Sentences with phrase «car at top speed»

Besides, when it comes to handling the car at top speed, automatic driving is considered unsafe by some as it may be forced to make a decision in case of an imminent collision.

It's one thing to drive some random car at its top speed on some autobahn.

Safety There is simply no substitute for the stress, invigoration, and bonding experience that comes from driving your car at top speed for miles at a time, but it can also be dangerous.

Not exact matches

«Speed skiing on snow is much easier and way more fun than doing it on top of a car in the middle of the desert,» says Sean Cridland, who set the world record in the cartop category at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats two weeks ago.

The car weighs about 1300 pounds when adding the driver and can top out at speeds close to 130 miles per hour.

The cars were capped at 155 mph for obvious reasons, one being the massive concrete wall all the way around the track, but I was more than happy to have reached the top speed and still be alive to write this blog post about it.

Confirming the incident, the Public Relations Officer, Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, Babatunde Akinbiyi, said the driver of the commercial vehicle was at top speed when the car rammed into the back of a moving Iveco truck.

At Daytona International Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway, for example, the tracks are banked so steeply that cars would reach speeds of 220 miles per hour if not for mandatory restrictor plates, which limit the amount of oxygen entering the engine and, thus, the cars» top speed.

This is where the top - notch driving dynamics Kunos has massaged into all the available vehicles becomes a double - edged sword, because it takes very little to unsettle your car at speed.

ThinkSpace Education's partner institution, the University of Chichester also has close links with the games community and the program liaison tutor Dr Stephen Baystead has a long list of credits as a top game composer (NEED FOR SPEED, PROJECT CARS and many more) as well as audio director at Slightly Mad Studios.

Unlike the DrawRace franchise, creator Bjango has decided to literally have you drive around the car with virtual controls, which isn't an ideal way to steer at top speeds.

The wing, which sits on carbon - fiber pylons, still has the Drag Reduction System feature of the road car, meaning it can alter its angle of attack from 32 degrees to zero degrees at speed to help bolster the car's top speed.

If you find somewhere expansive enough to make an assault on the top speed however, you'll need a separate key that when turned sinks the suspension (by a further 15 mm at the front and 25 mm at the rear) as well as retracting the spoiler and performing a series of checks on the car's vital statistic to ensure it's up to the task.

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Acceleration from 0 - 60 mph happens in a swift 4.8 seconds before the 2015 Bentley Mulsanne Speed tops out at 190 mph — ungodly territory for a car weighing in at 5976 lbs.

The 16 - valve, 2.3 - liter four - cylinder whisks up 170 lb - ft of torque at a lofty 4750 rpm, good enough to push the car to 60 mph in about seven seconds and on to a top speed of more than 140 mph.

But check the car has oil rads fitted, and an induction kit, sports cat manifold and remap will speed up the changeover to the top cams and lower the rev point at which this happens.»

There are very few sports cars at any price that can match the 650S for acceleration and top speed.

First revealed at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, the lightweight open - top sports car is powered by a supercharged 3.5 - litre V6 engine, which together with a featherweight chassis results in more than 500bhp per ton.

The Enzo's 1,700 pounds of downforce at 185 mph dropped to 1,300 pounds at higher speeds to help the car approach its top speed.

The resulting thunder accompanied a 4.8 - second 0 - 60mph thrill - ride and 167mph top speed in evo's hands — not at all shabby from a car that cost under # 35,000 back in the late 1990s.

Even though I've driven just about every new car on the market, from exotics to econoboxes, my personal top speed in a car was established before I had a driver's license, when my dad rocketed me around the Chelsea Proving Grounds» oval track at 155 mph in a topless Dodge Viper in 1993.

And we must, of course, consider the imaginative loons who've long chased insane speeds, the aftermarket tuners who see «more» at the top of a car's speedometer.

As you might imagine the Bugatti Chiron Sport doesn't come cheap and the price tag for the car stands at 2.65 m Euro or # 2.36 m. For that you get the usual Bugatti Chiron performance figures - 0 - 62mph in under 2.5 s, 0 - 124mph in under 6.5 s and a 261mph limited top speed.

Stereoscopic cameras at the top of the windshield detect big obstacles such as speed bumps and signal the car to soften its adaptive dampers.

Because of this, the folks at Hennessey Performance took their Exorcist Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 out for a top speed run to give their customers a 200 - plus - mph reason to buy their roughly $ 120,000 car.

The biggest difference however was under braking, where the car resisted locking up even when trying to shed a lot of speed at the end of Hill Top straight before Hislops chicane.

The power - folding soft top can be opened or closed at speeds up to 30 mph, and when the car is parked, owners can even control the top via the Camaro's remote.

On top that, a safety feature called Collision Prevention Assist Plus expands on the existing Mercedes feature than can automatically bring the car to a halt at low speeds to prevent a crash.

The Audi normally tops out at 155 mph, but our test car came with an extra-cost 175 - mph speed limit.

Its Distronic function allows the car to follow another at a fixed distance, right up to the electronically limited U.S. - market 130 mph top speed.

Lamborghini claims the top speed to be 183 mph, but the jacked - up clutch on Houston's car dictated otherwise during this trip, and I barely clocked in at 45 mph going up the final hill to my reunion.

Pagani has extensively tested the car at Nardo but isn't releasing final downforce figures nor a top speed just yet.

The latter is aimed at parents whose kids will borrow the car, and allows elements like top speed, stereo volume and ESP disabling to be controlled when the car is started with a particular key.

Mullin also has two very rare cars being shown at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance: a 1905 Leon Bolle (which had a top speed of somewhere around 30 mph in its racing days) and a 1951 Bugatti 101C which is the second of seven ever built and the only 101C to be equipped with a supercharger.

Top speed doesn't count for much, but any car that's consistently successful here needs to be good at virtually everything else.

Date: 1948 - 1954 Top Speed: 124.6 mph / 200.5 kph Engine capacity: 3,442 cc / 201 ci Power: 160 bhp / 119 kW Fact: The XK120 is the world's fastest production car at launch

At Time Of Build The Undiscounted Eye Watering Price Ticket Was A Huge # 167,000.00, But Still All Of The 302 Cars Found New Loving Homes In Recording Breaking Time And This May Have Be Down To The Staggering Performance Unleashed From The Six Litre V12 48 Value All Alloys Monster, Which Generated A Massive 435 Brake Horse Power And A Maximum Torque Of 410 lb.ft, Which Was More Than Capable Of Accelerating From 0 - 62MPH In Just 4.8 Seconds And Would Further Climb To A Remarkable Top Speed Of 185 MPH.

During The Middle Of 2006 The Aston Martin Factory Showcased The All New Aston Martin Vantage Roadster At The Greater Los Angeles Auto Show And Even Tho The Car Was To Weigh 200 Pounds Over The Coupe Version, Due To The Roof Mechanics, This Desirable Addition Was To Still Offer Buyers The Same Performance, With The 4.3 Litre V8 Producing A More Than Healthy 380 Brake Horse Power With 302 lb ⋅ ft Of Torque At 5000 rpm, Which Would Accelerate From 0 - 62 MPH In Just 4.9 Seconds, Would Further Climb To An Electrically Limited Top Speed Of 178 MPH, With All This Power Available With Or Without The Electric Convertible Roof In Place.

The top Roadster also takes its lead from the top AMG GT R sports car where muscular proportions are concerned: the wider rear wings create space for a wider track and wider wheels at the rear axle, allowing even higher cornering speeds and best traction.

Making sure occupants don't get a thorough bath on rainy days is an electrically folding top that can be operated either remotely or from a button inside the car, at speeds of up to 30 mph.

First shown to the public at SEMA last November, the Venom F5 is now on display for an international audience only a few feet away from Koenigsegg, Hennessey's new rival for the top speed production car world record.

Alongside it, a car with the same engine in 200 HP version: maximum torque of 330Nm at 1,750 rpm and top speed of 215 km / h, with acceleration from 0 to 100 km / h in 7.2 seconds.

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This upgrade allows the car to accelerate from 0 - 60 mph at 2.8 seconds to go with a top speed of 210 mph.

The open - top super sports car reached a maximum speed of 265.6 mph (427.4 km / h) at the US Navy's 2.9 mile long runway in Lemoore, California, making it the fastest convertible sports car in the world — beating the previous record held by the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport Vitesse by over 11 mph.

The 718 Boxster is the manufacturer's latest two - door convertible sports car, and it has a 300 HP engine (at 6500 RPM), a top speed of 170 miles per hour, and the ability to move from 0 to 60 in 4.8 seconds.

Its top speed limit has been clocked at 206 mph, while the tweaked acceleration takes the car from 0 to 60 mph in around 3 seconds.

Performance is typically brutal, then, and since the UK forgoes the all - wheel drive S - class models available in left - hand drive markets, the RWD S65 is in fact the quickest car in the range, serving up 0 - 62mph in 4.1 sec and a 155mph top speed (both AMG models can be derestricted as part of the AMG Driver's Package, to top out at 186mph).

Performance wise, the Urus is being pushed by a 4.0 litre twin - turbo V8, capable of a power output of 641HP and 850NM torque, hooked to an 8 - speed, electro - hydraulic automatic gearbox and it's capable of launching the car to 100km.h in 3.6 s, to 200km.h in 12.8 s, while topping out at 306km.h.