Sentences with phrase «get on a slick road»

If you opt for a CXL with front - wheel drive, you get standard traction control, an electronic system that detects, and then limits, wheelspin of the sort that you'd get on a slick road.

Not exact matches

With the approach of winter, salt trucks are getting ready to wage battle on icy roads and slick driving conditions.

The Tru - Lok diffs, easily accessed via dashboard switches, are a godsend when the terrain gets slick and muddy (as it did on our drive), while disconnecting the electronic sway bar (via a dash button) over rough roads does wonders for reducing (or even eliminating) big jostles and head toss.

The ride is rather bobbly through town and not the slickest over sharp bumps, but down a B - road it is possible to get a nice flow going with the whole car feeling quite light on its feet.

It's still a lot of fun to wheel around on your favorite chunk of winding road, the boxer six - cylinder howling as it provides good power, the ZF dual - clutch transmission getting even better with slick and quick up - and downshifts.

We appreciated the grip afforded on rain - slick roads, as the car began to slide a little in a turn, but got right back in line with a little pressure on the gas pedal.

I know even good winter rear tires aren't a match for slick roads, but I suspect that you could get things pretty loose on dry summer pavement as well — especially if you flick off the traction control.

When you take care of your tires, you'll get the best traction and experience the most control on slick winter roads.

This time, the focus is on the fifth generation Discovery's off - road abilities, and we get to see the Disco climbing this, fording that and generally behaving in a way only a Land Rover really can, clearly stating the new Discovery may be posher and slicker than before, but that its USP is firmly intact.

Hmmm, I guess the one Christmas memory I thought of was a few years ago my daughter getting a late start, drove home from college and by the time she made it home (5 hour trip) it was snowing and the roads were getting slick so she had to park at my mother - in - law's house and walk through the woods on the path to our house because we live on a hill and our road was too slick.