传奇汽车品牌Fisher Body将生产混合动力汽车
The (1)legendary Fisher Body brand of automotive history is being (2)resuscitated by a Troy firm that hopes its advanced, lightweight material unibody and diesel-electric hybrid system can revolutionize (3)municipal transit bus fleets when it hits the market in 2009.
Fisher Coachworks LLC is using technology developed by Rochester Hills-based engineering firm Autokinetics under a $2.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy's FreedomCAR initiative.
The company plans its formal (4)unveiling and marketing push later this summer, and it says it's looking for a 50,000-square-foot manufacturing location in the Detroit area to begin pre-production development.
The company says it's (5)rekindling the name of Fisher Body Co., the carriage and automotive body maker that formed in 1908 and later became a division of General Motors Corp. President and CEO Gregory Fisher is the grandson of one of Fisher Body's founders.
John VanAlstyne, Fisher's vice president of marketing, (6)declined to comment on the company's plans or history beyond what Oakland Business Review found on a beta-style Web site intended only for investors.
==================== 音标、注释、例句及其他 ====================
(1)legendary ['ledʒəndərɪ] so celebrated as to having taken on the nature of a legend
(2)resuscitate [rɪ'sʌsɪteɪt] cause to regain consciousness
(3)municipal [mjuː'nɪsɪpl] adj [usu attrib 通常作定语] of a town or city with its own local government 市的; 市政的: municipal buildings, eg town hall, publiclibrary 市属建筑物(如市政厅﹑ 公共图书馆)
(4)unveil / ˏʌnˈveɪl; ʌnˋvel/ to show or tell people about a new product or plan for the first time
(5)rekindle [‚rɪː'kɪndl] kindle anew, as of a fire arouse again
(6)decline [dɪ'klaɪn] refuse to accept show unwillingness towards




