Sentences with phrase «center tunnel»

A transparent center tunnel with blue fiber optics displaying the electric drivetrain's energy flow is another one of the concept's highlights.

It's tricky getting in, but the driving position is sporty with a low - set seat, almost vertically mounted steering wheel and high center tunnel housing the battery.

One change: While I love the»60s throwback blue - tinted center tunnel - mounted gauge cluster, putting the boost gauge down there makes zero sense.

There's more rear - seat space, too, and a less - intrusive center tunnel.

The door panels are clad in carbon fiber, as is the wide center tunnel.

The C7 continues to use a structural center tunnel as its backbone, but it's been reshaped and braced in the corners for increased stiffness.

While a relatively low center tunnel makes three - across at least a short - term possibility, the two outboard spots are clearly the locations of choice.

The Clarity will be powered by a hydrogen fuel cell stack — running along the car's center tunnel between the front seats — that generates electricity but produces zero exhaust emissions at the tailpipe.

With no need to allow for a transmission, shifter and cardan tunnel, the designers again took advantage of the opportunity to create a particularly slim and lightweight center tunnel and convex, arching center console for the e-tron Spyder with hybrid drive.

While a relatively low center tunnel makes 3 - across seating at least a short - term possibility, the two outboard spots are clearly the locations of choice.

The open - pore wood floor with inlaid aluminum continues the yacht theme, plus a floating, transparent center tunnel visualizes the drive system's electrical energy flow for the passengers with blue fiber optics.

In exchange, you get an extensively reinforced body with even more carbon - fiber panels, beefed - up composite doors, taller rollover - protection loops, stronger B - pillars, and a reengineered center tunnel.

The front seats have lengthy adjustment range, and the low center tunnel opens up more inboard knee room than in some cars twice this size.

Once you've settled into the rear buckets, structural bracing presses against your shins and the high center tunnel robs foot room.

Deeply growly frequencies are awakened when the knurled center tunnel dial is switched from Comfort to Sport via a butterfly exhaust valve; the louder sound never drones or vexes, but it does make you more aware of the engine that, mated to the ZF 8 - speed automatic, can operate with surprising innocuousness when the acoustically glazed windows are rolled up.

Ferrari got rid of the lift - up toggle for reverse and replaced it with a simple button, which lives on a slimmer center tunnel.

A prominent center tunnel divides the plush leather - lined interior, which features a futuristic - looking dashboard and associated trim panels mirroring the layered surfacing of the exterior.

Storage spaces abound throughout the cabin: there's a total of 44.9 liters of stowage, actually, with the biggest one hiding beneath the fat center tunnel cover.

Other changes include trapezoidal A / C vents at the corners, a redesigned steering wheel, new door panels, a redesigned center tunnel and armrest, and a new instrument cluster.

The first thing you may notice inside the 2014 BMW i3 is the missing center tunnel on the floor.

The red switch cover on the broad center tunnel encloses the start button used to awaken the twelve - cylinder.

The Ford GT features many new and unique technologies, including superplastic - formed frame, aluminum body panels, roll - bonded floor panels, a friction stir welded center tunnel, covered by a magnesium center console, a «ship - in - a-bottle» gas tank, a capless fuel filler system, one - piece door panels, and an aluminum engine cover with a one - piece carbon fiber inner panel.

As in the XC90 T8, the battery is located in the SUV's center tunnel where a driveshaft might normally be located, if the XC40 weren't a front - wheel drive vehicle.

There's seating for six inside the Audi A8 L extended, thanks to a new second row created by extending the side sills and center tunnel with lots of aluminum, also employed for tubes and cross-braces to strengthen the roof.

With no need to allow for a transmission, shifter and cardan tunnel, the designers took advantage of the opportunity to create a particularly slim and lightweight center tunnel and center console.

The seating is moderately comfortable, though you are positioned deeply in the tiny monocoque structure between the stressed side sections and narrow center tunnel, which contains 39 - gallons of fuel.

Seats are separated by a floating, transparent center tunnel, «which visualizes the drive system's electrical energy flow for the passengers by means of blue fiber optics,» according to Mercedes.

Blame the Alpha platform's packaging: Both the ATS and the CTS have smallish trunks and limited rear legroom due to a high center tunnel, and a rear firewall intrudes too far forward.

The real - world advantage is less impressive, as the center tunnel hump renders the center back seat all but unusable (the Honda's rear floor is flat).

Hackenberg confirmed that the new Audi R8 will continue to share many parts with the Lamborghini, including its V - 10 engine and dual - clutch transmission, carbon - fiber firewall and center tunnel, and a structure that is made primarily from aluminum.

Rather than raising the floor, Porsche would jam batteries in every open space: the center tunnel, the bulkheads, the doorsills, the footwells, and the overhangs.

«A light wing flows in a curve across the door trim and the center tunnel into the seat landscape, creating a 360 ° open - air luxury lounge,» says Mercedes.

The Audi R8 e-tron 2.0, as the Ingolstadt automaker calls it, uses a large, T - shaped battery pack integrated into the center tunnel with the cross at the top of the «T» positioned behind the two seats, contributing to a low center of gravity.

It didn't get much more exciting inside thanks to the eight - speed automatic transmission's T - handle shifter sticking up through the center tunnel.

While we found the cockpit seating comfortable and eminently quilted, we did have a small issue with the left and right elbow placement, which was uneven from the armrest to the center tunnel.

Every single surface from the seats to the door sills, steering wheel, dashboard, door panels, center console, and center tunnel is made of lightweight carbon fiber.

That's a fancy way of saying that rather than raising the floor, Porsche would jam batteries in every open space: the center tunnel, the bulkheads, the doorsills, the footwells, and the overhangs.

A little rib section connecting the doors and instrument panel provides a visual continuity that is emphasized again in the shapes of the instrument panel, center tunnel, and doors.

Like my colleagues, I was also impressed with the interior, especially the suede - like fabric lining the door panels and the legrests for the center tunnel.

The Atlas Cross Sport PHEV, or hibrida enchufable in Spanish, uses the 3.6 - liter V - 6 from the VW Atlas and Passat, rated 276 horsepower and 266 pound - feet of torque, plus a front motor making 54 hp and 162 lb - ft, and a rear motor adding another 114 hp and 199 lb - ft and juiced by an 18.0 killowatt - hour lithium - ion battery in the center tunnel.

Much of the new unibody, including the center tunnel, is made of carbon fiber — a payoff of BMW's huge investment in the stuff for Project i.

Whatever the cause, the center tunnel intrudes farther into the passenger compartment than before, at an angle that causes several different riders of varying body types to suffer back cricks from shifting sideways in their seats.

On the center tunnel we notice the same Comand infotainment touchpad controller and knob, which operates the center - mounted screen that's integrated between two air vents.

To choose the automatic mode, push the large button labeled Auto in the console astride the center tunnel (next to it is R for reverse, and to the left of that is the button for the standard launch control).

The terminal on the center tunnel console and its menu structure have been completely redesigned.

Along with its newly developed fuel - cell stack, the GLC F - Cell accommodates two carbon - fiber hydrogen tanks — one mounted within the center tunnel and the other underneath the rear seat, each pressurized to 10,153 psi (700 bar).