But it was the first vehicle -- a carjacked Mercedes SUV -- that gave police a stroke of technological fortune.
Local Motors claims that its Rally Fighter is the first vehicle in the world to be created following this principle.
The first vehicle they came across was submerged and crushed, he said.
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The redesigned Fusion, however, marks a new milestone with global implications: it is the first vehicle sold around the world to use recycled fabrics.
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Spark EV will be the first vehicle on the market to offer as an available option the recently approved SAE combo charger for DC Fast Charging.
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This is the first vehicle built with the so-called MQB, which stands for Modularer Querbaukasten, or "modular transverse toolbox, " for small to midsize, front-drive, transverse-engine cars.
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About five minutes later, the mother and her son, in a Toyota Rav4, left the path and also entered the river, close to the first vehicle.
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Ford was also the first vehicle manufacturer in the U.S. to demonstrate intelligent vehicle communication technologies to the public, with a multi-city tour that began in 2010.
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An officer in the first vehicle noticed Heltebrake's white pickup moving fast and erratically down the hill and thought he spotted Dorner in the truck as it passed.
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Mustang will be the first vehicle that will offer AppLink with the standard SYNC interface, as well as be integrated into the optional Voice-Activated Navigation System, providing the additional convenience of an 8-inch touch screen for control.
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The 1978 S-Class was the first passenger vehicle in the world to get antilock brakes.
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Ford's first hybrid vehicle, a version of the compact Escape sport utility, won't go on sale until late 2004.
The first wheeled vehicle to land on Mars was during NASA's 1997 Mars Pathfinder mission, which consisted of a stationary lander and a surface rover called Sojourner.
Her first starring vehicle, "Picture Perfect, " is not what you would call wildly inventive (I wouldn't even call it mildly inventive), but it's a nice, reasonable romantic comedy.
But the Fusion was the first Ford vehicle developed with advanced 3-D digital software that allowed engineers to instantly make the changes and simulate how the manufacturing process would be affected.
Her first star vehicle, "Identity Thief, " is not likely to be remembered as anyone's triumph (it's scoring in the 20-something percentile on the critics' aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes), but at least it does enough to show that McCarthy has what it takes.
The new SXV200V1 is the first SiriusXM Vehicle Tuner that receives an expanded channel lineup from SiriusXM with exclusive programming, providing more commercial-free music, sports, and comedy, including SiriusXM Latino, 20 channels of the most comprehensive Latin programming lineup available to radio listeners, featuring 10 exclusive commercial-free music channels.
When it goes on sale next summer, the Spark EV is expected to have among the best EV battery range in its segment and be the first electric vehicle to offer SAE Combo DC Fast Charging capability, enabling the Spark EV to reach 80-percent battery charge in just 20 minutes.
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It includes the first increase in vehicle fuel economy standards in decades, which Detroit finally succumbed to earlier this month.
Meanwhile, Spyker and Youngman have signed a joint-venture agreement to develop Spyker's P2P, the Peking-to-Paris super-sport-utility vehicle first seen at the 2006 Geneva show.
DaimlerChrysler hopes to clean up the foul image with the diesel version of its popular Jeep Liberty, the first diesel passenger vehicle sold by a U.S. carmaker in decades.
The first almost burned vehicle (Car A) drops being the lead and radios back for another vehicle (Car B) to continue on the highway (without exiting) to take the eye.
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Since 1993, when Mercedes built its first passenger-vehicle plant in the United States in Vance, Alabama, the state has focused on attracting foreign-owned companies, of which it now has over 300.
This past Memorial Day in Atlanta, City Council opened Atlanta's first Neighborhood Electric Vehicle Charging Station to the public in honor of those who have been killed in Operations Iraqi Freedom, New Dawn and Enduring Freedom.
Kempton first got the vehicle-to-grid (V2G) idea in 1996, while wrestling with a fundamental problem with renewable energy: Solar power peaks at noon, and wind power peaks at night, but demand for electricity peaks between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m.
C-MAX Energi is Ford's first production plug-in hybrid vehicle and part of the company's first dedicated line of hybrids.
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The car was originally built from aluminium, but became the first mass-production vehicle with a fibreglass body in the 1950s.
But Germany, the other major player within Esa, wants the current vehicle upgraded first before moving to a completely fresh design.
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