Sentences with phrase «freeway trip»

(Like when you pass the same car 5 times on a freeway trip, then never see it again.)

They make driving relaxed and there is no substitute for a V8, long wheelbase and 4000 lbs of quiet, mass on a long freeway trip!

During a long freeway trip, I found the engine remained on most of the time, resulting in fuel economy on the trip computer hovering around 42 mpg, even as I tried to be gentle with the throttle.

I went for more than a 100 mile freeway trip yesterday and having owned a Lincoln V - 8 was disappointed with the power.

In fact, we didn't once see the trip computer dip below 19 mpg, and in a prior model year LS 460, with the same power train, we came in at over 24 mpg for a long freeway trip, not bad numbers for a big V - 8.

All occupants had good things to say about the car's comfort over a 5 - hour freeway trip, with a significant amount of time spent in heavy traffic.

We did about 750 miles of that all - freeway trip under Super Cruise, and it works the way Cadillac says it works.

The Vanderhall is really best for an afternoon drive on a winding road, as a freeway trip among the pickup trucks and SUVs will make you think twice about your life choices.

We'll find out next year whether the Equinox diesel can at least maintain whatever highway number the EPA attaches to its label, but efficiency - oriented Bowtie loyalists looking for the best combo will want a Bolt or Volt for city commuting and an Equinox or Cruze turbodiesel for longer, freeway trips.

Cruise control is naturally standard on both and while the HSV updates the current speed limits, the Lexus gets active control cruise, making it a bit more relaxing on longer freeway trips.

Not exact matches

If you do have to go, try not to take the biggest gas - guzzling off - road car in your car park for a trip down the freeway.

So, once the vehicles get up to speed and merge into the flow of traffic like a car merging on to a freeway, they are coasting the whole trip.»

Spending time on a Los Angeles freeway can ruin any trip, so my strategy is to avoid them altogether.

Adventures, road trips, cold beers on hot days, cheese plates, massages, wrestling, truth or dare, Florence and the Machine played loudly while zooming down the freeway - these are a few of my favorite things.

About twenty minutes into the trip, it was evident that US - 23 — which, like most Michigan freeways, is marred by uneven surfaces — was not the place for the Genesis coupe to show off its best qualities.

On a side trip into and around Denver, a pleasant mix of freeway, city, and suburban driving, observed fuel economy exactly matched the F - 150 diesel's EPA combined figure of 25 mpg.

Fuel economy isn't bad, either; according to the trip computer, I averaged 24 mpg over a 385 - mile trip (more than one tankful), in a mixture of freeway and two - lane driving.

I used our turbocharged Sonata for a 150 - mile round trip through the Detroit metro area, driving it on surfaces ranging from narrow, highly crowned, hilly gravel roads; to suburban four - lane boulevards; to crowded urban freeways.

On the freeways between metro Detroit and Milwaukee, however, the GL's comfortable but not sloppy ride made for a pleasant trip, and both my wife and I made good use of the power lumbar support in both front seats.

I bought the 2012 model on October 26th, and I have yet to make a road trip, but I have many miles on local freeways.

There's a little wind noise over the A pillars but, still, this is a quiet and refined pocket rocket, as well suited for a freeway road trip as for a romp on Wildcat Canyon Road.

We expected our road trip from Culver City to Solvang — before you ask, yes I've seen «Sideways», the 2004 film about wine tasting in the region — to be a three - hour tour up Highway 101 (per Google Maps), slightly longer than the usual with some slight deviation from the freeway to avoid closures caused by the tragic mudslides in Montecito.

While monitoring the trip computer, I was impressed to see freeway average fuel economy hitting 35 mpg.

The EPA ratings are 14 mpg city and 20 mpg highway, but during freeway driving, the car easily topped its highway number, according to the trip computer.

During our testing, which included mostly freeway and highway miles, we averaged 18.1 mpg according to the trip computer, something that might make environmentalists pause.

And the S550 Cabriolet made the perfect vehicle for the trip, as it fit right in cruising top - down through Beverly Hills, or drifting over hundreds of freeway miles.

For example, a car may begin a trip in low speed charge - depleting mode, then enter onto a freeway and operate in blended mode.

In practice we were able to get the Civic Hybrid's trip computer to report 44.1 mpg by about the half - tank mark with testing that emphasized freeway and back - road cruising, peppered with a bit of city and stop - and - go driving.

My road testing of this Dodge Durango encompassed a trip down to the Los Angeles Auto Show, involving a significant amount of freeway driving and a bit of cutthroat LA traffic.

According to the car's trip computer, the XV manual used an average of 8.4 L / 100 km for the week, which is commendable given it barely left suburbia and only ventured onto the freeway once for a grand total of 2 km.

Monitoring the trip computer during the long freeway drive, I saw the average fuel economy steadily top 20 mpg, but city driving at either end of this trip brought the review total down to 18.7 mpg.

In my time with the car, which included a lot of freeway miles, the trip computer average remained below 25 mpg, and I ended up posting 22.1 mpg for combined city and highway driving.

It's not likely to break down on the trip back to college on Sunday after a weekend home with the folks; it's not likely to strand you on a busy freeway at midnight; and you won't spend a lot of your time ferrying it back and forth to the dealership for repairs.

Forget about all those long miles on the freeway — this side trip was what the car was made for.

Over a different drive route, the petrol Kodiaq's trip computer posted a fuel economy figure of 7.1 L / 100 km, with long hauls uphill offset by occasional 120km / h runs on the local freeways.

Cruising down a Spanish freeway, I heard some road noise but the TT RS felt comfortable enough for a road trip, especially using the tiny rear seats for extra luggage space.

The trip to Death Valley from San Francisco covered about 500 miles, mostly freeway, and made easier by the Ridgeline's adaptive cruise control.

That included about 60 km of freeway cruising, but mostly comprised round - trip commuting for a total of just under 520 km.

Over an extended freeway cruise, we saw the trip computer go above 25 mpg, climbing toward the car's 26 mpg highway rating.

But during my time with the car, the trip computer showed fuel economy consistently over 50 mpg in freeway driving.

EPA mileage numbers, at 29 mpg city and 38 mpg highway, should lead to an averages in the mid-30s, although in my mixed city and freeway driving I never broke 30 mpg on the trip computer.

On long trips, I generally get 20 mpg on the freeway.

Monitoring the trip computer, I saw my average spike at 34 mpg on the freeway at 65 mph, but drop to 11 mpg in heavy urban traffic.

While cruising down the freeway at 65 mph, I noted the trip computer holding an average of 32 mpg.

Over the long freeway miles, it settled in at 32 mpg, according to the trip computer.

With some freeway kilometres thrown in the figure posted by the trip computer fell to 13.4.

Even the usually optimistic trip computer rarely registered anything over 14 mpg; while I was the second user to enjoy the Silverado's capabilities on my particular tank of gas (and thus can't vouch for the driving habits of the previous occupant), I was not lead - footing the truck around town, and I also had a solid 40 miles of freeway driving on my 11.61 mpg tank.

The car's EPA numbers registered at 24 mpg city and 33 mpg highway, but when monitoring the trip computer, I saw the average mpg holding around 35 mpg at freeway speeds.

Plus I averaged a respectable 23 mpg in off - freeway driving, according to the trip computer.

Based on the trip computer, my drive, which involved stop - and - go freeway driving and some surface streets, I was getting about 34 mpg.