Mr Jacques came up with the idea of re-staging the prank to "add interest" to the car club's annual rally.
He is out to convince big resinmakers like GE and Dow Chemical to let Great Lakes do the dirty work of blending their color, heat and light requirements into one pellet they can then add to polypropylene for car bumpers.
"The new entrants, with their marketing and financing capabilities, are likely to add further impetus to growth in the small-car segment, " says Shripad Bhat, assistant director of the Association of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (AIAM).
"Brought-in" apps residing on a consumer's smartphone also eliminate the need for yet another piece of hardware to be installed in the car which only serves to add cost and complexity.
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Currently no price or release date has been set for this handy adapter, which is a shame, because we're just itching to break out an old 1.7MHz cordless handset and add fluroscent light and passing car interference to the already sketchy sound quality we've come to know and love from VoIP.
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And though Hudson is incredibly walkable, a car will add to your options of places to stay.
The Red Bull is the only car to incorporate a pull-rod rear suspension, which is incorporated into their gearbox design and means there is little room at the back of the car to add a split-level diffuser.
Having a high market share helps this strategy because it provides a financial incentive for third-parties to fill in features that might draw customers to competitors or add new ones (like car stereo integration) that are difficult for competitors to match.
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According to the City of York Council, the charging technology can add a 30-mile range to a car's battery within a half hour of use.
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All of these notions the car's price, its perversely limited appeal, its supercar limits, its utter unsuitability for the very missions it would seem tailor-made for add up to one thing: This car is pure marketing.
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Add VPG to the growing list of recent green car failures: Bright Automotive (electric delivery vans) , Carbon Motors (clean diesel-powered police cars), Aptera Motors (three-wheeled electric cars), Coda Automotive (inexpensive electric sedans) and, arguably the most infamous, Fisker Automotive (plug-in hybrid sports cars).
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Directors in the Aston Martin heritage program had searched extensively to find the perfect vehicle for the movie, and they transformed the one they found from green with a beige interior into a Silver-Birch painted car with black trim distressed to add the patina of age.
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You can read a lot of car brochures, but they never add up to a test drive.
And he also made clear, that the blogger-designated vehicles are an add-on to the ongoing automotive loaner program that all car companies have.
They add it's particularly tough to get that level of detail from car ads, luxury goods and high-end clothing because such purchases aren't made regularly and often different emotional things play into those purchase decisions.
As prices fall, what starts off as a fancy new feature quickly becomes commonplace try buying a phone without a camera, or a car without electric windows prompting companies to add new features in an effort to outdo their rivals.
The team add that Hamilton's set-up could make the car tricky to drive during the race when his McLaren will be filled up with fuel.
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Take GPS, add Bluetooth, season to taste you've got yourself a fine car navigation system that gets friendly with your phone to provide both voice and data connectivity.
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Hang old car parts from the rafters or old posters to the walls to add personality too.
Smith says that by subcontracting some of the work abroad--for example, the intake manifold in a car's air system--these contractors can add 20 points to that gross margin, and that's after paying Smith his fee of 5% to 7% of the foreign invoices.
In a car, such a system could analyse a developing fault and add it to a coming service schedule if it were minor, or if it were more serious locate a nearby service centre, check on workshop availability and suggest the driver go there immediately.
After a series of short charges and a series of drives in a Model S (the very same car we tested, we would add), Broder ultimately ran out of juice and was left stranded, having to tow the car from Branford, CT to the nearest Supercharger, this one in Milford -- about 25 miles away.
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After a series of short charges and a series of drives in a Model S (the very same car we tested, we would add), Broder ultimately ran out of juice and was left stranded, having to tow the car from Brannford, CT to the nearest Supercharger, this one in Milford -- about 25 miles away.
Don't forget to add in the things that you only pay once a year like your TV license or your car insurance.
You already paid fees on your license and registration, not to mention the sales tax when you bought the car, along with transfer fees and various add-ons devised by your local pols.
For each hundred pounds trimmed off a car, drivers could save about 1% to 2% on fuel economy, which could add up to billions of dollars nationally, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.
Add in the fuel saving, and the lifetime cost of an aluminium car from raw material and manufacturing to daily use and final disposal can be comparable to that of a conventional car.
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