The turboprop is used in counter-insurgency fights and as a light attack vehicle and reconnaissance aircraft that is built for various speeds.
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The vehicle systems are capable of tasks such as scanning movement of objects around it, identifying a green light from a red light and measuring the trajectory of the vehicle on the road.
The proposed solution was the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, a more survivable light truck that could serve the needs of soldiers, marines and special-operations forces battling elusive adversaries.
PricewaterhouseCoopers, a consulting firm, predicts that light-vehicle sales in North America for 2009 will fall a further 17% to 10.8m.
What really threatened the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, though, was a proposal to refurbish the existing Humvee light truck so that it would no longer exhibit many of the operational deficiencies that had led planners to propose a new vehicle in the first place.
The start of a multi-year uptrend in light vehicle sales started in 2010, notes Levy.
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No scientist on Earth has yet established a proven way as how one might propel even a relatively small space craft in the scale of the Apollo command vehicle at near light speeds never mind a huge piece of space junk like a Death Star.
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With help from signals from roadside markers and traffic lights, in-car computers will be able to determine if a car should slam on the brakes, alert the driver to a passing vehicle in the blind spot or slow for a red light up ahead that another driver isn't heeding.
Overall light-vehicle sales hit a 15-year low in September, with a fall of 27% compared with a year earlier.
Give a light touch on the accelerator until the vehicle gets going.
"We've had a policy in place whereby the green light vehicle is the last vehicle on the road behind the last rider, for 13 years, " said Turtur.
For such a big vehicle, the Q7 feels light on its feet, and the 4.2-liter V-8 provides plenty of oomph, accelerating the beast to 60 miles an hour in seven seconds.
KUT, Iraq -- On a dusty country road outside this city of 350, 000 on the Tigris River, a man in a white robe flagged down a U.S. Marines light armored vehicle.
For example, if 20 percent of check engine light problems reported came from a certain vehicle but it made up only 10 percent of the vehicle population it would have an index of 2.00 (20 percent divided by 10 percent).
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But by then the minivan had been introduced, the first "light truck" that was really a family vehicle.
On October 3, the Army and Marine Corps issued a revised solicitation aimed at saving their Joint Light Tactical Vehicle from extinction at the hands of Congress.
The vehicle involved was a small, grey or light-coloured hatchback and officers said it was "likely to have front-end damage as a result of the collision".
The vehicles were described as one which was a light coloured car, a dark coloured car, which he said may be a Vauxhall Astra, and a red vehicle, believed to be a Ford Orion.
On the outside, Mazda has sculpted the 2012 vehicle's flanks with a flourish of intertwining light lines inspired by what the company calls the "Nagari" styling vocabulary.
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It also will have little to show for years of work on a next-generation jeep excuse me, Joint Light Tactical Vehicle if the appropriators succeed in killing that program.
It used a proprietary magnetic-pulse welding process, for example, to develop a lightweight, one-piece aluminum driveshaft that improves fuel efficiency for both light vehicle and commercial truck customers.
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Welch likens early screening to the check engine light on a car, occasionally picking up abnormalities that don't affect the vehicle's performance.
Under ultraviolet light and a magnifying glass, any one of these thousands of dots can reveal the host vehicle's unique identity number.
In the US, light vehicle sales for 2011 year-to-date are up 20.2% from a recent low in 2010, further bidding up metal prices.
By continuing the national program developed for model year 2012-2016 vehicles, EPA and DOT have designed a proposal that allows manufacturers to keep producing a single, national fleet of passenger cars and light trucks that satisfies all federal and California requirements, while ensuring that consumers enjoy a full range of vehicle choices.
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