In 2008, Carlos Alberto Lopes, then a 23-year-old waiter, was riding in a one-star car traveling about 50 mph on a rainy highway in the southeastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais when the road curved smoothly left.
Spokesman Matt Sloustcher said Coda is going for a four- or five-star New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) rating, which it plans to have in place by next year.
That car scored one star on the Latin NCAP test, but the model sold in Europe, made by Renault's Romanian subsidiary Dacia, scored three stars.
Meanwhile, the Denali Star, with its salubrious dining car and enthusiastic, knowledgeable rail staff, felt positively luxurious.
Around midnight at London's Leicester Square, as news of Jackson's death spread, Luis Carlos Ameida and his friends were surrounding a car listening to the star's music.
Mr. SETZER: (Singing) I don't need no movie car(ph), falling star, new, new guitar, the jukebox in a funky bar, and one more night with you.
Some of the photographs recall a more innocent time when a star such as Ingrid Bergman is photographed in a car with her mother-in-law and daughter Isabella Rosellini.
For my friends and me, the car's auxiliary outlet killed the radio star.
Thus far the star of this new science has been ethanol, a car fuel made from corn, but around the world chemical, grain and biotech companies are working to produce auto paint, cosmetics, even apparel fiber from renewable resources.
The district attorney's decision was welcomed news for "Liz and Dick" star, who accepted a plea deal Monday in a misdemeanor car crash case in California.
"In car styling terms, he's a rock star, " according to Just-Auto's Mark Bursa, who describes Mr Hildebrand's Mini design as "one of the biggest hits of recent times".
As well as a four-star hotel, classrooms, a health and fitness suite, and a car park that can accommodate 1, 600 vehicles, the stadium will also boast a translucent plastic roof that will allow people travelling along the M60 to get a decent view of the pitch as they drive by.
The movie won't be released until January, but last year star Seth Rogen was there to talk it up and show off the Green Hornet's car, the Black Beauty.
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You see his playful side in the one-of-a-kind model Shaq commissions to hype his brand around the NBA's annual All-Star weekend--including a shoe phone, a camera shoe and a remote-controlled car shoe.
But with star power like Depp and Christian Bale (who plays FBI man Melvin Purvis) and multiple car chases and bank robberies, the filmmakers felt confident enough to open the movie in the heat of summer.
Now Josh, the I'm-going-to-be-a-reporter-someday crew member, and Michael, the I-really-want-to-be-a-rock-star prompter operator, were around me, wearing the same expression you'd have after witnessing a car wreck.
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Knight, a former University of Oregon track star, founded Blue Ribbon sports in 1964, selling Japanese running shoes out of the trunk of his car at track meets on the weekends while teaching accounting at Portland State.
However, NCAP tests found that Fiat's best-selling car in Brazil, called the Novo Uno, had an unstable body structure and scored it just one star.
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