Sentences with phrase «exaggarated wheelarches»

Flared wheelarches house smart 18 - inch alloys, which will hide the existing STi's Brembo brake system.

• Body and electrics Look for stone chips around the wheelarches.

Its floorpan sits 20 mm further from the road than the regular C3 - probably not enough to cross the Darién Gap, but perhaps a little more suitable for kerb - hopping - while tough - looking plastic wheelarch and sill extensions lend it the obligatory toughened - up look.

Porsche also had to go through a frightening level of bureaucracy to homologate the vents on the front wheelarches - so much so that Andreas Preuninger thinks they may well never appear on another road car.

Based on the standard A5 Coupe, the RS gets subtly pumped wheelarches, a larger grille and a deeper front bumper that's crammed with intakes and sharply defined creases.

Check for corrosion underneath and around the wheelarches, and make sure there's no knock from the main bearings due to running low on oil.

The bonnet features two cooling intakes for the engine, there are also larger air intakes in the front bumper, and bigger gill - style vents help air escape from the front wheelarches, lowering pressure and reducing lift while also benefitting brake temperatures.

Narrow and upright, it's a world away from the romance of the blistered - wheelarch Lancia Delta Integrale.

Therefore, that vent was closed and the air redirected out through the front wheelarches and under the car, causing the i8's aero performance to be no longer as it needed to be.

From the Periscopo - like wheelarches to the video - game interior, the Urus is sex on wheels — and it has four doors and a back seat to hold the resulting offspring.

Look for bubbling around the wheelarches and take a torch to asses the undercarriage.

A set of black wheelarch extensions and lower body mouldings add to the car's aggression.

Bulging wheelarches hide front and rear tracks that have been widened by 60 mm and 4 mm respectively, while at the rear is an aggressive diffuser that generates enough downforce to negate the need for a Civic - style spoiler.

> Design - The M4 stands out from the regular 4 - series with a «powerdome» bonnet, swollen wheelarches, deep air intakes and, the now obligatory for an M - car, quad - tailpipes.

At the rear, BMW's next - gen L - shaped lamps, first seen on the X4, have been applied, sitting on what looks to be a more aggressive tail that integrates wider wheelarches and a tapered bootlid.

Peugeot's original 3008 was a curious crossover with wheelarches seemingly shaved flat against an abrasive wall.

The SLR's signature scissor doors that swing out and up on massive hydraulic struts — a kick every time — give easy access to a cabin space that checks in somewhere between cosy and cramped and buts right up against the rear wheelarches.

Its SUV elements are all new - age design, though, the oblong wheelarches finished in a combination of chrome brightwork and gloss black.

No serious structural corrosion issues as such, but some cars suffer superficial corrosion, and the first place to check is around the wheelarches.

The worst section is likely to be the outrigger at the back of the front wheelarch, where there's a mud trap, but check all the other tubes behind the sills and across the chassis for pinholes or worse.

As rivals struggled to catch up for the 1988 season, Lancia widened the Delta's track and wheelarches and produced the Integrale.

God knows how many sleepless nights this ethos has caused over the years, but they've been worth it for the way those wheelarches are filled to perfection by the deep - dished Fuchs rims.

Plastic wheelarch trims, revised front and rear bumpers and huge 20 - inch wheels give the All - Terrain a rugged external look.

This design cue ensures a low - slung sports - car aesthetic that clearly punctuates the whole design, from the flared wheelarches and angular doors to the aggressive rear diffuser.

This demanded fatter wheelarches, and the Integrale looked more stunning than ever.

All it really lacks is the hefty strakes across the tops of the wheelarches.

That way you get the 4.0 engine, you get the wide body, flared guards and wheelarch vents, the GT3 RS handling but with a smaller wing so you don't feel ridiculous driving through the suburbs.

Beyond the bits you can see — like the new, if still subdued design language, with its matrix LED headlights, OLED rear light strip and subtle blisters over each wheelarch, and the fresh new cabin with a high - quality and ultra-tasteful feel, the A8's aluminium skin is virtually stretching to accommodate the new autonomous functions, active suspension, mild hybrid tech and a new touchscreen - based cockpit.

To this end, there are no extreme vents on the top of the front wheelarches, not that this stops it from producing 150 kg of downforce at 180mph, split 60 kg at the front and 90 kg across the rear axle.

Nissan has addressed criticism that the original Nismo lacked compliance and refinement by revising the rear spring and damper rates and introducing new inner wheelarch liners and carpets to absorb road noise.

The GT2 RS's magnesium roof and thinner rear glass are used and the bumpers and wheelarches are lightweight polyurethane.

So it's designed to look like a three - door fastback coupé sat on a tough - looking base with exaggarated wheelarches and obvious airflow - management features.

The car we're driving is the McLaren Edition SLR, one of 25 SLRs with carbonfibre bumpers, improved underfloor aero, a larger rear diffuser, a new airbrake, lightweight carbon side panels and engine - cooling vents, and wheelarch air vents.

A Bilstein - developed suspension kit with «sporty - comfortable» settings helps close the gap between tyre and wheelarch.

No, the hydroformed chassis and steel roll - cage of the EXR are unique and are covered in composite panels that merely happen to cleverly ape the shapes of a Range Rover, while at the same time coercing the air to flow where it is needed and allowing monster articulation in the wheelarches.

In fact, rubbing wheelarches with the likes of the F1 and P1 GTR, they are supporting cast at best, but when we slip away from the star - studded group and park the two nose - to - tail in the shadow of Mount Snowdon, I'm reminded that they remain hugely exciting and very special performance cars in their own right.

Doors and roofs are the most common and easiest places to find it, but check wheelarches and sills too.

Visually, the GTS is distinguished by its Cayenne Turbo - style nose and new 21in alloy wheels, which have necessitated 14 mm wheelarch extensions.

It looks the part, thanks to both a raft of styling changes (mirrors, wheels, wheelarch extensions, exhaust tips, grille and brake calipers, to list but a few of the changes) and the stance - enhancing effects of a 6 mm track increase front and rear and a 10 mm drop in ride height.

It becomes really well controlled with none of the floatiness that those exaggerated wheelarch clearances might hint at.

The rugged approach continues on the outside, where a heavily Panamera - inspired body is augmented with tough - looking plastic extensions for sills and wheelarches, while the blue - finished 20 - inch alloys are covered in surprisingly chunky looking tyres.

These subtle but fundamental changes add a certain tension to the design, as does the more pinched - waist look to the flanks which comes as a result of the new wider track and extended wheelarches.

There's carbonfibre too, notably for the bonnet, the front wings, the inner wheelarches, the aerodynamic addenda (no less discreet than they need to be) and, most obviously, the roof.

Actually, putting rufty - tufty bumpers, jumbo wheels and plastic wheelarch extensions on a small hatch and raising its ride height by a few inches so it can prowl the urban jungle with attitude is nothing new.

Neat features include the lift - reducing «Curlicue» vent behind each front wheelarch and the «virtual spoiler» at the rear.

The drains under the scuttle can get blocked — the tubes could sometimes get flattened from new because they were too long and got trapped behind the wheelarch liner.

But as you can see, there have been numerous design changes as well, including a delightful new treatment around the rear wheelarches that is an unashamed nod to the Countach.

The cars all have plaques reading «Officially tuned for Pilota Ferrari» on their dashboards but the changes aren't really extensive, with just a half cage being fitted and the suspension converted to rose joints (which accounts for the slight clanking in the front wheelarches).

The thin, flat doors betray the humble origins of the Integrale and feel like they're inset a good 6in from the outer edge of those wheelarches.

It didn't have the same Italian cool, but its flat - four burr was to become as iconic as the Lancia's wheelarches or the five - cylinder warble of the Quattro.