Naturally, there's not a lot of performance to call upon, but there's reasonable throttle response and a light gearshift, so the old joy of
driving a slow car quickly, stirring the gearbox to extract every ounce of power and pinning the pedal to the floor, is rarely far away.
You know that old saying about how it's more fun to
drive a slow car fast than a fast car slow?
It's more fun to
drive a slow car fast than a fast car slow — this little thing is the epitome of that.
I'm more of a «
drive a slow car fast» kind of guy.
Automotive Maxim No. 3: It's more fun to
drive a slow car fast, than it is to drive a fast car slow.
It's better to
drive a slow car fast than a fast car slow.
Test the tech: California road trip Someone once said it's more fun to
drive a slow car fast than a fast car fast.
There's an old saying among gearheads that it's more fun to
drive a slow car fast than it is to drive a fast car slow.
Without question, the little Mazda is living proof it's just as much fun to
drive a slow car fast as it is to drive a fast car faster.
No, it's not an 86 or Miata, but it does offer a fun ride that invokes the age - old saying that «it's more fun to
drive a slow car quickly than a quick car slowly.»
And here's the good news: down there, it concedes nothing to its high - strung forebears, bearing out that adage that it's more fun to
drive a slow car fast than a fast car slow.
Not exact matches
Blame the full - size sedan's
slow demise on the national obsession with SUVs and Ford Motor Co.» s need to slash costs and remake itself for a new era of self -
driving cars and shuttles.
The autosteer function keeps the
car in its lane, reads road signs,
drives as much over the speed limit as you ask, and
slows down or stops if there is a
slower vehicle or obstruction ahead.
On one hand, the
slow lane for self -
driving cars isn't totally unexpected, as the Trump administration continues to chart its course in major transportation policy debates and decides which federal programs to keep or replace.
Musk blamed the negative media coverage for
slowing down regulatory approval of self -
driving cars.
China has made self -
driving auto technology a national priority, but the recent U.S. fatality involving an autonomous test
car is prompting calls for the Chinese government to
slow down those efforts to ensure public safety.
Some have feared that falling prices for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies could hurt demand for NVIDIA products, and that self -
driving car accidents could
slow down artificial intelligence efforts.
Like Uber, Google is intent on developing self -
driving cars for urban taxi use — reasoning that the
slow speeds and relatively predictable environment of city streets that can be thoroughly, digitally mapped is the best and safest near - term purpose of autonomous vehicles.
Next you head into the supermarket (remembering that you had to actually dress up, do your hair, fix makeup etc. to do this) and wander the aisles wasting time looking at ingredient lists and trying to remember if the gums, preservatives and additives have dairy / eggs in them... taking the rolls to the counter, working out whether or not you want to go through the self checkout or keep a checkout operator employed for a few more years... pay... get back in the
car... find somewhere to buy bottled water for the dogs...
drive 50 km home... unpack dogs and buns and suddenly getting up, stretching... wearing whatever the heck you like with your hair in the air, no makeup, dogs within a hard stares range in case they feel like eating the furniture while you are working and that
slow measuring out, baking etc. doesn't seem so time consuming any more.
Having spent most of May
driving a fast, competitive
car and being in the running to win a race for the first time in years, Fernando Alonso says he is excited to go back to Formula 1 to
drive a
slow, unreliable one where even the idea of a 12th - place finish would seem a bit optimistic.
Andre Lotterer is having to adapt to
driving a
car which is much, much
slower than what he's been used to
Even if the MP4 - 25 was probably the
slowest car of the three, it wasn't by much, and a good
drive by either Hamilton or Button on the day would be enough to overcome any small deficit.
I was coming onto the highway from the on - ramp and some jack - ass woman on her cell phone
driving a red sporty
car couldn't be bothered to
slow down or change lanes to let me in.
It is as though an unconscious part of the mind was able to
drive the
car, avoid danger, speed up and
slow down as necessary, while the conscious mind went off on a brief vacation thinking about something else.
And now the technology is to the point where you have devices — I've
driven in them; they're amazing — and these [have] cruise control which have radar in the front, which allows you stay a certain distance behind the
car in front of you, it will speed up and
slow down.
It's an uncomfortable thought: Human activity causing the extinction of thousands of species, and the only way to
slow or prevent that phenomenon is to have smaller families and forego some of the conveniences of modern life, from eating beef to
driving cars, according to Stanford University scientists Paul Ehrlich and Robert Pringle.
As Robert Ernst explains: «Whereas a racing
car will often fail after completing a hundred superfast laps because the engine has overheated, a tractor (representing a normal body cell) will continue to
drive up and down the field for a lot longer, but also a lot
slower.»
If you're
driving in the
slow lane, you will only rarely pass another
car, but you'll see
cars streaming by in the passing lane.
Growing up in Connecticut, we would
drive four hours to Hyannis, Massachusetts, and take the Steamship Authority
slow ferry (2 hours and 15 minutes) so we could bring the
car across with lots of groceries, luggage, etc..
The thickness of the snow was unbelievable and even
driving slow you could feel the
car losing control a little - anyway as we were
driving back we witnessed an accident between two
cars sliding down the hill and luckily never got involved ourselves but it does shake you up a little when you
drive that same road every day and it's super notorious for accidents in all types of weather conditions.
It's like a
car wreck in
slow - motion, except the guy
driving sold his air bags for gas money and is delivering a peppy monologue about how great it feels not to be wearing a seat belt.
As L. Gordon Crovitz recently lamented in the Wall Street Journal: «If fast - moving technology hadn't collided with
slow - moving regulators, this might have been the last summer you'd have to
drive your own
car.»
The
car handles amazing, steering is tight, the suspension is firm but not too firm, is blast to
drive with the top off, looks beautiful, yet the automatic is pretty
slow off the line
It's the extra confidence you get when you lift off in traffic and the gears tug against the
driving wheels and assists you in
slowing the
car effectively.
I've had the opportunity to
drive around a 1996 Lincoln Continental before I purchase it (or another
car) and it runs great except that the rear air bags have a
slow leak and the Check Ride Control...
It also serves as a reminder that
slow - in, fast - out isn't the most drift -
car stylish and fun, but is the quickest and most reliable way to
drive such conditions if you want to avoid spinning out.
It's a delightfully tactile, communicative sports
car that's easy to
drive in
slow - moving traffic but comes vividly alive when wanted.
Because we
drove the
car on a slippery Silverstone track, we were forced us to tip - toe around the
slower corners and couldn't feel the chassis changes shining through.
Test
drove everything, tried everything, from trucks to small
cars, fast,
slow, everything.
The
slower car is easier to drive because it is S
slower car is easier to
drive because it is
SLOWERSLOWER.
For this you simply must get the
car slowed neatly and without locking wheels, smoothly select second (or in a race
car, first) gear, then
drive out with the minimum of wheelspin.
The S50s
slow sales predicated the uptake of it its successor — 168 right - hand -
drive cars rolled off BMW's production with 123 destined for UK shores.
However, Despite being
slower, the petrol model is the better
car to
drive and its engine is much more enjoyable.
Power assist would make the
car easier to
drive but fractionally
slower.
my
car drive not good, when i am
driving approaching stop or when i am trying to
slow down actual when i'm pressing the crash is cutoff and it take plus minus 5 minutes to start.
«The
slower car is not easier to
drive because it is
slower.»
The damping smooths undulations and bumps that in any other
car, especially a mid-engined super
car, you'd have
slow down for or completely
drive around.
The Ferris before Montezemolo weren t
driven that much, cause they had often enough catastrophic quality and reliability (for example Testarossa, a nightmare, also a
slow car) and were diffcult and exhausting to
drive, or nearly undriveabel (F40).
And while it's nowhere near as forgiving, benign, or
slow as the 167 - hp, pocket - sized Japanese roadster, Gilles got his wish; he recounts hugging members of the development team after
driving the
car for the first time.
All in all, the G80 3.3 T Sport is an exceptionally pleasant
car to
drive, either fast or
slow.