The six-cylinder diesel engine guns into life, shattering the silence across Graham Hewitt's orchard near Stonebridge.
The son got up and started the motorcycle by pushing it down the road with the gears engaged, until the engine came to life.
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.
Mash the pedal in Auto EV mode and, after the electric motor pulls you off the line, there's a brief delay before the gasoline engine comes to life and the CVT raises the RPMs to maximize efficiency.
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To my relief, the engine hummed back to life when I restarted it.
In its life the engine has worked on the Foxdale mines, the Snaefell Mountain Railway and the line to the internment camp at Knockaloe during World War I.
Expect future cars to help motorists garner maximum mileage by leveraging technology like the eco-tutoring systems found in many hybrids, wider use of tire-pressure, oil life and engine-tuning monitoring systems and more-sophisticated GPS guidance that can select less-congested routes.
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Neversoft has taken their prized Tony Hawk engine and brought Spidey to life on the PlayStation.
Once I started accelerating again, the needle sprang up as the engine quietly came back to life.
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Only occasionally is the engine allowed to come to life, with the owner listening nostalgically to the roar of its great carburettor gulping volumes of air, happily polluting the atmosphere as it used to before environmentalists spoiled all the fun.
And the technology running below the surface, allowing BioWare to bring this epic story to life, is Unreal Engine 3.
The new regulations have doubled the life span of a Formula One engine in an attempt to cut costs and reduce speeds, forcing teams to use the same ones for two successive races.
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The machinists in the engine cars must have been holding on for dear life, praying the support struts did not shear off.
Media and information literacy, through which individuals acquire a combination of technical and cognitive skills to seek, evaluate and use information effectively, develop critical thinking and acquire the behaviours for life-long learning, is becoming the engine of education in the 21st century.
In "Gravity's Engines, " Mr. Scharf makes a persuasive case that galaxies that harbor the largest black holes are just too dangerous for life, since repeated outbursts from the central "engine" will sterilize it.
After an explosion in Apollo 13's service module cut off propulsion and power, the lunar excursion module (LEM) was used as a lifeboat to provide life support to the three astronauts, and the engine of its descent stage for course changes, until the command module could re-enter the atmosphere after a long coast around the moon.
We were able to use Unreal Engine 3 and all the latest hardware to bring all of that to life.
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The authors do not analyse individual countries, but Majeau-Bettez estimates that the global warming impact of an EV car driven in the UK is about 10% better over its life cycle than that of a car with an internal combustion engine.
The engine of the Sparviero, a purposeful tub of a fishing boat, shudders into life.
The upgrade - known as Ariane 5ME (Mid-Life Evolution) - would introduce a more powerful upper-stage engine.
Then, in many cases, they will go home, enter the product into a search engine and find some online-only merchant -- a merchant who has no real-life stores -- who is selling the item for less money.
ReachLocal roll out a new offering that will not only allow act as a vetting service and comparative search engine for consumers to find plumbers, locksmiths and repair personnel (those indispensable heroes of modern life), but a means to control and pay for the entire transaction.
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Computer viruses, once the mischievous work of get-a-life geeks and high school kids looking for a little recognition, suddenly are a profit engine for the criminal underground.
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