Sentences with phrase «on front wheel drive cars»

On front wheel drive cars the speed sensor is often found on the front wheel hub.

Not exact matches

From electric cars that can drive themselves to modernized public transport such as the Hyperloop to human - sized drones and hover boards (real ones, not those silly two - wheeled contraptions that catch on fire), we are entering an era of potentially dramatic change on the transportation front.

Gov. Rick Snyder signed legislation at the Automotive Hall of Fame on Friday allowing for the testing of self - driving cars without a steering wheel, brake pedal, or human in the front seat.

With the car falling apart, Villeneuve was essentially driving on two wheels as the right front was in the air for most of the lap.

Our first advice to tyro voyagers in the Savoie: The items you will need most are 1) a car with front - wheel drive and chains, since you will be driving on some of the steepest, slipperiest, narrowest goat paths in the civilized world, and 2) a really thick — no less than two inches — paperback French and English dictionary.

An 87 - year - old Orland Park man escaped injury Monday after the car he was driving allegedly surged out of control in the parking lot of the Village Hall, striking a truck and landing with a front wheel on the windshield of an unoccupied car.

So if your left - front tire blew out and your car is front wheel drive, jack it up so the right - front wheel stays fully weighted on the ground.

If you leave the car in gear, and depending on if the vehicle is front - wheel, rear - wheel drive, don't jack both front wheels up if front - wheel drive, etc..

The 5.2 - liter, naturally aspirated gas engine would drive the Asterion's rear wheels via a seven - speed dual - clutch automatic transmission while a pair of electric motors hooked up to a computer - operated torque vectoring system on the front axle would power the hybrid car's front wheels.

With front wheel drive cars, engine braking may be enough on most descents.

The front - wheel - drive - only car will be between 50 and 100 pounds lighter than the current GTI, and its main upgrades will focus on the drivetrain and electronics.

Wrote DeMatio, after consecutive stints in a Volkswagen New Beetle Turbo S, a Honda Civic Si, and our RSX: «This is the best front - wheel - drive car I've had on the track today; there is understeer, but it's quite manageable.

We recently spied a prototype testing on the Nürburgring with a Ford Focus RS, and Honda is aiming to make the Civic Type R into the fastest front - wheel - drive car around the famed German racetrack.

Today, you'll find similar systems on front - drive, rear - drive, and all - wheel - drive cars — among them, the Audi S5, BMW X5 M, Ford Focus RS, and Lexus RC F. Physics defied.

Reports from earlier this year suggest that the new Supra will likely be based on the same platform as the next BMW Z4, with power coming from either a BMW - sourced turbocharged engine or a hybrid drivetrain, possibly with front - wheel electric motors which could endow the rear - wheel - drive sports car with all - wheel drive.

If you check «hybrid» on the order sheet, the RLX is no longer a front - wheel - drive car.

Cursed with a tiny engineering budget, Aldikacti had relied heavily on the GM parts bin to get the car built, and the Fiero's plastic body panels and innovative spaceframe construction hid the front suspension and brakes of a rear - wheel - drive Chevette and a rear suspension derived from the strut - type front suspension of a front - wheel - drive Chevrolet Citation.

When both of the clutch packs on the rear axle are open, and no torque is being sent to either rear wheel, the RS is essentially a front wheel drive car.

So how on earth do you replace a car like the F12, which was surely one of the great front - engined, rear wheel - drive sports cars there has ever been, Amen?

On front driven cars, the motor sits about over the front axles, which means any torque applied to the frame by the motor would not cause an increase or decrease of «weight» on the front wheels, only on the rear wheelOn front driven cars, the motor sits about over the front axles, which means any torque applied to the frame by the motor would not cause an increase or decrease of «weight» on the front wheels, only on the rear wheelon the front wheels, only on the rear wheelon the rear wheels.

If you opt for front - wheel drive, the Grand Touring model can be had for under $ 28,500 and it comes equipped with everything most people are looking for on a new car.

If a production model does indeed turn out to be based on the same UKL architecture as the BMW X1 and 2 Series Gran Tourer, the car will likely be offered with both front - and all - wheel drive, leaving enthusiasts» dreams of a compact rear - wheel - drive BMW sedan in the dust.

Its 2.0 - liter turbo - four produces 235 hp and 258 lb - ft, but because that car is based on a front - wheel - drive platform, the engine would need to be redesigned for use in the rear - wheel - drive IS.

All of this performance potential combined earlier this year to set a blistering lap time of 7 minutes, 50 seconds on the challenging Nürburgring racetrack, beating the previous front - wheel - drive production lap record, not to mention more powerful sports cars.

The front - wheel - drive 2016 Buick Cascada convertible can expect to have a lifecycle of up to seven or eight years, though the German - bred car has been on the market as an Opel since 2013.

With its ambitious price of $ 36,615, the front - wheel - drive SXL costs a few thousand dollars more than loaded V - 6 versions of the Honda Accord and Toyota Camry, and seems to set its sights on premium cars like the Acura TLX and Buick Regal rather than mainstream family sedans.

The biggest seller by a huge margin is expected to be the front - wheel drive, six - speed manual car and that's what we were given to try on epic Spanish roads.

As far as the car goes, 4x4 or AWD fare noticeably better on snow and icy roads, front - wheel drive is preferred otherwise.

Roll the car into an apex and there is some understeer — certainly in today's cold, greasy conditions — but whereas a Golf R or Audi S3 might at best stabilize the push and drive into a nice neutral stance, the RS offers so many more options: Stay on the power and the understeer quickly dissolves, the outside rear wheel driving the front tires — here the optional and superb Michelin Pilot Cup 2s — back onto line.

Toyota will begin to roll out the new platforms with the launch of a midsize, front - wheel drive car on TNGA this year, with extensive plans for other models in the near future.

Everybody knows that front - wheel drive cars tend to understeer (push on rather than turn) whereas rear - wheel drive cars tend to oversteer (turn more than the driver intended).

Up in Quebec, GT Radial had us drive front - wheel - drive cars shod with IcePro tires through a short slalom course on an indoor hockey rink, back - to - back with Firestone WinterForce tires under the same conditions.

It set a record for a front - wheel - drive production car on the Nürburgring Nordschleife with a time of 7 minutes, 43.80 seconds.

Still, the car's XDS differential — a pseudo limited - slip differential that uses the brakes to nibble away at the inside front wheel's progress to force drive to the outer wheel — really helps the Up continue on the trajectory you wish.

Long based on the Toyota Camry, the front - wheel - drive sedan could be seen as on outlier in the Lexus lineup, and yet it's the brand's most popular car.

For many Type - R fans it represented the end on an era, but recently Honda has announced that it is preparing to fight back, with a new turbocharged Civic Type - R in 2015 - which the company claims will be «the fastest front - wheel - drive car to lap the Nurburgring».

Type «Nismo GT - R LM» into a search engine prior to 2014 and you'd have found details not on the groundbreaking front - wheel drive Le Mans car designed by Ben Bowlby, but the most aggressive R33 Skyline GT - R ever produced for the road.

Built on the new Lexus GA - L rear - wheel - drive luxury - car platform, the LC 500h uses an aluminum for the hood, door skins, and front suspension towers, and carbon fiber for the door structures, trunklid, and roof.

It could be based on a small front - wheel - drive car platform, or it might have the underpinnings of a full - sized, four - wheel - drive pickup truck.

It practically begs for the optional all - wheel drive as the torquey turbo four on our front - wheel - drive test car was able to easily light up the tires.

Pleasantly devoid of the torque steer that plagues all powerful front - wheel - drive cars, the Genesis's steering is quick, well - weighted, and accurate — but a bit lighter on feedback than we'd hoped.

That's a pretty inconsequential list of cons when you're talking about perhaps the most exciting front - wheel - drive car you'll ever lay your hands on.

That's thanks to four electric motors — two front and two rear, to give the E-tron a novel take on quattro all - wheel drive — which produce a total of 309bhp and 3319 lb ft.. While the former is over 100bhp off a V8 - engined R8, the latter is a stonking ten times bigger than the petrol car's torque output.

Best guess at this point is that a new 2017 Lincoln Continental will effectively serve as the replacement for the existing Lincoln MKS, and, yes, this would probably mean the new car would be based on a front - wheel - drive platform.

Wrote DeMatio, after consecutive stints in a Volkswagen New Beetle Turbo S, a Si, and our RSX: «This is the best front - wheel - drive car I've had on the track today; there is understeer, but it's quite manageable.

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At this point, there are a lot of powerful, front - wheel - drive cars on the market, and very few of them behave this wildly under acceleration.

It really was like no other front - wheel - drive car I had ever driven, and the way it rode the bumps and crests on those moorland roads was phenomenal.

Although it remains front - wheel - drive / all - wheel - drive on an extended MKZ platform, the Lincoln will have a stretched section between the front door cut and the front wheel that will give it the dash - to - axle body proportion of a rear - wheel - drive car.

The configurations will include a single motor on the front axle for the front - wheel - drive models and an optional one on the rear axle for four - wheel drive; a single motor on the rear axle for rear - wheel drive, with an optional one on the front axle for four - wheel drive; and a further one on the rear axle for four - wheel - drive performance models to create a car with more than 800bhp.