The player starts out with a base where they can add buildings, allocate scientists, equip soldiers and vehicles, manufacture equipment, etc.

Customers may equip vehicles with a covered pickup-truck bed and jump seats, and many other options are available, Mr. Barnes said.

In fact, as stellar gas mileage becomes more popular among consumers, companies seeking the green market are working to equip towing vehicles with higher MPGs.

PATS I equipped vehicles include the following.

He has set in motion modifications to side-impact crash tests that would essentially require automakers to start equipping vehicles with side airbags that protect people's heads.

For example, General Motors had begun equipping vehicles with heated washer fluid systems from the factory beginning in 2006 with the Buick Lucerne sedan.

We have to equip vehicles technically in such a way that pedestrians have a chance.

Equipping vehicles to run on the fuels would most likely add to costs, although rising gasoline prices would make methanol and natural gas more attractive.

Auto makers must equip vehicles with anchors for these tethers by 2002, though a few, including Ford and Volkswagen, have put all three attachments in some of their 2000 models.

An industry working group will release a first set of recommendations by the end of the year; equipping vehicles with side air bags is expected to be part of the process.