However, if the original Wii set a bar for intuitive control of a wide range of video games, TVii takes once TV-shy Nintendo and puts it in the driver's seat when it comes to defining a console's second-screen approach to television viewing and interaction.
From our few minutes in the driver's seat, the C-MAX Energi certainly felt edgier than the Prius, but not quite as satisfying as the Focus Electric.
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Its engine, positioned in racing-car style behind the driver's seat, was a Ford, so spares were easily available and relatively cheap.
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In fact there seems no end to the ills that a bit of manipulation can cure: Stephen Long, an inventor from Stoke-on-Trent, has patented an in-car massage system incorporated into the headrest of the driver's seat, which he hopes will put an end to road rage neatly supplying a new-age remedy for new-age scares.
With the driver's seat adjusted to accommodate my 6-foot-1-inch frame, I struggled to make contact with the screen buttons, which are incidentally quite small and a little fussy.
However, there would be major obstacles in the way of Fisichella - or any other driver - taking Schumacher's seat.
Irene Rosenfeld has been in the driver's seat of Kraft Foods (nyse: KFT - news - people ) for less than a month, but she's already on her way to extending the reach of America's No. 1 food company overseas.
From the driver's seat, my only complaint is that there is no distance-to-empty display near the digital fuel gauge.
They want to speak to the driver of a blue X-registered Mercedes 230 CLK that was seen driving with the Seat Leon immediately before the incident.
And a growing number of people worldwide own smartphones, which add Web surfing, apps, games and GPS-mapping to the list of diversions available to phone users in the driver's seat.
Two witnesses identified a car--a Russian Vaz-2115--as having cut Klebnikov off on the street before a shooter behind the driver's seat fired his weapon.
The driver line-up is not yet known, but Austrian Christian Klien, who got the Jaguar seat last season due to his Red Bull sponsorship, and Italian youngster Vitantonio Liuzzi, who Red Bull backed to the Formula 3000 title this season, are among the candidates.
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But if you think you're going to be in the driver's seat because your company has open positions at a time of prolonged, record unemployment--think again.
The 2013 Nissan LEAF is offered in three well-equipped models, the LEAF S, LEAF SV and LEAF SL. Standard features include a 6-way manual driver's seat, 4-way manual front passenger's seat, trip computer (instant and average energy consumption, driving time, outside temperature and autonomy range), Automatic Temperature Control (ATC), center console storage and 3.6 kW onboard charger.
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Moreover, it can reportedly "reprogram the steering ratio and amplify the intensity and quickness of the steering response" to keep motorists safe, but there's no word on whether or not a retinal scanner add-on will be available to automatically adjust user preferences depending on which driver hops in the seat.
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