Sentences with phrase «front wheel drive car»

This is due to the fact that in front wheel drive cars most of the car's weight is distributed in the front part of the car.

I've driven front wheel drive cars for more than 10 years so it's nice to get back into a rear wheel drive car.

It's basically the fastest front wheel drive car you can buy.

On front wheel drive cars the speed sensor is often found on the front wheel hub.

Not being fun to drive does not make front wheel drive cars less efficient or quick.

It was the only front wheel drive car I ever owned that I liked.

The front axle is much like that of a conventional front wheel drive car.

Although front wheel drive cars are better in slippery conditions, AWD vehicles are simply better when starting off.

The fastest lap by a production based front wheel drive car, in fact.

When front wheel drive cars lose traction in snow, they also lose the ability to steer.

In front wheel drive cars, the front tyres are subjected to more wear and tear as compared to the rear ones.

My question is why are the rear tyres wearing so fast if there is no problem - never before experienced this in 50 years of driving 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!

All - wheel - drive passenger cars and station wagons, in fact, handle as well as, if not better than many rear drive cars and are as safe and predictable during everyday driving situations as front wheel drive cars.

And, for front wheel drive cars, the MiTo and Giulietta are decent to drive too, and although we would prefer them to be rear wheel drive — well, certainly the Giulietta — we certainly understand why they're not.

@Paulster2 your last sentence is what I pointed out: «They are in most front wheel drive cars - started with the mini designed by Sir Alec Issigonis.»

I recall the days of front wheels drive cars in the snow with no TRAC.

The BSA Front Wheel Drive Car: A Valued — Asset Graham Skillen tells how he came to be a BSA owner, explains the attributes of the front - wheel drive cars and compares them with their contemporaries, backed up by reference to works records / Rise and Rise of Fratelli Maserati — Arriving by way of Isotta - Fraschini and Diatto, the Maserati brothers showed both talent and industry in the field of cars and racing.

Given that Alfa had no experience in small front wheel drive cars, the sheer dynamic ability of the flat - four powered «Sud was a shock to the motoring world.

FWD and RWD are pretty straightforward - Front Wheel Drive cars put the power to the front wheels, Rear Wheel Drive puts it in the rear.

Most front wheel drive cars display a heavy understeering behavior while cornering (at road holding limit speeds).

The fact that front wheel drive cars stop well despite this handicap is a testament to the engineering that goes into today's automobiles and tires.

-- Honda has unveiled the 2018 Accord in the US markets — The 2018 Honda Accord is the first front wheel drive car to get a 10 - speed transmission — The new Accord will no more be powered by the 2.4 - litre and V6 petrol engines — The 2018 Accord will come powered by a 1.5 - litre and 2.0 - litre turbocharged petrol engines

Being a high power front wheel drive car it had some under steer in the fast corners

In our testing, this past month the Mazda3 with winter tires was simply much more confidence inspiring and better handling than any other front wheel drive car we tested with all - season tires.

The engine topped out at 300 hp (224 kW) from 1996 through 2004 on the STS, DTS and ETC models, making these some of the most powerful domestic front wheel drive cars ever built.

One of the main disadvantages of front mid-engine, front wheel drive is the greater torque steer these cars have, compared to regular front wheel drive cars.

Honda confirmed ambitions for the Civic Type R to become the fastest front wheel drive car around the infamous Nurburgring circuit in Germany.

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Most front wheel drive cars not only don't need this adjustment, there isn't a readily available way to do it without buying camber bolts, etc..

* Note: Some of my conclusions here come from having tested AWD cars with snow tires such as the Range Rover Evoque and Toyota Highlander, AWD cars with all - season tires such as the Jeep Cherokee and Chrysler 200S, and front wheel drive cars with all - season tires such as the Lexus ES class during the same period of time.

This spring, Seat Leon Cupra 280 became the fastest front wheel drive car on the Nurburgring, stealing the crown from the long rulling king, the Renault Megane RS.

Like in the case of front wheel drive cars the driver has to «brake late» when entering the corner, to operate a weigh transfer, and push the gas pedal while inside the corner in order to allow a «torque transfer» (usually operated by self locking differentials) to the rear wheels.

«We believe fun is when you can also put a car in a smooth drift when you want to, even in front wheel drive cars.»

With front wheel drive cars, engine braking may be enough on most descents.

When both of the clutch packs on the rear axle are open, and no torque is being sent to either rear wheel, the RS is essentially a front wheel drive car.

A front wheel drive car will simply push wide as the front tyres lose the battle.

It doesn't mean much in a front wheel drive car, as the engine is transverse instead of longitudinal with most RWD vehicles.

tl; dr: As this is a front wheel drive car and you're taking about replacing one of the rear tires, it sounds like you'll be fine replacing a single tire.

If you fail to rotate tires often enough, and you have front wheel drive car as is typical these days, you put yourself into a difficult position.

Instead of the general understeer a front wheel drive car will trend to do through a corner because traction is broken relatively easily when accelerating through a corner, you will expect a four wheel drift as all four wheels will be able to break traction.

You may note that rear wheel drive cars are much more fun to drive than front wheel drive cars are.

A front wheel drive car will have its inside wheel spinning and will almost stall in the absence of a self locking differential.

A front wheel drive car fitted with a proper set of cheap winter tires will outperform an AWD car fitted with all - season tires in the snow.

If a front wheel drive car enters a corner too fast, due to driver misjudgment, inexperience or optimism, the usual driver's reaction is to brake while inside the corner and subsequently lift his right foot from the gas pedal.

A second reason for the front wheel driven car's predominance is their reduced manufacturing costs compared to other types of cars.

A front wheel drive car in this situation will operate a weight tranfer to the front wheels making them «stick» better and thus reducing its understeering character and enroll the corner more easily «forgiving» its driver's error.

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

To tow a front wheel drive car, only the rear wheels can be on the ground.

American Axle calls this eAAM, and it can operate as a front wheel drive car, a four wheel drive car, as a hybrid, or operate in pure EV mode.