Sentences with phrase «gearchange buttons»

Alpina also uses strange gearchange buttons on the back of the steering wheel rather than the more familiar paddles.

Not exact matches

All cars boast the usual Mini plus points, though: tactile controls, a slick gearchange and electric power steering that while unnatural in its firmness when you press the infamous Sport button, is better weighted than most rivals.

The only things I found a bit off - putting about this test car were the blue interior (which clashes a bit with the black buttons on the center stack) and the clutch (which seemed too heavy and long upon first impression but became perfectly familiar after a few gearchanges).

On the road, Alpina was an early adopter of turbocharging, and is widely known for its early take on race - style gearchanging too, with the Switchtronic steering wheel button system.

However, as a general rule, if you keep the standard adaptive dampers in their softest setting and select Efficient mode via the Drive Performance button - for tamer accelerator response and less aggressive gearchanges, etc - the M5 bumbles around in a more relaxed fashion than the always more aggressive - feeling Mercedes - AMG E63.