Sentences with phrase «foot of a steep hill»
Set at the foot of a steep hill, this quaint little town has its amenities, but almost everything is clustered onto one tiny street leading to the ocean.
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We drove to the foot of the Hollywood hills, a beautiful area of Los Angeles, where the steep brown hills are decorated with a diverse mix of different unique houses which stare out over the city.
As the example race progressed, the puddles continued to expand, eventually flooding onto the grass and collecting at the foot of some of the tracks steeper hills.
All of those are impressive features, but the one that makes the biggest impact is hill descent, where the driver can take their foot off the brakes and let the system brake and control the wagon through some steep terrain.
With 410 pound - feet of torque, the Sport eats even the steepest San Francisco hills for breakfast and has plenty in reserve for passing on the freeway or getting through that amber light.
Hill Descent Control allows drivers to descend shockingly steep grades just by steering, and keeping feet clear of the pedals.
On a recent test drive, Nissan showed off the Armada's ability to climb a steep dirt hill, drive around banked curves, and then crawl across hugely rutted roads where one of the wheels were up to a foot off the ground.
The Tundra does not offer a locking rear differential, but the big truck had no traction problems in our tests in which we drove a 4 - wheel - drive TRD edition up muddy embankments, crawled down steep hills and waded through several feet of water.
Because of the electric assist, all 123 pound - feet of twist is available early in the power band (1,000 rpm) and made short work of steep - hill starts.
Testing locations range from below sea level to more than 10,000 feet in elevation, and the vehicles are subjected to every form of off - road condition, including deep sand, rocky trails, off - camber loose dirt hill climbs, rockcrawling, steep descents, near - vertical climbs, snow, water fording, and more.
The Drachenfels Cog Railway starts near the delightful town of Königswinter and leads from the bottom of the valley, up steep inclines and a height difference of 722 feet (220 metres), to the Drachenfels (Dragon Rock) hill.