Sentence examples for gearboxes from inspiring English sources

What's so funny is that they now do have automatic gearboxes - I mean, everybody has".

Johnston continued: "Gearboxes are probably the most key part of the helicopter because that is where the engine power gets transferred up to the rotors, so that's what would be driving the rotors around".

Mustang exhausts are basically tuned to be just under the legal limits for loud noise, she explained: some owners would be delighted to wake up their neighbours each time they left home.I had expected the very largest trucks to have manual gearboxes, and was a bit disappointed when they too had automatic transmissions.

Neither test was run with any of the vehicle's accessories switched on.That may have been fine in the early 1980s when people drove slower, traffic was lighter, cars had fewer power-draining appliances, and air-conditioning and automatic gearboxes were nowhere near as prevalent as they are today.

The sport's original rules were set by Britain's Royal Automobile Club.But in the past ten years Formula One has become arguably the most slickly marketed sport of all; so much so in fact that it is now closer to being an advertising brand than a dull affair of axles and gearboxes.

Already they have a joint company making engines and gearboxes for Europe and South America, as well as a joint venture for purchasing.

Moreover, he adds, the gearbox is made from the same kind of steel that is already used in the small gearboxes that take power from turbofans for aircraft systems.P&W will now use the data gathered from its test flights to finalise the engine's design.

New 8- and 9-speed gearboxes, according to German supplier ZF, can boost performance while reducing fuel consumption by up to 13%.

Chrysler is somewhere between these extremes: it has 50,000 workers (whose numbers include those making engines and gearboxes, unlike Fiat's) in ten factories in America, Canada and Mexico turning out 1.6m cars.Ciao, bella Mr Marchionne recently denied having any plans to stop making cars in Italy.

Most of us might be tempted to think the more the better.After all, automatic gearboxes, servo-assisted brakes and power steering have taken much of the grunt work out of driving.

Not only do the vast majority of vehicles on the road in America have automatic transmissions rather than manual gearboxes, they also have electronic throttle controls.