Putting new tyres on the car won't make it perform better if the engine hasn't been fixed.
With so much torque pushing a 565-kilogram car, the engine doesn't need a transmission.
But when the new emissions laws take effect, merely tweaking the engine won't suffice.
With so much torque pushing a 1, 250-pound car, the engine doesn't need a transmission.
Everybody wants to talk about what kind of alternative vehicle we'll be driving next, but I've got news for you: The internal combustion gasoline engine isn't going anywhere.
For the most part, though, Asia's export-driven markets suffered as the outlook for consumer demand in the U.S. and Europe worsened, and as it became apparent that the Chinese growth engine wouldn't be able to pick up the slack.
Lucie Bruijn, senior vice president of research and development at the ALS Association, likens this process to building an engine: If there are parts missing or placed in the wrong place or in the wrong way, the engine doesn't work right.
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When you buy a Rolls-Royce engine, you don't buy a product, you buy the promise of a working engine for a number of years.
One thing hasn't: Cummins Engine, the world's biggest maker of heavy-duty diesel engines, still doesn't make money.
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.
Usually you don't start the engine until the president is already on the plane.
Three other generators are in a second engine room that wasn't involved in the fire, Cuty said.
It may be hard to remember, but there was a time when Google wasn't the search engine of choice on the Web.
It's probably mostly its tiny size -- and the fire engine red probably doesn't help its case much in that respect, either.
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.
"The part is in the engine, but you don't know if it's broken or not, " Druker says.
What that means is that you don't have to wind the engine out to eight grand to extract maximum performance.
The sports car look of the cabin is almost entirely achieved by the seats, but that feel is so reinforced by the firmer ride, the rasp of the exhaust and the quick reflexes of the engine and suspension that you can't help but think you're really in a posh rocket sled.
"They didn't know I was on one engine but they knew we were in a tricky situation, " he said.
Sam Winegarden, GM's vice president of global engine engineering, said the move isn't about creating new jobs, it's about speeding new products to market.
It's just hard to score in the luxury market when you refuse to do an eight-cylinder engine, wear undistinguished styling and don't offer a rear-wheel-drive car.
The Voodoo 5 5000 also features the T-Buffer Digital Cinematic Effects engine, which creates cinematic effects including motion blur, depth of field, soft reflections and soft focus.
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.
Amid the semantic fervor, however, one big problem looms: So far, neither search engine seems to achieve anything that Google can't.
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.
Volkswagen has to make sure the four-cylinder engine in the Jetta and Audi A4 doesn't outperform the six-cylinder in the Passat and Audi A6.
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