Sentences with phrase «fast road driving»

The Porsche suffers from fewer road surface intrusions, and consequently settles into fast road driving with an insulated finesse replicated almost nowhere else at the same hip - point.

The chassis has been tailored for fast road driving, sitting 24 mm lower all - round and, for the first time on a Cayenne, using PASM - controlled steel springs, hardware previously reserved as a performance option on Porsche's 911, Cayman and Boxster models.

The gearbox, with its snappy, short - throw shift, is a great partner for the sparkling six, and the brakes, while laughably grumbly (in finest M tradition) and a little over-servoed at the top - end of the pedal travel, stand up well to fast road driving.

Even so, the understeer that can start to dominate on the track does rear its head in fast road driving, too.

We liked the V6 more and more as the day wore on, and then on the second day we got in the blown V8 First things first: We dialed up the Dynamic mode, tuned for faster road driving — it firms the suspension, adds some weight to the steering and sends additional torque to the rear wheels.

Not exact matches

The function will now be restricted on residential roads or roads without a center divider, meaning the car can not drive faster than the speed limit maximum plus five miles (8 km) per hour.

The project, run in partnership with the Singapore Land Transit Authority, will road test a concept that many companies investing in automated driving believe offers the fastest path to making such technology commercially viable.

We already make it tougher for people to put race cars on the road, or to drive excessively fast.

This one moment when you're driving down the road, the music is on loud, you tip your head back and the light is flashing between the trees, faster and faster, a blur of light and leaves.

The truth that speed kills still has people driving their cars to fast and going off roads and being killed.

My grandmother lives 55 kilometers away from my parents and it's usually about a 40 minutes drive — on a main road where cars drive much faster than in any village, town or city.

I would like to point out that the concerns you state regarding food safety drove, to a large extent, my father's policy of eating fast food when we were on the road during vacation season.

Police said Benjamin Haas, 16, was ticketed for driving too fast for conditions after witnesses said his Mustang skidded while he was driving west on Geneva Road near Kenilworth Avenue, jumped the curBand then hit the boy.

Keep in mind that no car crash is truly an «accident» — they all have a cause, whether it is driving too fast for the road conditions or getting distracted behind the wheel.

I don't particularly want to drive faster than I do, at least on 4 - lane highways (twisty mountain roads are another matter: — RRB --RRB- I imagine most people feel the same way.

Then if a left turn leads the driver to a boulevard or expressway but a right turn leads to a narrow road with frequent traffic lights or stop signs, you could deduce which way the driver turned if the next batch of speed data showed a long stretch of fast driving or a slow stretch of stop - and - go driving.

«The catalyst we studied is the fastest of its type with hydrogen, but it still isn't fast enough to put in a fuel cell and drive down the road,» said Dr. Wendy Shaw, a biophysical chemist at PNNL.

Like a tour guide who took you the wrong way, drove too fast or spoke to slowly, in order to enjoy the ride stay on the right road.

The homebody bookworm that loves to drive fast cars and go off roading.

In the press notes, Nichols explains, «I wanted to make a chase movie, a movie about guys moving on back roads through the American South in a fast car, driving at night with their lights off.

For some, it's an escape from reality; a chance to drive faster than the 60KM / H most of our roads are set at.

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Hoult, who played the skeletal war boy Nux in Mad Max: Fury Road, has gotten very good at pretending to drive a car very fast while the camera gets tighter and tighter on his face; here, he expands his range a little by doing it with a cellphone pressed against his cheek.

Nicholas Hoult is miscast and overmatched as the lovelorn, hapless petty criminal caught between two scenery - chewing crime lords played by Anthony Hopkins and Ben Kingsley, though given his experience as a War Boy in «Mad Max: Fury Road,» he can at least pantomime driving really fast with the best of them, so it's not completely foreign to him.

That clutch might feel a little heavy if you're coming from a road car, but compared with a racer it's breezy, with a biting point that's easy to finesse; no undignified kangarooing at the drive - through fast food restaurant here (though the Plexiglas side windows might hinder the transaction).

It's easy to make an SUV fast around here, for example, but that has little relevance to how they're driven on the road.»

I don't track my cars but in terms of driving from A to B and having a bit of fun on the B roads, the Nismo RS is fun and fast.

It was astonishingly easy to drive fast in the dry, and its wet - road grip bordered on the sublime.

The Q50's fast - acting AWD system defaults to 100 percent rear - wheel drive when the road is dry, but it will send as much as 50 percent of available power to the front wheels when its sensor array detects any loss of traction at the rear.

The Lotus - tuned suspension, combined with a 45/55 percent weight distribution and sticky nineteen - inch Michelin Pilot Sport tires, makes the Aileron an easy, almost relaxing car to drive fast, although the lack of any stability or traction control tends to dampen one's temptation to explore its absolute limits on public roads.

If you really want to drive damm fast at curvy roads under every condition and always safe then buy the Focus RS.

Relaxed in the knowledge that day two will bring plenty of opportunity for fast driving on some of Germany's best roads, we stick to our respective steeds for the duration of the journey - Steve Davies in his Alpina, John Hayman in the Boxster S, yours truly in the Tuscan, and Henry Catchpole, who'll be joining us later, on an easyJet flight to Munich.

In The Missing Link, Delwyn Mallett gets behind the wheel of the prewar car which bridges the gap between the humble Volkswagen Beetle and a long line of sporting Porsches / Auto - biography: George Cohen — Matthew Bell visits the retired psychiatrist who now devotes his time to driving old cars and building and riding motorcycles, especially single - cylinder Nortons / Douglas Blain takes to the road in a 1946 Talbot - Lago T26 Record, in its day probably the world's fastest saloon and asks, is it The last great Vintage car?

So, chill out on driving fast and remember how good it feels to cruise the open road.

BARCELONA, Spain — It took but two sharp, fast turns on a stretch of fantastic driving road in northern Spain for us to know that the 2016 Mazda MX - 5 Miata will not disappoint the roadster's devotees.

Once I shed the Trailhawk's heavy equipment for a Limited and its simpler all - wheel drive, low - rolling - resistance tires and lower ride height, the V - 6 Jeep Cherokee felt like a different car — sporty and exceptionally fast on the open road.

Veyron aside, it's the fastest road car I've driven — but it's completely useable and it still involves you in the process.

Rather, we believe it is the fastest ever production car on a racing circuit, a much more important technical statement, and far more relevant for on - road driving.

The road is a mix of fast blasts on well - surfaced two - lane pavement across a peninsula followed by cautious driving along the twisty shoreline road that cuts into the cliffside.

Some of the fussier chassis gurus around the office might find something to nitpick, but it all worked for me, and I was able to drive the Z4 sDrive35i way too fast on some of my favorite roads with little drama and a lot of pleasure.

However, although the car feels faster, angrier and has that sense of invincibility that has come to characterise the GT3, the chassis» more track - focused nature makes it much more physically demanding to drive quickly on the road.

As a guideline, brakes will wear out much faster if most of your driving is in a major urban area where stop - and - go is the rule, as opposed to those who spend most of the time in their vehicle on the open road, where they might not touch the brake pedal for an hour or more.

In part one (below) Harry gives us a walk around all the details on a Pagani Zonda only an owner would discover and then, in part two (click here), he heads out onto the road and gives us a glimpse of what it's like to drive one of the world's fastest cars.

Depending on your definition of perfection, the Audi comes close to being one of the easiest cars to drive fast, irrespective of road and surface conditions.

One day I was driving fast and there was a ditch in one side of the road.

When you're on - road, when you're on the autobahn for example and driving fast, again a higher center of gravity can be a little disconcerting if it's too quick.

I myself have a superbike (not the latest baddest, but still a 170hp GSXR1000) which is fast beyond any reasonable need on the roads (even acceleration-wise) and a 570hp / 790Nm 911 Turbo as well, but the more fun machinery to drive / ride, that I have, are Daytona 675 and Boxster S.

If it was a race car then I'd want the fastest kit possible, but for a road car I want the driving experience.

I have no idea how much driving you have done but I've done a lot and I can honestly say I have never once seen an accident caused by simply driving down a straight road 10 mph too fast.

Its steering is precise and nicely weighted, and the whole car feels agile and lightweight whether you're looking for a parking spot or driving too fast on a back road.