Sentences with phrase «bit at highway»

The plot unravels a bit at highway speeds where the tall body, short wheelbase and narrow tires conspire against it to induce a fidgety and wandering ride.

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This is the terrain for which Foley, at his best a slinky genre stylist with a tobacco - acrid edge, was presumably brought on board, and he gives it a bit of vim: A luxury - vehicle car chase, screeching and weaving at arrogant speed along the highways of Seattle, is a set piece that rattles in the mind longer and louder than the who and why of it all.

The alternate ending brings back John C. McGinley's very gay highway patrolman, while the other two spend a bit more time with Doug at work and with the two bikers at the Chili Fest.

Overall, it's a very enjoyable watch but the runtime (at nearly two hours) seems a bit stretched for a light comedy with an over-extended highway chase scene being the main culprit.

Several of the logbook entries expressed gratitude for the tall sixth gear, which at least let the over-caffeinated engine chill out a bit on the highway.

My 997 has 245/325 and when going on highway in rain you feel the car fidgeting from side to side at 65mph over bits of standing water.

As copy editor Rusty Blackwell observed, «It seems that the highway mileage could be boosted significantly - and overall noise reduced at the same time - if Mazda made fifth and sixth gears a bit taller.

Mulholland Highway is lined here and there with crude asphalt curbing, but even climbing it at an apex, as you would on a racing circuit, doesn't discompose the car one bit.

At our pathetically slow highway speeds, we need everything we can get to make driving fun — crazy steering feel, an engaging manual transmission, and a car that's perhaps a little bit flawed.

Still, the G8's packaging is a bit of a letdown (not enough people / stuff room for such a big car), road noise is somewhat distracting at highway speeds, and the funky Aussie controls require a bit or extra familiarization (which shouldn't dissuade potential owners).

At the same time, it ekes out a bit better gas mileage: 14 or 15 mpg city, 20 or 21 mpg on the highway.

The Malibu also gains a bit from a taller rear - end gear ratio that lets the engine spin slower at highway speeds.

My testing yielded a trip computer recorded 26.9 mpg at the end of the week, which included a day of back - road carving, a good deal of highway cruising, and just a bit of cursing at first gear during city driving.

At Skyline, we turned south and got to speed along mountain roads for bit, until we hit Highway 84 and turned east.

Engine noise does intrude into the cabin to a higher degree than we expected, but only at highway speeds where the Navigator drones a bit.

The two cars weigh very much the same but the Porsche is a bit more than twice as powerful, yet it's geared to let the engine run at much lower revs on the highway, which consumes less fuel.

Fuel economy measured in at 25 miles per gallon, about on par for the 500X's combined mileage rating, but considering most of our time was spent on the highway, we expected it to be a bit better.

Despite the inferiority of and our preference against the 2.4 - liter, it's still a good engine that's marginally more refined than the 1.4 - liter (if still a little bit gruff at higher revs), and is still fairly frugal (even the least efficient 2.4 - liter models can return 21mpg in the city and 29mpg on the highway.

At around the 50,000 mile point, my wife and I did notice quite a bit of road noise on the highway when going faster than 60mph.

The 2.0 - liter engine is well - matched to the five - speed manual transmission, and fuel mileage — 23 mpg city, 30 mpg on the highway, on regular gas — isn't bad, but the four - speed automatic transmission is actually rated a bit higher, at 24 mpg city, 32 mpg highway.

Playing with the various drive modes, I find Strada a bit too docile and best for highway cruising or pottering around at low speeds but what it does highlight is that the Urus is by far the most user - friendly, Lamborghini ever made.

The exhaust does drone a bit loudly at highway speeds, which may annoy some people on longer trips.

With the six - speed manual transmission, the engine is spinning about 3,600 r.p.m. at «normal» highway cruising speeds (OK, so 120 km / h), hence it's a wee bit buzzy.

The Levante feels very planted on the highways at high speeds but due to the high ground clearance of 207 mm, the ride feels a bit floaty.

Plus, with claimed economy figures 23 / 31mpg for the city and highway respectively for the rear - wheel drive models (or 22/28 for Q50 2.0 t variants that comes with the optional all - wheel drive system), the Infiniti is fairly frugal — though it's worth pointing out that the like - for - like BMW 3 Series, Mercedes - Benz C - Class and Audi A4 are, on paper at least, able to go that bit further per gallon of fuel.

At 15 city and 21 highway, fuel mileage in the test car came in a bit under EPA estimates - but I drove the test car fairly hard.

Highway ride might be a bit stiff for some — the typical compromise for more responsive handling — but if good looks and big fun are at the top of your compact car wish list, the well - rounded Mazda3 will blow you away with everything else it offers.

The electric steering is bit numb in the centre but light at slow speeds and weighs up enough for highway cruising.

However, there was a bit of wind noise at highway speeds.

Good at least that 567 bhp seem OK for the testers, although next year 765 bhp could be seen as a bit too weak for the ultrarapid and mostly empty UK highways.

All of these cars achieve EPA ratings of at least 21 mpg in city driving and at least 30 mpg on the highway (and ad you'll see, some get quite a bit more).

While the top - of - line Sedona SXL is the most thirsty minivan on the market, with an EPA rating of 17 city / 22 highway, the Sedona SX is rated a bit higher at 18 city / 25 highway.

At posted highway speeds, the car does get tossed around a bit by crosswinds.

There's quite a bit of road and wind noise at highway speeds and in its Sport mode, quite a bit of engine noise, but that's a good thing.

At highway speeds, there was a noticeably high amount of road noise coming from below and there was a deep boom when passing over expansion joints, cracks, and uneven bits of pavement.

So yes, the little hybrid Lexus gets better mileage than the IS 250, but it's a long way south of a Toyota Prius, which shares multiple bits and pieces with the 250h and is rated at 51 mpg city, 48 mpg highway.

Bar a bit of tire roar at highway speeds, the cabin remains serenely quiet, thanks to the abundance of extra NVH - reducing materials that Kia has fitted to the second - gen Soul over its predecessor.

When idling, the engine is a bit nosier than its rivals, but once you get up to speed, the cabin is pleasingly quiet, even at highway speeds.

Things get a bit better when you take a look at the 6 with the six - speed automatic that receives 26 mpg city and 38 mpg highway EPA ratings.

At press time, the EPA had not passed judgment on the fuel economy of the 400 Sport, but the other V6 models get around 18 - 20 mpg city and 26 - 28 mpg highway, give or take (mostly take) a bit for coupe or convertible, AWD, and manual transmission.

With the all - wheel - drive Equinox diesel, I got 46 mpg in highway driving going a bit over the mostly 65 and 70 mph interstates; at a steady 60 mph, I got 47 mpg.

Highway driving is not the Fiat 500s forte, base models tend to get a bit breathless at higher speeds although road noise is subdued and shorter trips are well within its capabilities.

Whilst the smallest engine available (a 2.0 - liter turbocharged four - cylinder with 241hp) can sound a bit coarse when it's being worked really hard, all of the engines have a wide torque band and are rather hushed and refined when you let them murmur along at highway cruising speeds.

My empty - tank average of 27.2 mpg at the end of a week that included highway cruising, city stop - and - go, and a bit of spirited backroad motoring seems to affirm that claim.

At highway speeds, the Corolla Hatchback is quiet for a small car, and it pitches a bit on highway expansion strips, owing to its 104 - inch wheelbase.

A bit of carpet here, a seam filled there, door seals improved, body gaps reduced — dozens and dozens of tweaks were made with the result being that the CX - 5's cabin is noticeably quieter at highway speeds.

That said road noise could have been controlled better, as a fair bit of noise creeps into the cabin at highway speeds.

However it would be better for MPG if sixth gear was geared a bit lower to reduce revs at highway speed.

Highway passing maneuvers will require a bit of forethought at first, as speed builds more gradually here than what you may be used to, but in general the Energi zips around as capably as a conventional midsize sedan.

The only thing that is a bit negative is the fact that the highway is close which means that there is a constant grumble of cars, but luckily it gets quiet at night.