But Folz defines it to include not only the skeleton of the car but also the engine, the gear box, the transmission and the suspension.
She said that driving a qualifying lap at Daytona -- where drivers shift gears three times then run the engine in its highest gear -- was 90% crew preparation and 10% driver.
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As such, it's a lot like driving a manual transmission stuck in second gear and using engine braking to slow down.
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The latter include, for example: supercomputers, advanced machine tools, fiber optic and other sophisticated telecommunications gear, jet engine hot sections, rocket propulsion and guidance components, "stealth" technology, to name a few.
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Nevertheless, there are several reasons to think that America's start-up engine will move into a higher gear, creating badly needed jobs.
Instead of stepped gears like a conventional transmission, it has a fixed planetary gear, and changes engine speed by adjusting the generator electric load.
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At Mumbai's international airport, six of Kingfisher's Airbus jets are parked on a remote tarmac, their frames dusty and paint fading, while their engine enclosures, windows and landing gear are covered in foil.
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Paddle-shifting the automatic transmission as you enter the corner, you'll hear the engine automatically rev to match the selected gear ratio blipping, it's called and the SL just rips along in a way no luxurious grand touring car has a right to.
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Ford's first attempt at a genuine four-wheel vehicle, which he called the Quadricycle, used valves adapted from a steam engine and didn't have a reverse gear.
Also, the six-speed automatic transmission in my test car (no manuals available in the U.S.) was a little bit fussy, and there were occasions when the engine-transmission software was momentarily stymied as to which gear to jump to.
The electric engine is installed over the rear wheels and functions off of a signal gear, produced as a joint-venture between Mercedes-Benz and Bosch.
One possible use of this technology is to provide context information from the car, something like the engine speed has reached 2000 rpm, the parking brake has been disengaged, the transmission gear is in drive and the brake pedal is fully off the floor.
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