Sentences with phrase «doing highway speeds»

The suspension setup is quite absorbent regardless of whether you're crawling in the city or doing highway speeds.

Last year, we wrote about the XS 500 by the Miles Automotive Group, what was supposed to be the first affordable electric car that can do highway speeds with a decent range.

Not exact matches

Those numbers are all highway - ready cars, and does not include low speed neighborhood electric vehicles that look like golf carts.

Third, why does the Finance Minister want to create an independent CIDB that will focus only on «National Economic Development projects such as toll highways and bridges, high - speed rail, port and airport expansions, smart city infrastructure, national broadband infrastructure, power transmission and natural resource infrastructure?

Now as then, most of the time for me gratitude is a rush of relief that I dodged a bullet — the highway patrol guy didn't notice me speed by or the dog didn't get hit by someone else speeding by.

You don't see that the car's got a flat tire; so you can speed down the highway waving happily at all the other drivers, unaware of the danger, until you crash.

----- ttm, you say I «don't see that the car's got a flat tire; so you [I] can speed down the highway waving happily at all the other drivers, unaware of the danger until you crash.»

When he got pulled over for speeding by a Texas state highway patrol officer while governor of Texas and asked the Trooper: «Don't you know who I am?»

Which is great, but I almost did her one better by very nearly giving birth in the front seat of my husband's car while we sped down the highway at close to twice the legal speed limit.

Additionally, engineers design highways for considerably faster speeds than 55mph - unfortunately those design specs for the roadway are not considered when setting the speed limit because it has little to do with road characteristics.

On a cold autumn morning, Christner guides his pickup down a two - lane highway in central Louisiana, speeding past pine thickets, swamps, and dirt roads that don't show up on his truck's navigation system.

Participants chose plans to reduce their distractive behavior by matching «if» statements such as «if I am tempted to drive faster than the speed limit while on the highway» with «then» statements such as «then I will remind myself that it is dangerous and illegal to do so.»

Do you think human activity — from overfishing to burning fossil fuels to illuminating our cities and highways with artificial light — could be speeding up the rate of mutation?

After a quick draining the Impact stunned everyone with its performance; not only did it leave a Miata and a Nissan 300ZX in its dust in a head - to - head, standing - start race to 60 mph, but even when cruising at highway speeds it retained enough kick to press a driver into the seat when the accelerator was stomped — a benefit of its high - rpm, gearless powertrain.

1998 Honda Accord EX (Automatic)- Loses all electrical power while traveling (speed doesn't seem to be an issue; loses power at slow (turning corner) or fast (highway) speeds.

«Eco-minded drivers keen on switching to electric [vehicles] would do well to buy a Leaf or Volt for highway driving, instead of a low - speed vehicle (like a GEM, Wheego, or another neighborhood electric vehicle),» says Nolan.

Now, admittedly, these are not ideal conditions under which to test a hybrid of any kind — highway speeds and freezing temperatures are the two biggest enemies of any electrified powertrain, so I wasn't expecting to achieve the EPA - advertised numbers for the Ioniq — and I didn't.

When I'm stopped it makes no sound, and after hitting highway speeds it stops and doesn't start up until the car is restarted.

At highway speeds, it had a nice, solid feel, and it didn't beat me to death, either.

With the windows raised and the factory - installed wind - blocker positioned behind the seats, the turbulent air pouring past the windshield doesn't pummel passengers too badly at highway speeds.

It doesn't make a sound, and the eight - speed transmission's activities are pretty invisible on the open highway, too.

The 2013 Civic we drove still had a five - speed automatic, but it doesn't matter — the Civic cruises quietly on the highway and achieves 32 mpg, combined.

You don't want a ball joint failing at highway speeds, or your oil pan dropping out!

Having the gas pedal down when just doing normal highway speeds is not what the normal / uninformed consumer wants to be doing.

It doesn't matter if you're pulling away from a light or passing at highway speeds; the power is there.

I will say I did start hearing a high pitch noise when I go at highway speeds.

The Acadia doesn't feel fast when accelerating from a stop or at highway speeds.

BMW doesn't have any fuel economy estimates for the ActiveHybrid 5, although a 2011 535i is rated at 20/30 mpg (city / highway) with the eight - speed automatic transmission.

At the same time, it doesn't feel too soft at highway speeds.

When ever it is a constant speed, through city streets doing 35 or on the highway doing 60.

Still, the Cruze's turbo four - cylinder does have some reserve power at highway speeds for passing.

Whether I was passing at highway speeds, sprinting from light to light or switching between cruising and being more aggressive, I just didn't find a hole in the power.

There's less power assist at highway speeds, which gives the wheel some extra heft and enhances directional stability, but feedback doesn't improve.

The EPA still doesn't have information up on the other Wranglers in the lineup, but if you order a Wrangler Unlimited with a V - 6 and the six - speed manual, it's been rated at 17/23/19 mpg (city / highway / combined).

The 2014 - 15 Chevy Cruze diesel sedan, powered by a 2.0 - liter engine, was EPA - rated 27/44 mpg, with the «44» number being most salient — diesels do their most efficient work on the highway after their turbos get them up to steady cruising speeds.

Like before, a five - speed manual transmission is available with front - wheel - drive four - cylinder models, and it does even better than the automatics at the pumps: 22 mpg city, 28 highway.

However at high speeds (like on the highway) I don't notice any power issues and it seems to behave normally.

Even though it's a two - lane, everyone seems to agree that highway speeds are appropriate — I'm bummed to see an eighteen - wheeler up ahead until I realize, a few miles later, that I'm doing 65 mph and not catching up to him.

But a slightly busy ride at highway speeds is a completely fair tradeoff for how well the Macan handles, and a little body motion in aggressive cornering doesn't take away too much from its dynamic personality.

Every other vehicle I've owned, of about 14 vehicles, including an older»97 Expedition, has always produced outlet temps between 38 and 42 degrees, and they will do it while idling, let alone at highway speeds.

Blame goes to the transmission that — because of its infinite amount of ratios — keeps the engine running a high revs when under load on the highway; the Cruze uses the same engine but doesn't sound nearly as bad thanks to its six - speed transmissions.

File this one under pleasant non-surprises: thanks to some calculations by the Highway Loss Data Institute, it has been proven that cars with active collision avoidance systems do actually avoid low - speed collisions by around 25 percent.

The V - 8 delivers adequate acceleration in the city and at highway speeds, but it doesn't produce the kind of thrust you'd expect from an engine with 360 horsepower and 390 pounds - feet of torque, which makes you wonder, «Is that all you've got?»

Generally, crashes occur when drivers speed through a work zone, do not pay attention to changing road conditions, run into other vehicles or highway equipment, or drive off the road completely.

As for the mileage, the Cruze Diesel truly did hit mid-to-high-40 miles per gallon on the highway, though it drops precipitously at lower speeds and in the city — but it's still in the mid - to high - 20s there.

People do still have the choice to ride horses but the number that do on the public highway is tiny and from the viewpoint of risk that choice isn't comparable to choosing to drive - there's little chance of exceeding the speed limit or causing a 4 horse pile - up on the M1.

Even at highway speeds, if you mash the gas pedal the xDrive50i lunges forward with a level of assertiveness you don't see in a lot of vehicles.

Freeway hop didn't manifest itself in any significant way on our higher speed highway runs or any of the Texas back roads we drove on.

I wish Mercury would put a different type of tire on this vehicle, because it does seem like there is a lot of tire noise at highway speeds.

Certainly not sport - sedan territory but how long did it take the 50 - mpg Geo Metro to get up to highway speeds?