material for reducing a conventional car's weight while maintaining its strength is aluminium.
She was homeless in her teens and started her career out of the back of her car selling a weight loss program on nearby pay phones.
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The result is a concept car with no unnecessary weight, and one that concentrates on the pure essence of sporty motion.
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New 20-inch rims in forged aluminum lower the weight of the car by 22 pounds.
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I'd also note that without direct injection, the Mazda mill fails to fully exploit the car's lighter curb weight.
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In 2005 she filed suit against Toyota, claiming the roof was defective because it didn't withstand the weight of the car like it should have.
You can take weight out of a car and truck and still make it very strong.
The 700-horesepower V12 is cut like a body builder, with the highest power-to-weight ratio of any car in its class.
Call us wimps, but we like the extra bite at the front of a 450-plus-hp 911 Turbo, given the car's tremendous rear-weight bias.
The biggest winner: Volkswagon, with the Darth Vader piece from 2011 and the dog trying to lose weight to chase a car in 2012.
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Considering this is essentially a front-wheel-drive car, with most of the weight on the front wheels, the TL has superb cornering balance, particularly as you lay on more throttle.
It has the wing span of a commercial airplane but the weight of the average family car, making it vulnerable to bad weather.
The extra weight could also rob the car of its full fuel load, forcing it to make extra pits stops during a race.
Also, because so much of the car is mechanically preordained from generation to generation, the car's styling must carry the weight of the new.
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Even small weight savings like these help the car feel more balanced and less nose heavy.
These are heroic interventions and I admire them, but the best the P-AWS can do is mimic the linear response and cornering composure, the predictability, the traceability, of a more weight-balanced rear-drive car.
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Seat belts could, in the 100 milliseconds of a crash, avoid breaking an old lady's ribs by calibrating how much force to apply to a body after gathering sensor data on the car's speed and deceleration and the weight and position of the occupant.
With only 2, 400 parts, one-tenth the number that go into the average car, makes it less than a quarter of the weight of a 2011 Nissan Leaf.
Small changes in your tires and vehicle weight can affect your gas-mileage, so keep your car running efficiently.
The lithium-ion batteries are liquid cooled and packaged in a 4-inch thick slab that covers the entire floor pan of the car for a low center of gravity and a near 50-50 weight distribution.
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It should ultimately be capable of making ultralight cars at automotive scale and cost, halving steel cars' weight and fuel use, improving safety, costing no more per car and saving oil equivalent to finding a Saudi Arabia under Detroit.
Such comments carry added weight within Government since the debacles over BMW selling Rover and Ford ending car production at Dagenham.
The sheer weight alone (5478 pounds) makes a Bentley easier to handle than a slimmer, leaner friskier sports car (3946 on the Ferrari FF).
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On Friday, those comments were given some added weight when Sumitomo, which had been mentioned in the telegram from Tokyo, announced the closure of their car parts factory in the North East of England.
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