New 20-inch rims in forged aluminum lower the weight of the car by 22 pounds.
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In 2005 she filed suit against Toyota, claiming the roof was defective because it didn't withstand the weight of the car like it should have.
It has the wing span of a commercial airplane but the weight of the average family car, making it vulnerable to bad weather.
Also, because so much of the car is mechanically preordained from generation to generation, the car's styling must carry the weight of the new.
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The extra weight could also rob the car of its full fuel load, forcing it to make extra pits stops during a race.
Apart from developing more fuel efficient engines, the mileage of a car can be boosted by reducing the car weight.
She was homeless in her teens and started her career out of the back of her car selling a weight loss program on nearby pay phones.
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Seat belts could, in the 100 milliseconds of a crash, avoid breaking an old lady's ribs by calibrating how much force to apply to a body after gathering sensor data on the car's speed and deceleration and the weight and position of the occupant.
With only 2, 400 parts, one-tenth the number that go into the average car, makes it less than a quarter of the weight of a 2011 Nissan Leaf.
The result is a concept car with no unnecessary weight, and one that concentrates on the pure essence of sporty motion.
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The 700-horesepower V12 is cut like a body builder, with the highest power-to-weight ratio of any car in its class.
Considering this is essentially a front-wheel-drive car, with most of the weight on the front wheels, the TL has superb cornering balance, particularly as you lay on more throttle.
These are heroic interventions and I admire them, but the best the P-AWS can do is mimic the linear response and cornering composure, the predictability, the traceability, of a more weight-balanced rear-drive car.
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The lithium-ion batteries are liquid cooled and packaged in a 4-inch thick slab that covers the entire floor pan of the car for a low center of gravity and a near 50-50 weight distribution.
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On Friday, those comments were given some added weight when Sumitomo, which had been mentioned in the telegram from Tokyo, announced the closure of their car parts factory in the North East of England.
Call us wimps, but we like the extra bite at the front of a 450-plus-hp 911 Turbo, given the car's tremendous rear-weight bias.
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