After a decade when search engines ruled supreme — tapping billions of Web pages to answer every conceivable query — many people now prefer getting their online information the old-fashioned way: by yakking across the fence.
Pratt engines ruled the skies in the 1960s and '70s, but in the '80s the company began a slow fade to third in the passenger jet market behind General Electric and Rolls-Royce.
But some critics doubt that hybrids, with their added engineering costs to auto makers, will be as attractive to owners of large trucks, where brawny eight-cylinder engines rule.
EHLT participants testified in 1999 at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's public hearings on its draft heavy-duty diesel engines rule to reduce emissions of asthma-exacerbating diesel exhaust.
New engine rules provided suspense to the end, despite Ferrari's domination.
Adrian Newey has mocked Formula One's new engine rules, with the Red Bull designer claiming they have produced slower cars without achieving the intended green goals.
He was unhappy about new engine rules planned for 2021, and threatened that these could prompt Ferrari to quit the sport.
Similar thinking applies to equalizing all aspects of competition, with a mandated Car of Tomorrow used by all teams, rigid specifications for components and engine rules that render the pushrod V-8s of participating automakers nearly identical.
Alain Prost, four times a winner around the streets of the principality and quadruple world champion, expects radical new engine rules for 2014 will reward drivers who can add brain power to the horsepower at their disposal.
Nascar has gone to great lengths to ensure a level racing field with template checks of body dimensions, engine rules that render the various manufacturer's V-8s nearly identical and specifications for many parts and systems.
His pole speed is the fastest by an Indy Racing League car outside of the Indianapolis 500 since the circuit introduced its 3.5-liter engine rules at the start of the 2000 season.
