Sentences with phrase «electronic safety net»

There is no form of electronic safety net, but, for reasons I'll come to in a little while, that's not a problem — certainly not in the dry.

It has all the standard electronic safety nets, including traction control, anti-lock brakes and stability control.

Non-heroes like me are well advised to leave at least one of the five electronic safety nets in place.

I'll admit that I never turn off the entire electronic safety net on this particular gray - hair - promoting course, but track mode allows enough chassis leeway to reveal that this car is much, much friendlier than the C6.

But it's refreshing to be at the helm of a proper hard - core sports car that isn't littered with omnipresent liability warning stickers, six or seven air bags, and even more electronic safety nets.

As the S7 approached its limits, understeer began to make itself apparent as physics and electronic safety nets conspired to rein in the fun.

With DSC off, the car reels in the entire electronic safety net, so you're on your own when the growling bigger - bore V - 8 sets the fatter nineteen - inch rear tires afire.

Inside the Range Rover, we were surrounded by a variety of electronic safety nets.

Grip is fairly strong, but start to push beyond the tyres limits and the electronic safety net starts to get pretty intrusive (you can't switch it off, which is probably a good thing when you feel the car's mass starting to work) and the adaptive dampers struggle to rein in the Tesla's hefty kerbweight.

Even with the electronic safety net fully deactivated, the Giulia is not a heavy - handed dominatrix who can't wait to punish the driver for the slightest mistake.

«2WD» is 100 % rear - wheel drive, 100 % of the time, and yes, it is only available with no electronic safety net whatsoever.

But it doesn't, you never feel the Abarth start to rotate let alone the electronic safety net catching a slide.

VW fanboys have long hammered Volkswagen over the fact that you can't turn off the electronic safety nets in the Golf R (or the GTI), but the reality is people still lined up to buy the hot hatch.

It's hugely satisfying and exhilarating to drive fast, even if you may feel a tinge of fear when the turbos come in with a bang; after all, there are no electronic safety nets.

And we can report that with all electronic safety nets switched off, the Lusso T is eminently driftable on snow on its snow tyres, comfortably poised on opposite lock, with plenty of power on tap to change the angle.

As well as the mechanical changes, the CS also gains the CSL's M - Track mode function, heightening the stability control's tolerance of slip angles and wheelspin to such an extent that even the very best drivers are equally quick around a track with the electronic safety net still in place.

Hold the button down for longer than three seconds and you disengage the electronic safety net.

Even with the stability management system switched on, it rarely relies on the electronic safety net, such is the authority the big tyres and mechanical locking differential.

Commercial drivers should be mindful of blind spots anyway — as we all should — but an electronic safety net can't hurt.

The downside is you can't mix and match your own settings, and Race mode automatically deactivates the ESP, so those new (and supposedly non-hardcore) customers attracted to the Clio by the chance to play at being Lewis Hamilton with their paddle - shift gearboxes can only do so without an electronic safety net...

The M Dynamic Mode — a sub-function of the Dynamic Stability Control (DSC) system — allows enthusiastic drivers to probe the limits of the new cars while retaining an electronic safety net at all times.