In 1976, Bob Hall, a journalist at Motor Trend magazine who was an expert in Japanese cars and fluent in the language, met Kenichi Yamamoto and Gai Arai, head of Research and Development at Mazda.

* Winner of Motor Trend Magazine's Sport / Utility of the Year Award in 2009

The Toronado was Motor Trend magazine's 1966 " Car of the Year.

* Oldsmobile Toronado ( 1966 – 1992 )-personal luxury coupe, major redesign downsized the car in 1986, Motor Trend Car of the Year in ' 66.

Because of these changes, Motor Trend magazine picked the entire Pontiac line as 1959 Car of the Year.

The Tempest won the Motor Trend " Car of the Year " award in 1961 — for Pontiac, the second time in three years.

The February, 1965 issue of Motor Trend was almost entirely devoted to Pontiac's Car of the Year award and included feature stories on the division's marketing, styling, engineering and performance efforts along with road tests of several models.

It won the Motor Trend Car of the Year award in 1974 and 1994.

: The MDX wins the prestigious Motor Trend " 2001 Sport / Utility of the Year " award

*' Motor Trend ' magazine ( USA ), February 1972 issue

*' Motor Trend ' magazine ( USA ), February 1974 issue

( In 2000, Motor Trend did away with separate awards for domestic and imported vehicles.

In a Motor Trend interview August, 1970 DeLorean said, " Vega will be the highest quality product ever built by Chevrolet.

The new model, introduced at a time of increased interest in small cars, won several awards including Motor Trend Car of the Year.

Motor Trend declared: " The Alliance may well be the best-assembled first-year car we ’ ve ever seen.

In 1963, the entire Rambler line received the Motor Trend Car of the Year award.

* Motor Trend, an automotive magazine

A four-barrel Motor Trend test car, a heavier convertible handicapped by the two-speed automatic transmission and the lack of a limited slip differential, ran 0-60 mph in 7 seconds and through the quarter mile in 16. 1 seconds at 89 miles per hour ( 142. 4 km / h ).

Car Life was satisfied with the metallic brakes on its GTO, but Motor Trend and Road Test found the four-wheel drum brakes with organic linings to be alarmingly inadequate in high-speed driving.

Motor Trend clocked a four-speed Ram Air with 4. 33 rear differential at 14. 45 seconds at and a standard GTO with Turbo-Hydramatic and a 3. 23 rear axle ratio at 15. 93 seconds at.

Motor Trend tested a 1971 GTO with the 455, four-speed transmission, and 3. 90 axle, and obtained a 0-60 mph time of 6. 1 seconds and a quarter mile acceleration of 13. 4 seconds at 102 mph ( 164 km / h ).

The article continued: " Walt Woron of Motor Trend enjoyed the ' quick-flowing power ... that pins you to your seat and keeps you there until you release your foot from the throttle [...] Olds dominated the performance landscape in 1950, including wins in the NASCAR Grand National division, Daytona Speed Weeks, and the 2100-plus-mile Carrera Panamericana.

In January 1965, Foyt qualified and ran in the front of the pack most of the day with Dan Gurney and Parnelli Jones in the Motor Trend 500 at Riverside.

It was also history-making, becoming the first individual model line ( as opposed to an entire company ) to earn Motor Trend " Car of the Year " honors.

On a skidpad, the car achieved. 83 g, only. 03 g less than the Celica GTS, during testing by Motor Trend and Sport Compact Car.

Music Week described it as an " inspired collection of leftfield rock ", while Thor Christensen of The Dallas Morning News said that it " brims with the same dry humor the Sacramento band displayed in past hits such as ' The Distance ' and ' Rock and Roll Lifestyle ': The leadoff track, ' Satan Is My Motor ,' puts a devilish new spin on the rock ' n ' roll car-song tradition, while ' When You Sleep ' revolves around the question of what your fingers do while the rest of the body snoozes ".

In the U. S. gasoline is described in terms of its " pump octane ", which is the mean of their " RON " ( Research Octane Number ) and " MON " ( Motor Octane Number ).

In a 1970 Motor Trend test of a Torino Cobra, Motor Trend described the competition suspension as " completely different: The car goes through tight turns in a confidence-inspiring controlled slide.

The concept was originally described in fiction in 1911 " Two Boys in a Gyrocar: The story of a New York to Paris Motor Race " by Kenneth Brown, ( Houghton Mifflin Co ).

Although coming to motor racing late in life ( at age 41 in 1949 ), he won a total of 126 F3 races altogether, and was described by Motor Sport magazine ( in his 1998 obituary ) as " the most successful Formula 3 driver in history.

In detail, Autocar & Motor described the instrumentation as " excellent " and the accommodation as " generous.

The 1992 edition of the Daily Mail Motor review, edited by Michael Kemp described the styling as " modern but sometimes awkward.

He was a highly knowledgeable salesman of machine tools ( who was also an expert in their development and use ) when he was recruited by the Ford Motor Company in August 1906 to be what Charles E. Sorensen variously described as " a cost-cutting production manager " and a " roistering genius " " with the entirely unofficial rating of works manager " whose " hiring arrangement included an understanding that he could continue to sell machinery elsewhere with an organization of his own.

Early examples include Albion Motor Car Company's shooting-brake, described in the 1908 book The Commercial Motor as having " seats for eight persons as well as the driver, whilst four guns and a large supply of cartridges, provisions baskets and a good ' bag ' can be carried.

In 2004, Chevrolet presented its Chevrolet Nomad concept, which the New York Times described as " fitting the formula " of a contemporary shooting-brake, and in 2005 Audi presented a Shooting Brake concept at the Tokyo Motor Show.

In 2011, Fisker presented the Surf at the Frankfurt Motor Show — a four-door plug-in hybrid described by Automobile as a shooting-brake.

According to Collectible Auto magazine, the car was described in Car Lifes review as " a big car in miniature " that was " fun to drive " and " ideal for a second car in the family ," while Motor Trend was not alone in regarding the rear " utility " seat as " a joke.

Motor Cycle magazine described the sands as " The finest natural speedway imaginable ".

Modern Motor magazine described the HZ as " a great handler spoiled by the car " in a comparison against the BMW 528i, contrasted as " a great car spoiled by the handling ".

In 1916 US automotive magazine Automobile Topics described a four-cylinder, four-valve-per-cylinder car engine made by Linthwaite-Hussey Motor Co. of Los Angeles, CA, USA: " Firm offers two models of high-speed motor with twin intakes and exhausts.

Although the SC / 360 could not compete with the holdover big-engined muscle cars, the SC combined respectable quickness ( 0 to 60 mph in 6. 7 seconds and the 1 / 4 mile dragstrip in 14. 9 at with a taut suspension, big tires, and modest size ; thus Motor Trend magazine described it as " just a plain gas to drive ... it handles like a dream.

Changes in muscle performance can be broadly described as the Upper Motor Neuron Syndrome.

The Mark III was presented at the London Motor Show in October 1965, described at the time as " even more luxuriously trimmed and furnished ".

Sergio Pininfarina's design for the Peugeot 504 | Peugeot 504 Cabriolet created a car described recently in Auto, Motor und Sport as " the most beautiful Peugeot to date ".

In 2007 Russian reports described the army as consisting of the 81st Guards ( Bikin ) and 121st ( Sibirtsevo ) Motor Rifle Divisions, the 127th ( Segreevka ) and 129th ( Barabash ) MGADs, the 130th Machine-Gun Artillery Division ( Lesozavodsk ), 20th Rocket Brigade ( Spassk-Dalniy ) ( OTR-21 Tochka SSM ), 719th Multiple Rocket Launcher Regiment ( Pokrovka ), 958th Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment, and other smaller combat and support formations.