Sentences with phrase «car feels surprisingly»

With the top up, this particular car feels surprisingly airy partly due to the light materials lining the interior.

It's a crazy party trick for such a vehicle, but it does also illustrate just how keen the Cayenne is to turn into a corner and hold its line, and used more sensitively, the combination of torque vectoring and rear - wheel steering makes this big hulk of a car feel surprisingly agile.

Just over 12 feet long, this little car felt surprisingly roomy from the front seats, and it even has a set of rear doors.

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Despite the life - or - death stakes, this is a funky feel - good movie studded with physical comedy from a surprisingly cute creature, and genuinely exhilarating car chase scenes that employ the eponymous monster trucks with whimsy and verve.

Though there weren't any great, swoopy backroads in the Dallas area where we drove the car, the Ghost II felt heavy but surprisingly agile on the few occasions we were able to push it.

The CSL is a car I wanted to understand in a 2011 context, if only because that other famous homologation special from the era, the aforementioned 911 Carrera 2.7 RS, sustains its appeal and value because it still feels surprisingly competent at speed.

I'm all for cars that move about underneath you, but the GT86 can feel nervous in quicker corners even if you're not pushing particularly hard, as if the rear tyres are planning on breaking free, while in slower ones the front end can wash wide surprisingly early.

Despite the test car having more than 2000 miles under its wheels, its 1.6 feels surprisingly unwilling to stretch to the upper reaches of the rev counter.

However, although the other controls share the» box's surprisingly light weighting, they feel rigidly connected to the chassis and immediately the car announces its rare precision.

For a car that shares so much under the skin, the Abarth feels surprisingly different.

There isn't a great deal of feel through the steering, but it is accurate and there's a definite sense of solidity and connection in the steering that allows you to push the big car surprisingly hard.

The 1.4 - liter turbo MultiAir is surprisingly responsive and happy to rev.. The whole car feels light on its feet; the controls are easy and as a package they work in complete harmony.

Merging on the freeway is no worry, and cruising at an indicated 80 mph in top gear is surprisingly quiet and comfortable as the engine runs in the swelling part of the torque band — so you don't feel like the car is all used up already.

The brake pedal is surprisingly firm, inspiring confidence and making a joy of pressure modulation; I don't left - foot brake a lot of cars, especially on the street, due to poor pedal placement and lack of pedal feel, but in this car I started doing it naturally and almost immediately, and never switched back to my right foot.

Unlike the Dynasty / LeBaron, these cars felt tight and cornered surprisingly well, winning the hearts of many Americans (and some Europeans).

Surprisingly, neither car feels as fast as their identical 4.1 - second 0 -60-mph times indicate, at least in real - world driving.

Surprisingly, this suspension doesn't make the car feel floaty, or let it wallow.

Big car, little engine Although the CX - 7 feels like a big car from the driver's seat, it is surprisingly adroit, thanks to is all - wheel - drive system.

Along with 294 pound - feet of torque to complement its 149 horsepower, the new Volt feels surprisingly spritely for a plug - in vehicle, and its 0 - 30 mph improvements, in particular, gives the car a more authoritative feel both off the line and when carving through urban traffic.

The Skoda Superb overall offers neutral handling and surprisingly doesn't feel like a large car to drive.

Computer - controlled AWD worked surprisingly well on an icy road, keeping the car straight in the same condition where a GX460 felt a bit unsure.

Trunk space is surprisingly large, rear seat room is terrific for a true mid-sized car, and overall I came away from this car with a much better feeling.

Not surprisingly the car shrugs off the worst road imperfections effortlessly and provides a secure feel not just in the cabin but through the steering as well.

Steering is solidly real feeling but the ease with which you can put your car into a drift or pull a 180 is all arcade and surprisingly easy to learn.

But what is strangest about them is how surprisingly natural it feels to a viewer to see both a car door and lipstick in the same object.

While electric - car owners may cruise around feeling virtuous, the reality is that the electric car cuts almost no CO2, costs taxpayers a fortune, and, surprisingly, generates more air pollution than traditional gasoline cars.

From the instant torque and linear, surprisingly swift acceleration to the eery quiet of the (non-existent) engine, I am not exaggerating when I say that the Leaf really does feel like a superior version of a car (as long as you ignore the fact you can't drive wherever you want to just yet).

He feels surprisingly good about being alone in the car and on the road.