In both cars, you feel the road beneath you, almost as though you're in a kit car meant for
hairpin turns.
HOFFMAN: Usually
hairpin turns like this are delayed by turf wars, fights in the boardroom, activist shareholders circling in and calling everyone morons.
Usually
hairpin turns like this are delayed by turf wars, fights in the boardroom, activist shareholders circling in and calling everyone morons.
Oh and there is no real good way to get there without
hairpin turns at some point!
One that can handle a day or two in the car - blizzards, bumps in the road,
hairpin turns, and all.
Included in the thrilling trip is an encounter with a yacht - sized tour bus that has stopped on
a hairpin turn so the driver can put on chains.
The past year has been
a hairpin turn for Armstrong: divorcing Kristin, buying another house in Austin a 60 - second walk from the one his three children still live in, falling in love again «way sooner» than he figured he would and now having to leave the kids (the oldest a four - year - old) to train in Europe for two months.
Kids and adults can drive these Go Karts around the large track and
hairpin turns.
Not a sprint on a super-smooth track such as the one used for the track cycling competition, but a mad dash across a course that is about 1,148 feet (350 meters) long and 32 feet (10 meters) wide, with three -
hairpin turns and four jump - filled straight - aways.
In September the car raced 14,100 feet to the summit of Pike's Peak, handling 12.4 miles of
hairpin turns without human assistance.
After hours of dust clouds and dizzying
hairpin turns, our destination appeared below — the remote Andean village of San Juan de Collata, Peru.
In the alternate universe of waterslide design, Newtonian models don't always work, and chaos lurks in
every hairpin turn.
Careening through
hairpin turns and racing down straightaways, light packets called photons travel the distance in this nanoscale photonic circuit.
Each hairpin turn opens onto a different landscape: around one, a hillside flush with lodgepole pine; around the next, a blackened slope where bare trunks stand out like so many toothpicks against the sky.
«I thought my career was to discriminate tau in aging,» she recalls, «but my career took
a hairpin turn.»
(It's a reasonable idea — after all, speedy mako sharks have skin covered in tiny toothlike scales that help them make
hairpin turns by controlling flow separation.)
Indeed, at perihelion, sungrazing comets literally describe
a hairpin turn around the sun at over-a-million miles per hour.
One of the 8
hairpin turns on Lombard Street.
MX vs ATV's legendary Rhythm Racing lets players pre-load into massive jumps and clutch through
hairpin turns at full speed all while retaining the smooth and authentic feel not found in any other game.
New Shangri - la is a neon metropolis with
hairpin turns and a drifter's» dream come true.
Creator and star Phoebe Waller - Bridge and Sian Clifford, the latter of whom plays the lead character's sister, Claire, do an exceptional job of negotiating
the hairpin turns that this slippery show likes to take at great speed.
Payne has often been likened to the great Preston Sturges, and a generous reading of this movie's unwieldy structure might position it in the spirit of Sturges» classic 1941 comedy «Sullivan's Travels,» with its nutty
hairpin turns, earnest doofus hero and sincere if sanctimonious moralizing about What Humanity Really Needs.
Awkward controls and loose car physics turn foraging into a dizzying affair of
hairpin turns and rabid possums.
The storyline becomes so lusciously serpentine, with perilous curves and
hairpin turns, it rivals Howard Hawks» «The Big Sleep» from 1946 for the most convoluted plot in all of film noir.
Players will race through eight legendary courses, full of twisting
hairpin turns and perilous straight - aways.
The story takes multiple garish
hairpin turns, including one on such a scale that the petty (though entertaining) problems of this wacky family begin to pale — and not for the first time you may begin to question your allegiance to a show with so little regard for probability.
The film is an anarchic bit of amorous mayhem that's a heck of a lot of fun, the smashing spectacle of squealing tires,
hairpin turns and goodhearted youngsters opening themselves up to love no matter what the consequences more than enough to warrant the price of a matinee ticket.
The makers of Tokyo Drift know that there needs to be a new hook to distinguish it, so they've chosen to change the nature of the race to include the popular new style called «drifting», whereby the cars are «oversteered» through
hairpin turns, with the back wheels seeming to glide further than the front.
Past Jerome is the most mouthwatering stretch of pavement yet, a harrowing narrow mountain pass with slow
hairpin turns and long sweeping bends.
In a sustained
hairpin turn, one can balance out the weight distribution by applying the throttle, but I found that the only way to do so was by accelerating, which is to say increasing speed.
The track contains dramatic elevation changes and
hairpin turns that mimic stretches of Millen's favorite tracks around the world.
In addition to the meticulously manicured lawns and babbling brooks, the driveway is complete with elevation changes and
hairpin turns.
Some sections are painfully slow, others open up into straights where we go throttle down on the W12 before braking hard for the next
hairpin turn.
No matter how agile and responsive your SUV is, it will feel large, cumbersome and claustrophobic on the Stelvio Pass, whose 75
hairpin turns offer a neverending series of sphincter - clenching moments as you negotiate every corner hoping that there will not be a motorcycle barreling down the middle of the road or a truck occupying pretty much the entire width of the narrowest sections.
The way the Audi quattro all - wheel - drive system sends the 220 horsepower from the 2.0 - liter 4 - cylinder engine to the ground is like adding gravity, keeping the car pinned in
hairpin turns and high - speed sweepers.
The Momo steering wheel adds a racy streak to the Outback, but the car's more suited for off - roading than
hairpin turns.
I was one
hairpin turn into my drive and I realized the GS is not the corner - carving big brother to the IS 200t that I had hoped.
On a more obscure road, full of
hairpin turns going up a mountain, I got a sense of what Sport Plus could do.
70
hairpin turns in just 20 km, narrow roads and sheer vertical drops.
With more athleticism and sharpness than other Lexus models (some of the brand's traditional buyers might be surprised at its harsh ride), the IS model's taut tuning pays dividends when the car is tossed into
a hairpin turn on your favorite twisty road.
The 200's suspension provides a smooth and controlled ride, yet manages to keep the 200 relatively level in even the sharpest
hairpin turns.
Our route encompasses all the requirements of a truly exotic driving experience which includes long straightaways,
hairpin turns, various mountain passes and much more.
The interesting part is that our hybrid track test model is equipped with the optional active rear steering system that shows its worth in
hairpin turns, helping to rotate the back end around effortlessly and erase understeer.
I glance down at the Virtual Cockpit display and see an upcoming
hairpin turn on the map.
That was
a hairpin turn from the initial marketing efforts.
During an Audi - sponsored event in Spain, I drove the new TT RS on the Circuit of Jarama racetrack, putting the car through the course's six
hairpin turns, and also getting the launch control experience described above.
HPD also tuned the TLX GT's suspension specifically for this hill climb environment, and the transmission's gearing has been revised for faster acceleration coming out of the course's many
hairpin turns.
10, 500 ft above sea level it performed well on
hairpin turns.
These are tight,
hairpin turns with nothing standing between you and that aforementioned plummet other than a few guardrails and cement barriers.
It feels solid, and while it's still very much a minivan, the Chrysler handles cloverleafs and
hairpin turns fairly well.