"That's one of the car's hallmarks," Coletti says.
All of the A8s and the S8 are built with an all-aluminum space-frame structure that has been the car's hallmark technology since the first-generation sedan of the mid-1990s.
Though the 180 falls amid such automotive ephemera as bronze sculptures and vintage poster art, the pint-size car bears many hallmarks of the $10m machines that comprise the sale's marquee acts: scarcity, a well-documented history and a telltale prancing horse on its flank.
The American military reported last week that from Feb. 22 to March 22 , 1,313civilians were killed, many in sectarian violence, while 173 civilians died in car bombings, a hallmark of the insurgency.
Talabani distinguished between high-profile deaths caused by suicide bombings and car bombings -- a hallmark of the predominantly Sunni Arab insurgency -- and the killings that take place every night in Baghdad, where a victim vanishes, only to reappear in an out-of-the-way alley, shot dead.
In fact, the steering of this car is a hallmark of what sports cars should feature, with a direct, solid feel of what's happening at the wheels but tremendous on-center feel, so tuning the radio doesn't mean you have to fear driving into a ditch.
Delightfully light-to-the-touch controls and 4-cylinder engines with electric-motor smoothness became hallmarks of cars like the Honda Civic, which elevated refinement in a mainstream small car to an art form.
One should not overstate the case: stealing trainers and burning police cars are not the hallmarks of political sophistication.
As a teenager, Mr. Junger said, he never measured himself by the girlfriends and fast cars that were the hallmarks of his peers' efforts to show that they were adults.
No militant group claimed responsibility for the attack, but car bombings are a hallmark of the Sunni Arab-led insurgency, which is fighting to topple the elected government and drive American troops out of the country.
