Sentences with phrase «car on back roads»

Often, you can operate the car on back roads and in areas that are not populated or not busy so you will have the least chance of getting into accidents.

No — but you'll be having so much fun launching, tossing, and flogging this car on back roads, on - ramps, and open highways, you won't pay them much heed.

Even though I didn't have a chance to pass a single car on my back roads commute, the Golf R still made the drive very enjoyable: the gearbox is wonderfully slick, the power delivery is very smooth and invigorating, the ride doesn't feel compromised or harsh, and the chassis feels very well balanced.

Although the GT - R was victorious on the drag strip in both the 0 - 60 mph sprint and the quarter - mile, the Camaro proved to be the more engaging and enjoyable driver's car on the back roads and on the track.

The body of Grace Peltier, a brilliant Ph.D. candidate, is found in the front seat of her car on a back road in northern Maine.

Not exact matches

The 2018 Nissan Rogue, which I also tested recently, costs just $ 24,800 and is remarkably similar in terms of what you can load in the back, the overall feel on the road at least in terms of wind noise (a crossover is literally a cross between a full - size SUV and a car, but tends to drive more like an SUV), and even the fuel economy (around 33 highway for the Rogue, 28 highway for the Stelvio).

In the months since these top engineers have left, the 43 self - driving cars Uber had on the roads as of March 8 saw little progress when it came to decreasing the frequency of disengagements — or how many times a safety driver would have to take back control of the system.

Get back on the road today in a car from one of our national car dealerships that accept bankruptcy clients and specialize in subprime lending.

I wonder, if any of them ever saw an actual roadrunner dead on the side of the road, how many of them wouldn't automatically reject the idea that it was just hit by a car for some bipedal coyote dropping an anvil while flying overhead with an ACME rocket strapped to his back?

Think of the car accident last spring on that back road in the pouring rain.

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She gazes across the dirt and asphalt roads where Pat used to take the family car, killing the dashboard lights so her kid sister, Linda, couldn't see the needle nosing 95, and it begins to dawn on Michelle that the wind that has been at her own back for the last three years is really the wind that has been at Pat's back all of her life.

If I had a day of work, I will go back to my car and take a 15 minute nap before I get on the road to go back home.

And when it is time to go on a «road» trip, baby can bring along their favorite toys in the convenient storage pouch in the back of the car!

Let us help you find the perfect car seat for your precious cargo, so you can keep your eyes off the back seat and on the road.

As far as reducing UK emissions is concerned, it would make more sense to cut rail fares to encourage people to use trains more — instead of pushing people back into cars on already jam - packed roads, and increasing congestion, emissions and air pollution.

Sharing the road with cars can be treacherous, and with the eventual continuation of the Greenline, I will be able to step out of my back door, hop on my bike to commute or shop, or go farther afield into the countryside.

But in the absence of federal law regulating the use of autonomous vehicles and driver - assist technology, the U.S. government could simply stand back and allow companies to put more self - driving cars on public roads to collect the necessary safety data, says Alain Kornhauser, a transportation engineer and adviser for Princeton University's Autonomous Vehicle Engineering team.

But if you have a single car that stops in the middle of the road on the freeway in Los Angeles, very soon the entire freeway is going to be backed up.

Back in the car and up the road, Ripple points to a thicket of young trees and brush on a hillside to our left.

The shift back to fossil fuels, combined with rapid growth in the number of cars on the roads (see «Fuelling Brazil's transport boom»), has worsened city smog and caused emissions in the transport sector to spike at about 170 million tons of CO2 in 2011, up from less than 140 million tons in 2008.

As my husband and I leave our Wellington flat behind and pack up the car again for more adventures on the road I keep coming back to this very simple idea: Yoga does not happen in a vacuum.

I had been eyeing it for months, and on a road trip two weeks back, I randomly saw my size in stock and ordered it right there in the car!

I enjoy going out to a movie, dinner, walk in the park, taking car drives on back roads, trips into the City, hanging at...

Likes being spontaneous, like road trips to nowhere just get in the car and go, going out to dinner, movies, walks, going to casino on occasion, relaxing in the back yard and barbequing.

The racing is somewhat flawless, the cops are aggressive, the roads and environments are beautiful, the personalization options have a lot of depth for a NFS game that isn't Underground (but who wants to put a bodykit on a Aston Martin Vanquish), the car list is pro-exotic and features the newest cars in the world, Ferrari is finally back since Hot Pursuit 2, All - Drive sets the bar for

Here, he objects to a diner placing their silverware directly on the table, hidden electrical outlets you have to bend down to reach, a woman who only shampoos her hair weekly, and oncoming cars on a narrow road that expect him to back up even though they've clearly got a closer clearance.

When it's being funny, Zombieland knows where it's heading, and everyone performs their part well (the sisters are ballsily played by Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin who, last seen stealing the show out on the road in Little Miss Sunshine, must have got back in the car and thought she'd been cast in Groundhog Day.)

In the press notes, Nichols explains, «I wanted to make a chase movie, a movie about guys moving on back roads through the American South in a fast car, driving at night with their lights off.

The injured Henry (Scoot McNairy) and his two scavenger friends can't believe it, and even when they pepper the truck with bullets and come to a halt, standing off like cowboys on the road, Eric vows that he won't stop following them until they give his car back.

That would be stalking the gal pals in his specially tricked - out car, the one with the skull painted on its black hood and the suggestive duck hood ornament, through the dark southern night on back roads made for mayhem.

While waiting at a stop sign on a quiet street, a road maintenance truck barrels into the back of their car and sends Paige, who had unbuckled her seatbelt just moments earlier, through the windshield and into a coma.

They ride by night on back roads through the South in «Midnight Special,» two grim - faced men in the front seat of a battered old car.

While on the road back to the nearby village to call his firm, a stag runs out in front of the car, ends up in the windshield, and causes the vehicle to flip off the road.

Once you let the car sit and settle, you can hear that roaring machine come back to life and take it out on the road.

On the way back from a college tour road trip, Lady Bird and her mom are brought to tears as the final lines of Grapes of Wrath play on the car's speakerOn the way back from a college tour road trip, Lady Bird and her mom are brought to tears as the final lines of Grapes of Wrath play on the car's speakeron the car's speakers.

On winding back roads and highway on - ramps alike, it felt stiff enough to tackle corners aggressively without upsetting the balance of the caOn winding back roads and highway on - ramps alike, it felt stiff enough to tackle corners aggressively without upsetting the balance of the caon - ramps alike, it felt stiff enough to tackle corners aggressively without upsetting the balance of the car.

On the road for more than three years now, the Nissan Leaf is beginning to trickle back into the used car market.

Depends on the car's speed, but if you don't move your eyes back to the road, you get an audio warning and a haptic warning in the seat.

Colin Peck presents the results of his researches into the genre / The Ballot 2LS, part six — Our Publisher continues his review of this landmark Vintage car by describing the example once owned by Ian Connell and now in George Wingard's collection in Eugene, Oregon / Auto - biography: Brian Sewell — In the latest instalment of his series interviewing personalities from the old - car world, Matthew Bell visits art critic Brian Sewell / The 1926 - 27 Grand Prix Talbot - Darracqs, part one — In the first of a three - part series recounting the long careers of these famous racing cars, Simon Moore describes their origins and works competition histories / Back on the Road — Michael Ware visits the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley, West Midlands, to inspect a rare and recently restored 1914 Briton 10/12

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

He talks to Matthew Bell / Villa d'Este — Simon Moore visits the Villa d'Este concours d'elegance and picks his personal highlights of the event, one of the most glamorous in the old - car calendar / Connie the Crossley — John Warburton tells the story of Mancunian motor trader Ernest Hasel and his 1912 Crossley, which he entered in the Scottish Rally in 1933 / Back on the Road — Michael Ware pays a visit to an ultra-rare Vintage light car, a 1921 Albert, and explains the painstaking work behind its recent restoration

Back on the Road — Michael Ware's regular feature on reader restorations / A Passion for Speed: The Life and Times of George Abecassis — David Venables reviews a major new work on an influential character in British motor sport / Gordon Bennett International Rally — The Gordon Bennett Rally is recognised as the paramount event in the IVVCC calendar, attracting 200 pre-1930 cars.

Morris at 100 — Celebrating the centenary of William Morris's first car, Paul and Kathy Niblett examine the life of the man and the early history of his company / MX 8372 — The oldest Oxford Bullnose fanatic Robin Batchelor recently drove a 1913 White & Poppe engined car, the earliest known surviving example / Goodwood Festival of Speed — Twenty years on from Lord March's first Festival of Speed, David Venables enjoys the «greatest hits» at the 2013 event / A gaggle of Goggos — Scott Barrett drives a pair of delightful German microcars and discovers their charm and ability far outweigh their tiny dimensions / From Alfa to Nardi — Alfa Romeo historian Simon Moore charts the history of the Silver Ray, from prewar racer to Italo - American dream car in the 1960s / Back on the Road — Michael Ware tells the story of the Riley Densham Imp, a 1930s special that has been sympathetically rebuilt after 40 years off the Road — Michael Ware tells the story of the Riley Densham Imp, a 1930s special that has been sympathetically rebuilt after 40 years off the roadroad

Each PTM mode acts as a deft invisible hand that keeps you and the ZL1 on the track by quietly cutting power and softly pushing the car back from the ragged edge of the road course; the higher the PTM mode, the less the hand helps.

Back in February, when I first traveled to England for the unveiling of the Senna prototype, I remarked on the considerable, seemingly impossible challenge McLaren had undertaken in attempting to produce a road car worthy of its namesake, the late three - time Formula 1 world champion Ayrton Senna.

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

Pedal Power — Christopher Leyshon - James — Builder of Miniature Cars / California Extravaganza — Gatherings at Laguna Seca & Pebble Beach / Stretched Darracq 1902 — Back on the Road / Midget Mark One — 847cc M - type 1928 / The Morse Jaguar — Jaguar Mark 2 1960 / The Circle of 19th Century Motorists / A Brave Experiment — Captain Jack Thompson — Cyclecars in Australia / The Hydrostatic Fuel Gauge — Workshop

Triumph moved up - market in the 1930's, but the Dolomite proved to be their final fling / Douglas Blain explains why Ecurie Crapaud has been absent from the headlines — Toad: continued adventures / Bucciali TAV 12 memories — Part two / History of William Arnold (Manchester) Ltd, a leading coachbuilder in the north of England / Michael Bowler looks at post-war cars that emerged from the ashes of the immortal 328 — Out of BMW / Vauxhall 30 - 98, 1926 — Back on the Road / Wolseley 6/90, 1956 — Back on the Road / Austin Pearl Cabriolet, 1933 — Back on the Road / Suffolk SS100 — Motorhouse / Students who passed through Colchester Institute's restoration course — Workshop

Few of its enthusiastic owners would support that assessment of the most radical model ever made by General Motors, says Karl Ludvigsen in Corvair: class and controversy / We report on our unique annual gathering of unrestored cars, Oily Rag Run, held this year in East Sussex and enjoying a vintage entry / In Une Périgourdine Charmante, John Warburton tells the story of the little - know n de Cézac car, made in the French town of Périgueux from 1920 to 1927, and samples a rare survivor / In this month's Back on the Road, Michael Ware details the protracted restoration of a rare and handsome Morris 25 Special Coupé dating from 1935