Prototypes were developed by Philips and Sony independently in the mid and late 1970s.

DPs, as they are often called, are closed-cockpit, purpose-built racing machines which are less expensive and ( deliberately ) somewhat slower than Le Mans Prototypes, which were becoming dangerously quick on the Daytona oval and prohibitively expensive for smaller teams to run.

Prototypes were shown at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit in January 2000 and production vehicles came on the market in 2002 for the 2003 model year.

Prototypes were even spotted wearing the Eagle logo, and Vision production continued into September 1997 to provide dealers with enough stock of the older car to carry them through to the new car's introduction.

Prototypes were tested based on the T-28 medium tank in 1940.

Prototypes were made.

Prototypes were made using the Austin-engineered central portion of the Vanden Plas, with restyled Rolls Royce and Bentley panels front and rear.

Prototypes were built but never tried in combat ..

At Circuit de la Sarthe, chicanes were placed alongside the 6 &# 8209 ; km Mulsanne straight in order to slow down Le Mans Prototypes, which with Group C Prototypes went to speeds as high as 400 km / h.

Prototypes were even tested with actual Golf suspension components.

Prototypes of several stations were designed and built in Alaska and in a rural section of Illinois in 1953.

Prototypes of both designs with these engines were ordered, although the Fw was just getting into the air with the 801s at this point and the 288 was showing a continual tendency to break its landing gear on touchdown.

Prototypes were shown at both the Salon International de l ' Auto ( Geneva ) and New York International Auto Show.

Prototypes of this item were painted and shown on the Internet, but this item was never made.

There were six reported Venus Prototypes all of which were ordered to be destroyed but one still exists at the Coventry Transport Museum.

Prototypes of an improved Englebart mouse with an optical encoder were built at Lami in 1972 ( see EPFL mouse story ), but there was no need for a mouse when graphic screens were not available.

Prototypes of the A. 30 were retrospectively designated A. 130, with the A. 230 the main production version.

Prototypes were running in late 1986 in both the US and UK and volume production from Crosfield's Peterborough factory started early 1987.

Prototypes were completed at JansZen Laboratory and put into field tests starting in 1957, and once perfected, the speakers were put into production at KLH.

Prototypes of the LF-A were spotted regularly undergoing testing at Nürburgring, the famous motorsport race track in Nürburg, Germany, since October 2004.

A. Martin & Ken Wells, " Prototypes: The History of the IMSA GTP Series " – team by team account of various racing teams and manufacturers that competed in the top flight IMSA series.

Prototypes will often compromise by using more variable processes, repeatable or controlled methods ; substandard, inefficient, or substandard technology sources ; or insufficient testing for technology maturity.

Prototypes of Fresnel lens concentrators have been produced for the collection of thermal energy by International Automated Systems.

Prototypes of the original 40-ton design, the Centurion Mark I, had 76 mm of armour in the front glacis, thinner than the then current infantry tank designs such as the Churchill which had 101 mm, but the glacis plate was highly sloped and so the effective thickness of the armour was very high — a design feature shared by other effective designs such as the German Panther tank and Soviet T-34.

Prototypes made by stereolithography are strong enough to be machined and can be used as master patterns for injection molding, thermoforming, blow molding, and various metal casting processes.

* Graphical Display of the Stereolithography Process: A resource page maintained by Laser Prototypes ( Europe ) Ltd

Custom-built Le Mans Prototypes ( LMP ) are the top two classes, LMP1 and LMP2, divided by speed, weight, and power output.

Prototypes have been test driven by journalists and reports published in spring 2009.

For Le Mans Prototypes, the vertical stabilizer, dubbed the " Big Honking Fin " by some fans has become mandatory for all newly homologated sports prototypes.

Prototypes were submitted by Studebaker ( designated T21 ), Ford ( T22 ) and Chrysler ( T23 ), all of them similar in design and appearance.

It was awarded with the competition's " Design Award for Concept Cars and Prototypes " which has also been won by the One-77 two years ago.

Heat transfer and the flow of gases were helped by use of a combustion chamber extending forward from the firebox space into the boiler barrel, along with a boiler tube length limited to, features inherited from the K4 type but not present on the earlier Cole Prototypes.

Prototypes were well received, but production was vetoed by John North Willys.

Prototypes were made in early 1956, followed by sales literature announcing both models.

Prototypes designed by General Motors.

Prototypes which are subject to modification are often not made on PCBs, using instead breadboard construction.

Prototypes are typical instances of a category that serve as benchmarks against which the surrounding, less representative.

Prototypes have been made of flexible and rollable displays which use OLEDs ' unique characteristics.

This is because the BMD-1 is based on Ob ' yekt 914 which in turn is based on the PT-76 amphibious light tank ( refer Prototypes section in the BMP-1 article for details ).

Lola also introduced a pair of closed-cockpit Le Mans Prototypes in 2008, the first of which is the B08 / 60 running in the P1 category.

Prototypes can be classified according to the fidelity with which they resemble the actual product in terms of appearance, interaction and timing.

The Automobile Club de l ' Ouest ( ACO ) who runs the 24 Hours of Le Mans has given their full backing of the American Le Mans Series, which currently runs three classes of Le Mans Prototypes ( LMP ) and two classes of Grand Touring ( GT ) cars.

Although most commonly known as Le Mans Prototypes, these types of cars have used various names depending on the series in which they compete.

* Also in November 2006, Apple released a new ad ( Put some music on ) for the second generation iPod shuffle, which featured people clipping the minuscule player to different articles of clothing while jamming to the beat of Prototypes ' " Who's Gonna Sing?