Sentences with phrase «in taller gears»

Happily, the volume is reduced at lower revs, making the new BMW quite subdued at typical highway cruising speeds in taller gears for more subdued progress over longer journeys.

It is also torquey, pulling strongly in taller gears — ideal for the street.

Since the Urus weighs more than 4,400 pounds, you're better off in a taller gear more often than not.

This car frowns at and refrains from grand gestures, so turn in with restraint while staying in the taller gear then open up the steering early and feed the torque diligently.

Unlike the lesser Boxsters, the additional torque gives you the flexibility to simply leave the shifter in a taller gear.

Peak torque of 530Nm arrives at a pretty high 4250rpm, but this engine still doesn't mind digging out by its boot straps in a tall gear.

Not exact matches

We come in a variety of sizes from short to tall, but most strollers seem geared towards average and taller moms.

Black Master with a tall slim smooth body uncut cock in search of a slave to train as my ponyboy and have pony gear to use on them

Despite the traction issues, the engine doesn't feel like it's imbued with quite as much vim and eagerness as in the 208bhp Mini JCW, partly, I suspect, due to taller gearing in the DS3.

The LaSpRa comes only with the six - speed dual - clutch transmission that we whined about in our Four Seasons Evo, with slightly taller fifth and sixth gears for quieter and more fuel - efficient cruising.

-- Porsche fiddled with the gear ratios, but the 911 R still appears cursed with gearing that's far too tall, a problem that seems to dilute a bit of the fun in all modern Porsche models equipped with a manual gearbox.

Even though this Miata's six - speed manual transmission has a fairly tall ratio in sixth gear for highway cruising, the rear axle's final - drive ratio is fairly short to enhance acceleration, so the Miata's 2.0 - liter inline - 4 engine spins above 3000 rpm at ordinary cruising speed and close to 4000 rpm if you're brave with speed limits.

The flat torque curve also means that there's solid urge available pretty much throughout the rev range, giving a diesel - like surge for overtaking, and the engine is also happy to pull very tall gearing (2200rpm at 75mph in sixth) without complaint.

With a numb clutch, lazy throttle tip - in, and tall gearing, the Mini is a nuisance to drive in stop - and - go traffic.

A tall but slim center console rises in Porsche Carrera GT fashion and houses a round mode selector, a gear lever, and a large touchscreen.

The center stack accommodates the MMI and navigation controls, auxiliary instruments, a row of classic rocker switches, a push - button parking brake, and a U-shaped metal gear lever for reverse that stands up tall and is much easier to use than the push - button device in the outgoing Gallardo.

With the six - speed manual (actually, it's a little bit like a four - speed as far as performance is concerned, since the top two gears are tall overdrive ratios), as well as a short - throw shift linkage and a reinforced clutch, a Golf R gets to 60 mph in 4.9 seconds.

There's plenty of muscle at low speeds, but the delivery goes a little flat in the mid-range — it feels as if the car's potential is being deliberately reined in so as not to tread on the toes of the Golf — although this reluctance could also be explained by the tall intermediate gears.

The gearing feels well - matched to both engines though; second is a good B - road gear in the 1 - litre, second and third for the 1.5, while tall upper ratios benefit refinement and economy at higher speeds.

At part throttle it short shifts in soft, quick - fire succession, always looking for the tallest possible gear.

Mated to a 5 - speed manual in our test unit, the gearing was decidedly «small - car», with shorter gearing from 1st until 3rd making the Swift 1.2 a sprightly little thing from pull - off, and the taller 4th and 5th gears making it a rather frugal machine.

Perhaps more importantly, more speeds in the transmission allow automakers to gear the top ratio «taller» — tech talk for the engine turning more slowly — and, again, rpm reduced is fuel conserved.

At low speeds in town it requires fewer revs to pull taller gears.

Even though the Trax is tall and relatively short in length, it exhibited good road manners, and the 1.4 - liter turbocharged Ecotec inline - four engine coupled with a six - speed automatic transmission was nicely geared and never indicated that it had to work very hard.

The wider spread of ratios allows the engine to run at lower speeds, often in the «tallest» gear, 8th.

Although, in testing the JCW hardtop, I discovered the gears are matched very well to the available power and that great economy does not come at the expense of unnecessarily tall gearing.

The manual does have tall gearing in its first two ratios (second is good for 81 mph), but the GT3 spends so little time in those gears that it's less of a criticism and more of a warning.

Its 1.3 - litre, four - cylinder, turbo - diesel engine makes the same power and torque as on the old car (75hp and 190Nm), but with gearing being significantly taller here (the final drive is different) in the interest of efficiency, there are no performance gains borne out of the weight reduction.

Part of the problem is because Honda has used taller fourth and fifth gear ratios in the interests of fuel economy, which on the petrol - manual is improved by around 10 percent to 19.5 kpl.

The first part of that is due to its faster shifting and shorter gearing in its first four gears (both gearboxes are direct - drive in fifth) and the second part is due to its far taller top gear.

In our fuel efficiency tests it returned a very impressive 19.19 kmpl on the highway thanks to the tall gearing but in the city, where you need to make more gear changes to keep the engine in the sweet spot, that figure drops down to 13.5 kmpl, which is still a reasonable figure for a petrol enginIn our fuel efficiency tests it returned a very impressive 19.19 kmpl on the highway thanks to the tall gearing but in the city, where you need to make more gear changes to keep the engine in the sweet spot, that figure drops down to 13.5 kmpl, which is still a reasonable figure for a petrol enginin the city, where you need to make more gear changes to keep the engine in the sweet spot, that figure drops down to 13.5 kmpl, which is still a reasonable figure for a petrol enginin the sweet spot, that figure drops down to 13.5 kmpl, which is still a reasonable figure for a petrol engine.

In its incredibly tall 10th speed (I needed to nip 70 mph before the Honda would even get into its top gear) the Honda's V - 6 is loafing at

A carbon fiber hood will be an available option on 2012 Z06 models, while the standard manual transmission for ZR1 will include taller gearing in fifth and sixth gears, for a 2 - mpg improvement in highway fuel economy.

A taller gear ratio in the rear differential, combined with the transmission's two extra gears, allows for better fuel economy.

The gearing is tall as the RS tops out at a limited 250kmph but works rather well in the city limits thanks to the torque.

A sport mode for the transmission and paddle shifter helped with on - road performance, allowing me to bypass some of the six - speed automatic transmission's tendency to find itself in too tall a gear, but ultimately this is neither a sports car or a true off - roader, so I found myself grateful and impressed by the Escape's modest abilities in either of these areas.

The 6 - speed gearbox is quite sorted and works well in both city as well as highway conditions with a tall sixth gear enabling the Active to be a comfortable cruiser.

It's now even better thanks to taller second and top gear ratios in the LC70's sole five - speed manual transmission, which extracts more of the significant torque available at low speeds and reduces engine speed to less than 2000rpm in top at 100km / h.

The position of the cupholders prevent you from shifting gears if you have a tall drink in the cupholders.

The new Sixth gear ratio is taller (lower numerically) than the top gear in Acura's 5 - speed V - 6 automatic transmissions.

Gearing is on the taller side with 100 km / hr coming up in second gear itself.

At least it's a quieter Cruiser: the taller fifth gear in this latest update sees revs drop from about 2200rpm in fifth gear at 100km / h to about 1900rpm.

Even at less than full highway speeds you could be in a relatively tall 5th, 6th or 7th gear.

Like many economy cars before it, the SX4 Sport suffers from an automatic transmission that always seems to be in too tall a gear to really take advantage of the 2.0 - liter's power.

If you've been in an S - 10 or previous - generation Colorado, there will be many familiar cues, such as the tall dash and almost comically large gear shifter.

The petrol engine with its taller gearing is not free - revving in nature and relies more on torque to pick up pace.

The only difference in each case is the selection of gear ratios, with the SOHC - associated transmissions being geared taller for more efficiency, and the DOHC - associated transmissions having shorter, more closely spaced ratios for performance.

The 2016 Subaru Forester offers a spacious interior built to haul the crew and their gear, with plenty of room in the back seat for taller passengers and nearly 75 cubic feet of total cargo area.

Those tall bed walls, however, can be a bit of a hindrance when trying to access a tool box or gear in the bed's center.

The five - speed's tall gearing wasn't the best on our homemade course, either, where my choices were limited to nearly banging off the rev limiter in first gear or being outside the torque band in second gear.