Sentences with phrase «how good the chassis»

There's more than enough straightline acceleration to drain the blood from your eyeballs, but what really impresses is how well the chassis copes with so much grunt.

Another aspect of comfort is how well the chassis can absorb bumps.

Not exact matches

Fernando Alonso was forever saying how the chassis was the best on the grid last year, 2018 will be time to prove it

There's a huge amount of pressure on the team to do well because Fernando Alonso, in particular, spent much of last year making loud noises about how the chassis was the best on the grid, and how he'd be at the front in every race with a better engine.

For ages, we've been listening to Fernando Alonso talk about how good McLaren is, and how good at building chassis the team is, and how - once the team dumped Honda - it would suddenly be able to fight at the front.

These «reverse retro» concepts feature the liveries from the 2016 Formula 1 teams adapted to the chassis of a 1985 car and you'll be amazed at how well some of them work.

VSCC driving tests — Tom Threfall out and about with the light cars and Edwardians of the VSCC / London to Brighton Run — We were at Brighton to photograph the arrivals / VSCC Welsh Trial — A dampish but well - supported affair according to Tom Threlfall / 1929 Post office van — The editor tries a restored Morris light van that originally worked the Post Office / Aster and Arrol - Aster — The story of an Anglo - Scottish alliance by Michael Worthington Williams / Singer Junior — How Berni Jacobson built a Brooklands replica based on an early Singer 8hp chassis / Supercharged BNC — Part two of the story of this French cyclecar that became a full blown racer.

Our in - house hot shoe, Andy Pilgrim, takes a few laps of his own and notes immediately how well you feel grip - level and chassis - behavior changes through the steering wheel and the seat of your pants.

Oh Luis we miss you (well we might until we learned the truth) We are still waiting to hear how you «got» your post-doctoral fellowship, please tell us how, when and even more interestingly, how you retained it after you retired... And if you could tell us why you incorrectly identified both the faculty and both of the courses that you «teach» that would be really good, do a lot for your credibility Luis Then we would love to hear more about your work in F1, well actually my chassis development friends working near Banbury are the ones dying to hear.

However, the car's chassis allows you to use so much of that performance, thanks to how intuitive it is and the feedback that it generates, that very few cars could keep pace with a well driven Quadrifoglio.

We've included the Swift Sport in our list of small cars, given its likely price and performance figures, but while it won't match the cars above for punch, it has a real chance of leaving a few with bloody noses in terms of good old - fashioned fun — the new Swift is small, far lighter than most superminis, and Suzuki knows how to tune a good chassis.

We can't wait to sample the full fat ST when it arrives next year and as the basic platform is this good how entertaining will it be with another 60bhp and a further fettled chassis?

Just like when I said reviewers always talk about how good a car is, the chassis, the feel, the driver involvement.

Free to work quickly towards the limits of grip you're struck by many things: the responsiveness of the steering, the bite and hold the front Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 generate, how well matched the chassis feels front - to - rear.

The S3 carries plenty of speed into corners with well - controlled poise; understeer is always waiting for you at the limit, but we were pleased with how hard we could push the chassis before encountering much of it.

It looks good inside and out, the power is good (enough), I don't know how the eight - speed gearbox could be any smoother, the chassis is rock - solid and the ride was firm with good body control but didn't beat the heck out of me.

To see how the Discovery wins this, its the most expensive, has the worst engine, is brand new but by the testers own admission, feels 5 years old, its economy and emissions are only marginally better than the AWD Hyundai, but apparently its got the best chassis for keen drivers, and therefore wins, even though, they don't recommend buying it until the new range of engines are fitted.

The soft top roof and new lightweight chassis techniques, as well as some Toyota roadster know - how, should enable this new BMW Z4 to get closer to Porsche's famous Boxster than ever before.

The ride is still good on smoother roads, but on twisty pavement like Angeles Crest Highway, the chassis shows just how capable it is.

A manual, no matter how good, would leave the driver one step behind this chassis above seven - tenths.

There's also the question of how well Asus managed the heat generate by a discrete GPU, which would tend to reduce performance due to throttling back to keep things cool — such machines usually benefit from having more chassis room to dissipate heat.

The biggest question is how well the ZenBook Flip 14's thin chassis can handle the heat the chip generates.

The chassis feels tight as well, and shows no sign of flex no matter how it's handled.