Sentences with phrase «highway speeds where»

It's also dead quiet, except at highway speeds where wind noise is apparent but not at all intrusive.

The plot unravels a bit at highway speeds where the tall body, short wheelbase and narrow tires conspire against it to induce a fidgety and wandering ride.

Engine noise does intrude into the cabin to a higher degree than we expected, but only at highway speeds where the Navigator drones a bit.

The tech tells me that he drove the car down the street next to the shop (not going at highway speeds where I experienced serious problems) and it seemed to run fine for him.

Not exact matches

Along the drive, the first two hours of which was on a reasonably fast highway, we stopped for peanut porridge, jerk chicken, more beef patties — and everyone, no matter where we were, estimated we still had about three hours of driving ahead of us (including the two speed - gun - happy local cops who pulled us over).

Where the speed limit is seen as unreasonable (e.g. 4 lane highway, middle of the night, 80 km / h limit), most people would go 15 - 20 over if they know radar detectors are unlikely to be present.

Driving is fairly civilized in the cities, but on the Autobahn (Highway), where there are parts without speed limit, and it can get outright dangerous.

Either way, they affirm our initial hypothesis from our first drive, where we predicted the 2014 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel «should easily eclipse the 25 mpg highway achieved by the 3.6 - liter V - 6» offered on the Ram, which is also mated with an eight - speed automatic transmission.

While El Mirage is best known for its large dry lakebed, where people come to set land - speed records, many are unfamiliar with its Off - road Highway Vehicle (OHV) area.

The new eight - speed automatic transmission works especially seamlessly on the highway, where it helps the 4,916 - pound seven - seater return an EPA - rated 26 mpg.

Where many cars seem almost to propel themselves, with barely more than a thought from the driver, this one felt like it needed constant tending — like a fireplace — to keep its flames roaring and up to speed on the highway.

I am a fan of the manual gearbox, especially in situations where downshifting becomes necessary for passing, but I realize that the six - speed dual - clutch transmission probably comes into its own on the highway.

When we crossed into Alabama, I regaled the crew with a tale of a mythical highway I once drove in this state, a place where there was no practical way for cops to enforce a speed limit without airplanes.

They make sense in low - speed and self - contained environments where vehicles can simply come to a stop if something goes wrong and on smoothly flowing stretches of highway.

Oh, the glories of Germany, the only place in the world where the highway to an international airport often has no speed limit.

The electronically managed all - wheel - drive system uses data from steering angle, speed, torque and throttle position to instantly divide torque among all four wheels where needed, but defaults to front wheel drive during regular highway use.

The Brits were even so kind as to give us access to an active airport runway where we were able to achieve an impressive 145 - mph straight - line speed, which the Sport handled with all the stability and calm of a vehicle at highway speed.

In town and on the highway, where you'll spend most of your time driving it, the X2 is zippy and nimble, and as is true of other BMWs, it is easy to exceed the speed limit, which makes the head - up display's near total invisibility while wearing polarized sunglasses all the more frustrating because it supplies speed limit information to help a driver avoid tickets.

The six - speed transmission worked well with the base engine, especially on the highway where it kept the revs low and the cabin eerily quiet.

But where NVH is taken into account, the engine and tyre noise does enter the cabin at high speeds, which results in poor ride comfort at highway speeds.

With no speed limits on many of Germany's highways, that's where a supercar like the 570GT can really come alive.

Routine handling: The power - assisted rack - and - pinion system feels somewhat heavy getting underway but works well at highway speeds, where less steering effort is needed.

Acceleration is strong, even at highway speeds, where some other EVs linger.

At highway speeds, the Px - MiEV enters parallel mode where the gasoline engine and electric motors work together.

This is a common scenario at busy city crossings as well as on highways, where the speed limits are higher.

In a situation where you want the extra power, like on hilly terrain or when simply merging into traffic or navigating a highway with changing speed limits, the Sport mode is fun and useful.

The hybrid's electric motor and clutch reside where a traditional torque converter usually would, and allow the gasoline engine to be decoupled from the motor at any speed from a walking pace on up to highway speeds (75 mph to be exact).

The powerful 3.5 - liter V6 direct - injection engine with an advanced direct shift - eight - speed automatic transmission will more than get you where you need to go and offers a fuel efficiency of 27 MPG on the highway.

powerful 3.5 - liter V6 direct - injection engine with an advanced direct shift - eight - speed automatic transmission will more than get you where you need to go and offers a fuel efficiency of 27 MPG on the highway.

It has a rear budge even in the 3rd gear (around 120 km / h), where it can reach speeds by 30 km / h higher than the one allowed on highways in Europe except Germany.

Volvo says this will come in handy at busy city crossings and on highways, where the speed limits are higher.

Stop - and - go ACC takes the hassle out of daily urban highway commuting where speeds vary from 65 mph to 40 to 10 to stopped and back up to 65.

It's exhilarating merging into highway traffic where it's no problem at all getting up to speed.

Save for quick blasts up to highway speeds (where there's not untoward squatting), I didn't get a lot of joy from the combination of power and suspension response; the Pacifica stays out of its own way if you go around a corner quickly, but only just.

Only modest wind noise is evidenced at highway speeds, where one is treated to a limousinelike ride - not a ride you would expect from a full - time four - wheel - drive vehicle.

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Seventy - Five Mile Beach is an amazing beach highway where all road rules apply, the speed limit is 80 kilometres an hour and you must give way to aeroplanes landing and taking off.

I really «love» the highway between Sydney and Canberra — I can tell you where every rest stop is and which ones to go to — and which ones not to go to... and where the police cars usually hide to trap the speeding cars... thank goodness for cruise control.

Jump into a super sports car and test your driving skills in this high speed highway racing game where you have to weave through traffic to escape the police.

The Taiwan government, in an effort to help the butterflies make it north during their mass migrations, have set up special barriers on the highways where the butterflies pass over, and have even closed down some traffic lanes during the migration week to slow down the speeding cars.

This includes Nissan's advertising of that number to a degree but it especially applies to my fellow EV advocates, including Nick's hokey trip to the Jack Daniels factory where he took the slowest highway to get there and then claimed he had driven the speed limit (http://www.plugincars.com/nissan-leaf-116-mile-range.html).

On a sort of parallel track we've also talked to people about finding the «crying Indian» for global warming — the «crying Indian» being a TV advertisement about littering where a Native American dressed in native garb was standing by the side of a highway with cars speeding by and a bag of garbage gets tossed out, lands at his feet, and the camera pans up to show this tear coming down his cheek.

This guideline does not mean that climate change is harmless below 2 C, or that it suddenly becomes so catastrophic above 2 C that further efforts at limiting warming are pointless, but like a highway speed limit, it serves as a useful benchmark for where you start to worry about things being really bad.

It's a remnant of the highway and mini-highway era, where engineers set speed limits as high as possible and pedestrian crossings are viewed as slowing down traffic,» she says.

However, they will be allowed to cross an intersection of a public highway where the speed limit is greater than 55 mph.

It is common for the injuries that result from a road hazard accident to be severe, especially when they occur on the highway at high speed, where the driver has little to no time to avoid the sudden hazard.

Drivers may be prone to speed, which is already dangerous on highways where people are driving at a rapid pace.

He may start refusing to drive at night, or on highways where he would have to go over a certain speed limit.

This is especially disheartening when you think about where car accidents most often occur: high - speed highways, where pedestrians are rare and where any drivers who witnessed the crash most likely drove away!

Chain - reaction accidents are common on New Mexico highways, where motorists travel within feet of one another at high speeds.