Sentences with phrase «even shift gears»

Also demonstrated was an Audi AI enhanced version of the Parking Pilot system that can steer, accelerate and brake and even shift gears automatically when parallel or perpendicular parking — today's systems only handle the steering part.

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Even China's thirst for oil is diminishing as economic growth there shifts into a lower gear.

Banks & Asset Managers Shift Gears — in Different Directions Even as revenues potentially diverge for banks and asset managers, consumer could still benefit through lower fees and more lending.

Our fight against the cuts is shifting into super-high gear, and we will be calling on everyone to do even more in the coming weeks.

The Tuesday evening rides are technical trainings for anyone who needs to learn, or wants to practice, skills like changing a tire, shifting gears, and riding in a peloton.

Even though he had the manual gear shift in his car there weren't many people in America that had them.

Even though the gears of society are shifting in the right direction, dating can still be challenging for gay singles.

Even when the film gears up for one of its many tonal shifts, from its Old Boy-esque hallway action set - piece in a lavish upmarket Georgian town house, to its intense abandoned warehouse finale with The Businessman (William Houston)-- who seemed to be channelling the foreboding gunslinger in Westworld, ensures the film has a wonderfully rich and engaging backdrop throughout.

Directed by Shawn Levy and written by Vince Vaughn and Jared Stern, «The Internship» stuffs some creaky gear - shifts and boring exposition in its first 15 minutes; even Will Ferrell's one scene falls a little flat.

(the latter), and even Kevin Smith as senior hacker «Warlock» fails to shift the dialogue into a higher gear.

After establishing the high stakes and bleak future of our world, the movie quickly shifts gears into a more comic mode, with the process of downsizing providing an opportunity for materialistic wish fulfillment, an ironic realization that matters of class still exist even in this idealized world, and more than a few sight gags involving the juxtaposition of the normal - sized world with the small one.

Before we even get to that, we're just excited to see Iñárritu shift gears completely and move away from his trademark heavy drama into what could possibly be his own «I Heart Huckabees.»

At one moment he's suspicious of his best friend (Jamie Foxx) and wife, and before it can even become an issue, he shifts gears, apologizing for his jealousy (Why raise the subplot in the first place?).

More importantly, the once skittish transmission that would hunt and peck its way around the gear box seems to have found its groove and provides smooth shifts from first through sixth, even when under aggressive acceleration.

Slip the pistol - grip shifter into fifth or even fourth gear at 70 mph and the reward is high - rpm fun as the 6.4 - liter engine blares from the large dual exhausts.

Its converter lock - up clutch bites without delay and Alfa is supremely confident in its overall operation, although we suspect a dual - clutch box would shift gears even faster and with more pick - up verve.

Once going, it will regain scrubbed speed fairly quickly, but even in the more - aggressively shifting Sport mode, you may miss that opening in traffic if you didn't pre-select the right gear.

I'm soon climbing steep grades, dropping into fourth gear with the Mustang's precise and mechanical - feeling shifter as Breckenridge comes into view late in the evening.

Those long gears help keep the Viper's 345 - section rear tyres hooked - up even when you hit full power in second, and such is the V10's urgency and the sheer volume of its voice as it climbs up the rev - range that you naturally find yourself shifting up at around 3500rpm, well short of the 525 lb ft torque peak at 4200rpm.

The 2012 model's shifter throws are pretty long, but gear engagement is positive and fulfilling; I really enjoyed knowing that I was driving such a rare car, even if the stick doesn't really fit with the SLK's personality.

The shift (automatic) can be in any gear, even park (except it must be in reverse to light both cornering lamps),

It gets even better once you slot the ultra-short-throw Hurst shifter into first gear and accelerate.

Some reviewers attribute this lag to the transmission, but I found that even when I was using our test car's paddle shifters to force the Discovery Sport to hold a lower gear, the lag was still present.

However, while shifting to a higher gear, you let off the gas which will cause your RPM to drop low - most of the times I find it a little too low, even for a higher gear.

Frankly, with eight speeds to work with, you're always wondering what gear you're in, where you need to be and if it will even let you shift higher or lower from your current speed.

Even when in the manual - shift mode, you can't drop into the seventh «gear.»

The trunk is tiny, despite the absence of even a space - saver spare, but our main quarrel is with the six - speed manual transmission that harnesses electrohydraulic technology to change gears in the paddle - shift and automatic modes.

The transmission is programmed not to shift down past fourth gear at highway speeds, so even though it has a perfectly smooth automatic mode, you'll have to grab a paddle if you want full passing power.

«The V - 6 provides decent power and the transmission shifts gears with commendable smoothness, but under heavy acceleration those shifts don't happen until high in the rev range, and so it sounds like the engine is struggling even when it isn't,» said managing editor Amy Skogstrom.

The car is in full fighting mode now: shift times are down to 50 milliseconds, 275 electric horses are ready to boost for up to 30 seconds, gear changes are conducted at high rpm in Drive, the ESP / ASR threshold is even lower, the tail rudder is in runway position, and the nasal air intakes are wide open.

Worried shifter was not quite in gear, replaced other bushings at the transmission, both were gone, but probably were from the beginning, even after I «fixed» it with the zip tie the first time.

Even so, it's much more exciting to select gears with my right hand and left foot than simply flicking the dual - clutch transmission's shift paddles.

The backup gear is in a precise location requiring more of a map than what's embossed on the shift knob — all the way over between fifth and sixth, pushed down into a secret slot, and shoved even farther northeast.

Even if you're used to driving these performance - oriented gearboxes that keep first gear out of the way (as it's typically only used for setting off from a stop), shifting this worn - out transmission, with its long throws and sloppy actuation, requires concentration.

So you can't go over 50mph, you can't shift into 3rd gear and now it won't start at all, even though the lights on the dashboard come on?

Good mpg as well, even in Sport mode (if you are gentle on pedals it keeps low gears and shifts up at 2000rpm, but keeps the immediate response which is lacking in Normal mode, and I always turn off automatic start - stop function).

Thanks to AMG's software, the transmission shifts faster than pop culture trends and will even skip gears during downshifts when the driving mode chosen is Sport or Sport Plus (which uses a higher idle speed for faster launches).

The long - throw, light - effort shifter feels spring - loaded so that even the limpest of wrists can easily engage the next gear.

Bombing from corner to corner on the mercifully empty and endlessly twisting two - lane roads near Napa Valley, the automatic even in sport - sharp mode isn't quite as aggressive and intuitive in its gear selections as one might hope (think Mercedes - Benz Speedshift MCT); shifting for yourself is the best way to keep the engine on the boil.

If you put the transmission in second gear, it will never downshift or upshift out of second, even from a complete stop, unless you move the shift lever.

A 7 - speed, dual - clutch transmission efficiently handles all that power by intelligently pre-selecting lower or higher gears before a shift even needs to be made.

The Bora's shifter, too, is exceptionally precise, and even double - clutch downshifts into the dogleg first gear are a piece of cake.

In conjunction with the optional Sport Chrono Package, the shift times of PDK become even shorter, the gear changes even sportier.

258 lb - ft of torque is harnessed by an innovative transmission that intelligently pre-selects the ideal gear before a shift even needs to be made.

Your left hand reaches for the ignition key, your right for the shortened gear lever — designed for even more direct shift throws.

And that continuously variable transmission, even though it's new in the 2014 model and has pretend little «gears,» not to mention laughable paddle shifters like it was some kind of Formula Uno performer, that CVT saps whatever hope this rig had of ever making memories.

For a 180ish HP engine, I have not felt like there was not enough power at any time - even in the Eco mode of the transmission, which has three modes plus fully manual shifting (1 - 6th gear).

The CVT is rigged to simulate 10 gears (even has a launch gear, a first in a passenger vehicle - oriented CVT) and comes with both a sport mode and paddle shifters.

Pros: Excellent economy, low company car tax, rear legroom is ok, not too bad a spec for an entry level BMW, I forgot IPod interface is good if you buy the # 8 ebay lead or the # 68 BMW one Cons: Noisy rough engine, If you have your hand on the gear shift when it restarts it will whip your wrist off, gutless even in sport mode, nothing as standard, if your used to a Ford or VW (no split seats, no ski slot, no heated mirrors, no leather wheel, no storage space, seat adjustment last seen on a Datsun 120y (yes I am that old) uncomfortable seats.

The rev - limiter is rigidly tuned, gear shift times become even shorter and gear changes even more sporty.