Driver aids and convenience features include system
like dynamic chassis control; 4 - wheel traction control, stability control, adaptive cruise control and lane - change assist among others.
Porsche Active Suspension Management (PASM) and optional
Porsche Dynamic Chassis Control Sport (PDCC Sport) and rear - axle steering also switch to SPORT mode, delivering harder damping and more direct turn - in — and even greater agility through corners.
For the U.S. market, the Panamera will be offered with the Porsche
Dynamic Chassis Control Sport including Porsche Torque Vectoring Plus, Porsche Ceramic Composite Brakes, the Sport Chrono pack and Power Steering Plus.
Both cars we drove were equipped
with Dynamic Chassis Control, which offers a choice of five drive modes that affect the dampers, throttle, steering, transmission, and A / C.
If the sports car is ordered with the optional
DCC dynamic chassis control option, the power - assist steering even assumes a specially tuned characteristic for each of the system's driving modes (Sport, Normal, Comfort).
Instead of the Golf R's all - wheel - drive system, the Scirocco R
gets Dynamic Chassis Control (DCC), an adaptive suspension system giving the driver three settings: Comfort, Normal, and Sport.
It also has Porsche
Dynamic Chassis Control as standard (a $ 4,010 option on the GTS), to keep everything nice and flat around corners, and huge ceramic composite brakes to slow everything down quickly (a $ 10,090 option on lesser Cayennes).
If you choose to move up to the SE trim, you have access to the
available Dynamic Chassis Control Package, in addition to features like the Fender Premium Audio System, leather seating surfaces, a rearview camera, rain - sensing windshield wipers and a panoramic sunroof.
To complete its performance credentials, the evolved chassis by «
Subaru Dynamic Chassis Control Concept» has dramatically improved road - hugging capability and will provide exhilaration and confidence in every driving situation.
Also, the Subaru
Dynamic Chassis Control Concept (Subaru DC3) has been further developed for the WRX STI in order to maximize performance and driving pleasure and to ensure high levels of driver satisfaction through total control of the vehicle.
Much of that promised agility is provided by the new largely aluminium MSB platform that will also underpin future Bentleys, but also the systems that Porsche has applied to it — namely rear - wheel steering and the new electrically - powered Porsche
Dynamic Chassis Control roll - control system.
Some of this coldness is undoubtedly down to the electric steering, but there's an inconsistency of connection with what's happening at the wheels too that saps confidence, and for that the blame has to lie with the optional Porsche
Dynamic Chassis Control active anti-roll system.
Other standard stuff includes
dynamic chassis control sport, torque vectoring plus, 21 - inch wheels modeled after those on the 911 Turbo, air ride with active suspension management and, in long - wheelbase models, rear - axle steering.
For around # 850, you can
fit Dynamic Chassis Control (DCC), which allows you to select a few suspension settings for a more comfortable or sportier drive; it works well.
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However, it's worth
equipping Dynamic Chassis Control at # 860, so you can slacken off and ramp up the chassis responses according to the roads you're faced with — it's the only performance upgrade available on the car.
Porsche's latest
Dynamic Chassis Control Plus and electro mechanical steering is now available, the former an option the latter standard across the range.
The vehicle's air suspension can adjust ride height to facilitate the crossing of rivers or clearing taller obstacles, and hill control and
Dynamic Chassis Control round out the features that make the Cayenne a superb trail driver.
Appropriate longitudinal and
lateral dynamic chassis control is ensured by the sporting RS set - up of the springs, Porsche Adaptive Suspension Management (PASM), anti-roll bars, as well as the engine mounts and PSM Porsche Stability Management.
Unfortunately Volkswagen's
excellent Dynamic Chassis Control (DCC) is not specified, joining the sunroof and satellite navigation in the missing - features - in - local - cars list.
Performance:
Dynamic Chassis Control lets you adjust damping and choose between three driving modes so you can take advantage of the performance capabilities in the style that you want to.
With the adaptive three -
mode Dynamic Chassis Control suspension in its firmest Sport setting, the car exhibits solid high - speed stability down Autobahn straights and around gradual curves.
While outside is an aggressive bodykit, adaptive air suspension, parking sensors, a reversing camera, LED headlights and a quad - exhaust system, while the boombastic Turbo S gets adaptive LED headlights, a torque vectoring system and
dynamic chassis control thrown in.
Audi also says they've developed solutions to
improve dynamic chassis control based on 48 - volt technology as well, with applications in this field to showcased soon.
There are plenty of components on the Golf GTI and Golf R that deliver power and refined performance, but now that you know how to use
Volkswagen Dynamic Chassis Control, you'll find that this system is unique in that it allows you to choose how the vehicle feels while driving it.
Examples include the adaptive air suspension with three - chamber technology boasting a 60 % greater air capacity than that of the predecessor, new Porsche
Dynamic Chassis Control Sport (PDCC Sport) and rear - axle steering.
Porsche Torque Vectoring Plus
with Dynamic Chassis Control (an active anti-roll system) is a # 3392 option, which is fitted to our test car.
Despite the misadventures, our enthusiasm for the 292 - hp German hot hatch has not waned — although associate editor Jonathon Klein did lodge a gripe over the absence
of Dynamic Chassis Control and the associated adjustable suspension.
Dynamic Chassis Control as an option may be a bit over the top for the relatively modest performance, especially as you get an electronic limited slip diff in the price and a sport mode too, but its presence shows Skoda's performance intent with the new vRS.
It has a seven - speed manual gearbox (which no doubt contributed to the impressive 32.5 mpg we averaged on the journey up), no Sport Chrono (so no dynamic engine mounts) and no Porsche
Dynamic Chassis Control active anti-roll system (of which we were rather sceptical in the big 911 group test back in issue 169).
All models get the XDS + electronic differential lock and variable - ratio progressive steering system, but only the five - door
gets Dynamic Chassis Control (DCC) with driver profile selection.
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