Sentences with phrase «around twisty roads»

With the help of Audi's legendary quattro all - wheel drive system, the S4 Avant feels solid and confident around twisty roads despite quite a bit of body roll.

It will get thrashed by faster, more purpose built performance machines off the line or around twisty roads, but it is a much more distinct machine than most of its competition.

The AWD system was a stronger handler around twistier roads, and its steering was tighter — but it was also aggressively heavier, presumably to impart a semblance of sporty weight.

Not exact matches

On glassy - smooth twisty bits through the hills around Austin, it's acceptable — but try rolling calmly down the access roads to Circuit of the Americas, and the nature of the tightly tuned suspension and 20 - inch wheels with low - profile tires reveals itself.

It becomes especially troublesome in twisty left - hand bends, as you try to position your head around the thick windshield pillar to see the road ahead.

While we aren't able to tell you how the car will feel on U.S. roads, we were able to drive the super Nissan on some excellent twisty, challenging public roads around Sendai Hi - Land Raceway as well as on the circuit itself.

The first Best in Show winner in 1950, named while Hill was blazing around the hay bales that helped define the forest's twisty road course, was the 1950 Edwards R - 26 Special Sport Roadster.

I had chance to sample the QV on the roads in and around California's Napa Valley — plus hot laps on twisty, rolling Sonoma Raceway.

We spent an entire day cutting through fog, around twisty back roads, and through meandering two - lanes without once tiring of driving the car.

Indeed, I still love the aging 300C (SRT8 or not) for cruising down the highway, for thundering around town, and for hurtling through the back - road twisties.

The roads around Pfaffenhausen are almost laughably smooth but they're challengingly twisty nonetheless.

True, it won't be confused with the A3 on a twisty road or a track, but around town, I thought the power was ample, and the handling better than expected.

Though the SL450 never feels like a compact car (minimum weight is still around 4,000 pounds), it's arguably the most enjoyable of the SL group on a twisty road, feeling a little more nimble and agile than its larger - engine siblings.

The Cupra 290 starts pulling hard from around 2000rpm meaning that even on the twistiest of roads, you can happily leave it in third gear and still make brisk progress.

As a GT car, the 911 Carrera 4S is not a vehicle to whip around tight, twisty roads, but its actions are more analog - like versus the digital vibes the Nissan GT - R gives out.

And after driving multiple versions of the ATS coupe around northwestern Connecticut and parts of upstate New York along some twisty back roads, not too far from Lime Rock Park, we picked our favorite engine and transmission combo.

Around town, it had enough go but not enough get - up for twisty, hilly roads without keeping it tached fairly high.

Speaking of twisty roads, the Golf R grips the pavement with 235 - width tires wrapped around 19 - inch wheels.

We took the car on various twisty roads around the San Francisco Bay Area, and it always felt sure - footed.

Tacking around the corners of a twisty mountain road with the transmission in Sport mode, I was impressed how well the suspension kept the G63 AMG from wallowing.

For the money, the Bimmer is a flexible around - town vehicle with a good amount of space for people, pets, and cargo, an excellent road tripper that will effortlessly do 40 + mpg on the highway, and a pretty good drivers car when the road gets twisty.

Powering around a twisty mountain road, the S8's systems work seamlessly.

Its stiffer suspension enables better performance on twisty roads, but can be stiff around town.

On the windy and twisty roads around Trieste, the rear wheel driven C 300 was really exciting!

In the end, we decided that a fast car is not necessarily more fun on a road trip, unless you can make a stop - over to mess around on some good twisty roads.

Improvements to the on road experience of the A7 were easily highlighted on the twisty coastal roads around the Western Cape area of South Africa.

That stiffness let it handle corners on twisty mountain roads well, without any wallowing around.

Around the hairy, high - speed Big Willow track at Willow Springs in Rosamond, California — and the twisty, rolling public roads surrounding it — the rear - drive GTS coupe delivered the closest thing to the GT3's preposterous cornering and braking.

Three laps around Las Vegas Motor Speedway's twisty road course was all it took for me to be instantly enamored with Chevy's new Camaro Turbo 1LE.

My driving style and the twisty mountain roads around the south of France were not exactly conducive to checking out fuel economy.

The driveability around town is nice, and it drives better than I expected on the twisty roads.

After swinging it around on the autocross and driving it throughout the day through the Angeles Crest, a twisty picturesque road over the San Gabriel Mountains near North Hollywood, I would tend to agree.

The ride from Nice Airport is a pleasant tootle along the twisty N8 coastal road to the the tiny town of Théoule - sur - Mer, an area with lovely red rock inlets and where they say, the water quality around its cliffs is the best in Europe.

The St Lucian landscape, especially around the south west coast on its Caribbean edge, is a tapestry of twisty hilly roads laced with lush valleys, banana palms, hillside forests and white sandy beaches.