Sentences with phrase «down twisty»

Then we had the slide experience, courtesy of Carsten Holler, in 2007, when the Turbine Hall became an amusement park, and we all hurtled down those twisty silver chutes, heads spinning, disembodied, displaced.

No, the B250 is not a «hot hatch» nor will chase a Golf R down a twisty road, but it more than fulfills its mandate as a comfortable people hauler while still maintaining at least a modicum of the sportiness its newly aerodynamic styling promises.

Down a twisty track, I reveled in the perfectly responsive steering.

It gave me miles and miles of sheer joy piloting it down twisty backroads.

The original X5 was not the roomiest or most practical of SUVs, but piloting it down a twisty two - lane ribbon of road was a revelation.

«This EcoBoost engine delivers where a Mustang driver expects it to, with a broad, flat torque curve that pours out when you stand on it for easy passing or hustling down a twisty road,» said Dave Pericak, Ford Mustang chief engineer.

Keeping in mind that the average iM buyer won't be hammering up and down twisty roads, the iM still seemed to struggle to find the guts to confidently pass cars on the highway or tackle steep hills.

Affirming its sport capabilities, I drove the Juke Nismo RS down every twisty road I could find and it gave me a tire - squealing good time.

Surprisingly, the Renegade didn't feel tippy as I drove it down a twisty mountain road.

A Lotus Elise with half the power will get you down a twisty road as quickly I would imagine - and a fine car for the job it would be.

Frankly, the Expedition drove as though it had Explorer dimensions, keeping firmly planted as we hurtled down twisty rain - slick mountain roads.

We found that these tires worked great for hucking the truck down twisty mountain asphalt at speed, but a 21x9.5 wheel leaves very few options for aggressive off - road tires.

As with the town driving point we made earlier, we're not saying the Kia is built to be thrashed hard (and, if we're being honest, the Ford Edge is the more enjoyable car to drive down a twisty road), but the Sorento can navigate tighter corners without washing wide into understeer; suppressing body lean surprisingly well.

Working the throttle down a twisty road, this X5 didn't push me back in the seat with its acceleration, merely doing an adequate job picking up speed on the turn exits.

The IS is a surprisingly good drive down a twisty road.

You can throw it down a twisty road and it will respond well, especially in Sport mode, but it's natural habitat is out on the motorway, cruising as well as just about anything else on the road.

The RS6 comes with air suspension as standard, meaning the car can be softened when you aren't trying to hustle it down a twisty road.

My sense is that most people buying a Camry Hybrid will prefer a comfortable ride over powering down a twisty road.

After more seat time, and some thrilling drives down twisty roads, the car revealed itself as more nimble than I initially thought.

This is an SUV for those who appreciate a soft ride and serenity, vs. drivers who prefer blasts down twisty roads accompanied by a roaring exhaust note.

Layer the system's simple menus with a solid, 552 - watt Beats sound system, and hammering down a twisty road with the tunes cranked became something to relish.

When you're driving down a twisty road, the Momo wheel alive in your hands, your eyes at the height of a Camry «s plastic door cladding, and that overgrown crotch - rocket motor sitting behind your ears just begging for ludicrous revolutions, there really isn't another car you'd rather have.

The 911 Flies down a twisty road, but it doesn't do so well crossing oceans.

Without a doubt, our 350Z was good to direct down a twisty road, but it wasn't quite as agreeable to live with every day.

As any good hot hatch should be, the new Corsa VXR is a great deal of fun and alarmingly quick down a twisty road.

The driving position is commanding by supercar standards, which makes the Fighter particularly easy to place in a confined space (the clearly visible extremities of the impressively long bonnet are just that, there are no hidden bulges to catch you out) and easy to thread down a twisty country lane, come to that.

You might not expect it from a sport that evolved out of bootleggers racing their moonshine down twisty Appalachian roads, but modern racing teams use computational fluid dynamics simulations, wind tunnels, and the highly technical know - how of engineers to eke milliseconds out of each driver's lap time.

Not exact matches

The black leather seats in our test car felt soft to the touch and offered more than adequate bolstering for both leisurely jaunts down the highway and dynamic drives on twisty country roads.

As the road turns twisty, the Aston hunkers down, moving swiftly and efficiently through the corners without compromising comfort.

You could pick the leaves from the parsley and chop those, but I prefer to just chop it all from the frilly top down to where the people at the grocery store put the little metal twisty thing.

During the opening race of the Paul Ricard round, Shwartzman was closing down leader Fenestraz as they entered the tight and twisty chicane, after a safety car restart.

I'm performing in the Red Lecture Theater, which is located on the first floor of Summerhall, around four or five twisty turns and down a flight of stairs to the basement.

Hey Mommies... We were at the playground today with our son and he got VERY scared to go down an enclosed twisty slide on his own.

If you want the romantic element of having your hair down, but you can't stand the idea of shorter layers falling in your face while you hit the dance floor, consider this twisty half - up bun as a perfect compromise.

They like cheap date Thanks to their down - to - earth nature, biker girls enjoy their own kind of dream date: a long ride on twisty road while grabbing some juicy burgers alone with a cup of cold beer as dinner, instead of some expensive dates in a fancy restaurant where a sip of Martini which costs $ 20

Rather than collecting a bunch of funny people together on a set and just letting them riff, the film establishes coherent characters and drops them into a twisty mystery plot that's tightly crafted enough to generate some real narrative momentum while never getting too bogged down in its own plot that it forgets to be funny.

Paradoxically, Red Sparrow itself puts its glum - looking star through a parade of indignities: The movie's most shocking feature isn't any of its twisty plot reveals — mainly involving Dominika getting romantically mixed up with a CIA operative (Joel Edgerton)-- but the exploitative brutality it rains down on Lawrence.

Purely through casting, Roman Polanski doubles down on the personal and makes the play - within - a-play narrative structure of Venus in Fur a more twisty hall of mirrors than it appears on the page.

As its plot enters unexpected and twisty territory, it grows ever more difficult to pin down, but the cumulative effect is one of the most indelibly haunting experiences in recent film — a vision powerful, bold and new.

On glassy - smooth twisty bits through the hills around Austin, it's acceptable — but try rolling calmly down the access roads to Circuit of the Americas, and the nature of the tightly tuned suspension and 20 - inch wheels with low - profile tires reveals itself.

Looking for top - down thrills in the twisties?

Though overall deceleration is strong and feel is progressive when spiraling down those blind twisties, initial bite could be a little more aggressive.

The 2018 Range Rover Velar performed superbly on Mount Charleston's twisty roads and cut one heck of a suave - looking profile rolling down the Las Vegas Strip.

You really can commit down a tight, ragged, twisty UK road, feeling the V6 make the four - wheel - drive system work to distribute its power while you manage the car's angle with the throttle and steering, all while not worrying about potholes or wet and muddy sections of tarmac as you would in the Giulia.

Driving a Supercharged Autobiography down the Atlas Mountain range toward Marrakech, on a rare stretch of twisty road that was both well paved and unflooded, was a bit of a revelation.

Make no mistake, with so little weight to keep in check and such compact dimensions, the Swift Sport still feels agile and wieldy, especially down some of the tighter and twistier roads of our Spanish test route, but some of the old car's sparkle is missing.

Indeed, I still love the aging 300C (SRT8 or not) for cruising down the highway, for thundering around town, and for hurtling through the back - road twisties.

I'm a sucker for cruising down the highways, and twisties in the hills.

In Sport + mode, the GLC hunkered down — the chassis lowers by 15 millimetres — and, if not the equal of the Porsche Macan or Jaguar F - Pace when terrorizing the twisty bits, it didn't embarrass itself either.

Then, toward the end of my loan, I took it over some very twisty Northern California back roads and really hammered on it — paddle - shifting up and down through the eight - speed gearbox, braking smoothly into corners then easing just as smoothly onto the ample throttle.