A car lying dormant can lead to countless, and priceless, damages: rubber rot, interior mildew, outer rust, engine parts seizing, short circuit wiring, paint bubbling, fiberglass cracking, chrome pitting, brakes freezing, and batteries dying.
McGregor is currently impressing US audiences with his latest film, a comedy called I Love You Phillip Morris, in which a happily married man comes to terms with his long-dormant homosexuality after a car accident.
The Board of Health has jurisdiction over private cars, but has thus far lain dormant.
And inventories of new cars are cleared from dealers' lots, allowing dormant factories to restart.
So long before the younger Franklin's enthusiasm would rejuvenate a dormant Vanderbilt football program, he helped his father into the car.
BlackJet is working with third-party private charter companies to create more efficient use of planes and crews that would otherwise just end up sitting around dormant, much in the way that Uber partnered with black car and limo services to make use of their drivers when not occupied.
An American or European version of the Nano, minus Tata badges, and possibly wearing a dormant nameplate from Fiat's past, could give the Fiat Group its cheap car brand and Tata an entry into markets in Europe and the United States.
Clark started RelayRides four years ago in Boston as a way to make more efficient use of cars that spent most of their time parked and dormant.
I set about flipping on long-dormant circuit breakers and making a fire while the girls unloaded the car with quickly freezing hands.
Or more precisely, the new incarnation of the Packard Motor Car Company, created in 1995 when an entrepreneur, Roy Gullickson, acquired the rights to the long-dormant Packard name and logo and began trying to develop a new luxury car to put them on.
