Sentences with phrase «for front wheel drive cars»

Honda may be aiming at the lap record on that track for front wheel drive cars with the new Honda Civic Type R. That's what the Civic Type R Concept indicates at least!

The Car has excellent performance and power, in fact, it almost has too much for a front wheel drive car.

Not exact matches

Gov. Rick Snyder signed legislation at the Automotive Hall of Fame on Friday allowing for the testing of self - driving cars without a steering wheel, brake pedal, or human in the front seat.

Tom Coronel was driving during FP1 for the FIA World Touring Car Championship round at Vila Real when his car suffered a left - front wheel failuCar Championship round at Vila Real when his car suffered a left - front wheel failucar suffered a left - front wheel failure.

With the car falling apart, Villeneuve was essentially driving on two wheels as the right front was in the air for most of the lap.

Experts agree that the car seat shouldn't touch the rear of the front seats... but we also know it's not safe for you to position yourself so close to the steering wheel that it hinders your driving.

Zielinsky notes that its compact power train system allows the wheels to be positioned near the corners of the chassis, which makes for short front and rear overhangs and a wide track, yielding an overall layout that resembles that of a rear - wheel - drive car.

As you might expect, the ALL4 remains a front - wheel drive car for most of the time, only diverting power to the rear wheels when necessary.

Key to the car's impressive appeal are its twin electric motors (one for the front axle, the other for the rear to make this a four - wheel drive machine) that feed of a lithium ion batter to deliver a very healthy 603bhp.

Taken to the extreme, one could imagine a monolithic assembly plant in China or India spitting out front - wheel - drive cars and crossover / utilities for all the commodity brands in the world, with only sheetmetal and interior trim variations among the myriad brands.

Even though the prototype is still fully camouflaged, it looks well - proportioned for a small, front - wheel - drive car.

Honda also aims to break the Nürburgring lap record for front - wheel - drive cars with this Type R.

«For the first time in my life, I was grateful to be in a front - wheel - drive car with stability and traction control,» he recalled.

Last year, there were rumors Fiat Chrysler would sign a deal of some sort with PSA Peugeot Citroen, which has nothing but front - wheel - drive platforms for its passenger cars.

Early in our deliberations, deputy editor Joe DeMatio called this car «the antithesis of the Honda Civic,» spelling trouble for the front - wheel - drive Dodge.

Despite the 2015 Scion tC's diminutive size, Cars.com reviewer Kelsey Mays says the front - wheel - drive hatchback is a lot of car for the money.

Traction is truly phenomenal for a rear - wheel - drive, front - engine car.

Since GM partnered with BMW and the former DaimlerChrysler to develop Two - Mode for front -, rear -, and four - wheel - drive applications with gasoline and diesel engines, you'll see it in more cars, pickups, SUVs, and crossover applications.

It currently holds the record for the fastest front - wheel drive car around the famous Nurburgring circuit — smashing the record that Honda, SEAT and Renault have been squabbling over for ages.

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The main roads are fine for a conventional front - wheel - drive car, but the truly beautiful areas are off the beaten path.

Nonetheless, we still expect a non-hybrid version when the car reaches American dealerships; both front - and all - wheel drive should be available, as is the case for most of this car's competitors.

«Inexplicable» is the only word for this premature incapacitation: What kind of front - wheel - drive car can't control wheel hop with a mere 170 hp?

I have understood that rear - wheel drive (RWD) and all - wheel drive (AWD) cars are less fuel efficient than front - wheel drive (FWD) cars, and that for this reason most cars sold today are FWD.

All of that falls within the wheelbase, as the front axle has been moved forward, the front overhang shaved, and the cabin moved slightly rearward, allowing for proportions that are a bit less like the typical front - wheel - drive car.

While prepping for a drive tomorrow I noticed the far side front wheel of my car has one stud out of five that is somehow loose.

With a top speed of 167 mph and myriad upgrades to its brakes and suspension, the Civic Type R lapped Germany's famous Nürburgring in just 7 minutes, 50 seconds, a record for a front - wheel - drive car.

While lots of cars tell you the level of turbo boost and the engine oil pressure and temperature, the GT - R goes about twenty steps further, supplying occupants with transmission oil temperature and pressure; front / rear torque split for the all - wheel - drive system; front - to - back, side - to - side, and combined G force data, steering angle position, and a lap timing system.

If you opt for front - wheel drive, the Grand Touring model can be had for under $ 28,500 and it comes equipped with everything most people are looking for on a new car.

There is a surprising lack of understeer in the ST, especially for a front - wheel drive road car.

Its 2.0 - liter turbo - four produces 235 hp and 258 lb - ft, but because that car is based on a front - wheel - drive platform, the engine would need to be redesigned for use in the rear - wheel - drive IS.

When the next Cube debuts at the L.A. auto show in November, a version of the Nissan Versa's 122 - hp, 1.8 - liter four will live under the hood, and the car's basic bones will come from Nissan's front - wheel - drive B platform, also used for the Versa.

For a 4050 - pound, front - wheel - drive car, the ELR drives pretty well.

Honda says it plans to shatter the Nürburgring Nordschleife lap record for front - wheel - drive cars, of 8 minutes 7 seconds by breaking the 8 - minute mark with a European Civic Type R.

BMW is expected to supply a small - displacement four - cylinder engine, front - wheel electric motors (for all - wheel drive) and lightweight technology derived from Project i, while Toyota will engineer the car's torque vectoring and supercapacitor technology sourced from the TS030 LMP race car.

There is also an all - wheel - drive mode that uses the electric motor in the rear axle in combination with the gasoline engine that powers the front wheels, and the driver can also choose to save the car's battery power for later electric - only driving.

Not all Elan «M100's were turbocharged, but the majority were, and the unusual choice of front - wheel drive was - as you might expect from Lotus - selected for sound performance reasons, with more predictable high - speed handling than a rear - drive car and improved traction.

Toyota will begin to roll out the new platforms with the launch of a midsize, front - wheel drive car on TNGA this year, with extensive plans for other models in the near future.

The handling is relatively balanced for a front - wheel - drive car, and the steering, which used to be limp and light, now has genuine feel and feedback.

The car is balanced, controllable, and surprisingly communicative, leaving behind its understeering front - wheel - drive roots for neutral - to - tail - out, all - wheel - drive maturity.

The long - term plan calls for six small front - wheel - drive cars — two of them illustrated above — to appear between 2014 and 2017.

It set a record for a front - wheel - drive production car on the Nürburgring Nordschleife with a time of 7 minutes, 43.80 seconds.

The Ford Focus RS will sit atop the Focus lineup, with considerably more power and performance than the 252 - hp, front - wheel - drive Focus ST.. Its advanced all - wheel - drive system uses a Dynamic Torque Vectoring function to make for sharp handling, and the car includes four different drive modes — normal, sport, track, and our favorite, drift mode.

There was even room for a front - wheel - drive sedan whose nickname, Four - Door Sports Car, has for decades been more of a marketing ploy than canyon - road reality.

Purists looking for cars in this segment may ignore the S60 because it is front - or all - wheel drive, whereas enthusiasts tend to gravitate toward rear - wheel - drive cars like the BMW 3 Series or Mercedes - Benz C - Class.

For many Type - R fans it represented the end on an era, but recently Honda has announced that it is preparing to fight back, with a new turbocharged Civic Type - R in 2015 - which the company claims will be «the fastest front - wheel - drive car to lap the Nurburgring».

The show car even retains the 2014 Beetle R - Line's front - wheel drive arrangement, relying upon its XDS limited - slip differential for added traction instead of all - wheel drive.

Type «Nismo GT - R LM» into a search engine prior to 2014 and you'd have found details not on the groundbreaking front - wheel drive Le Mans car designed by Ben Bowlby, but the most aggressive R33 Skyline GT - R ever produced for the road.

Built on the new Lexus GA - L rear - wheel - drive luxury - car platform, the LC 500h uses an aluminum for the hood, door skins, and front suspension towers, and carbon fiber for the door structures, trunklid, and roof.

The car now comes standard with a 2.5 - liter inline - four engine good for 194 hp, which is estimated to return up to 22/28 mpg (city / highway) with front - wheel drive, thanks in part to a standard stop - start feature; the old Acadia managed only 17/24 mpg with its old standard V - 6 engine and front - wheel drive.