Yes - premium has a higher 'octane' content which alot of newer cars require to get the desired performance. From Wordnik.com. [Answerbag: Latest Questions in Question Categories] Reference
This one against the toddler set and their high-octane parents. From Wordnik.com. [Financial overhaul's unexpected fallout: The closing of a D.C. day care] Reference
You come hungering for high-octane liberalism and get served warmed-over Reaganism. From Wordnik.com. [Political Unitarianism] Reference
What high-octane researchers sometimes lack, however, is business-development skills. From Wordnik.com. [SCIENCE AND SAVVY] Reference
But at bottom, and in the end, the book is a high-octane moral judgment and exhortation. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Wolfe's Rooftop Yawp] Reference
He has been writing high-octane thrillers that revolve around a counterterrorism operative. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 30, 2006] Reference
When Toyota took the track at the Daytona 500 in February it fueled a high-octane controversy. From Wordnik.com. [Toyota’s Olympic Turn] Reference
This must be the lowest-octane road movie ever, in the hands of British director Antonia Bird. From Wordnik.com. [Head Cases] Reference
Given the high-octane beliefs of California's newest power couple, that much is all but guaranteed. From Wordnik.com. [Buying Into A Senate Race] Reference
The summer is always a good time for high-octane sports banalities, and this year was no exception. From Wordnik.com. [Goodbye to the Clich] Reference
Worst of all, this high-octane rocket fell short of U.S. emissions regulations set to take effect in 1998. From Wordnik.com. [Secret Weapon] Reference
Despite selling TCI, he managed to keep control of TCI's high-octane investment arm, now called Liberty Media. From Wordnik.com. [Dumb Deals 101] Reference
PS2 "is all about fast video and visuals" that are "uniquely suited to high-octane race-car games," says Bell. From Wordnik.com. [Pow! Sony Gets Hit] Reference
Despite its black Christmas, Apple did manage to sell more than a million high-octane Power-Macs in the quarter. From Wordnik.com. [A Quick Rx For Apple] Reference
"Fastlane" is a high-octane undercover-cop story with slick camera moves and editing like "The Fast and the Furious.". From Wordnik.com. [Small Screen Drama Kings] Reference
Here's Kitaj's: "" What's always been unsaid about London's cultural world is a constant, low-octane anti-Semitism. ''. From Wordnik.com. [Welcome To The Hotel California] Reference
What's needed to realize those ambitious social promises, he adds, is the "high-octane fuel of economic growth, jobs and social mobility.". From Wordnik.com. [Fiddling After Paris Burned] Reference
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