When the station wagon drew abreast of the dusty dirt road that led up to the porch of the Culver house, Pamela turned the wheel, guiding the car to its familiar parking spot close to the house, and stopped.

The car lurched along at a snail's crawl, the left-front mudguard banging and scraping against the tire, occasionally scraping against the road itself.

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.

Harry followed the car until it reached the main road and turned towards Kingston.

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.

'' Mark asked, and Abel lifted his eyes from the double lines in the middle of the road, the twin white ribbons which the car swallowed rapidly as it ascended the crest of the hill and came down.

But he did not notice, and was already backing the car down to the road, saying `` Toot-toot ''!!

She stood clutching her shawl around her shoulders until he had swung the car onto the road.

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.

International Touring Documents are usually provided with the car as are road maps and touring data.

He had driven the car that passed them on the road outside Admassy's place.

He was trapped on the road when he heard the sound of an approaching car.

Walking back down Main Street, I said, `` I saw the Harbor's one squad car at the road block, we'll ride out in my car ''.

Out of the church and into his big car, it tooling over the road with him driving and the headlights sweeping the pike ahead and after he hit college, his expansiveness, the quaint little pine board tourist courts, cabins really, with a cute naked light bulb in the ceiling ( unfrosted and naked as a streetlight, like the one on the corner where you used to play when you were a kid, where you watched the bats swooping in after the bugs, watching in between your bouts at hopscotch ), a room complete with moths pinging the light and the few casual cockroaches cruising the walls, an insect Highway Patrol with feelers waving.

While driving home during a thunderstorm, the car in which he was a passenger skidded off the road and rolled over.

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A bus (; plural " buses ",, archaically also big car, omnibus, multibus, or autobus ) is a road vehicle designed to carry passengers.

( A very similar problem is the design of a banked turn, where the slope of the turn is set so a car will not slide off the road.

Brabham was confident he could do better than Cooper, and in late 1959 he asked Tauranac to come to the UK and work with him, initially producing upgrade kits for Sunbeam Rapier and Triumph Herald road cars at his car dealership, Jack Brabham Motors, but with the long-term aim of designing racing cars.

Brabham used engines from Australian engineering firm Repco, which had never produced a Formula One engine before, based on aluminium V8 engine blocks from the defunct American Oldsmobile F85 road car project, and other off the shelf parts.

However, if the cruise control is engaged on a stretch of flat road, then the car will travel slower going uphill and faster when going downhill.

) As a result, the controller cannot compensate for changes acting on the car, like a change in the slope of the road.

These sealers are used to extend the life and reduce maintenance cost associated with asphalt pavements, primarily in asphalt road paving, car parks and walkways.

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.

In addition, the efficiency of an internal combustion engine can be measured in this way, and some states and local municipalities are using combustion analysis to define and rate the efficiency of vehicles on the road today.

Cheney's most noted successes were in the Grand Prix road racing championships, with Phil Read using his chassis in tandem with a Yamaha engine to win the 1971 250cc world championship.

The approach is novel in that it uses a mostly stock aircraft with a modified landing gear " pod " that carries the engine for road propulsion.

The wings fold along the side, and the main landing gear and engine pod slide aft in driving configuration to compensate for the rearward center of gravity with the wings folded, and provide additional stability for road travel.

The first Ferrari road car was the 1947 125 S, powered by a 1. 5 L V12 engine ; Enzo Ferrari reluctantly built and sold his automobiles to fund Scuderia Ferrari.

This version also featured a different more powerful V-12 engine and civilian road wheels to increase the vehicles top speed capabilities in urban areas.

This allowed an engine and boiler to be combined into a single unit compact enough to be used on mobile road and rail locomotives and steam boats.

Modern on-highway diesel engines are designed to provide maximum torque in a narrow RPM range ( usually 1200-1500 RPM ); having more gear ratios means the driver can hold the engine in its optimum range regardless of road speed ( drive axle ratio is also a critical factor ).

Although this is a relatively fast movement, perhaps a second or so while transmission is in neutral, it allows the engine speed to drop and synchronize engine and transmission revolutions relative to the road speed.

These units are used to provide climate control and electrical power for the truck's sleeper cab and engine block heater during downtime on the road as mandated by statewide laws for idle reduction.

Aprilia factory rider Philippe Berlatier contended for the trials world championship reaching fifth place, and Loris Reggiani rode an Aprilia GP 250 with Rotax engine to sixth place in the road racing World Championship.

Lavoisier's prestige and the practical success of Sadi Carnot's caloric theory of the heat engine since 1824 ensured that the young Joule, working outside either academia or the engineering profession, had a difficult road ahead.

The other key factor in the quality of its road holding is the very low and forward centre of gravity, provided by the position of the engine and transmission.

The rolling stock of this road consisted of one little wheezy, jerky engine, one box car and one combination express-baggage-passenger coach, one hand-car with tools and equipment sufficient for the section foreman and one hand.

In front of the engine of the train which carried the troops was placed a gun, and at Nanticoke several companies were disembarked, and as skirmishers, during the night, proceeded up the road, taking into custody every man caught out of doors.

In the UK, foot pedal use to control engine speed while travelling on the road is mandatory.

On the open road, the primary power source is the internal combustion engine.

The firm entered the automobile business with the Ligier JS2, a mid-engined sports car for the road initially powered by a Ford V6 and from 1971 by the same Maserati V6 engine as the Citroën SM.

Current publicised projects range from an diesel engine for unmanned aerial vehicles, through to an engineering partnership on one of the world's most powerful normally aspirated road car engines.

Cosworth increased its association with Ford in 1969, by developing a double overhead camshaft ( DOHC ) 16-valve inline four-cylinder engine for road use in the Ford Escort.

While it was praised for its excellent driving position, fine instruments, and strong engine, it was criticized for having high levels of road noise, uncomfortable seats, and poor fuel economy.