Sentence examples for primitive car from inspiring English sources

My father bought a primitive car air conditioner and installed it himself in our 1962 Buick.

In the 1960s, when the N.S.A. successfully intercepted the primitive car phones used by Soviet leaders driving around Moscow in their Zil limousines, there was no chance the agency would accidentally pick up Americans.

The current format serves as a reminder of what Moss accomplished: What he finished in scarcely more than 10 hours now takes the better parts of four grueling days behind the wheel of relatively primitive motor cars.

"We came to a stop about four miles down the road," Mr. Gould said, taking some license to emphasize the car's primitive stopping ability.

But still, next to that 1953 model, even with that car's primitive brakes, punchless engine and buckboard handling, there's nothing that screams "Corvette!" quite like the original.

Dr. Rapaille doubts that hybrids will command a wide audience merely because of gas mileage, since people buy cars using primitive reasoning, with "their reptilian brains, not their cerebral cortex".

Instead, their attention was focused on something even more astonishing a vehicle with the potential to make the solar car look as primitive as a Ford Model T. All eyes stayed fixed on a small table holding the culmination of almost a year's worth of work: an eight-foot-long metal frame atop long aluminum skis with tiny wheels on both ends.

The stiff steel rails of a pickup-truck underbody remain, but Ford lowered them considerably when it exchanged the Explorer's primitive suspension for a sophisticated car-like one, a change that also improved the braking to car quality.

As Andrew Lo of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology points out, to primitive people, everyday technology like cars and televisions can seem like magic.

Too many miles in my old open-top Wrangler may have fried my brain, but I've harbored a deep affection for Wranglers even as they clearly became the most primitive vehicles in a new-car showroom.

"They ran their primitive operations from back rooms and car trunks in our major cities.