Sentence examples for wing car from inspiring English sources

The Lotus 78 "wing car" proved to be the most competitive car of 1977, but despite winning four races, more than any other driver, reliability problems and collisions with other drivers meant Andretti finished only third in the championship.

1978 was the year of the dominant Lotus 79 "wing car", which used aerodynamic ground effect to stick to the track when cornering, but Lauda won two races in the BT46, one with the controversial "B" or "fan car" version.

Last year, he drove the experimental Delta Wing car that the A.C.O. had allowed to test out new, clean racing technologies.

Highlights at this year's Chrysler-centric show include tributes to wing cars and Gil Kirk's Rod Shop.

It takes us from reimagined scenes of the carboniferous forests, with giant horsetails, ferns and giant dragonflies, to Duncan Campbell's film of John DeLorean's attempt to build his futuristic gull-wing car in Northern Ireland.

Situated on the former estate of John Z. DeLorean -- whose stainless-steel, gull-wing car brought him fame and then bankruptcy -- Trump National lives up to Mr. Trump's boast that it is "the hottest course in the country".

Campbell's earlier films, on Irish politician Bernadette Devlin McAliskey and on John DeLorean's ill-fated attempt to build his gull-wing car in Northern Ireland, were as much about how the media portrayed them as they as they were portraits of their protagonists themselves.

As headlines go, that's up there with "DeLorean To Unveil New 'Gull-Wing' Car", "Freddy Laker Reveals Trans-Atlantic Airline Plans" and "Charge! says Light Brigade" – reading it, you assume either there's been some kind of historical glitch in your RSS reader or that someone is making a wry joke about extreme business hubris.

Without one or both of the nose wings, a car becomes virtually undrivable and refuses to respond as the driver turns the steering wheel.

Daimler has already hired 1,800 temporary workers and added Saturday shifts at its German assembly plants producing the Mercedes-Benz SLS gull-wing sports car and other models destined for the Chinese market.

They do not need huge plants to produce the cars, a capital cost that helped sink John DeLorean, who designed and manufactured a gull-wing sports car in the 1980's.