And the production version of the 2014 Chevy SS will be the official pace car, leading an all-Chevrolet front row to the green flag.
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Races last season witnessed only two lead changes per caution (the boring slow laps led by the pace car), compared with three in the 1990s and four in the dirt-track 1970s.
Last week, Ford announced that the 2012 Focus Electric would be the pace car at the Richmond 400, making it the first all-electric pace car to ever lead the field for a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race.
While it does have the usual array of power-ups and weapons with the Pace Car replacing Blue Shells and Red Balloons working as homing Red Shells the driving action is focused more on getting things lined up for proper cornering and slip streaming down the straights.
The credit-car statements prove that Pace spent money on gasoline and car washes, but there is nothing to indicate that these expenses had a business purpose.
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Ford and other auto companies wanted to be able to prove that their infotainment systems could keep up with the consumer-electronics industry and a pace of product introduction and obsolescence that is many times faster than the glacial pace in the car business.
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"We know the pace is in the car and it was finding the right balance, " Button said.
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The August new-car selling pace is expected to rank as the highest monthly rate since early 2008, predicted J.
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Auto makers reported the pace of new-car sales slowed in April.
Chery's vehicle assembly line runs at a rather slow pace, churning out one car every 120 seconds compared with half that at the best North American plants.
"Car sharing is growing at a pace we have not seen before, " he says.
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An old family estate car that trundles along without much pace and ends up stuck in the slow lane for race after race.
The aim is to allow cars that are significantly faster than others to be able to overtake, but for it to remain difficult for one car to overtake another of similar pace.
Silverstone was much more demanding of the aerodynamics and the car was far closer to the pace than it had been at Istanbul, where Alonso had failed even to graduate from second qualifying.
Other economic indicators, including unemployment and consumer confidence, may be bouncing around, but car sales are continuing at a healthy pace.
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The innovative system uses radar and cameras to help a car stay in its lane and keep pace with the vehicles around it.
McLaren drivers Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen floundered for most of the first half of the season in a car that struggled for downforce and subsequent race pace.
The team are also puzzled as to why the car is competitive on softer tyres but well off the pace on the harder compound.
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In July and August, the population density and traffic becomes so thick with vacationing Romans that one can push their car across the capital, Portoferraio, at about the same pace as driving it.
Business inventories dropped at a record pace of 1.4% in October, thanks to a surge in car sales.
The hospital is struggling to keep pace with the attacks, and its emergency ward is a tent in the car park, she reports.
What's stopping a faster pace is a collection of state and federal laws that make it difficult for car companies to terminate or relocate a dealer franchise.
Combine that level torque with a frictionless, rev-happy turbo nature and the eight-speed ZF automatic transmission and you have a car that accelerates with a gliding, step-less escalation of pace.
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Vettel, who sits third behind England's Button and Brazil's Barrichello in the drivers' championship, was forced to end his opening session early after smoke came from his car, but he finished sixth, 0.604secs off the pace, in the afternoon.
Spanish driver Alonso was heralded for keeping pace with Vettel, who claimed his third consecutive drivers' crown, despite having a car many observers thought was too slow to compete.
"Today we had a good car, and I don't think we were too far from the Red Bull pace, especially in the race, " the Spaniard said.
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Testing rarely gives outside observers any clues to a car's true performance but the wet weather in Portugal meant gathering any sense of relative pace was difficult even for the teams.
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