Sentences with phrase «few highway miles»

But I have noticed that if I run a few highway miles on it, it tends to get better mileage.

When the 2016 Acura TLX is configured as such, it's rated for 21 mpg city and 31 mpg highway, which is a sacrifice of just a few highway miles from the front - wheel drive version of the car.

With daily recharges and about 50 miles driven per day, I averaged at between 80 - 90 mpge for the week though, with more consistent charging or a commute with fewer highway miles, I could probably do much better.

Not exact matches

However, even with the highway, much of the Baja still remains isolated and unpopulated, consisting mostly of rugged mountains (up to 10,000 feet tall), along with 800 miles of harsh desert, with few facilities for travelers.

At 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 25, a car and a pickup truck rolled to a stop at mile marker 417 on Highway 287, a few hundred yards south of Tie Siding.

Councilman Tom Giarrante, who chairs the Aquatics Committee, favored the Empress site because it is a few miles from Interstate Highways 80 and 55.

They say they chose the location because all of upstate's major highways intersect just a few miles from the site.

The U.S. may enjoy the world's most extensive highway system at present, but the Chinese are rapidly catching up — from a few paved highways in the 1980s to 2.2 million miles (3.6 million kilometers) of paved roads in 2007.

After stopping / starting the car a few times, both to display my excellence, and to pick up pizza and beer, I pulled onto the main highway a few miles from my house, got up to 30 mph, and the engine died.

Volvo plans to take the Pilot Assist features a few steps further in 2017, when it will test a fleet of 100 XC90s with enough autonomy to allow drivers to not pay attention to the road when traveling on a roughly 50 - kilometer (31 mile) stretch of highway in the automaker's home town of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Even though it's a two - lane, everyone seems to agree that highway speeds are appropriate — I'm bummed to see an eighteen - wheeler up ahead until I realize, a few miles later, that I'm doing 65 mph and not catching up to him.

The installed it backwards or something, but the end result was that my car stalled on the highway a few miles away because it wasn't getting enough air in the engine.

I spent about 500 miles resolving a transmission issue and test driving, and just took the car for the first few highway drive tests.

I drove a few hundred miles of highway and was getting almost 26 mpg.

Alright, let me be honest and tell you a few things that I dislike about this car: - Gas Mileage (Hyundai claims it gives you 25 mpg in the city, which is not true, I get not more than 23 mpg in the city for sure)- Traction Control (The traction can not handle the acceleration and the wheels would start spinning, even on the dry roads, not sure what to blame)- USB port - The built in USB port does not support android, at least not in my case, therefore I have to rely on Bluetooth or AUX)- Dull Alloy Wheels - The dullness of alloy wheels for the SE trim does not compliment the car over all, but eh, I can't complain much as it is a BASE model Now, the things I absolutely love about this car: - Great Turn Radius - Beautiful LED lights (even with base model)- Highway mileage (35 mpg even driving at 75 miles an hour, you might get better than 37 mpg if you drive at 55 miles an hour)- Spacious trunk - Great leg room for rear seats - Just enough power to accelerate quickly and merge on to the highways / freeways - Amazing Brakes - Sports, ECO and Normal Mode (For those who do not know, once switched to SPORTS mode, the car's steering becomes stiff as well as the engine along with the help of transmission helps you accelerate the car faster, you actually feel like driving a sports car.

On top of this there are a few features you definitely want, like automatic climate control, rubber floor mats, cruise control, the smart MyKey and all - around view camera system; you could also go for Pro Trailer Backup Assist if you're planning on doing many highway miles.

In our tests, we clocked in at about 22 mpg, which is just barely under the rated 23 mpg highway rating, and that was mostly highway driving back and forth to work and just a few miles of city driving.

The extra power of the John Cooper Works Clubman means a loss of a few miles per gallon compared with the Cooper S Clubman, but the EPA rating of 25 mpg city and 33 mpg highway is still good.

Sweet tunes To make the highway miles more enjoyable, Land Rover offers a few different audio systems for the Range Rover Sport.

And with a few minor changes, I think the Fiesta may get a 1.6 - liter turbodiesel engine probably by fall 2011 that will push the EPA highway rating into the 51 - 52 miles per US gallon range, using an engine that will meet even the CARB 2009 (EPA Tier 2 Bin 4) emissions standard.

I did about half of my testing in either mode and found normal to be great for darting through traffic, passing, and maintaining a steady highway speed and Eco to be good for squeezing a few extra miles per kilowatt out of the battery at neighborhood, city, and parking - lot speeds.

With few exceptions, the midsized coupe meets contemporary standards of taste and delivers good performance and reasonable mileage (19 miles per gallon city and 28 highway).

The car is used for commuting a few miles to work and it is fine for that but where it really shines is on the highway.

The Prius Liftback is the only vehicle available today to offer 50 miles per gallon in combined city / highway driving, a distinction it will give up in a few months.

And thanks to the Golf SportWagen model's ability to attain over 30 miles per gallon on the highway, along with an ample fuel tank, you can travel farther with fewer fill - ups on the way.

With an EPA - estimated fuel economy of 23 miles per gallon (mpg) in the city and 36 on the highway, the Chrysler 200 will get you where you want to go in comfort and style along with fewer stops to fill up than the comparable Buick Regal's estimated 19 mpg city and 30 highway, or the more expensive Infiniti Q70's 18 city and 25 highway mpg.

Nice ride.259589 miles all highway, only has few cosmetic issues and an oil sensor needs replaced that's it.

My driving was pretty highway heavy with many miles spend cruising in Eco Pro mode with a few extended sessions of Sport + mode corner carving when a particularly good back road opened up.

With its 23.5 - gallon tank, I was looking at just over 500 miles between fill - ups, which proved especially useful during the desolate drive through Nevada to Winnemucca, then up the lonely Highway 95 through Washington and into Idaho, where fueling stations were very few and far between.

Then we kept driving for a few more miles and turned onto another highway (I - 237) and took that until we found yet another highway (I - 680).

I achieved about that during my few hundred miles behind the wheel in a solid mix of city and highway driving.

However, Honda and the EPA claim the CR - V gets 20 city mpg and 26 highway mpg in with the 4WD drivetrain, so perhaps there are a few more miles per gallon to be claimed through more economical driving.

We averaged about 23 mpg during our drive, which included city driving, highway driving, and a few miles» worth of the New York area's finest traffic jams.

Hop on the highway and you can get to many of Los Angeles» best attractions about 40 miles away: Hollywood, Rodeo Drive and downtown L.A. to name a few.

The Romance: There are more - famous roads in America — Route 66 springs to mind — but few can claim such poetry - inspiring scenery as California's Big Sur, the 90 - mile stretch of Highway One that runs from Carmel to San Simeon.

A shady grove just off the highway and a few feet from the sandy ocean beach below, Arcadia State Recreation Site is located a mile south of Cannon Beach.

Hidden a few miles west of U.S. Highway 101, Avila Beach offers some of the county's balmiest coastal weather and a rebuilt downtown and waterfront.

Hwy 101 takes you to all the parks in this area (Jedediah Smith Redwoods is just a few miles east on Highway 199).

Summerleaze Beach in Bude is just a few miles along the Atlantic Highway and Crooklets beach just across the town.

Mayapan is just off Highway 18, a few miles southwest of the town of Telchaquillo.

The public land around the art goes for many miles in every direction, although a wildlife fence runs along the highway a few hundred feet from it, no fence encircles it, if they have authority were would their domain end?

Drive just a few miles outside of the Chicago suburbs during harvest season and motorists will more than likely encounter farm equipment on public roads and highways here in Illinois.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety notes that teenagers have a higher crash rate despite driving fewer miles than adults; the probability of dying in a crash is higher for teenagers than it is for drivers just a few years older.

A few miles down the 101 highway, another new civic - corporate partnership is underway in the city of Mountain View.