Sentences with phrase «-2.4-tonne kerb weight»

The price tag (# 2.2 m), the power output (820bhp when fully lit), the rarity (just 24 were built) and the downforce (in excess of that 1350 kg kerb weight) make for a truly remarkable machine.

Through direction changes it just shrugs off its kerb weight and transitions like a modern four - wheel drive hot hatch.

With the assistance of 4Matic four - wheel drive, a standard 9G - Tronic nine - speed transmission and the massively shod optional 22 - inch alloys, this GLE emphatically denies its elephantine kerb weight much say in the matter.

On both set - ups the Renault Twingo 133's light 1050 kg kerb weight is obvious, helping the brakes feel strong (despite looking tiny), and ensuring brisk acceleration (0 - 62mph takes 8.7 sec).

SVO has adorned the SVR with a full carbonfibre bonnet as part of its latest round of improvements (available fully painted, as well as in the two - tone colourway pictured), and while no weight benefit is quoted directly, the latest SVR's kerb weight, at 2310 kg, does undercut its predecessor by 25 kg, a clue to the SVO team's search for weight savings elsewhere too (and possibly weight gains in a few areas)- the seats, for instance, are 30 kg lighter than before.

As well as sounding like a WW2 fighter, it feels every bit as stupidly fast as it should with 360bhp and a kerb weight of just 1100 kilos.

Using the same aluminium - intensive MLB evo platform that underpins most of the Audi range will, too, keep the kerb weight down.

The former develops 187bhp with 295 lb ft of torque available, overcoming a 1750 kg kerb weight to post a 0 - 62mph of eight seconds flat.

I'm not so sure about the graphics, but there's no arguing with the intent or the anorexic 1140 kg kerb weight of this ultimate go - faster Mini.

Rather than «just» 542bhp and 568 lb ft, like the engine makes in the Cayenne, the Urus has 641bhp and 627 lb ft.. Such vast figures help counter the car's kerb weight of just less than 2200 kg and make it capable of achieving supercar - like acceleration of 3.6 sec to 62mph — that's 0.1 sec faster than the Lamborghini Gallardo LP560 - 4.

Although they don't feel as bad as those of some cars of this age, they're not quite in proportion to the strength of the engine and I wouldn't fancy leaning the car's 1431 kg kerb weight on them too hard too often.

This M5 is an altogether more refined machine than the E60 version, but it still boasts class - leading dynamics and a degree of agility that sits completely at odds with the near two - tonne kerb weight.

This is mated to a seven - speed automated manual gearbox which weighs less than a double clutch transmission and helps keep the overall kerb weight down to just 1390 kg.

Also standard is the 2 - litre, 310bhp variant of the Ford Duratec four - cylinder (and 610 kg kerb weight) that endows the 620S with its impressive power - to - weight ratio.

Combined with BMW's xDrive four - wheel drive system, the 7 - series is an amazingly capable car given its 1755 kg kerb weight.

A recent evo Supertest featured the Mercedes - AMG C63 S Coupe, which has a quoted kerb weight of 1725 kg.

But Bugatti thought differently and showed us the new Chiron Sport, with a firmer chassis, optimised torque vectoring and an 18 kg lower kerb weight.

Despite a relatively light kerb weight (1465 kg) the GT won't set your hair alight, reaching 62mph in 8.9 seconds from rest and topping out at 131mph, but you'd question whether any more is really necessary in a car like this from a non-premium brand.

Things are no doubt helped by a kerb weight that's kept down by use of carbonfibre composite panels on what's a bespoke body, while the roof is of the soft rather than hard variety.

> Performance and 0 - 60 time - The Mustang GT is the UK's best performer, dispatching the 0 - 62mph in just 4.8 seconds depsite a lardy 1771 kg kerb weight, while the Ecoboost requireds another second to hit 62mph and can only hit 145mph.

It's sure to provoke rumours of the long - awaited S2000 replacement, though such a car probably wouldn't boast the concept's 899 kg kerb weight, thanks to carbonfibre construction.

Pagani says that this is the ideal solution for the Roadster, especially as it was the will of Mr Pagani himself for the Roadster to undercut the coupe's kerb weight.

The low kerb weight and efficient set of VAG group engines help the Q2 achieve impressive economy figures.

The M4's three - piece folding roof is also unchanged, although you pay the price for it with a lardy kerb weight of 1864 kg.

The map boosts peak output to 271bhp and 295 lb ft (up from 237bhp and 258 lb ft), and, combined with the shedding of 15 kg from the standard car's 940 kg kerb weight, helps to trim a claimed two - tenths from its 0 to 62mph sprint time.

But the Competition Package can't alter the basic physics of the M6's 1850 kg kerb weight, and it always feels like a big, heavy car — especially if you indulge the temptation to disarm the stability control to steer it from the rear.

This has given even this bulkiest 3008 a sub-1500kg kerb weight figure when an equivalent MQB - based SEAT Ateca can't dip under 1600 kg.

There has been plenty of weight saving in the 911 R and the end result is a kerb weight of 1370g (1250 kg dry)-- some 50 kg lighter than the RS.

That's 32 kg lighter than an M4 fitted with a DCT gearbox but still 70 kg off the GTS's low kerb weight.

In all, over 200 kg was shaved from the 1374 kg kerb weight, but that wasn't enough to beat the all - conquering Ford Capris run by Jochen Neerpasch and Martin Braungart in 1972, so BMW did the sensible thing and bought the human expertise too.

We explain the different kerb weight figures quoted and what they mean.

Of course, by installing a folding fabric roof (20 seconds from fully closed to fully open, by the way, and while travelling at up to 30mph if you so desire), the additional strength and revised bodywork gives the Dawn a 2560 kg kerb weight.

When the road rises and falls that tautness becomes rock solid body control, which — when combined with the low kerb weight — means the ST always keeps iron fisted control of its masses.

> Performance and 0 - 60 time - Modest power and a healthy kerb weight limit outright performance, but if it's your introduction to hot hatches you'll find enjoyable performance.

It doesn't feel nearly as quick as it's official 0 - 60mph time of 5.6 sec, although the chunky 2590 kg kerb weight probably doesn't help here (so much for the all - aluminium construction).

The press literature does state that the car will have a power - weight - ratio of 400bhp / tonne, but 480bhp and a kerb weight of 1250 kg results in 390bhp / tonne, short of the claimed figure.

Being the baby M car, it boasts some pretty impressive consumption figures thanks to a relatively low kerb weight and slick straight - six engine.

Part of the reason the Alfa Romeo Giulia exhibits impressive acceleration numbers is that relative to the class and its size, kerb weight is surprisingly low.

The speed - sensitive steering lacks old - school feel but is very precise, and despite the 1905 kg kerb weight the CLS53 always feels agile and on its toes, rather than bloated and flat - footed.

So while it possessed otherworldly looks and mighty performance fused with genuine useability and a ton (perhaps literally, judging by the kerb weight) of technology, the motoring press remained lukewarm, preferring the seductive Ferrari 575 or sublime Porsche Carrera GT.

With a kerb weight of 1365 kg it makes the 1547 kg Ford Focus RS look obese, and sure enough the lithe Mitsubishi, despite now being 17 years old, trims a tenth from the RS's 4.7 sec 0 - 62mph time.

The combined result is a dip in the standard car's 1,996 kg kerb weight of 18 kg, making that diet sound about as successful as the ones most of us embark on each January.

Over here, the convertible shakes, shudders and shimmies, so the slight increase in kerb weight to 1565 kg seems a good trade.

Power is the same, at 503bhp, and the eight - speed ZF gearbox has been recalibrated to suit both the increase in kerb weight over the saloon and the four - wheel - drive transmission.

But the concept was built on an aluminium chassis and as development continued, so the cars estimated kerb weight began to become a liability.

A kerb weight of 950 kg is nothing special for a car as small as the 106, but it endowed the GTi with a respectable power - to - weight ratio - higher than that of the 1.8 - litre turbocharged Volkswagen Golf Mk4 GTI.

The car's been on a diet, too, with 110 kg shed from the kerb weight.

A hefty kerb weight takes some of the sting out of the 178bhp petrol's tail and even in Sport mode responses aren't that eager and it's not inclined to hang onto gears for too long unless your foot is all the way to the floor.

The G63 responds less well to harsh inputs, the chassis easily unsettled thanks to its tall stance and heavy kerb weight.

With a 3.8 - litre engine rather than the Cayman GTS's 3.4 litres, and a few kilos shed from its kerb weight, the GT4 is predictably a shade faster than the previous quickest Cayman.