Toyota, Nissan and General Motors are all striving to develop ceramic car engine parts.
The efficiency of a car engine can be defined in terms of a miles-per-gallon equivalent.
An inspector reached in to Michael Waltrip's car engine, a moment described by NASCAR official Robin Pemberton.
Our bodies and our minds need proper care just like our car engine requires proper maintenance and the right fuel.
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Chrysler says this is the highest torque rating of any naturally aspirated (non-turbocharged or supercharged) sports car engine in the world.
"The other lung can gain capacity but there will be limits, " he said, comparing it to a car engine that now runs slightly slower.
Carrying too heavy a stress load is like running a car engine past the red line or leaving a toaster stuck in the 'on' position.
This allows the iPod to go to sleep and shut down when you shut your car engine, without you having to think about turning anything off.
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Should the family of an experienced motor mechanic who asphyxiated himself by running a car engine in his garage be entitled to cash from the manufacturer of a muffler-repair kit?
With 90% of Ceradyne's revenues coming from such big defense contractors as Hughes, Martin Marietta and McDonnell Douglas--and with the ceramic car engine still several years off--Moskowitz is now searching hard for nonmilitary ceramics applications.
One success so far: Barra pushed to speed up the consolidation of GM's three small-car engine lines, arguing that it shouldn't wait four years to introduce a single, more fuel-efficient engine that could be used worldwide.
As I calculated in my earlier Forbes article, one needs to multiply the EPA MPGe by .365 to get a number that truly compares fossil fuel use of an electric car with a traditional gasoline engine car on an apples to apples basis.
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With so much torque pushing a 565-kilogram car, the engine doesn't need a transmission.
With so much torque pushing a 1, 250-pound car, the engine doesn't need a transmission.
The car and the engine have both shown good reliability and we have also made progress with our tyres.
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You can't beef about the car's engine, the Detroit-built Multiair, which coaxes 101 horsepower out of 1.4 liters of naturally aspirated displacement.
Vettel's second fastest lap was in sharp contrast to Red Bull team-mate Mark Webber's performance, with the Australian's car suffering suspected engine failure.
Imagine, then, how much they're drooling over a new electronic product that lets them spy on your car's engine to know when something's wrong.
During your report I seem to remember Justin saying something about needing to have a two litre engine car because he has two children.
In the past these rivals would have developed their own powertrains, because a car's engine and transmission were often so closely identified with the vehicle.
It is already possible to buy a piece of kit that plugs into a car's engine-management system and sends data to an application on an Apple iPhone.
But when he tries to wield "The Force" on his dad's new car, the engine roars to life -- with a little help from dad and his keyfob, of course.
All the critical systems in a modern car -- engine, transmission, brakes, stability controls -- are linked to a single electronic system called the Controller Area Network bus, or CAN bus.
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Sprung with double wishbones, coil springs and adaptive monotube dampers, the car offers a choice of three drive modes Tour, Sport and Track with escalating thresholds for the car's engine, transmission, suspension and stability logic.
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"When you look to the German car manufacturers now, they are fighting against each other with the biggest statement, with more horse power, and these days a diesel engine car is as powerful as a petrol car, " Saab Europe's Claude Makowski told BBC News Online.
Nick Whale, from the auctioneers, said the car was missing its engine and gearbox.
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