• Just as air-conditioning increases a car's fuel consumption, so does a plasma scrubber.

    ECONOMIST: Diesel engines

  • Soon after Lufthansa began its tarmac car service, Air France added car service for first-class passengers at its Paris hub.

    WSJ: The Tarmac Express: A Porsche to the Plane

  • 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.

    FORBES: The Jobs Gambit

  • Traditional air-bag systems mounted in the car's steering wheel and elsewhere use a hot gas to rapidly inflate the bag during a crash.

    WSJ: Five New Technologies to Make Driving Easier

  • After sifting and thinking, they recognized that because of the vehicle's finely tuned mechanics, its air-tight interior, air-tight exterior, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, the car drove so quietly and elegantly that, yes, the only thing one could hear was that clock ticking.

    FORBES: Marketers should make a statement and make it stick.

  • There are still hundreds of millions of Chinese who want the keys to their first car, their first air-conditioner, even a fridge.

    BBC: Beijing smog: When growth trumps life in China

  • It has butterfly doors, a carbon-fiber body and a roof-mounted air intake that spins as the car moves.

    FORBES: Porsche's 918 RSR is a Real Hybrid, and it's Spectacular

  • Seatbelts and air bags were designed for average-sized people and car interiors might not be suitably designed for heavier people.

    BBC: Accident risk for fat drivers

  • The western coastal road is mostly paved, and comfortable air-conditioned buses now come straight to Sablayan from Manila via car ferries that chug from the Philippines' main island, Luzon, to Abra de Ilog.

    BBC: The undiscovered jewel of the Philippines

  • The two regularly insult one another, make each other laugh and force listeners to re-create the sounds of their car ailments on the air.

    CNN: 'Car Talk' hosts retiring from hit show

  • It means that when you're ripping around the Italian countryside like a fleeing bank robber, with the Huayra's turbo wastegates exploding, tearing the veil with the sound of angels having a mid-air collision, there is somehow a deft, invisible finger holding the car to the pavement.

    WSJ: Pagani Huayra Review: If Da Vinci Made a Sports Car | Rumble Seat by Dan Neil

  • The site has grown from 20, 000 to 145 million searches a year, shifting nearly 3 trillion dollars-worth of air tickets, along with other travel essentials such as hotels and car hire.

    BBC: Scanning for online sales

  • Other incremental improvements range from solar panels that run the air conditioning during stand-still, so fuel is not used to cool down the car, to small electric motors tucked away in the doors and powered by batteries that are charged when a car is braking.

    BBC: Electric motoring: a quiet revolution

  • One reason for the scarcity of long-distance drivers is that air travel became affordable and convenient for many urban residents before car ownership began to grow.

    ECONOMIST: Cars in China

  • After turning off the jet and rocket he will deploy an air brake at 800mph, parachutes at 600mph and finally put his foot on a car-type friction brake at 250mph any faster and the brakes could explode.

    ECONOMIST: The land-speed record

  • The car's limited range would require plenty of fill-ups at compressed-air service stations, except those don't exist.

    FORBES: Driving on Air

  • He said that the ad market has rebounded in the past year, with car ads back on the air and political ads expected to boost revenues in the run-up to 2012.

    FORBES: Why Is Michael Dell Buying Up Bankrupt TV Stations?

  • The mezzanine and food court will be created in the air space above the current station car park, while that car park will be replaced with a multi-storey parking facility.

    BBC: Network Rail announces Queen Street station revamp plan

  • Campaigners against the plans claimed the "car-centric development" would have a detrimental impact on local businesses on nearby Gloucester Road, air quality and traffic congestion.

    BBC: Bristol Rovers' ground Sainsbury's store bid approved

  • Some of it might sound like an idea straight from the 1950s -- a car made for women -- complete with numerous pink features, as well as a windshield and air conditioning that claims to help a woman's sensitive skin.

    CNN: Honda's pitch: She's pretty in pink

  • Year upon year of slowing down the action in their heads, of training their brains to take the emotion out of the multiple thousands of split-second decisions they make every time they get in the car, tends to lend them a languid air when not in action.

    BBC: How good is Button?

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