For example, the optimized engine Auto Start Stop feature now turns the engine off earlier while coasting to a stop.
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Mr. Collier's younger brother Andrew is a machinist in the engine department at auto racing's Hendrick Motorsports.
That means it'll be more costly to GMAC to borrow funds to finance its loan engine than if the auto lender had climbed back to investment grade status, a perch it hasn't occupied since last spring.
The U.S. auto industry became the engine of domestic inflation running at 7 to 8 percent.
China's longer-term opportunity is to build an auto industry based not on the gasoline engine but on alternative fuels, skipping a generation of technology as it has done in areas such as telecoms.
The multi-tasking image-processing Venus Engine enables beautiful image recording and Sonic Speed AF (Auto Focus) combined with a quick camera start-up time to offer a high-speed response time to ensure users can capture even the most spur-of-the-moment photo opportunities.
The auto industry has spent 25 years computerizing any and every engine function once handled mechanically.
Some of the proposed alternatives to traditional engine design offer fuel savings that aren't that much greater than auto makers believe they can achieve through improvements to the designs they know.
The LF-A supercar prototype, equipped with a 500-horsepower V-10 engine, is a follow-up to a concept car Lexus debuted on the 2005 auto show circuit.
Folz says that he sees "perhaps better immediate opportunities" in Latin America (Argentina and Brazil in particular), Eastern Europe (Poland and Turkey) and China, where Peugeot has a joint venture with Dong Feng Motors (an auto assembly plant that can turn out 150, 000 vehicles a year plus an engine and gearbox factory).
Meanwhile, auto makers are proving there's still plenty of potential in the gas-powered engine to meet customer's fuel-efficiency demands.
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The current growth of Chinese auto market will be stymied in 2011, due largely to the removal of subsidies on small-engine cars.
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