World class car companies like Mercedes Benz, Volkswagen, Nissan, Hyundai, and BMW, have moved to the region.
The same streets that have embraced the roar of Fomula One will now invite a new class of race car to hug the turns of the famous track.
Aston Martin completed the top six, with Andre Piccini taking the flag for second in the GT1 class in the car he shared with Oxford-based Darren Turner and Tomas Enge.
Mercedes-Benz is hammering the starting price point for CLA Class because the car gives the brand its most credible chance ever to score some serious market share among American Millennials.
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"Not everyone who is coded as relatively high social class drives a luxury car, " Gore says.
You are right of course, but predictably missing from your list of middle-class tax beneficiaries are car drivers.
Clients are required to complete a car maintenance class and donate three volunteer hours to Wheels of Success per month.
Without a comprehensive public transportation system to overcome the greater city's distances, the middle class has become mostly car-bound and wary of the city's reputation for violent crime.
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To many in South Africa's wealthier car-owning class, that's 200, 000 taxis too many.
The 700-horesepower V12 is cut like a body builder, with the highest power-to-weight ratio of any car in its class.
It is also deceptively large--with a length of 197 inches, it is only slightly shorter than the S-Class and 7 Series, but offers more front legroom than both of these, as well as more rear legroom than any other car in its class, except the S-Class and Jaguar XJ.
No, its ride-leveling suspension and adaptive dampening won't turn it into a 540i, nor can you completely ignore the fact that it has a four-speed transmission (every other car in this class gets at least five cogs in the shift box) that sends power through the front, not back wheels.
And auto insurers place married people in a lower risk class, saving them money on car insurance.
OneMain provides loans through 1, 300 branches to working-class Americans seeking immediate cash for car repairs or other needs.
Cricket is king in India, and always will be, but it is the country's car-buying middle class -- estimated at 50 million and rising -- that F1 has on its radar.
Designed primarily for city and suburban use, the new car will be smaller than a Smart car (three of them can fit into a single parking space), light (around 500 kilos), twice as efficient as an average car and will have the lowest emissions of any car in the same class.
New car-owning middle-class residents go for weekend shopping at the outlets, which sells brands like Zegna, Hugo Boss and Burberry.
Soon after Lufthansa began its tarmac car service, Air France added car service for first-class passengers at its Paris hub.
It keeps its costs down by selling direct over the Internet and offers only one car, the Mercedes A class.
The Mahindra E2O is a four-seater hatchback targeted at upper-middle-class families in need of a second car in congested cities like Mumbai, New Delhi and Bangalore, where it expected to first go on sale.
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.
The EV1 is a full scale, 100% electric-powered race car built to resemble a modern Class 1 unlimited open-wheel machine.
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Once the industrial envy of the world, it supported a huge industrial working class with single family detached homes and two car garages.
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They did a pilot with Hertz where they could identify a class of renters who could pick up a car and drive away without paperwork.
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Come evening first-class passengers repair for cocktails to the dome car's snub-nose lounge, where, as they sip Canadian Club or Canadian microbrews and graze on smoked salmon and foie gras, they can visit with one another and enjoy the waning light.
The German luxury automaker is about to launch its most affordable car ever, the 2014 CLA-Class.
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As this happens, the coupler between the buffet car and the first of the First Class coaches uncouples.
In short, this is a Model S for the middle class, a sleek, well-appointed electric car that is a blast to drive.
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