"When you look to the German car manufacturers now, they are fighting against each other with the biggest statement, with more horse power, and these days a diesel engine car is as powerful as a petrol car, " Saab Europe's Claude Makowski told BBC News Online.
That future would fly in the face of business models that depend on personal ownership of cars sold through a powerful network of car dealers.
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The long, low slung Sixteen, made entirely of aluminum, was named for the car's powerful 16-cylinder, 1, 000-horsepower engine.
The report, however, says the brakes on Toyotas are powerful enough to stop a car even with wide-open throttle, or at least slow it to a safe speed.
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It's the fastest, most expensive, most powerful series-production road car ever built and, believe me, if the VW guys wanted to turn up the wick, we could see a 300-mph Veyron.
Once you get above a certain price point from high-quality manufacturers like Mercedes, you are going to get a car that is powerful, handles very well, and has lots of convenience, comfort and safety bells and whistles.
Oracle Team USA skipper Jimmy Spithill has often compared steering the powerful catamarans to driving a race car.
The prosecution argued the teenager had been driving a car that was "too powerful" on a night during poor weather conditions.
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The car was not fast or powerful but could run without flagging at a steady 80 kilometres (50 miles) an hour.
In the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, police defused a "quite powerful" explosive device found in the car of an employee of the Israeli Embassy, Georgia's Interior Ministry said.
The development of Sensus Connected Touch gained momentum late in 2011 when Volvo Car Group started sourcing a powerful hardware platform with first-class functional and graphical features and the capacity to handle future expansion.
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No problem, say the car makers, adding ever more powerful engines.
Instead, the Focus gets a powerful triptych-trapezoidal grille, which makes the car instantly recognizable at a distance what designers call "down the road" graphic.
PowerJolt Universal with ChargeSensor sports a low profile plug for the car's 12 volt accessory outlet and a powerful 10 watt charging circuit to charge mobile devices quickly and safely.
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Besides doing away with the need to use fiddly controls on handheld computers, mobile phones and music players, a speech-recognition chip would have other uses too: it could form the basis of a powerful, portable interpreting device, for example, or allow car drivers to change radio stations or operate navigation systems by speech alone.
The de rigueur luxury car of his era was a Packard Twelve, which was both graceful and powerful and packed a V12 engine.
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And he believes Renault could be even stronger at other tracks that play to the strengths of their car, which has superb aerodynamics and electronics, but has one of the least powerful engines in F1.
Daimler's own product portfolio already embraces the small and quirky Smart car, but there's also the executive icon the Mercedes Benz, the sporty, powerful derivative AMG and the rather pointless Maybach.
Their plan: to create a "virtual car company" that would farm out most of the design, engineering and manufacturing work for the powerful V-12 to outside suppliers.
In short, if you are not taking this car to the racetrack, you are going to be more concerned with other thing besides its super-powerful drivetrain, incredible stability control and near perfect handling.
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