Sentences with phrase «at tickover»

Blip the throttle at tickover and the little coupe twitches in anticipation; a look at the figures reveals why - GTM claims the Libra will clock 0 - 60mph in 4.9 sec and reach 150mph.

No such trouble on the straights, though, and as soon as you open the throttle, whether it be at tickover or 6000rpm, the AeroMax reveals its other masterpiece — an exhaust note that makes Brian Blessed sound demure.

At tickover, while we set the cameras up, the Aston has a wonderfully deep oscillating warble that sounds a bit like the exhaust is underwater.

Flooring the Corsa VXR 888's throttle at tickover and keeping it pinned is not unlike watching a lit fuse - wire.

Not exact matches

Getting on for 14 years old and with 87,000 miles on the clock, it nevertheless seems like a remarkably honest, unmolested example, carrying a predictable ragbag of minor niggles that would be easy to put right: a dodgy sunroof seal that generates a gale of wind - noise at speed (alleviated by raising the tilt action of the sunroof an inch or so); an adjustable steering wheel that seems to be stuck in a rather low - slung position (not a problem for me or, presumably, for Mark as it's his daily driver); and, perhaps unsurprisingly, a slightly tappety tickover.

But there's obviously real power lurking under the chiselled bonnet, and the side - exit exhausts, even at a slow tickover, shoot industrial plumes into the air.

We loved the lumpy tickover with the TracKey, the gearbox is great and there's even some satisfaction to be had wrestling it at speed between the hedges and ditches of various shire roads.