Sentences with phrase «drive send power to the wheels»

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Yes, rear - wheel - drive is nice, but if you're mainly going to be navigating freeways and urban / suburban roadways, you don't really need it, and having to send power to the back wheels adds mechanical complexity.

The 3.0 - liter turbocharged Volvo straight - six is tweaked to 345 hp, while a reprogrammed all - wheel - drive system that can send more power to the rear wheels.

GM's old six - speed automatic transmission sends power to the front wheels, and all - wheel drive is available as well.

Sure, it's not as focused or involving to drive at the limit as a Ferrari 458 or Porsche 911 GT3, but it's incredibly fast, devilishly good - looking, and sends its power to all four wheels.

Distribution duties remain assigned to a nine - speed automatic, which is mated to Benz's 4MATIC all - wheel drive system in the coupe, but sends power only to the rear wheels in the convertible.

A nine - speed automatic transmission sends power to 4Matic all - wheel drive, shuttling the E43 to 60 mph in 4.5 seconds and on to a limited top speed of 155 mph.

Additionally, the M550i xDrive, as the name implies, comes standard with BMW's xDrive intelligent all - wheel drive system that uses torque vectoring to determine exactly where power is sent — and can send it independently to any wheel it chooses.

Combined, the two power sources develop 375bhp and up to 516 lb ft of system torque in full kickdown mode, all sent through a 4Motion all - wheel drive setup.

The new car is also all - wheel drive, with electric power being sent to the rear wheels, and combustion power to the front axle.

When the surface became deep, loose sand, its part - time all - wheel - drive system seamlessly sent power to the rear axle to keep things moving.

The Q50's fast - acting AWD system defaults to 100 percent rear - wheel drive when the road is dry, but it will send as much as 50 percent of available power to the front wheels when its sensor array detects any loss of traction at the rear.

The «Ralliart» part means that we're talking about the quick version: a low - compression (9.0:1), high - boost (17.9 psi), 237 - hp turbo four - cylinder resides under the hood, and it sends its power to the computer - controlled all - wheel - drive system used on the previous - generation Lancer Evolution.

The next M5 is also expected to be the first all - wheel - drive sedan for BMW's performance division, but the system will likely be modified similar to its key rival, the Mercedes - AMG E63 S, which has a drift mode and can send all of its power exclusively to the rear wheels when the right mode is selected.

With power sent through a nine - speed automatic transmission to Land Rover's four - wheel - drive system, the convertible can reach 60 mph in 7.8 seconds and continues to a top speed of 112 mph.

The Rogue's standard all - wheel - drive system sends power to all four tracks.

The front tires slip going uphill, and traction control cuts in and out as the all - wheel - drive systems sorts out where to send power.

Still, at higher revs it belts out a pleasing, high - pitched whine, and Audi's all - wheel drive sends enough power to the rear to make the car feel like a proper sports sedan.

When you want to play, the long, column - mounted shift paddles take full command of the 8 - speed automatic transmission that sends power through a lively, rear - biased all - wheel - drive system.

Drive is still sent to all four wheels via a seven - speed S tronic dual - clutch transmission, though the latest setup can now send up to 100 per cent of the car's power to the rear wheels alone, in certain situations, with a torque vectoring effect through the multi-plate clutch on the rear axle to also divert power to the wheels with the greatest grip.

And despite the four - wheel drive system being technically capable of sending all torque to the rear axle, you'll never actually feel it do so when powering away from a bend.

Despite appearances, power is sent to the front wheels alone (no 3008 is four - wheel drive), though Peugeot's intelligent «Grip Control» traction system should make it effective even on snow and ice.

The engine is mated to a 9 - speed automatic transmission new to the 2019 Envision that sends power to all four wheels via a variant of the twin - clutch all - wheel - drive system found in the Buick Regal GS and TourX.

On four - wheel - drive vehicles, the transfer case contains gears that connect a second drive shaft to send power to all four wheels instead of just the front or rear ones.

In Sport mode, Kia's all - wheel - drive system sends up to 80 percent of available power to the rear wheels.

Both engines are paired to Audi's seven - speed dual - clutch S tronic gearbox, sending power to a revised quattro all - wheel - drive system.The new system can send 100 percent of the power to the front or the rear wheels if need be, although the default function is a rear - wheel - drive mode.

That engine is again mated to a seven - speed dual - clutch automatic transmission, which in turn sends its power to all four wheels by way of a 4Matic all - wheel drive system, which can send up to half the engine's output to the rear wheels.

The steering is firm and direct (although its wheel is the only one that's not heated), Quattro all - wheel drive loves sending power rearward to help the A5 rotate and maintain slides, and the transmission delights in keeping the four - banger boiling.

It also changes the all - wheel - drive system's default torque split to send 30 percent of the power to the front.

Following the controversial front - wheel - drive Elan and the problem - child Esprit, Lotus got off on the right foot simply by sending power to the correct set of wheels and starting with new hardware.

The balance is predominantly mild understeer even when you select the looser AMG Sport ESP mode, which in theory makes the four - wheel - drive system keener to send power rearwards.

The all - wheel drive system is fully switchable, meaning drivers can select between front - wheel drive, automatic four - wheel drive (which sends power rearward in response to front wheel slip), or 4 × 4 lock, which keeps a constant 50/50 split.

Dodge says the Durango SRT's eight - speed automatic, which distributes power to all four wheels via a standard all - wheel drive system that can send up to 70 percent of torque to the rear wheels, has been specifically calibrated for the vehicle.

It drifts like a rear - wheel - drive car that's impossible to spin: sudden applications of throttle send the power directly to the rear, helping rotate the car.

The company quotes a power output of «around 210bhp», and Toyota has chosen to send that power to the front wheels (there's no WRC - style all - wheel drive, sadly) through a six - speed manual transmission.

To start with both cars are resolutely front - wheel drive, with power sent to the wheels via trick limited - slip diffTo start with both cars are resolutely front - wheel drive, with power sent to the wheels via trick limited - slip diffto the wheels via trick limited - slip diffs.

They're steered via a variable - rate steering rack and active rear - wheel steering, and power is sent to all four with xDrive permanent all - wheel drive.

Developed specifically for the Regera is a new «Koenigsegg Direct Drive system» which can send power to the rear wheels without the need for gears or traditional variable transmissions.

That power is sent to all four wheels through Audi's seven - speed dual - clutch automatic transmission and Quattro all - wheel drive system.

The motor and reduction gear transmission sit just behind, and still send power to the rear wheels through a new propshaft but original differential and final drive.

You have a choice of two engines (one of which is available in two power outputs), two transmissions and two methods of sending drive to the wheels in the Octavia vRS range.

4MOTION four - wheel drive is standard fit; in normal driving, 90 per cent of power goes to the front wheels, but should conditions require, nearly all of it can be sent to the back by a Haldex clutch taking up torque at the rear axle.

Predominantly a rear - wheel - drive setup, the 911's computer - controlled system can send up to forty percent of the engine's power to the front wheels — but only when it's needed.

As for «full - time four - wheel drive systems,» there essentially isn't a «2WD» mode, meaning the four - wheel drive system is active all the time, sending power to all four wheels at the same time but with limited - slip capabilities.

It is mated to a nine - speed automatic sending power to all four wheels via Mercedes» 4MATIC permanent all - wheel - drive system.

Drive shaft torque is transmitted through the unit to the rear wheels, taking power from the front wheel sand sending it to the rear

Where the main distinction with four - wheel drive (4WD) is that the system tries to send as much power to all four wheels as equally as possible for utmost traction, all - wheel drive (AWD) is all about varying the amount of power to each wheel, either by physically (differentials or transfer cases), or electronically by brake vectoring (where the brakes are used to slow - down a specific wheel due to traction loss).

However, most newer all - wheel - drive vehicles send power to a primary axle, either the front for front - wheel - drive - based all - wheel - drive systems (like Subarus and the crossovers previously mentioned), or to the rear for rear - wheel - drive - based systems (like BMW's xDrive or Mercedes - Benz's 4MATIC).

A four - wheel - drive vehicle sends power to all four wheels.

The system being developed for the A9 e-tron sends power to all four wheels via a drive management system, which uses electronic torque vectoring to apportion power between individual rear wheels depending on grip levels.

A two - wheel - drive vehicle sends power to only two of the four wheels.