Sentences with phrase «if wheelspin»

Standard on Metris vans, this dynamic handling system actively intervenes to help keep the van firmly under control and safe by automatically braking individual wheels and reducing engine power to help stabilize the vehicle if wheelspin, understeer, or oversteer is detected.

Since it aspires to all - weather mobility instead of all - terrain capability, the motor simply adds more torque automatically to the rear wheels if wheelspin is detected.

Not exact matches

Attempting to follow virtually any other Fleeter saw me falling back in a flurry of wheelspin, but if you could deal with the dents to your pride, it was still a pretty fun way of getting somewhere.

However, it can lock to prevent unwanted wheelspin on a slick road, or send up to 85 per cent to the rear wheels if that's what's needed.

Standard traction control helps curtail wheelspin, although the engine has more than enough power and torque to make the optional Vehicle Dynamics Control stability system worth serious consideration, particularly if you live in an area where rain or snow are common.

Indeed, wheelspin is a problem with the traction control off, and the car will gladly understeer itself straight into the ditch if you lack discipline with wheel and throttle.

Wheelspin is only an issue if you want it to be.

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.

There can be some wheelspin if you accelerate hard (especially in the wet) so a degree of caution is needed.

In low range, the standard traction - control system also helps keep the vehicle under control when creeping downhill on a slick surface, not just in preventing wheelspin on acceleration — but only if the driver's foot is on the accelerator, not the brake.

Mine would be a basic GTI with sunroof and convenience package; the leather trim package the Autobahn gets is nice, but not worth the extra scratch; if you're going to get into the low $ 30s, spring for a Golf R and get rid of the wheelspin, too.

The long list of standard equipment includes items you won't find in just any $ 25,000 car, including rear - seat side - impact air bags; an Electronic Stability Program, which applies brakes individually to help prevent spin - outs; the previously mentioned traction control, which regulates throttle and ignition to help prevent wheelspin; and a system to sense whether a child seat is in place in the shotgun seat — if so, the passenger - side front air bag is deactivated.

When the traction control is removed, it now feels as if the ferocious power of the engine really is being channelled down to two small contact patches on the rear tyres, and anything other than the most precise throttle and steering applications when exiting a corner will cause instant wheelspin.