Teenagers and drivers in their 20's, inspired by stunt-driving movies like "The Fast and the Furious," soup up Hondas, Acuras, Toyotas and Nissans -- giving them faster engines, louder exhaust systems and darker windows -- and take to the streets.
Geoff Silvers Geoff Silvers, the "deal detector" and cruise expert at Orbitz.com, says that with the new, faster engines, a ship can leave New York, and by the next morning, passengers will be suntanning on deck.
Ultimately Britain won the naval arms race with Germany several years before World War One, and in time Dreadnoughts were replaced by super-dreadnoughts - with even larger guns, faster engines and more armour.
Another major change in the industry is because of new technology and faster engines, cruises can now pack more destinations into a three or four day trip, which is ideal for those who can only take a short break.
"Lewis should be very grateful that he's driving for a team with such resources and financial support, a team of great engineers with unquestionably the fastest engine.
It's not like Formula One where it's who has the fastest engine".
"I think it is a very basic, fast engine to run Web apps," Sergey Brin, a Google co-founder and its president of technology, said during a news conference at the company's headquarters in Mountain View.
Spark bills itself as a fast engine for processing big data projects.
A fast engine start can be realized using a powerful electric starter and an appropriate battery which are found for example in hybrid electric vehicles.
