Allanté's engine, the new 4. 5 L V8, produced 200 horsepower, and with, it provided the most torque from any front-wheel-drive automobile in the world.

Many car magazines and auto enthusiasts argued that no sports car, let alone one at the Allanté's price, should have been FWD.

The Allanté's production was planned at 6, 000 units per year ; sales figures, however, show that Cadillac only built about half as many.

Allanté's direct competitor was the very successful Mercedes-Benz SL, and to a smaller degree, the Jaguar XJS.

Allanté's 4. 1 liter V8 was shared with other Cadillacs across the line, but when specified to the Allanté, several changes were made.

The Mercedes 560SL — along with the rest of the Allanté's competitors — was rear-wheel drive.

The Bose name was no longer associated with Allanté's sound system, as the ' 93 model went into production using GM's Delco Electronics " Premium Symphony Sound System ".

At that time, the Allanté's price seemed a bargain compared with the $ 71, 888 Jaguar and $ 90, 335 Mercedes-Benz.

The 1961 model was the first car manufactured in the U. S. to be sold with a or 2-year bumper-to-bumper warranty.

The bumper-to-bumper warranty was reduced to 36 months / 36, 000 miles while the powertrain warranty was increased to 60 months / 60, 000 miles in most markets.

The " Buyer Protection Plan ", was the industry's first 12 month or comprehensive, bumper-to-bumper warranty.

This was the automobile industry's first 12 month or bumper-to-bumper warranty.

The expressway separated downtown from the waterfront, and was increasingly choked with bumper-to-bumper traffic.

Traffic was bumper-to-bumper for six to eight hours per day, with projections of traffic jams doubling by 2010.

Airline Highway between New Orleans and Baton Rouge was jammed bumper-to-bumper.

Brougham and Sport models had an extra chrome molding that ran on the lower fender edge between the front wheelwell and bumper ; this gave the appearance of bumper-to-bumper chrome.

Traffic is often bumper-to-bumper, particularly because of the many bus lines that go across it to the West, South, North, and East sides of the city.

It is said that the beginning of the bumper-to-bumper funeral procession reached the small cemetery before the last cars had left the church area.

" Cruise nights " are evenings during which cars drive slowly, bumper-to-bumper, through small towns.

But by comparison with the railroad, the motor car is a relatively new object of popular worship, so it is too much to hope that it may be brought within the bounds of civilized usage quickly and easily.

The actual over-all cost, for the first month, will perhaps not be too much lower than the rental charges for the same period of time, but you will receive a new car.

You will be entitled to all the advantages of a new car owner, which includes the factory guarantee and the services valid at authorized dealers throughout Europe.

The truck and the car gave the manufacturer a new degree of freedom in selecting his plant site.

However, compared with March 1960 new car sales of 4,441, this March was off 23 per cent.

So you sit in the car and listen to the air run out and listen to the rain and see the mud in front of the headlights, waiting for you, for your new spectator pumps, waiting for you to squat by yourself out there in your tight skirt, crying and afraid and trying to get that damned son-of-a-bitch tire off, because that is being an old maid too, if you happen to drive a car, it is changing the tire yourself in the night, and in the mud and the rain, hating to get out in it but afraid to stay and afraid to try to walk out for help.

* 1830 – The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's new Tom Thumb steam locomotive races a horse-drawn car, presaging steam's role in US railroading.

After the war, the company was refounded at Abingdon Road, Kensington and a new car designed to carry the Aston-Martin name.

They had planned to sell this engine to motor manufacturers, but having heard that the Aston Martin car was no longer in production they realised that they could capitalise on the reputation of the Aston Martin name ( what we would now call the brand ) to give themselves a head start in the production of a completely new car.

The new company would compete with Cooper in the market for customer racing cars ; as Brabham was still employed by Cooper, Tauranac produced the first MRD car, for the entry level Formula Junior class, in secrecy.

Motor Racing Developments initially concentrated on making money by building cars for sale to customers in lower formulae, so the new car for the Formula One team was not ready until partway through the 1962 Formula One season.

By the early 2000s, the CD largely replaced the audio cassette player as standard equipment in new automobiles, with 2010 being the final model year for any car in the US to have a factory-equipped cassette player.

Though some new cable car systems were still being built, by 1890 the cheaper to construct and simpler to operate electrically-powered trolley or tram started to become the norm, and eventually started to replace existing cable car systems.

The name was created in 1931 by the DAT Motorcar Co. for a new car model, spelling it as " Datson " to indicate its smaller size when compared to the existing, larger DAT car.

As of 2007, about 50 percent of all new car sales in Europe are diesel.

The rebuilt car was completed, with minor modifications, in 1962 and, by the end of the year, was shipped to Australia for a new attempt at Lake Eyre in 1963.

Other inputs may include intermediate goods used in production of final goods, such as the steel in a new car.

By the end of 2003, car counts had fallen to new lows.

Overseen by Harley Copp, the team of Broadley, Lunn and Wyer began working on the new car at the Lola Factory in Bromley.

In 1969, facing more experienced prototypes and the new yet still unreliable 4. 5 L flat-12 powered Porsche 917s, the winners Jacky Ickx / Jackie Oliver managed to beat the remaining 3. 0 litre Porsche 908 by just a few seconds with the already outdated GT40 ( in the very car that had won in 1968-the legendary GT40P / 1075 ).

In order to bring the car more " in house " and lessening partnership with English firms, Ford Advanced Vehicles was sold to John Wyer and the new car was designed by Ford's studios and produced by Ford's subsidiary Kar Kraft under Ed Hull.

Around 80 % of new homes built in the UK each year have an NHBC 10-year warranty.

Mortgage lenders will usually require that a warranty is in place before lending on a new build property as detailed in the Council of Mortgage Lenders handbook.

The inspection process is not designed to check every detail of the build but if NHBC is satisfied with the overall build quality they will issue the warranty for the new home / premises.

The NHBC was criticised on a 2010 edition of the BBC consumer television programme Watchdog for failing to repair homes due to incorrect surveying of problem properties by relevant professionals, and thus failing to either compensate owners financially or fix any problems promptly, for new build properties under their warranty.

5. Marketing attacks are carried out with price promotions oradvertising, warranty & launching new products.

Pollock and Maitland consider this remarkable since Bracton does allow that the lord cannot substitute for himself in the bond of homage a new lord who is the enemy of the tenant, or too needy to fulfill the duties of warranty.

Less than 100 were believed to be converted when new and they were sold through Honda dealerships with full factory warranty coverage.

Costco has negotiated with manufacturers to extend the manufacturers warranty to two years for new TVs and computers ( five years on TV's sold by Costco in the UK ).

Improving on the hard-wired RAM thus required a motherboard replacement ( which was priced similarly to a new computer ), or a third-party chip replacement upgrade, which was not only expensive but would void Apple's warranty.

This term is often used in the electronics industry as a part of service agreements, according to which the customer returns the product back to the company and gets a new or repaired product back, generally with an additional warranty on the returned product.

Warranties on new cars bought in an EU member state are valid throughout the EU, meaning that a UK resident who has bought a new car in another member state and then imports in into the UK will be covered by the same warranty.

Mercedes-Benz Thailand has a new policy as of 2011 of not providing warranty work to grey-market imports.

There were new spark plugs and batteries and a ' Clincher ' warranty that covered everything on the car except trim for 12 months with no milage restrictions.

All new cars come with a warranty that cover repairs for a certain period of time and a certain number of miles, such as 3 years and 36, 000 miles.

A better understanding of the risk of misinforming and development of appropriate new tools and methods for analysing the warranty of misinforming are needed.

A new car factory warranty extends from a minimal 1 year, more common 3 year and extended 5 years.

Insurance warranty ( extending new car warranties or starting a separate used car warranty )

Obligor warranty / guarantee ( also extending new car warranties or starting a separate used car warranty )

If you are buying a short-term warranty, or given a 3-6 month warranty to cover the period just after you buy a new car, then the Obligor Warranty or Dealer Guarantee will offer sufficient protection.

A home warranty protects against the costs of home and appliance repair by offering home warranty coverage for houses, town homes, condominiums, mobile homes, and new construction homes.