Add a quattro all - wheel drive system and a new 8 - speed auto box and it'll chew
highway miles with blissful ease.
The 2.5 - liter four - cylinder / six - speed automatic combo is fine for a van this size — I carried six around the snow - covered hills of northern lower Michigan and drove 600
highway miles with four people plus 100 pounds of dog, and the Transit Connect wagon did fine.
Eating up
highway miles with the roof open - a retractable steel roof, to be precise - is one of the best ways to sample the many charms of the Mercedes - Benz SLK - Class, whether you're behind the wheel of the SLK250 (1.8 - liter turbocharged four - cylinder engine pushing out 210 horsepower) or the more robust SLK350 (302 horsepower, 3.5 - liter V - 6).
Thanks to the 19.8 - gallon fuel tank, the 2018 Porsche Macan can cover approximately 495
highway miles with one tank of gas.
Not exact matches
With miles of greenery and mansions dotting the
highways, Alpharetta, Georgia exudes a natural beauty that adds to the overall high quality of life.
Compare that
with the F - 150 EcoBoost, which starts at almost half the price of the Raptor and gets an EPA - estimated 19
miles per gallon in the city and 25
miles per gallon on the
highway.
If you had a
highway with no speed limit, the majority of drivers would still go about 90
miles per hour.
With 18 numbered interstate
highways, it also has more interstate
miles than any other does.
The region's
highways are in the midst of significant renovations,
with $ 1.9 billion going to a rebuild of eight
miles of I - 95 from Cottman Avenue to Spring Garden Street by 2030, and $ 1.1 billion on a Pennsylvania Turnpike project to remake the junction of that
highway with I - 95, a project that could be important for Bensalem's bid for the headquarters on 675 acres of riverfront land.
One of Otto's trucks drove itself 120
miles down a public
highway in Colorado to deliver 45,000 beers as part of a deal
with Anheuser - Busch.
Otto, the self - driving truck startup bought by Uber, recently teamed
with Anheuser - Busch to successfully deliver a truck - load of beer to Colorado Springs without involvement from a driver for the
highway stretches of the 120 -
mile trip.
Last year, Uber claimed another victory last August in buying Levandowski's fledging startup Otto — which successfully tested an autonomous semi-tractor filled
with beer on a 100 -
mile highway run in Colorado last fall — and has been picking up Pittsburgh passengers in safety - driver equipped self - driving Ubers since last summer.
However, even
with the
highway, much of the Baja still remains isolated and unpopulated, consisting mostly of rugged mountains (up to 10,000 feet tall), along
with 800
miles of harsh desert,
with few facilities for travelers.
Otherwise, it would end up terminating 15
miles from where you actually want to go, no access to public transportation, require 2 different toll - roads that terminates into a «
highway»
with lights every quarter
mile before exiting straight into neighborhoods
with no traffic control.
I'm
with him, because my tennis game improved greatly when I began training — albeit not very aggressively — for the 1979 Stowe, Vt. bike race, a 43 -
mile hell - on - wheels event, passing through scenic Smugglers Notch and along the
highways of north - central Vermont.
For the more daring enthusiasts, another 250 - plus
miles of trails are waiting to be conquered
with your off -
highway vehicles in the Chappie - Shasta OHV Area, navigating through BLM land and the Shasta - Trinity National Forest.
This is the logical spot to start our pre-Olympic scouting trip, but we already know that we don't much care for the place, so we begin on a higher plane, heading 30
miles up the
highway to our rendezvous
with Nicole.
Imagine a 100
mile straight
highway contained in two cash - strapped regions that had a sine wave border
with a one -
mile wavelength,
with the
highway as the X axis, so that both regions» police would be in constant dispute over who collects speeding tickets.
------------------------------- Delaware County Sheriff's Deputies arrested 40 year old Gloria Prott of Southhaven on charges of unlawful possession of marijuana, criminal possession of a controlled substance, driving while ability impaired by drugs, speeding at 80
miles an hour in a 55 zone and operating a motor vehicle
with an open container of an alcoholic beverage, following a traffic stop on State
Highway 17 in the Town of Hancock.
The state's alternatives are down to two options: expand the existing one
mile of the elevated I - 81
highway through downtown Syracuse or eliminate and replace it
with a street - level community grid.
The useful life of the
highway's 1.4
mile stretch through downtown Syracuse would expire in 2017 and officials wanted to be ready
with a plan to repair, rebuild or replace it.
The agency manages the 570 -
mile highway,
with 809 bridges, 118 interchanges, 11 toll crossings and 27 travel plazas.
That's the notion behind a bold plan unveiled last week to dig a 16 -
mile highway tunnel under the Long Island Sound to connect Syosset
with Rye in Westchester County.
They drove up
Highway 1 from Santa Cruz, 30
miles to the south, cut through several feet of blubber, muscle, and bone, and scooped up the head
with a front - end loader borrowed from a nearby lumber company.
Car dealerships boast about
miles per gallon for both
highway and city, providing buyers
with an analysis relevant to different roadways.
Some 59
miles of driving on the
highway and twisting mountain lanes uses up 22 kilowatt - hours
with an average energy of 377 watt - hours per
mile, during a recent test drive.
Although 150
miles per hour is more than twice as fast as most people travel on the
highway, Acela Express trains can not compete
with their European and Japanese cousins: the British / French / Belgian Eurostar, the German ICE train (Inter City Express) and the Japanese Shinkansen routinely reach up to 186
miles per hour, and the French TGV (train grande vitesse) travels at up to 200
miles per hour.
Although one of the researchers always sat
with his hands just inches from the wheel, Ralph handled more than 98 percent of the 2,500
highway miles in the journey, at an average speed of 63
miles an hour.
We have found the Indians very faithful in their covenant of peace
with us; very loving and ready to pleasure us: we often go to them, and they come to us; some of us have been fifty
miles by land in the country
with them; the occasions and relations whereof you shall understand by our general and more full declaration of such things as are worth the noting, yea, it hath pleased God so to possess the Indians
with a fear of us, and love unto us, that not only the greatest king amongst them called Massasoit, but also all the princes and peoples round about us, have either made suit unto us, or been glad of any occasion to make peace
with us,... so that there is now great peace amongst the Indians themselves, which was not formerly, neither would have been but for us; and we for our parts walk as peaceably and safely in the wood, as in the
highways in England, we entertain them familiarly in our houses, and they as friendly bestowing their venison on us.
Instead of the bright fluorescent lights, beaches and nightclubs, the «River of Grass» is rural
with miles of flat land dissected by lonely
highways.
When we first see old Woody Grant trudging up the
highway alone
with no bags on a thousand
mile trek to claim his sweepstakes winnings, a sheriff pulls over and asks the old man where he's headed; Woody points forward.
Nichole Sanders» daily commute begins
with a 14 -
mile drive across a seemingly endless stretch of New Mexico grassland, mountains rising in the distance on all four sides, the only traffic the stubborn cattle that congregate on the dirt road leading out to
Highway 12.
The electric powertrain ran out around 25
miles into the journey, not unexpected at
highway speeds, but the car will still run in electric mode
with the engine providing battery power instead of actual propulsive force if need be.
That impressive
highway performance set the tone for a year in which the 5 - series crisscrossed the eastern half of the United States, piling on 29,324
miles and astonishing drivers
with its fuel economy and range.
Mated to the six, an automatic transmission
with a startling nine speeds helped us stretch 25
miles out of a
highway gallon of gasoline under conditions that toggled back and forth between traffic - choked and 85 mph, annoyingly mostly the former.
Volvo remains the only automaker to claim responsibility for any of its vehicles involved in an accident while operated by its autonomous systems, but the Drive Me test program is being conducted
with 100 Volvo XC90s on just 50 kilometers (31
miles) of limited - access
highway in Gothenburg, Sweden, which, I am told, doesn't get much snow.
These fixes left Hoey
with a near - perfect modern
highway cruiser for a long, boring drive across Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey and into Manhattan for a 10 - day, 1,478 -
mile round - trip to the New York International Auto Show.
27 mpg
with city and
highway driving very conservitave, i expected more then that from a 2005 4 cylinder that's underpowered, but all the downshifting i'm sure sucks a good bit of go go juice in my 10
mile drive to work.
This is not as big a deal
with modern fuel injection engines, but parts may still wear out faster than vehicles
with mostly «
highway miles.»
For the first 5 months I commuted 18
miles to work, combined
highway / city - it consistently got 30.5 - 31.5 mpg without the A / C, 29.9 - 30.2
with the A / C.
The tolled
highway is comprised of three sections: (i) Triangle Expressway extends from NC 147 at I - 40 south 3.4
miles and reached substantial completion in December 2011; (ii) Northern Wake Expressway (NC 540), a 2.8 -
mile segment, which opened to traffic in 2007 and was constructed by the North Carolina Department of Transportation
with Surface Transportation Funds; and (iii) Western Wake Freeway, which connects
with Northern Wake Expressway, covers a distance of 12.6
miles, and reached substantial completion in late 2012.
Volvo plans to take the Pilot Assist features a few steps further in 2017, when it will test a fleet of 100 XC90s
with enough autonomy to allow drivers to not pay attention to the road when traveling on a roughly 50 - kilometer (31
mile) stretch of
highway in the automaker's home town of Gothenburg, Sweden.
On March 2, 2005, the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority (CTRMA) executed a credit agreement
with DOT for a TIFIA direct loan of $ 66 million to support development of the 183 - A Turnpike project, an 11.6 -
mile, north - south toll
highway in northwest Austin, Texas, which opened to traffic in March 2007.
But without wishing to get all worthy on you, what we've flown 5500
miles to discover is whether it can deploy such rampant firepower
with any degree of sophistication, and to see if it can convincingly string together the endless assortment of corners, crests, lumps and bumps that constitute the public
highway.
Combined
with its new 10 - speed automatic transmission, the F - 150 Power Stroke targets an EPA
highway fuel economy estimate of 30
miles per gallon.
Mileage 19,484
miles Warranty 3 - yr / 36, 000 - mi bumper - to - bumper 5 - yr / 60, 000 - mi powertrain 24 - hour roadside assistance Scheduled Maintenance 16,880 mi: Lube, oil, and filter, $ 63.83; rotate tires, $ 22.95; 14 - point inspection, $ 8.28 Warranty Repairs None Recalls None Out - Of - Pocket 1,509 mi: Repair stone chip in windshield
with Safelite, $ 79.38 6,500 mi: Add Flyin» Miata Hush - O - Matic exhaust, $ 595 Fuel Consumption: EPA city /
highway / combined: 20/26/22 mpg Observed: 30.5 mpg Cost Per Mile (Fuel, service): $ 0.10 ($ 0.46 including depreciation) Trade - In Value $ 25,828 * Estimate based on information from Intellichoice
The Ram even manages to beat the best in the midsize class — the two - wheel - drive Toyota Tacoma
with a 2.7 - liter four - cylinder and a five - speed manual — by three
miles per gallon in the
highway rating.
Fans work, Thermostat opens and closes, but my job is about 22
miles from my house and i take the
highway; on the
highway my cars temp stays on normal
with no flunctuation.
1994: Dickmanns demonstrates a robotic Mercedes - Benz 500 SEL
with humans in the front passenger seats for more than 620
miles on Paris multi-lane
highways at speeds of up to 80 mph.
The EPA rates the combined city /
highway range at 76
miles, and thanks to an onboard charger
with twice the capacity of the Nissan Leaf, recharging takes about three hours from a 240 - volt supply.