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Under acceleration, the flywheel's enormous kinetic energy is converted back to electrons and returned to the front-wheel motors, helping the car go farther and faster.
Porsche Blasts Hybrids Into New Stratosphere Dan Neil 2011
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It has lowered its production costs with new front-wheel drive that will be used across the entire small-car range and more shared technology with its larger model segments.
Mercedes Renews Small-Car Push Vanessa Fuhrmans 2011
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That got us a S60 T5 with a turbocharged five-cylinder engine and front-wheel drive.
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Powertrain: Series/parallel hybrid with Atkinson-cycle 1.8-liter, 16-valve, dual-overhead-cam four-cylinder with variable valve timing; continuously variable transmission and helical gearset; AC synchronous electric traction motor 80 hp; nickel-metal-hydride battery pack; front-wheel drive.
At Least It's a Lexus Dan Neil 2011
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I don't want a second SUV, but I do want at least front-wheel drive.
Columnist Jonathan Welsh answers readers' automotive questions Jonathan Welsh 2011
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Our new (2006) Pontiac has some kind of "low trac" system that apparently locks the front-wheel drive differential for a bit if it senses a loss of traction.
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Body style/layout: The 2011 Acura TSX Sport Wagon is a compact/midsize wagon with a front-mounted engine, front-wheel drive, four side doors and a rear liftgate.
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The car maker will roll out a front-wheel drive hybrid model in 2013 to follow the current hybrid version of the Fuga, also known as the Infiniti M model outside of Japan.
Nissan Adapts to Strong Yen Yoshio Takahashi 2011
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Our new (2006) Pontiac has some kind of "low trac" system that apparently locks the front-wheel drive differential for a bit if it senses a loss of traction.
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Many are available with front-wheel or all-wheel drive.
Columnist Jonathan Welsh answers readers' automotive questions Jonathan Welsh 2011
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"'I don't know,' said White, 'it's my father, he says - ' here he picked up the letter and read, 'Ron Lester, the publican, said that Hitler went mad through piles, he was operated on by a doctor, and the operation went wrong, and he still has them.'
'It was a Jewish doctor,' I said. 'That's why he had it in for the front-wheels.'"
- Spike Milligan, 'Mussolini: My Part In His Downfall.'
July 30, 2009