There is a police car outside.

The really remarkable thing to me is that most California natives unhesitatingly elect to slow down and permit the invading car free access.

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.

It would challenge sharply not the cult of the motor car itself but some of its ancillary beliefs and practices -- for instance, the doctrine that the fulfillment of life consists in proceeding from hither to yon, not for any advantage to be gained by arrival but merely to avoid the cardinal sin of stasis, or, as it is generally termed, staying put.

Of these states the average `` change-over '' point ( at which a car is substituted for allowances ) is 13,200 miles per year.

Based on this figure and considering depreciation costs of vehicles, pool personnel have determined that travel in excess of 10,000 miles annually is more economical by state car than by payment of allowances for use of personally-owned vehicles.

A tire must be inflated to its normal hot operating pressure and the car must be loaded to its operating weight when this measurement is made.

To determine car speed for a given combination of engine speed, gear ratio, and tire size, the formula is: Af.

An almost too-simple-to-be-true way to set forth on such adventures is just to put yourself behind the wheel of a car and head for the open road.

For those who need or want and can afford another car, buying one and driving it on the grand tour, then shipping it home, is one popular plan for a do-it-yourself pilgrimage.

Your insurance, too, with most agencies, is provided with the car, covering comprehensive fire, theft, liability and collision with a deductible clause which varies in different countries.

As in the United States, there is a flat fee-per-day rental charge plus a few cents per kilometer driven, and the per-day rate drops if the car is retained for a week.

Further, there is no mileage charge or mileage limitations when you lease a car, and you pay only the flat monthly rate plus a nominal charge for documents and insurance since the car is registered and insured individually for your trip.

Leasing a car is not as common or as popular as renting a car in Europe, but for long periods it will be unquestionably more economical and satisfactory.

Still there is a way for those who want to see some of the back country of Europe by car.

The way is to rent a chauffeur-driven car.

In a way, we may be witnessing the same thing in the sales of automobiles today as the public no longer is willing to purchase any car coming on the market but is more insistent on compact cars free of the frills which were accepted in the Fifties.

A call to the police had been placed from here a couple of minutes after nine P.M., and the first police car had arrived two or three minutes after that -- 10 minutes ago now.

The agencies of government are now billed for the actual cost of services provided to each passenger car rather than the prior uniform charge for all cars.

We now know that things rarely ever work out in such cut-and-dried fashion, and that car loadings, while perhaps interesting enough, are nevertheless not the magic formula that will always turn before stock prices turn.

The car was now in sight.

I've tried to compromise by letting them take the little car now and then.

Many modern forces now have their dedicated armored car designs, to exploit the advantages noted above.

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.

Pace continued sponsoring racing events, and now sponsored all Aston Martin Owners Club events, taking a Tickford-engined Nimrod Group C car owned by AMOC President Viscount Downe, which came third in the Manufacturers Championship in both 1982 and 1983.

The car became known as the AMX-400 and it is now owned by an automobile collector.

During this race, Earnhardt was briefly forced into the infield grass, but kept control of his car and returned to the track without giving up his lead — a maneuver now referred to as the " Pass in the Grass " even though Earnhardt actually didn't pass and couldn't have passed anyone for position as he was in the lead at the time.

Campbell's speed on his final Lake Eyre run remained the highest speed achieved by a wheel-driven car until 2001 ; Bluebird CN7 is now on display at the National Motor Museum in Hampshire, England, her potential only partly realised.

For the most part, car bodies were now manufactured at Elizabeth, South Australia, with engines as before, confined to the Fishermans Bend plant in Port Melbourne, Victoria.

However, his next film, 1998's Ronin, starring Robert De Niro, was a return to form, featuring Frankenheimer's now trademark elaborate car chases woven into a labyrinthine espionage plot.

The area now forms part of the car park for the castle.

* Lincoln ( automobile ), a company founded in 1917 to build aero engines and now a luxury car brand of Ford Motor Company

Spy shots of the car appeared in 2007, suggesting a 2008 launch however contradicting reports have shown that the car will now not be ready until 2011.

* 1980: Rover car production ends at Solihull with the transfer of SD1 production to Cowley, Oxford ; Solihull is now exclusively for Land Rover manufacture.

By 1989, with a definitive model name now chosen, the MX-5 ( as in " Mazda Experiment ", project number 5 ) was ready to be introduced to the world as a true lightweight sports car, weighing just.

It is now mostly gone ( in part due to the construction of the new circuit ) or converted to a normal public road, but since 2005 a vintage car event has been hosted on the old track layout, including part of the parking area.

These transducers now are mounted on several car models as an echolocation device, helping the driver determine the distance from the rear of the car to any objects that may be in its path.

Rosmalen is the location of the Autotron, formerly a car museum / attraction park and now a convention center.

" Ooby Dooby " ( h ) e was now singing his compositions in three or four octaves that made you want to drive your car over a cliff.

The car was just about to us, its driver's fat, solemn face intent on the road ahead, on business, on a family in Sante Fe -- on anything but an old pick-up truck in which two human beings desperately needed rescue.

Another car was coming, a tiny, dark shape on a far hill.

`` If you want to see something, he's back on the other side by the trunk of the car ''.

He was pressed far back into the corner of the car on his hay sacks, the rattling and tinning of the wheels on the rails almost covering the sound of his ocarina.

He advanced on them, and abruptly there was a shocked electricity in the car.

Here in the cool darkness Mr. Podger could still feel the warmth of midday, could still see the yellow butterflies dancing over the road, could still see the friendly grin on the young, sun-browned face as the driver looked back over his shoulder for a moment before the car streaked out of sight.

Her house stood on a rise of ground, and before she got into her car she looked at the houses below.

The small car flew on relentlessly.

Back at the Kaiser's Fountain, I walked left to the streetcar stop and rode up the hill -- any car will do -- past the Column of Constantine, also known as the Burnt Column, at the top on my right.

I stayed on the car for a few minutes until, turning right, it entered a huge square, Bayezit, with the Bayezit Mosque on the right and the gate to the university just beyond it.

Since charges are relatively the same, reserving a car before you leave for Europe will assure you of having one on tap when you want it.

For those who plan to travel to Europe by one route and return by another some agencies offer a service whereby you can pick up a car in one city on arrival and leave it in another city, or even another country, when you are ready to return home.

Finally, at Ye Olde Gasse Filling Station on Avocado Avenue, they learned that their man, having paused to get oil for his car, had asked about the route to San Diego.

`` Do you see that pretty girl standing next to the car with slacks on ''??

`` I see the girl but I don't see the car with slacks on ''.