Sentences with phrase «diesel sounds like»

Jeep plus diesel sounds like a match made in Moab to me, yet somehow I'd never managed to sample one.

Not exact matches

I find it difficult to understand why people are insisting that electric and hydrogen - powered vehicles must be made to sound like petrol and diesel - powered ones (Feedback, 1 October).

When researchers conceived of turning algae into diesel fuel three decades ago, the idea sounded like something out of the old sci - fi movie Soylent Green.

It sounds like her own reverie, but in fact she's quoting an offscreen speech by her college - bound brother Curt (Richard Dreyfuss), who earlier in the film has a hushed alleyway talk with the «cool» teacher (Terence McGovern) who washed out of an artsy New England school and came back to shape young minds in his diesel - scented hometown.

It kind of sounds like a diesel as it rasps for a second when you accelerate, and it performs a bit like a diesel as well because the smooth but slow - shifting transmission keeps the rpms low to enhance fuel economy.

It's enough to make us wonder what the forthcoming 3 - series diesel will sound like in similar conditions.

The SQ7's diesel does a fine job of sounding like a proper, performance V8, especially from the outside.

It looks okay, the engine is flatulent like a diesel V8, needing a fake sound imposer to make it sound okay..

It used to purr, now it growls, sounds like a small diesel engine.

More than one driver thought that the engine's gravelly idle sounded almost like that of a diesel, although most were not bothered by the powerplant's patter once underway.

And its quite quiet to the point that it doesn't really sound like a diesel at all, so don't expect to pick one out of a lineup just by listening for the clatter.

Sounds like a thermostat or temperature sender problem, but my knowledge of diesels only qualifies me to speculate from a great distance.

Yet still, in a world of digital sound augmented motors, whether you like them or not, modern diesels have become aurally bearable as well as getting increasingly more potent as you rev them.

At a cruise it's subdued enough, but under acceleration the rough, gravelly note sounds more like a diesel, only one without the easy - going pace you'd get from even the E 220d.

It's great just off idle and until 2000 rpm (where it sounds like a diesel truck's exhaust — deep and staccato with that ever - present turbo whistle) but then it all just kinda goes... vacuum cleaner.

Contrasting that driving experience is a BMW 5 Series diesel, which Lieberman recounts as sounding like a truck when idling at a stoplight.

In the meantime, check out the spy shots of this mule and imagine the diesel - like sound of its engine.

Durheimer admitted that he had been among the group of senior managers within Porsche that was sceptical of performance diesels, but said the rate of development of technical development — and the fact diesels can now «sound and feel» like petrol models — had won him over.

The Cummins sounds like a diesel, no mistaking it.

The engine sounds like it is a diesel, it is loud and shakes violently from time to time, all of which I was told his normal.

It doesn't sound like a big deal, but a common perk with diesel engines is their abundance of torque; the 2.0 in the Cruze puts out an impressive 264 lb - ft of grunt, for example, while still managing a fuel consumption of just 7.5 L / 100 km city and 4.2 L / 100 km highway, making the diesel the most efficient Cruze in the entire lineup.

The engine feels like few other diesels out there, eager to rev and sounding seriously angry while doing it.

As for trade - offs, the Td6 can still sound like a diesel engine at light throttle and lower speeds, with more noticeable clatter than Mercedes - Benz's diesel engine in its GLS350d, yet overall refinement is very good.

More, the direct injection in this engine makes a noticeable noise at idle, almost to the point it made me think it sounded like a tractor at worst, or at best, a diesel.

Yes, it sounds diesel - like at idle, but once driving it is quiet and smooth — it is such most will not pick up on the fact it consumes diesel and not gasoline.

The turbo four, called N20 internally, displayed no lag to speak of, but it did at times sound much like a diesel.

The diesel adds about $ 1,500 versus the gas engine, and the HSE with goodies like Xenon headlamps, Oxford leather seats, a Meridian sound system and the ginormous panoramic sunroof gets you up to $ 93,450.

These might sound like small gains, but given the ingredients of a four - cylinder diesel engine, heavy saloon body and automatic gearbox, the 5 - series does an amazing job of feeling like more than just the sum of its parts.

In case you do not like the sound of a diesel engine, even moderate volume on the music system will cancel it out.

The XD doesn't have the top - end ability of the petrol engines, even if it does well by diesel engines to rev beyond 5000rpm, albeit sounding a bit like a vacuum cleaner via its synthesised audio.

That may not sound like a significant boost, and well, it isn't, but don't forget this is being produced by a diesel engine.

So, it doesn't exactly feel hot - hatch - like and the diesel engine can sound a bit rough at higher rpms, but in terms of driveability, the throttle response and in fact the way the steering feels at high speeds, we have no complaints.

Once warm, not only does the 30d's silky - smooth inline diesel six sound and feel like a petrol engine at most speeds, it revs cleanly to 4500rpm and its buxom 560Nm of torque spells effortless acceleration anywhere between 1500 and 3000rpm, offering a broad performance spread that's perfectly suited to the 1820 kg SUV (just 5 kg heavier than the 35i).

Sound proofing: almost flawless, substantially helped by the C - Class Coupé's sleek lines and scalpel - like aerodynamic coefficient, a dynamic duo keeping wind noise at bay, although some idle diesel clattering does squeeze inside the cabin every now and then.

Also, the way the engine responds and sounds on mashing the throttle fells more like a petrol engine rather than a diesel one.

For an European used to diesel figures, that may not sound like a lot but bear in mind the Americans are still getting used to in - line four cylinder turbo engines and their perks.

At start - up, it sounds remarkably similar to the M5's twin - turbo V8, with an odd diesel - like chatter.

In this application, however, the engine's direct injection results in a diesel - like sound that is out of place in a luxury car.

So with those two cars out of the way, that leaves us with the possibility of a diesel - powered S3, but the sound of that engine isn't very diesel - like.

While the diesel engine would come from the existing VW range, reports say that Porsche is developing its own flat - four turbocharged petrol engine, with the sound the engine makes being a «Top priority» and that it will sound like a «Proper Porsche.»

With both gasoline and diesel engines at its disposal, as well as Honda's new electronically adjustable rear dampers, the Civic Tourer sounds like a promising option.

Like its gas - powered counterparts, diesel models of the 5 Series are also eligible to get M Performance Active Sound exhaust system.

Each car seems to sound like every other car, and there doesn't seem to be any difference between a petrol four - cylinder engine and a diesel eight cylinder.

The little furnace sounded like diesel engine right outside the second bed room (really loud!).