His family's motto had been "two wheels good, four wheels bad" for many years, he said.
An automobile should have four wheels (usually) and some sort of motor to power the vehicle.
Offroad ("propshaft by wire"): All four wheels are also driven whenever offroad mode is intentionally activated.
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Each of the four wheels contains an electric motor, drive train, suspension and steering and braking mechanisms.
Cerberus is going flat out to make Chrysler a case of two wheels good, four wheels better.
It's still four wheels, a steering wheel and an engine and there's never been anyone better than Michael.
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If four wheels cost as little as two wheels, that could change fast.
"Sometimes the car was on four wheels, sometimes on three, sometimes even two, " he told reporters after the race.
The mine violently lifted the Humvee off the ground and set it back on the three remaining of four wheels.
In fact, all the other cars in this segment send engine power to the rear wheels if not all four wheels, like the Audi A6.
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Entrepreneur Elon Musk is well-known for talking trash about the vehicular competition... just not when it involves rockets instead of four wheels.
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It sounds Utopian, but it is nothing more than the breaking down of social barriers created by sheets of metal and glass and four wheels.
Wagh realized that four wheels had emotional, not just practical, appeal.
His former arch rival in MotoGP, Italian legend Valentino Rossi has also been l inked in the past with a move to four wheels with Ferrari.
But McRae also faces tough competition from Joan Roma, who makes the switch to four wheels with Mitsubishi after winning last season's motorcycle event on a KTM.
Boosting: When very sporty performance is required, the electric motors form an alliance with the TDI engine known as "boosting": in this mode, all four wheels are driven.
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Commuters fed up with battling road congestion in their cars have helped boost 1999's motorcycle sales to their highest level for 17 years, by abandoning four wheels for two.
Rising public transport fares, cuts to bus services and the access to out-of-town discount stores a car allows, now make your own four wheels a necessity in all places except London.
Everything, it seems, that could be carried or rolled on two or four wheels has been looted -- from the beautiful silk carpet that once graced the foyer to the slot machines that lined the casino walls.
Many thousands of dollars may stand between something that rolls on four wheels and something sold by the roll, but I see strong connections between packaged goods and Toyota in terms of challenges faced and in strategic and tactical responses.
It is ideally packaged for the integration of the high-performance, zero-emission technology: by way of example, the four electric motors and the two transmissions can be positioned as close to the four wheels as possible and very low down in the vehicle.
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The car is notable both for its four motors (a pair at each axle integrated with max-efficiency gears to drive all four wheels at the same time) and its prowress: 526 horsepower and 649 pound-feet of torque, with a 0-60 mph time of 4 seconds.
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French adolescents have for years been deprived of the simple pleasure of riding about on four wheels, and if they seem to find an excessive number of military missions for themselves, all of which involve riding down the boulevards and cheering, nobody can blame them.
But last July one of the spacecraft's four reaction wheels broke down, leaving scientists aware that a further failure was likely and would prevent the telescope operating as it should.
The probe was built with four reaction wheels and needs three of them -- one for each axis -- to aim its telescope precisely at a distant star, deputy project manager Charlie Sobeck said.
He said plans for dedicated cycle ways on busy roads such as Victoria Embankment would improve journeys for everyone, whether on two wheels or four.
The Veloster a three-door (one on the left, two on the right) hatchback with a direct-injection 1.6-liter and choice of six-speed manual or dual-clutch automatic comes standard with 17-inch alloy wheels, four-wheel disc brakes, LED headlight accents, Bluetooth, XM satellite radio, a 7-inch color touch screen with a Pandora app (that syncs up to your iPhone), and more.
So engineers made upscale features like charcoal-black leather seats and chrome wheels available even with the smallest four-cylinder engine.
Coming in three trim levels, all models come powered by a peppy 180-horsepower 2.4-liter four-cylinder engine that drives the front wheels via a six-speed automatic transmission.
In the UK, Sodexo supplies food to schools and colleges, hospitals and via "meals on wheels", as well as running four prisons.
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