Sentences with phrase «for road imperfections»

The big, quick, opulent Benz is also an industry - recognized technology leader, boasting countless advanced safety features, brag - worthy luxury indulgences and engineering feats such as Magic Body Control, which visually scans the road ahead and prepares the suspension for road imperfections ahead.

This also means we won't get to try an S63 with Magic Body Control, which adjusts the suspension to accommodate for road imperfections spotted by road - scanning cameras.

Not exact matches

A first for the new Focus is adaptive dampers called «CCD», which not only adjust ride comfort depending on the selected drive mode, but continuously react to the road surface and its imperfections.

It requires lots of steering corrections as it instantly follows any imperfections in the road, and the short wheelbase and low - profile tires make for a pretty harsh ride.

When the W222 S - Class debuted for the 2014 model year, it brought with it a huge innovation: Magic Body Control, which allowed the car to scan the road ahead and pre-adjust to upcoming road imperfections.

Ride quality is excellent for a modern large - wheeled car (21 - inch wheels are standard), absorbing all but the most sudden and substantial or road imperfections without untoward impact on the occupants.

Comfort plus was too lazy for my taste; the electrically adjustable dampers smother road imperfections but the steering becomes disturbingly lax.

The system will also scan the road for imperfections and adjust the ride height and air suspension accordingly.

Custom tuned for either Luxury or Sport models, the 4 - wheel multilink E-Class suspension provides even more driving feel for hugging corners tighter or absorbing road imperfections flawlessly.

Road noise and surface imperfections are as unnoticed as kitchen chaos when you're dining at a high end restaurant, and the options list includes now expected sleep - promoting tech like adaptive cruise control and automatic steering in lanes for brief periods.

But the Infiniti's standard suspension and 2 - mode adaptive system offer ample handling and enough compliance for soaking up light road imperfections.

Be warned, though — any imperfections in the road will be felt by everyone in the cabin and passengers really won't thank you for selecting this setting on a long journey.

For example, nestled in Recaro bucket seats, the steering wheel shakes and quivers in your hands with road imperfections.

MagneRide amazingly lets the car soak up imperfections on the road, and it gives you a stiffer suspension for the track.

Using a stereo camera, the system scans the road surface up to 15 meters ahead of the vehicle at speeds up to 130 km / h (81 mph), and it adjusts the shock damping at each wheel to account for imperfections in the road.

It's worth noting that the biggest 19 - inch wheels make it harder for the suspension to disguise road imperfections, and the smaller wheels make for a more comfortable ride.

Small road imperfections proved no match for the Sierra's suspension, although we did discover the limitation of its body - on - frame design while traversing one particular rough patch on the freeway.

For a fully - fledged supercar, the ride is so good that it's easy to forget the need to steer around larger road imperfections (they'll still send a jolt through the cabin) and tiptoe over speed humps (the nose lift function is a must around town).

The car might not sound great going over road imperfections — you'll cringe for the car's sake when you hear the crashy BOOM!

The S600 gets Mercedes» impressive Magic Body Control, a system that «reads» the surface of the road ahead and adjusts the suspension to prepare for obstacles, potholes and other imperfections.

To give the Duster its due, it really is very good for relaxed cruising when its smooth ride quality can come to the fore, helped by big, deep tyres with lots of sidewall to absorb road surface imperfections.

The 7 Series also comes with adaptive air suspension, adaptive dampers, Active Comfort Drive, which checks the road ahead for bumps and imperfections and adjusts the suspension accordingly and also has rear steering along with all - wheel drive.

In setting up a vehicle for a race track as demanding as the Nordschleife, suspension is tuned to be overly harsh, resistant to roll, but not absorbent when it comes to imperfections on the road surface.

If you opt for an Active model, you'll benefit from a subtly softer ride, thanks to a higher ride height and tweaked suspension set - up that enable the car to better cope with sharp jolts, so it does a slightly better job of smoothing out imperfections on the road.

Then again, the same can not be said for the STI, as every road imperfection — big or small — transmits directly into the cabin.

The larger wheels and stiffer suspension on the Supercharged and XFR make for a rather firm ride, easily jolted by road imperfections and uneven pavement.

It's soft so it makes for a great urban assault vehicle, soaking up potholes and nasty Detroit road imperfections with the best of them.

Both the steering and suspension are tuned on the softer side of things — there isn't much feel from the road, so there will be no clipping apexes on a racetrack, but you won't feel all of the road imperfections on your daily commute either, and that's what Malibus are designed for.

Road imperfections are taken in stride, although it should be noted that we were let loose on some pretty sterling roads; a drive on the winter - cracked tarmac of Canadian city streets is what really challenges a lightweight like this, so wait for our report after experiencing the Fortes on our own roads in the near future.

The drivetrain's Auto mode brings smooth gearbox shifts, a continuously variable damping suspension that gobbles ups road imperfections and lighter steering for my leisurely ride on rural roads in Maine and New Hampshire, many of which feature painfully slow 30 - mph speed limits.

Its suspension was well - tuned for damping out imperfections in the road, minimizing any jouncing.

The chassis is soft enough to defeat railroad tracks and road imperfections, though this thing doesn't feel floaty or boatlike, which is an attribute for any kind of crossover.

And I find the suspension setup in the sweet spot for road feedback while soaking up most minor to moderate road imperfections with aplomb.

The standard multi-link, double - pivot MacPherson front strut suspension and five - link independent rear system — a first for Cadillac — effectively soak up bumps and other road surface imperfections, yet hold the ATS firmly upright while cornering.

Back on the interstate for the final leg of the drive, the CX - 5 was solid and stable at speed, upset neither by crosswinds or road imperfections.

It feels constantly nervous, and even the most benign road imperfection seems to send it crab - walking for a few feet before it all settles down again.

This is more apparent when talking about the difficulty of the game too, as it's not just a straight up arcade game where you can rely on riding guard rails to get round corners, as FlatOut 4 does incorporate some realistic physics, this combined with the extremely aggressive AI will lead to a lot of restarts as quite often you'll be rounding a corner with the chequered flag in sight, only to be spun out by one of the AI, or hitting an imperfection in the road sending your car into a snake only for the back end to come around on you.

They are idiotic: hard to control, the small wheels transmit shock from any road imperfection, gearing is inappropriate for moving safely in traffic, and the taller you are, the closer your hands get to you as you move the seat up.