European customers will also, of course, be able to choose from a wider array of engine choices than American drivers, including a power plant under development that would burn compressed natural gas, a first for the brand.
The W engines -- there are 12- and 16-cylinder derivatives, too -- are part of an array of engine designs, sizes and even shapes that power current vehicles, some of which have been tailored to meet goals not apparent at first glance.
Last week, Collins said that embryonic-stem-cell research had become "one of the most exciting areas of the broad array of engines of discovery that N.I.H. supports".
The handsome steering wheel also houses the new "Anima" toggle switch (Italian for "soul", and similar to Ferrari's Manettino) that adjusts a dizzying array of parameters: engine, steering, suspension, stability control, all-wheel drive and transmission.
Racing teams are carrying their usual array of extra engines and tires, but will be pressed for time.
In 2000 they won a $100,000 Small Business Innovation Research grant from the U.S. Air Force to model the performance of an array of turbine-engine components made from titanium aluminide.
Evaluation of the design with a wide array of thrust and engine gimbal faults yields that the resulting TVC improves the closed loop fault tolerant capabilities.
"We're offering a bigger array of vehicles and engines than before," said Richard Truett, Ford's powertrain communications manager, in a telephone interview, adding that Ford has sunk more resources into marketing than in recent years.
Its vast geographic reach and array of products, including bulldozers, engines for cargo ships and mining trucks that haul materials like iron ore, make it a bellwether of the global economy.
A1 An Old-Economy Deal United Technologies, one of the last old-style conglomerates, whose array of products includes jet engines and elevators, was said to be preparing to announce that it will buy Honeywell for $40.3 billion in stock.
The typical electric-drive ship built in the late 20th century is a passenger cruise liner with twin propellers driven by synchronous alternating-current motors and powered by an array of medium-speed diesel engines driving synchronous generators.
