Sentences with phrase «blacktop roads»

When pushed hard on a twisting two - lane blacktop road it'll understeer a fair amount.

CHAPTER ONE Mac Coalson drove his black GMC truck through his hometown, the tiny riverside community of Grafton, Illinois, and onto the blacktop road that headed toward Jerseyville, the local county seat.

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Blacktop politics are as old as the roads that led to Rome, but the time lag between a politician promising to improve public infrastructure and cutting the ribbon has grown longer — to years, and sometimes as much as a decade.

One is along a road that cuts the pond in half — the plant seems to like the salty runoff from de-iced blacktop.

«It's a feeder road... sometimes it's gravel, sometimes it's blacktop and sometimes it's dirt.»

In Monte Hellman's hypnotic road movie Two - Lane Blacktop, folk singer James Taylor gives a lead performance that is both unassuming and arresting, the kind of askew, unshowy, vanity - free acting that perhaps only a nonprofessional actor is capable o...

The road in Two - Lane Blacktop is treated as an irreducible given, for the characters and for the viewer.

His latest, however, has a title that at least partially recalls his revered road movie «Two - Lane Blacktop»: «Road to Nowhere» is a romantic noir whose cast includes Shannyn Sossamon and Dominique Swroad movie «Two - Lane Blacktop»: «Road to Nowhere» is a romantic noir whose cast includes Shannyn Sossamon and Dominique SwRoad to Nowhere» is a romantic noir whose cast includes Shannyn Sossamon and Dominique Swain.

Two - Lane Blacktop presents the American, masculine ideal of freedom of movement and expression as its own prison, and Road to Nowhere does the same for cinema.

What follows is, like many of Payne's films, a road movie of sorts, winding its way through Wyoming and South Dakota, slate - colored skies hanging over pastureland and lonely blacktop, last - stop diners standing on the edge of nowhere.

Regardless of format, the Hillclimb has always wrapped up the Simola Golf Estate's main driveway — a forested, steep road with a well - maintained blacktop.

On some road surfaces we found the tire noise from the 245 / 40R 19 Hankook Optimo tires to be unacceptably loud, but smooth blacktop resulted in virtually no tire noise.

The F430 rides the bumpy blacktop on the sinuous mountain roads near Ferrari «s Maranello headquarters amazingly well for a sports car that has nineteen - inch wheels and rubber - band tires.

Forget all those romanticized notions of Ferrari F40s scampering over expansive moorland blacktop — the world has changed, and an Enzo's natural habitat is now London's Kings Road.

Turns on a dime, hugs the road like it's eating up the blacktop.

Further testing since our long - term Cherokee arrived has revealed that this chassis is also quite a performer on twisty blacktop, feeling much sportier that we remember from Four Wheeler of the Year testing, which is mostly focused on dirt roads.

The suspension feels honed to Aussie roads, especially when trekking beyond the well - kept blacktop of the inner city.

With a mighty roar, you'll be propelled across a field, whether it be blacktop or off road like you see on TV.

The Tamburo is initially a bit frustrating on the road because you flick it into Sport mode when you find a bit of smooth blacktop with some corners, only to need five downward taps to get it back to Strada.

The ride may not have been luxury car soft, but the suspension handled the endless blacktop very competently, soaking up the occasional roughness from road construction through the mountains.

Even when the road quality deteriorated the hot hatch didn't waver, sticking to the blacktop like a heavy - duty magnet on a dented fridge door.

The road network is mostly composed of dirt tracks and curving ribbons of two - lane blacktop, with a solitary ramrod - straight freeway running east to west.

Take on thousands of unique missions as you explore over two thousand miles of back road and blacktop in this Mediterranean paradise.

Robert Adams is on the road, on the great American blacktop falling into that infinite horizon.

From fast superhighways that crisscross the country and run through Wyoming to back roads that have yet to see any blacktop, the state is home to lots of choices.