Sentences with phrase «highway expansion joints»

For one, the initial impacts over highway expansion joints are a little more muted.

Ride quality is incredibly compliant in easy driving, even on harsh highway expansion joints and is firm when you need it to be, especially with the optional active suspension management.

Although road hazards are a danger to all vehicles, road conditions that pose little or no risk to cars, such as highway expansion joints or gravel, can cause serious motorcycle accidents.

Equipped with optional summer tires, the Focus Titanium sedan with 18 - inch wheels crossed highway expansion joints with a faint thrumming sound that recalled earlier, lighter Audis — a sensation I always associated with an exceptionally stiff body structure.

The Sport mode makes undulating highway expansion joints feel just a hair more pronounced, where the Comfort mode seems to float boatlike over them.

Nasty highway expansion joints and the like are dispatched with greater authority and less rumble than before.

At public road speeds, though, the suspension also satisfies in its ability to iron out lums and bumps in the asphalt surface — though, as expected from a vehicle of this caliber, the setup isn't quite cossetting enough to filter out the sharper jolts over fixtures like highway expansion joints.

«Enough compliance to make it comfortable yet still firm over highway expansion joints, and there's no skating over mid-corner bumps on surface streets.

Highway expansion joints can induce some head toss when the dampers are set to their firmer setting, but toggling back into touring mode (the default) usually irons them out.

Things improve on the highway, but it still feels taught and jumpy over highway expansion joints.

Yet that hasn't come at the expense of ride quality — though the firm suspension does rear its ugly head when you're traversing rougher road surfaces or driving over highway expansion joints, the Nissan Juke remains fairly calm and composed in almost all other driving scenarios.

The Z transmits more road noise into the cabin at legal speeds than engine sound, and passengers complained about the rough ride as we crashed over highway expansion joints and bounced around in our seats.

Over highway expansion joints or poorly maintained roads, the stiff suspension creates a choppy, teeth - rattling ride and increased road noise, which is contrary to the smooth ride many crossover buyers expect.