Sentences with phrase «accelerator harder»

Depressing the accelerator harder would allow an aggressive driver to make the front tires sing further toward its understeer bias and ultimate traction loss.

Pound the accelerator hard enough and its nine - speed automatic will skip a few gears to help get you down the road.

When you press the accelerator hard, the car remains balanced and poised.

It is responsive and eager whether hitting the accelerator hard for highway maneuvers are managing stop and go city traffic.

Hitting the accelerator hard from a dead stop did not produce the annoying whine many hybrids and especially CVTs have when they're pushed to their limits.

Pressing the accelerator hard will engage the engine.

The transmission shifts smoothly when you press the accelerator hard.

For example, prod the accelerator hard and then ease up immediately and it will select and hold a lower gear that's right for the job and provides substantive engine braking or torque on hand for lightning fast overtaking.

Not exact matches

Hochbergs said that's because the accelerators» scores tended to be in specific clusters, making it very hard to make a clear call between, say, number eight and number nine.

Volker Rose prepares to study decaying art with the hard X-ray nanoprobe, a powerful particle accelerator that allows him to analyze the work in minute detail.

«It is hard to drive a car with just an accelerator, and it is hard to make a dendritic tree with just growth promotion,» says Katz.

«The CEBAF accelerator commissioning and achievement of the design energy required hard work, patience and teamwork,» said Arne Freyberger, Jefferson Lab's director of accelerator operations.

Their thrills lie in mocking the police and pushing the accelerator as hard as possible.

It's such a good line that it makes you think McQueen must have borrowed it from real life, just as the writer of John Frankenheimer's film Grand Prix appropriated the former world champion Phil Hill's striking claim that he always put his foot down harder on the accelerator when he passed the scene of an accident on the track because he knew everyone else would be lifting theirs.

«I am particularly impressed by how well the transmission holds gears during hard acceleration followed by a brief lift off the accelerator,» said senior web editor Phil Floraday.

Typical of Mercedes, the accelerator has a relaxed, gradual progression, but the normally aspirated V - 8 hurries the G550 to highway speeds if you push the gas hard.

To clarify something... the drivetrain is made so if you are requiring the car to go quicker (pressing the accelerator pedal harder), the transmission will hold the gear until it reaches a fail safe shift point (a point at which is predetermined if you go over «this point» it will cause damage to your drivetrain — this is on most stock production vehicles) or until you ease off the accelerator pedal, which tells the powertrain you no longer need to try and go quicker.

Step hard on the accelerator, and the power bar turns red; let off or touch the brakes and the charge bar shines in blue during regeneration.

Even the most die - hard stepped - tranny snob will be forced to acknowledge how well the CVT does its job, snapping the engine up into its torque band when power is needed and promptly dropping it down into run - silent mode when the driver eases off the accelerator.

Come out of a deep corner and get hard on the accelerator, and it's unclear if the tiny pause is due to lag or the traction control interceding.

If you were sitting at a light in drive (D) with your left foot on the brakes hard and your right foot flooring the accelerator, your transmission would become extremely annoyed with you, not your brakes.

We hustle the BMW from corner to corner, braking hard, slamming the shifter between second and third gears, and mashing the accelerator.

If I press hard on the accelerator or start on an incline the sound is pretty bad.

It feels powerful from the driver's seat and if you're hard on the accelerator the sound is nothing short of fantastic with a rich throaty noise that sounds exactly the way a truck should sound.

Step hard onto the accelerator pedal and the Tacoma literally roars to life and moves with a semblance of authority.

The problem you are having with your accelerator pedal being hard to press could be due to a throttle cable that...

Shifts are timed so that when the accelerator is floored the engine revs high and hard before the transmission moves into the next gear.

It's best to go slow in and fast out — but be careful how hard you push the accelerator pedal, because the F - Type AWD is still a supercar at heart.

When the accelerator is pressed harder, the gasoline engine kicks in and the i8 accelerates with impressive force.

Ok the DMC Aventador E-GT might not have the same pedigree as the multi-million dollar Veneno does, but it isn't even in the same league when it comes to price either... and the entire kit will also fit onto the Aventador Roadster (without the special engine cover naturally) so for less than 25 % of the list price on a Veneno Roadster you'll end up with a DMC Aventador LP988 - 4 Roadster Edizione - GT that offers more power... the only competition you might encounter would be a Mansory Aventador Carbonado Apertos... but with 1,200 hp under the accelerator I wouldn't press it down too hard or this lady will bite back... only three Apertos will be made and they are priced at $ 1,200,000 each... for that kind of money you'll be able to get a DMC Aventador LP988 - 4 Edizione - GT for the weekend, a DMC Huracán LP610 - 4 Affari and still have change to buy a nice Gallardo LP570 - 4 Performante for your «significant other»... so put in your order with DMC now...

Warning if you press too hard on accelerator pedal or exceed some speed limits.

But it gets noisy when the accelerator pedal is pressed hard, and with more than 100 pounds added weight to move than in a Fusion or a Milan, it has to work harder.

But, as with any hot hatchback, it may be too hard to resist squeezing the accelerator to get the best possible economy.

A harder push of the accelerator, or higher road speed, or merely an insufficiently charged battery will also instantly fire up the gas engine which feeds in power to the blended system.

However, the Eco Pedal system, which makes it harder to push down the accelerator in an attempt to encourage more efficient driving habits, is a bit odd.

It is only when you step hard on the accelerator at a low speed that you can hear the engine sucking in air as it winds up.

HERE»S WHAT I DO N'T LIKE: Loud wind noise (anytime I exceed 40 - 45 mph), makes it hard to hear the radio at normal volume; intrusive road noise, which I corrected by swapping out the standard Goodyear tires with Continental tires; lackluster acceleration for a V6 engine, CVT tends to lose momentum when you lift your foot off of the gas pedal — often jerky when accelerating and decelerating while in motion and when accelerating from a dead stop; as mentioned by another reviewer, accelerator hesitates before catching when shifting from reverse to drive; bumps in the road are not well absorbed (the 2016 model may have addressed this issue); no power to windows after you shut off the engine; no auto door locks; poor V6 fuel efficiency averaging around 24 MPGs combined; trunk lid's arms and safety feature makes it heavy and sometimes hard to lift open; Infotainment system does understand most voice commands; and Harmon Kardon speakers are sometimes crackly.

No matter how hard I stood on the accelerator, I could not get the front tires to chirp.

Robert Answer: If you are saying that, under hard acceleration, the engine revs up to the maximum, bumps against the rev limiter and simply stays that way, never shifting until you let off the accelerator, then yes, there's a problem.

Drive the car with your foot hard on the accelerator most of the time, and combined fuel economy can drop to between 35 - 40 mpg, even lower if lead footed.

When a speed limiter is activated, the car won't exceed the pre-set speed; although in the interests of safety, pressing hard on the accelerator will override the system.

Of course, all of this accelerator work and hard cornering isn't in line with the hybrid's main virtue, fuel economy, but we still rolled into the garage with an average mpg of 31.7 on the trip computer.

In Comfort and even Sport mode, the 2.0 - litre turbo goes about its business rather quietly, unless the accelerator is stabbed hard.

With a hard stomp, we did get a little sound out of the front tires as they launched us off the line, and holding down the accelerator made the transmission hold its gears long enough to build up speed, but the car wasn't ready to leap forward at a moment's notice.

Which is irrelevant, because shifts are glitchy when the accelerator is pushed harder and the electric motor will demand a helping from its internal combustion partner whenever you need to pinch the gas pedal.

BMW does an excellent job of masking the high torque, making the 535d xDrive easily drivable, preventing tire smoking burn - outs when you tap the accelerator a little too hard.

But then, that car feels like its little 2.0 - liter SkyActiv engine is pulling hard (a 2.5 - liter is now available for the 2014 model year, though) when you step on the accelerator, and combined fuel economy is only about 3 mpg higher, all for just a few hundred dollars less.

The accelerator is now fixed to the undercarriage at the base which makes pushing down on the gas pedal physically painful in one's lower back, you have to push down really hard especially if you have small feet!

Beginning with 2007 models manufactured after January 2007, structural reinforcements were added to the floor ahead of the front seats, and the hard plastic «ramp» bolted underneath the carpeting near the base of the accelerator pedal was modified to improve occupant protection in frontal offset crashes.

No, this is not a sports sedan and you will not get that kind of performance no matter how hard you mash the accelerator, but you won't find yourself anxious for it to pick up the pace in heavy traffic.