In the 1-series hatchback commercial, Kermit the Frog was shown driving a BMW 1 Series around in a desert making figure eights, showcasing the car's agile nature and playful handling.

The commercial featured Dustin Hoffman showing the interior of the Fastback model and explaining the car's technical features but unable to locate the engine.

The car's launch coincided with a " Petroleum / gasoline War " involving the competing commercial interests of the United States, Romania and other countries.

UPI White House reporter Merriman Smith was an eyewitness, and he commandeered the press car's only phone to dictate the story to UPI as AP reporter Jack Bell tried — without success — to wrest the phone away so he could call his office.

One measure of the success is the fact that a budget was made available to design the car's successor with a virtually clean sheet.

1959 Ford Thunderbird Convertible Although the Thunderbird had been considered a rousing success, Ford executives — particularly Robert McNamara – felt that the car's position as a two-seater restricted its sales potential.

De Cesaris moved to Ligier in 1984, where, despite the car's promising Renault turbo engine, he did not build on his earlier success.

Called the Cooper 500, this car's success in hillclimbs and on track, including Eric winning the first post war motor race at Gransden Lodge Airfield, quickly created demand from other drivers ( including, over the years, Stirling Moss, Peter Collins, Jim Russell, Ivor Bueb, Ken Tyrrell and Bernie Ecclestone ) and led to the establishment of the Cooper Car Company to build more.

At the height of the car's success, the plant was working at capacity to satisfy demand.

Those same attributes made the Beetle the perfect choice for the basis of an off-road vehicle as evidenced by the car's success both then and now in the Baja 1000 off-road race.

Due to the car's initial success in Japan, and the tight import quota of Japanese products to the UK, the original allocation of 1, 500 cars was cut to 1, 182.

A major facelift in 1993 did little to boost the car's sales success and the whole Lancia range including the Dedra was withdrawn from right-hand drive markets a year later.

Feedback from measuring the car's speed has allowed the controller to dynamically compensate for changes to the car's speed.

There is considerable debate as to the car's authenticity as a convertible and no documentation has ever been provided to show the Tucker Corporation ever built a convertible prototype.

The port also allows the player to tour their city from a car's perspective and has a full motion video intro.

Since the car's return to the Cup Series, it has been driven by Greg Biffle.

On the day of his 33rd birthday, Solberg finished fifth on Rally Ireland, calling it " the most difficult rally he has ever done "; he had also found his car's performance better than in previous events.

The single gear ratio limits the car's maximum speed to just over at 13, 000 rpm with proper gearing, though it has never been tested at greater than.

Usually, Park ( P ) is one of only two selections in which the car's engine can be started, the other being Neutral ( N ) ( Buses in Hong Kong mentioned above has to be in Neutral mode ( N ) ONLY before the engine can be started ).

Supposed author " CarInTheCliff " also describes the car's only test plus the elements he has added while discouraging repeats by example.

No accurate measurement was taken of the car's speed, which was announced as having been calculated from accelerometer data which has not been made public.

This engine bay has now been proven capable of housing Mercedes V8 engines, which increases the car's performance considerably.

In more conventional non-ACE car structures, the SUV frame has a much greater chance of missing or over-riding the conventional car's major structural components and a greater chance of deforming the passenger compartment.

According to the classic definition the tail should be cut off where it has tapered to approximately 50 % of the car's maximum cross section, which Kamm found represented a good compromise-by that point the turbulence typical of flat-back vehicles had been mostly eliminated at typical speeds.

Likewise, the car's frame or chassis has been omitted for clarity.

Getting back to the previous example, a modern car has more moving parts than a Model T, and the newer car's parts are also more precisely and elaborately made.

A modern Formula One car's steering wheel has buttons and knobs to control various functions as well as gauges and other important items normally found on a dashboard.

CFD has similarly been used as a tool to simulate aerodynamic conditions but through the use of extremely advanced computers and software to duplicate the car's design digitally then " test " that design on the computer.

Most rear-engine layouts have historically been used in smaller vehicles, because the weight of the engine at the rear has an adverse effect on a larger car's handling, making it ' tail-heavy '.

In some countries, customized sleeper vehicles ( as with other heavily modified street cars ) may be considered illegal for road use because the car's level of performance is higher than intended by the vehicle manufacturer ; if the owner has focused only on straight-line performance, the existing braking, steering, tires, and suspension systems may have been rendered inadequate.

The mesh usually has the same color as the car's body, while the frame is in contrast with the main color.

As of December 2009, Pakistan is the only country where the first generation Atos is still being sold and the model has received no upgrades. Although in 2009 November the car's production was stopped and was said that the model was being upgraded and yet the production has not started.

To reduce the XK engine's height, Jaguar's Chief Engineer William Haynes and former Bentley engineer Walter Hassan developed dry sump lubrication, and it has been said that the car's frontal area was also a consideration in canting the engine at 8½ ° from the vertical ( which necessitated the bonnet bulge ).

Visual customization has expanded with the ability to customize the car's front and rear bumpers, side skirts, spoiler, hood, exhaust tips, doors, roof scoop, wheels ( including the ability to put on spinners ), headlights and taillights, side mirrors and paint.

The stranger is arrested after the boy's friend marks down the car's registration plate and is subsequently reported to police.

Soul proved to be one of the fastest drivers to have appeared on the show, but managed to break the car's gearbox ( and subsequently that of the backup car ) very close to the finish.

Several of the car's features, unusual at the time, have subsequently become mainstream such as the headlight flasher (" found on many Continental cars ") and the variable speed windscreen wipers.

He subsequently lost several laps while the team replaced the car's rear wing-giving an interview for French television while the team worked on the car.

The dashboard, instruments and controls were revised, for a the second time, having already been reworked in October 1963 when round instruments replaced the strip speedometer with which the car had been launched: twelve years later, however, the painted steel dashboard, its " knobs scattered all over the place and its heater controls stuck underneath as a very obvious afterthought " on the 1964 Mark I Cortina was felt to have aged much less well than the car's ventilation system.

Although Car and Driver staff wrote an article in 2009 apologizing for the inclusion of the Ford Contour on the " Ten Best " list, it was the only car the staff did not outright recant from the list, but did cite that, in hindsight, the car should have been considered too small for its price range to properly meet criteria, and that this is the likely reason for the car's failure to achieve widespread appeal.

In the 1950s, however, the country had been undergoing a period of above average austerity: in 1953 the car's £ 390 sticker price represented 40 week's worth of the average UK wage.

Although the car's maximum speed was it had been limited deliberately to, the speed at which the driver, Arthur James Edsall of Upper Norwood, claimed to have been travelling.

November 1968 saw the release of the flying car ' Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ' ( 266 ) from the successful film of the same name that had been in cinemas throughout that summer, and which featured plastic wings that popped out from the car's side skirts when the hand brake was pushed and detailed miniatures of the car's inventor ' Caracticus Potts ', ' Truly Scrumptious ' and the children ' Jeremy ' and ' Gemima '.

Wolfsburg was able to ramp up production carefully: directly before Passat production started the lines were used to assemble small volumes of the car's Audi 80 sibling which had been launched a year earlier.

There were shiny, concentric circles on their car's trunk that had not been there the previous day.

The 309 was not intended to replace Peugeot's own 305 model, but the out of step model number – the next small family car after the 305 should have been named " 306 " – was intended to distance it from the 305 in the marketplace and to reflect the car's Simca origins.

Although it had, from the car's launch, been the manufacturer's intention that the XJ would take the twelve-cylinder engine, its installation was nonetheless a tight fit, and providing adequate cooling had evidently been a challenge for the engineers designing the installation.

" Special Edition " Citi Golfs carrying unique trim and equipment combinations have been released throughout the car's production run and include the " Designa ", the " Blues ", the " Ritz ", the " Rhythm " and the " Citi. com " which, in theory, was available only if ordered over the Internet.

Some of the car's weight may have been due to its pillarless " hardtop " body style, which lacked a " B " post.