Sentences with phrase «much less torque»

The GTI exhibits the much less torque steer, but also has about 50 less horsepower to deal with.

The FR - S, with less HP and MUCH less torque, it looks great in the rear view mirror as you blow them away.

Not exact matches

Of course there's tons of grip and unshakable traction - anything less would be extremely negligent given the power and torque on - tap - but it's the fact you now know how much you're using and how much is left that marks the Chiron out as something special.

Having looked into this in the past, the problem with electric superchargers and why they aren't widely used is partially that doing the job of a turbo / supercharger (moving and compressing a lot of air, fast) requires both relatively high torque and relatively high speed, while not taking up much space (a consideration on motorcycles, less so on cars).

However, Marcos is confident that the GT2 is a unique proposition: slightly more supple, easier to drive both at low speeds and when extending the bulletproof Chevy V8, as much about low - end torque as high - rev drama, and less outrageous in its smooth, sophisticated suit.

It's the way the Focus packages its power on the move that gives it such remarkable real - world pace, making so much of its prodigious torque available for so much of the time that the sheer dimension of its in - gear acceleration from less than 2000rpm — especially in 4th, 5th and 6th — is often surreal.

In the wet, of course, the Quattro versions — which can divert up to 85 per cent of torque rearwards — would rely much less on the traction control under load.

Much as with the Convertible, it's the 552bhp 4.4 - litre twin - turbo V8 that takes centre stage, pulling off the impressive trick, for a blown motor, of seamlessly melding masses of low and mid range urge (500 lb ft of torque from just 1500rpm) with an equally fierce rush to the 7200rpm red line while managing to use 30 per cent less petrol than the V10 that powered the previous generation M6.

This is quicker than the much less expensive Chevy Spark EV which boasts a 400 pound - foot torque figure and around 7.6 seconds to 60.

The Audi Q5 hybrid offers a smooth transition between its electric motor and gasoline engine, but with mileage estimates of 24 mpg city / 30 highway, it's not that much more miserly than the torque - happy TDI or the 2.0 T, the latter with a starting price about $ 15,000 less than the admittedly loaded hybrid.

The LT - 1, an engine built from the ground up using premium parts and components, was a much better performer overall than the previous 302 cu in (4.9 L) V8s used in 1967 - 69 Z - 28s; greater torque and less - radical cam, coupled with the 780 cfm Holley four - barrel, [1] permitted the Z - 28 to be available with the 3 - speed [1] Turbo Hydramatic 400 automatic transmission as an option to the four - speed manual for the first time.

The car certainly isn't much less gadget - laden than that 911; between the torque vectoring, the PDK, the sport exhaust, the active suspension management, launch control, etc. etc., you can tell there's a lot of techno - wizardry going on beneath the Boxster's shapely skin.

Turbo lag and torque steer were still present, but to a much lesser degree.

There seems to be less torque steer than before, and the shifter seems much more robust.

This is where the CVT helps; it provides such a range of ratios that the diesel can build revs to the point where there's much less effort required to generate useful torque.

In actual fact, the high power output and torque of the Bi-Turbo combine so well with this transmission that performance figures usually associated with much larger but less efficient engines are achieved.

With the changes, the engine uses less fuel at highway speeds but has much less low - speed torque.

While it delivers more power and torque than the Lexus LS 460's V8, it's about a mile - per - gallon less fuel efficient than both that and the Mercedes - Benz S550's much more torquey V8.

For the first time in the Polo GTI there's a choice of manual or automatic gearboxes, but since the seven - speed twin - clutch DSG isn't capable of withstanding as much torque as the six - speed self - shifter, Volkswagen had to re-map the torque delivery so you get less twist in the auto model, but for longer.

Either way, there's torque steer still in both the current Mazdaspeed 3 and Focus ST, but I will say the Ford suffers from it much less and it's rather easy to control.

Despite its much smaller size, it produces the same horsepower and 25 % more torque while using 10 % less fuel!

The Ricardo 3.2 L produces almost the same power and torque as the non chipped 6.6 L duramax diesel (roughly 350 HP and 600 ft lb torque burning E85) but is much less costly to build and weighs just over half as much.

Despite the meagre power output, the city car also produces 658Nm of torque (with an 896Nm peak)- only 4Nm less than that generated by the V12 - powered Mercedes S63 AMG, which weighs approximately three times as much as the MOTIV.e.

Or a starter Motor which uses more powerful stator windings to provide a greater magnetic field, hence more torque as, instead of driving much lesser wiper blades it has to turn over an engine.