He's been struggling to stay afloat, with new-car sales down 50% from a year ago.
Everything about this car is snubbed-down, torqued to spec, frictionless, flickable, ardent.
Carl Edwards' car sailed upside-down into the front-stretch fence on a furious dash to the finish line, showering the stands with debris.
Total group sales were up 4.6% for the year, but in its retail sales divisions - which exclude Halfords' car-servicing business line - they were down 5.3%.
The thief drove off in the car and the car-owner was dragged down the road, before falling under its wheels.
And the idea of being foreigners caught with a broken-down car on the potholed village roads did not appeal at all.
It's a little like LoJack -- the car security system that tracks down and recovers stolen vehicles -- for your computer.
Making high-rise rescues possible, along with urban airlifts and such makes this sound like a natural fit, and perhaps we'll get a little bit of trickle-down flying car action before 2035 when Duke Nukem finally ships.
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All this was knowable when A123 went public, and when the U.S. Department of Energy marched down the electric-car path.
Kurt Busch had hoped to go from an upside-down finish when his car went airborne late and crash-landed on Ryan Newman at Talladega last week to his first Sprint Cup victory in two years at Darlington.
Some interesting electric car developments went down in England recently -- Liberty Electric Cars announced plans to convert "tens of thousands" cars and SUVs to electric operation, starting with the Range Rover, and NICE previewed a scissor-door concept it'll be showing at the London Auto Show.
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Passengers travelling first-class are politely summoned into a dining car, where a portrait of the Kenyan president grins down at white linen-covered tables, while attendants shuffle dutifully about the corridors, dispensing blankets stamped with faded Kenya Railways logos.
With the magical mix of spectacular scenery, delicious food and drink and world class sea-life, it is a no-brainer to hire a car and get down there fast.
But below them are dozens of smaller makers, which are suffering as new-car prices fall (they are already down by 30% since 2004) and stricter emissions rules require big investments in technology.
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However, Tooru Futami, engineering director at electronics engineering development division at Nissan, told Forbes that the car was not yet able to self-drive down the street or park itself in any space.
Despite its lackluster sales--84, 218 units last year, down 22%--the Five Hundred is a decent car.
Several of my colleagues over the years who were retired business executives or selected stock car racing as their sport of choice for its down-to-earth appeal.
Our experts gave thumbs down to a new car buyer tax break--an idea that has been proposed by some in Congress and in the auto industry.
"We'll be shaking the car down on Tuesday, just getting this fire-up is one thing, there's still a lot of parts to go on there, " he said.
But a commercially viable solar-powered car, experts say, is still very far down the road.
The car maker sold 199, 299 vehicles in April-May, down 1% from the previous year.
Old reliables Camry, in a new and improved version, and Corolla continue to hold down huge portions of the crucial small-car segment.
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Car companies often resort to cost-cutting measures such as toning down the exterior or doing away with a swanky dashboard with high-end features for a simple, no frills interior.
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She died when her Fiat Punto car was struck and shunted down the track by a 105-tonne single locomotive, which was being used to familiarise train drivers on the Cambrian Coast Line.
The court has heard the car tumbled four-and-a-half times then landed upside down in a field.
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Only 59 passenger-car derailments were reported in 2012, a spokesman said, down 24% over the previous 10 years.
As Sonny and his mother (played by June Carter Cash) are driving down the highway, they happen upon a multi-car accident.
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The first networks will work among cars in close proximity, but automakers hope eventually to enable critical signals to bounce rapidly down the highway from car to car to car, so-called multihop messaging.
The plug-in hybrid is an interesting bridge to the electric car, so settle down all you Prius owners!
This in a year when the Big Three were driving down prices of new cars--and roiling used-car prices--with rebates and incentives.
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