Sentences with phrase «back wheels of the car»

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To take a step back, UBI programs (also known as telematics and pay - as - you - go insurance) rely on a small device plugged into the OBDII (or OBD - 2) port located on the dash or under the steering wheels of cars manufactured after 1998.

Off the back of his epic recovery drive to second place in Baku, Mercedes racer Bottas was back behind the wheel of an F1 car on Saturday.

Robert Kubica getting back behind the wheel of a F1 car was unsurprisingly a huge story on Tuesday and now we've heard from the man himself.

The 2001 Minardi PS01 wasn't the worst car the team had ever built, but generally speaking it tended to spend a lot of time at the back of the field - even with a rookie Fernando Alonso at the wheel.

Suddenly Steve and Michelle are swerving around curves, blowing through red lights and stop signs and do not enter signs, swiveling their heads to look back at Mickie, who's freaking out at the wheel of the rental car, and Pat, who has her feet on the dashboard and is groaning.

He'll be back behind the wheel of a Ferrari F1 car at the Hungaroring for second in - season F1 test, which takes place from the 1 - 2 August.

Formula 2's run - away championship leader Charles Leclerc will be back behind the wheel of a Ferrari F1 car at next month's post-Hungarian Grand Prix test.

Despite jumping back behind the wheel of an adapted Fun Cup Endurance race car in July, just less than three months since his accident at Donington, Monger has since set his sights back on single seaters.

The 18 - year - old was back behind the wheel of a racing car at Brands Hatch for the first time since his Formula 4 crash in April

The Pole is getting back behind the wheel of an F1 car again following his test a few weeks ago.

Billy Monger lost both his lower legs in a horrendous Formula 4 crash earlier this year, yet just 11 weeks later he was back behind the wheel of a racing car.

Over six years after suffering terrifying injuries in a rally crash, Kubica was back where he wanted to be - behind the wheel of an F1 car.

As it turned out, it ended up being one of the most spectacular ways to finish a race ever as his car came back down on its wheels and rolled across the line to finish eighth.

Back behind the wheel of a Formula 1 car, but it was the same old problems for Fernando Alonso in Canadian Grand Prix practice

But, in recent weeks, Kubica has been back behind the wheel of single - seaters, testing GP3 and Formula E cars, as well as an LMP2 prototype.

Thankfully, though, he was able to get back behind the wheel of a race car.

Last but certainly not least the front wheel, aka my arch nemesis, it keeps coming off either when I take it out of my car or while he is in it if tipped back.

So you can get this roughly eightfold leverage (three - to fourfold in the case of a hybrid) from the wheels back to the fuel tank by starting with the physics of the car, making it lighter and with lower drag.

Once you're in line with the car that will be in front of you, start to back up until your back wheels are in line with the end of that car.

Having, presumably, run out of surfaces on the ground, the mad driving crew of Furious 7 resort to backing their cars off a plane and clutching their steering wheels while driving, er, falling through thin air.

The makers of Tokyo Drift know that there needs to be a new hook to distinguish it, so they've chosen to change the nature of the race to include the popular new style called «drifting», whereby the cars are «oversteered» through hairpin turns, with the back wheels seeming to glide further than the front.

Lying back in the seat, feet up in the air, shoulders cocooned in the bodywork and eyes on a level with other cars» exhaust pipes and wheel nuts, the T1 gives you an ankle - high view of the world.

I mean, back then I was testing vehicular piles such as the meretricious Maserati Biturbo 425 — I didn't give a damn if the torque got vectored; I just prayed it would keep flowing to the rear wheels so my test car du jour didn't come to a shuddering stop right in the middle of Detroit's I - 94 expressway.

Among these details: the way the puddle lights illuminate and the side mirrors extend when you walk up to the car even before you touch the door or take out the remote; the damped motion of the cupholder cover as it moves back and forth; and even the wood trim on the steering wheel.

Actually, it's fair to say that the current Art & Science design vocabulary at Cadillac also has its roots in the front - wheel - drive Eldorado, as a look back at the hard - edged abstract geometry of the 1999 Cadillac Evoq concept car confirms.

Although ESP will cut in abruptly and pull the car back in line at the very limit of adhesion (only in the AMG cars can you fully turn off ESP), take off a bit of lock and add a little more torque and you can still pull off a graceful four - wheel slide.

While we don't get the rear - wheel drive and the wild swept - back appearance of the show car, the 2017 Buick LaCrosse does incorporate a variant of the Avenir's front grille, with a chrome strip in the center of the grille linking the two front headlights.

But there is always much more to be learned about any car during a year's worth of daily use and playful abuse, and we are now armed and ready with a four - door GTI that will allow us to log a significant amount of wheel time and report back to you what we find out.

A decade ago, NASCAR was a dictatorial juggernaut whose marketing prowess had turned American open - wheel and sports car racing into back - of - the - pack also - rans.

Proud Proboscis — Ronald «Steady» Barker pays tribute to one of motoring's most magnificent white elephants the 50cv Renault and its successor the 40cv / The Healey Heritage — Malcolm Green traces the development of the big Austin - Healeys from Donald Healey's Riley - powered cars from Warwick to the Mark III 3000 that was built at Abingdon / Back on the Road — Michael Ware reports on some recent restorations by readers of The Automobile / Austin Seven Ulster Rebuild / Batteries — Workshop / Enfield Underslung — Michael Worthington - Williams relates the story of the Adamson cyclecar / Swooping Kestrel — Brian Heath experiences the pleasure of preselector gear changing at the wheel of a 1937 Riley 12/14 Kestrel / Butler's Babies — The American Austin was one of the first attempts to popularise the European small car in the USA Kit Foster tells its story / Commercially Speaking — Panels & Parts

Way back in the early 1970s, Michelin made a run of composite glass - fiber and resin wheels for Citroën's SM - based rally car.

Delwyn Mallett describes his career and gets behind the wheel of a surviving car in Petermax Müller and his Volkswagen specials / We report from the first French cyclecar meeting, Lantilly / In Back on the Road Michael Ware describes the recent restoration of an American - influenced 1930 Wolseley 21/60 Messenger

The all - wheel drive takeoff is from a clutch pack in a transfer case at the back of the gearbox and although the car is rear - drive in most circumstances, in default all - wheel drive mode, torque can be sent to the front pre-emptively when the car thinks the extra traction will help, or in response to rear slip.

With less mass in the wheel to be spun up to speed and then dragged back down, there's less energy going to waste every time the car speeds up or slows down, which can mean miles (or tens of miles) more to a charge or a tank.

We'd love to know, but we're strictly belted into the lightweight fixed - back seat on the side of the car without a steering wheel or pedals.

When the road unwinds for just enough distance, each up - shift from the steering wheel - mounted paddles is met with a quick «burp» from the exhaust before the tach falls back into the powerband, with the blower - whine shrieking off the rock wall next to you, before reaching the end of a brief straight and braking early as to glide the car into the next curve.

But the MKX's action isn't as refined as other systems; it jerks the steering wheel instead of gently moving the car back into its lane.

However if you're used to the way a rear - wheel drive car looses grip under power, performing a slide with Drift Mode on takes some getting used to — instead of backing off the throttle slightly to regain some control, maintaining full throttle doesn't feel very natural.

It's mounted at the back of the car and drives the rear wheels through a single - speed transmission.

While lots of cars tell you the level of turbo boost and the engine oil pressure and temperature, the GT - R goes about twenty steps further, supplying occupants with transmission oil temperature and pressure; front / rear torque split for the all - wheel - drive system; front - to - back, side - to - side, and combined G force data, steering angle position, and a lap timing system.

On most motorcycles without ABS there is a brake lever controlling the front wheel and a pedal controlling the back wheel, but I've never seen a car that allows you to articulate brakes for each of the wheels individually.

I took my car back to the shop, they replaced the set of wheel bearings on the other wheel.

It's a car of impressive provenance, having been built to contest the 1985 BTCC season - back then known as the Trimoco RAC British Saloon Car Championship - with Barry Sheene at the whecar of impressive provenance, having been built to contest the 1985 BTCC season - back then known as the Trimoco RAC British Saloon Car Championship - with Barry Sheene at the wheCar Championship - with Barry Sheene at the wheel.

Another clever bit of air management: the textured «curlicue» undersides of the front side strakes, which take the air brought in from the hood vents to cool the brakes and «roll» it down the side of the car; by reducing the high - pressure area at the back of the wheel arch, the strakes decrease front lift and increase grip.

Mike Harvey follows the story of the car and its driver / Back On The Road — Michael Ware features more readers» restorations / The Great Barn Mystery — The Editor tracks down the story of the mystery barn which was revealed in The Automobile last month / Three Wheels On Their Wagons — Although a few early cars rolled along on only three wheels, the configuration became mostly the preserve of the economy microcar.

With the car settled in a corner, meanwhile, it takes only a gentle throttle input to spin the rear wheels and send the back end of the car sailing round.

Looking at these cars raises plenty of questions, so we got behind the wheel for a day of driving through cities, down highways, and over rural back roads in search of some understanding.

Sadly, the car has been artfully cropped so that only a portion of its rear flank and three - quarters of the back wheel is visible.

Turning a car with broken power steering is harder then a car without power steering at all, because your having to force the fluid through the pump, and back into the rack with every turn of the wheel.

This means being confident and positive, getting the car set up early for a corner, trail braking, even backing it in a touch (something helped by a lot of rear brake bias on this car) so that you oversteer slightly before the apex and then drive through using the huge traction of the four - wheel drive (split 50:50).