Sentence examples for runabout from inspiring English sources

The shareholders who gathered this week in Berlin are alarmed by the seemingly unstaunchable red ink at Smart, a division that makes little city runabout cars.

To illustrate what he clearly felt was the un-American outrage of attacking gas guzzlers, the Mississippi Republican showed colleagues a large photograph of a purple Smart car, a tiny two-seater city runabout from Germany which in 2002 was unknown on American streets.

Now Skoda, a VW subsidiary, is planning to build a new low-cost car at its plant in Bratislava.DaimlerChrysler had a salutary experience with the Smart, a low-emission runabout.

It accommodates five adults with as much ease or squeeze as any other family runabout.

Like BMW, Fiat is going big for the so-called "fashion car buyer" who demands a "retro-chic" runabout, so most of the changes are cosmetic, including a new range of upholstery and trim.

Network of stations for recharging Electric Vehicles 2012 could become a showcase for electric and hybrid vehicles, with everything from the family runabout to the London bus changing beyond all recognition.

The outboard runabout, or motor launch, is a fairly small open boat with seats running laterally across the width of the craft and occasionally with decking over the bow area.

Aside from encountering a woman sunbathing nude on the deck of a runabout, and some inquisitive monks on an island that had been given to an Armenian, in 1717, to establish a religious order (one asked if I'd discovered "the nymphs, the sirens, the women who live under the water"), I found that my first two days were uneventful.

But what remains is a crisply styled runabout, one with just enough masculinity that young fellows won't have to tell their friends, "Hey, my mom picked it out".

Mazda would love nothing more than to see its 2 anointed the No. 1 budget runabout in America.

They see the single-cylinder S40 as a blank canvas, the foundation for a runabout with a retro-cool appeal that can draw young urban riders.