Sentences with phrase «fifth gear»

Most cars will be travelling in fifth gear at three - figure speeds, so picking the correct braking point is crucial - there are marker boards to help.

You change into fifth gear at about 45 mph - much sooner than you are accustomed to if you drive a car with a stick.

This mixture allows for moments of extreme peace, leaving the player to ponder the world around them, while also being completely able to instantly kick it into fifth gear if need be.

Thus I was able to stay in fifth gear for most of those 57 miles, even hitting sixth gear in places.

And for a while it would pop out of fifth gear.

If you get a vehicle with a manual transmission, you will likely be tempted to get to fourth or fifth gear as quickly as possible and drive at a high rate of speed.

It means, in such a transmission, a vehicle can move from second to fifth gear with any effect on the engine and vice versa.

On the highway, I repeatedly drop my hand to the shifter to go for fifth gear before remembering that there isn't one.

To test for fifth gear wear, wind up all the windows, put the transfer case into neutral, start the engine and shift through the box.

The ratio splits and the shifting action were improved, but fifth gear tends to suicide.

But if the engine has lots of torque, you just floor the accelerator, and find that you have enough power to pass, even in fifth gear.

Part of the problem is because Honda has used taller fourth and fifth gear ratios in the interests of fuel economy, which on the petrol - manual is improved by around 10 percent to 19.5 kpl.

The needless conservatism of 2015 held back a brilliant season, and his defense fell apart just as his offense found fifth gear in 2016.

Second through fifth gears in the six - speed manual transmission have been lengthened slightly in an effort to help this 3 put all its power to the ground.

If you want to avoid gearbox damage when towing you shouldn't lug it along in the overdrive fifth gear anyway, but a shift back to fourth brings revs up to about 2500rpm — where the engine begins to sound pretty busy.

Oregon has hit fifth gear of late.

With cruise control engaged the Suzuki also holds fifth gear at 80km / h on a steep hill without chugging.

The 2010 Viper SRT10 ACR features a few small but noteable upgrades over the previous year SRT10 ACR models including a revised short - throw shifter, shorter fifth gear ratio, and a retuned rear aero package.

Here's a good vid from Fifth gear illustrating the difference between the Dual - clutch and standard gearbox in an Audi TT.

Mid-range punch has been improved too, with 80 - 120 km / h in fifth gear now done in 8.3 seconds (0.2 seconds quicker than before) while combined fuel consumption is reduced to 6.0 litres per 100 km.

The six - speed automatic transmission is really well paired to the engine too, with gear changes swift through the lower range and the engine able to hold low revs in fourth and even fifth gears without the need for constant downshifts.

At an indicated 158 mph in fifth gear on the 2016 Porsche 911 GT3 RS, these things matter.

And while that might hurt the odds of the conference winning its eighth straight national title (at least, until Alabama reaches fifth gear and makes us feel silly for doubting), this could end up being the deepest SEC in a few years.

The engine is spinning at five grand — a relatively relaxed pace made possible by the long fifth gear that I swapped in years ago, never dreaming it would pay such tremendous dividends on an autobahn.

Torque has improved too, an overboost function in fourth and fifth gears delivering up to 206 lb ft from 2000rpm, from 177 lb ft at 1750rpm.

At least that's the theory; even so, it takes all the steel you can muster to select fifth gear and keep your right foot planted beyond 110 mph for the first few laps (OK, the entire first day), the car weaving and dancing around alarmingly.

Strangely enough, downshifting to fifth gear quells the noise a bit, but that's hardly ideal for freeway cruising.

Thanks to an overboost function within the engine mapping, up to 206 lb ft is available in fourth and fifth gears between 2500 and 4000rpm, effectively putting a 14 lb ft bulge in the otherwise plateau - like torque «curve».

Let off the gas in fifth gear up to eighth, and the torque converter opens, dropping the engine to idle speed.

It has five - speed, electronically - controlled, automatic transmission — sequential sport shift feature, grade logic control, fourth and fifth gear OD.

We never got this grinding coming down to fifth from sixth gear or on any of the other shifts, but darned if we didn't grind nearly every upshift to fifth gear during our week with the Coupe.

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In Sport mode the transmission typically operates in the four lowest gears, and won't shift to Fifth gear unless the vehicle reaches very high speed.

A joy to snatch - and - slot, as always, but I felt the second - third and fourth - fifth gearing gaps a tad wide.

We have all the invoices for this and almost every other invoice during the lifetime of the car including sorn documents and previous tax discs etc.; The car has v maxx coilovers with a modified torsion bar and a modified gearbox with a «diesel» fifth gear which is a common modification, it has polished Fondmetal wheels, Corbeau reclining front bucket seats, Tarox front discs an S16 radiator, billefed drive shafts and a custom made exhaust (GBP 1000).

Actually could use a better fifth gear ratio.

Recently, British telephone program FIFTH GEAR filmed a clear demonstration of this principle.

Most automotive crash tests are conducted at 30mph, but FIFTH GEAR producers decided to conduct a test at 120mph, four time the usual speed but still a speed that many cars on the road can attain.

Bruising senior Carlos Hyde found fifth gear in these games after an early suspension, gaining 847 yards in just 93 carries (9.1 per carry).

The new Swift's diesel engine spins at a relatively relaxed 2,300 rpm at 100kph in fifth gear as opposed to a busier 2,600 rpm in the old Swift.

I was reaching the top of fifth gear, just more than 160 mph, before pounding onto the binders for Stowe.

Compared to the 5 - speed transmissions used with other V - 6 engines in the Acura line, the MDX has lower gear ratios (higher numerically) in First through Fifth gears and in Reverse.

I cruised at 70 mph on the interstate easily in fourth or fifth gear with the engine nowhere near the red line on the tachometer.

The 5 - speed automatic transmission - a first for the Civic - is all new for 2006 and improves on the previous 4 - speed automatic design with a wider overall ratio that maximizes acceleration in gears one through four and optimizes fuel economy in its overdrive fifth gear.

Even in fifth gear at highway speeds, just punch the throttle and there's plenty of passing power, with no need to downshift.

At 70 mph, the Grand Cherokee might be able to hold fifth gear, but it really needs fourth.