The canceled Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle would have achieved high speed in the water by using a planing design that enabled the vehicle to ride on top of the sea.
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The Buick Rendezvous, the new "crossover" (a vehicle that combines the smooth ride of a sedan with some of the ruggedness of a sports utility vehicle), sold 6, 491 in October and looks like a moneymaker.
The Spherical Drive System would allow for zero turning radius, and a vehicle extremely easy to ride.
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The Buick Rendezvous, the new "crossover" (a vehicle that combines the less bumpy ride of a sedan and some of the ruggedness of a sports utility vehicle), sold 6, 491 in October and looks like a moneymaker.
The comparative flexibility of steel makes for a more comfortable ride and a vehicle that can sustain more wear and tear before coming apart at the welding seams.
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For those who think we should only focus our effort in developing technologies for driverless cars, my thought is that even if you ride in an autonomous vehicle, you will want to -- and sometimes have to -- switch to "manual mode" from time to time.
Johnson kept his at the LBJ Ranch in Stonewall, Texas and, according to the U.S. Park Service that continues to maintain the property, loved to spook visitors by taking them for a ride in the Amphicar and pretending to lose control of the vehicle, veering off precipitously into a lake on the premises.
The vehicle seems impossibly smooth in the way it zips around, and even the ride itself feels like you're on a firm cloud.
On the ride and drive, I felt as if I had to handle the vehicle with kid gloves, though GM execs insisted this was not the case.
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Carpooling, also known as ride-sharing or car-sharing, means that a group of people share one vehicle to get to work.
Linton organized a sting operation earlier this year by hiring an Uber vehicle and then fining the driver for multiple violations, including not disclosing an hourly rate before the ride starts as the law requires.
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Handling is confident, with a compliant ride even on San Francisco's famously rutted streets -- it's clearly a vehicle that would be comfortable on longer trips.
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The vehicle was too small to include Kaplan, but a few minutes later another television crew offered him a ride into Sarajevo in their 'soft-skinned' van, with TV written in black tape across the back.
At the same time it is weak in hot segments, like crossovers--vehicles that combine the softer ride and better mileage of a passenger car with the four-wheel drive of a sport utility vehicle.
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