This sentence would have most of the characteristics of a question, but it has some of the characteristics of a statement because the questioner has conveyed the fact that he has no faith in his own timepiece or the one attached to his car.

The request for lower rates originated with the Southern railway, which has spent a good deal of time and money developing a 100-ton hopper car with which it says it can move grain at about half what it costs in the conventional, smaller car.

Beebe tells of one private car that has gold plumbing.

only one box car in eight has the wide doors needed for unit loads ; ;

Generally, they go to school with a girl named Gloriana, who lives down the block, and has a car.

When they do that my wife has to drive me to work in the big car.

She has to have at least one car herself.

With a foreign car you must wear a cap -- it has a leather band in the back.

The necessity is not clear to me, and, in any case, to present a case-hardened race-driver as saying he has left his car, which, or whom, he calls `` Giuseppe '', parked `` on the Place Vendome sneering at a dozen Bentleys and Rolls-Royces parked around him '' is not a liberty ; ;

After the engine has been installed on the second car, the second car moves to the hood assembly.

When the third car ’ s engine has been mounted, it then can be moved to the hood station ; meanwhile, subsequent cars ( if any ) can be moved to the engine installation station.

Assuming no loss of time when moving a car from one station to another, the longest stage on the assembly line determines the throughput ( 20 minutes for the engine installation ) so a car can be produced every 20 minutes, once the first car taking 35 minutes has been produced.

In English, which has mostly lost the case system, the definite article and noun – " the car " – remain in the same form regardless of the grammatical role played by the words.

More recently, the term has been applied to a game, typically played by groups of friends to determine who rides beside the driver in a car.

By banking the curve, the force exerted upon the car in a direction normal to the road surface has a horizontal component that provides this centripetal force.

A common misconception is that Richard Childress Racing " owns the rights " to the No. 3 in NASCAR competition ( fueled by the fact that Kevin Harvick's car has a little No. 3 as an homage to Earnhardt and the usage of the No. 3 on the Camping World Series truck of Ty Dillon ), but in fact no team owns the rights to this or any other number: However, according to established NASCAR procedures, RCR would have priority over other teams if and when the time came to reuse the number.

The change to the dollar also precipitated a trend toward lower interest rates in El Salvador, helping many to secure credit in order to buy a house or a car ; over time, displeasure with the change has largely disappeared, though the issue resurfaces as a political tool when elections are on the horizon.

Since the early 1980s, Smyril Line has operated a regular international passenger, car and freight service using a large, modern, multipurpose ferry, the Norröna.

Rudolph Gore-Slimey ), has stolen his design for a race car engine and has become a world champion Formula One driver.

Ford's increased influence during the 1990s allowed Mazda to claim another distinction in history, having maintained the first foreign-born head of a Japanese car company, Henry Wallace.

One widespread distinction, found in English and many other languages, involves a simple two-way number contrast between singular and plural ( car / cars, child / children, etc .).

It is this close association with the ' exotic ' nature of the cars that serves as a useful distinction between sports car racing and touring cars.

Belavezhskaya Pushcha National Park, 70 km north of Brest, is a biosphere reserve of world distinction and can be reached by car or bus.

Since the company operates in two countries, CN maintains some corporate distinction by having its U. S. lines incorporated under the Grand Trunk Corporation for legal purposes, however the entire company in both Canada and the U. S. operates under CN, as can be seen in its locomotive and rail car repainting programs.

The superior performance characteristics of later Lamborghini models ( such as the Diablo, or the Murciélago ) appealed to performance car drivers and engineers, but they never had the originality or outrageousness that gave the Countach its distinction.

It had the distinction of being a mid-size car with the space of a subcompact ( less than a Sentra ) due to its sloping roofline and shrunken trunk.

For instance, the urban middle and upper class of Europe adopted the bicycle, both for distinction purposes and for the green values it represents, in contrast to everyone's polluting car.

The SP ( Six-Pack ) model of 1971 – 73 offered 3 × 2-barrel carburation ; only 232 were built and had the distinction of being the most powerful car ever to have been made by Jensen ().

A definition of a fastback by Road & Track addresses this distinction: " A closed body style, usually a coupe but sometimes a sedan, with a roof sloped gradually in an unbroken line from the windshield to the rear edge of the car.

An article by " The Street ", an investor's advisory online journal, placed the car at the top of the list of the " 10 Worst Cars of All Time " not only because of its perceived ugly appearance, but also because it had " a singular distinction: it destroyed an 84-year-old automaker.

In 2005 the Rodius won the dubious distinction of being voted " the ugliest car ever made " by visitors to motoring website CarData and is described by Top Gear Magazine as a car: " that looks like it got bottled in a pub brawl and stitched back together by a blind man " and the car also won the Top Gear Magazine WTF Award for 2009.

When it was introduced in fall 2008, the Versa's base price of US $ 9, 990 made it the least expensive new car available in the United States, but a price cut to the Hyundai Accent usurped that distinction by $ 20.

The distinction between a sandrail and dune buggy or sand car is that the sandrail will rarely have windows, doors, fenders, or full body panels.

This is an important distinction because two people can disagree sharply about the value of personal assets, one person might think a sports car is more valuable than a pickup truck, another person might have the opposite taste.

Mary Ward has the unfortunate distinction of being the first fatality of a car accident.

There is an emission offset fee of $ 5. 00 per car has been established on weekends, which some argue is contrary to the vision that " no distinction will be shown between rich or poor " and that the forest " will be kept for ever free.

Mark stopped the car and switched off the lights and they sat looking at the water, which, there being no moon out, at first could be distinguished from the sky only by an absence of stars.

When the automobile was in its embryonic stage, such roads as existed were pretty much open roads with the tacit understanding that horses should not be unduly terrified being about the only rule governing where, when and how fast a car could go.

The logic of that is impeccable, of course, except that I feel like a fool being driven up to work in a little car, by my wife, when everybody knows I have a big car and am capable of driving myself.

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.

The military's armoured car is a wheeled armoured vehicle, lighter than other armoured fighting vehicles, primarily being armoured and / or armed for self-defence of the occupants.

A military armored ( or armoured ) car is a wheeled light armored vehicle, lighter than other armored fighting vehicles, primarily being armored and / or armed for self-defense of the occupants.

Fuller financed some of his experiments with inherited funds, sometimes augmented by funds invested by his collaborators, one example being the Dymaxion car project.

A large log being placed on a railroad car at Batottan, British North Borneo in 1926

In the 1970s and 1980s, Brabham introduced innovations such as the Gordon Murray designed " fan car "— which won its only race before being withdrawn — in-race refuelling, carbon brakes, and hydropneumatic suspension.

Some authors have claimed this to be untrue, showing that the pollutant and irritant count within cars is consistently higher, ( presumably because of limited circulation of air within the car and due to the air intake being directly in the stream of other traffic ).

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.

Molly Dobbs became pregnant, with the father being either Tyrone Dobbs or Kevin Webster ; Molly reconciled with Tyrone and nearly lost her life after a crash in a car which had not been properly repaired by Kevin.

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.

Before the Datsun brand name came into being, an automobile named the DAT car was built in 1914, by the, in the Azabu-Hiroo District in Tokyo.

At 84 years old, Daihachi Oguchi died on June 27, 2008, after being hit by a car across from his home in Nagano, Japan.

A 2002 example of a Colombian diplomat in London being prosecuted for the manslaughter of a man who mugged his son in a Tesco car park was deemed in the public interest once diplomatic immunity was waived by the Colombian government.

Some have criticized the obvious stagings in this film as being at odds with Vertov's credos of " life as it is " and " life caught unawares ": the scene of the woman getting out of bed and getting dressed is obviously staged, as is the reversed shot of the chess pieces being pushed off a chess board and the tracking shot which films Mikhail Kaufman riding in a car filming a third car.

Campbell had to move the CN7 off the lake in the middle of the night to save the car from being submerged by the rising flood waters.

The race saw Achille Varzi and Tazio Nuvolari exchange the lead many times before being settled in Varzi's favour on the final lap when Nuvolari's car caught fire.