Sentences with phrase «in top gear»

100 km / hr in top gear keeps the RPM needle ticking at 3000 RPM.

During light - load cruising in top gear, four of the engine's cylinders are shut down to conserve fuel.

Well, when was the last time you ran out of traction on the highway in top gear?

100 km / hr in top gear comes in at 2500 RPM.

Efficiency plummets in top gear at speeds much over 60 MPH, and even hybrid drivers join mobs of tailgaters (Jevons paradox).

When most people think about a, they don't envision a car capable of barreling down the Autobahn at 128 mph in top gear with the tach registering 6800 rpm.

Xi Jinping puts China's car industry in top gear with plans to raise foreign investment cap, lower import tariffs

Prodrive calculated the top speed at the» Ring would be 179 mph at 8,500 rpm in top gear.

To add to other answers, the only time extra horsepower will increase speed in a given gear is for top gear, as often the maximum speed is where the engine runs out of power to overcome rolling / air resistance and the car does not reach the redline in top gear no matter how hard you push.

More important, the GT3 hits its top speed in top gear (and at just over 8000 rpm), where other PDK - equipped Porsches do the deed in sixth.

Augsburg is in the top gear after defeating the league winner Munich and that was the second victory with Munich in 2 years.

With the base five - speed manual, for example, the engine will pull in top gear on uphill grades from 2000 rpm or lug down to 1200 to 1500 rpm around town without the need to downshift.

Shifting is accomplished by a 5 - speed manual transmission, which by today's standards would appear outdated, however the ratios are very well spaced — 60 mph in top gear only requires 2500 rpm, and the 0 - 60 mph sprint requires only one gearchange, while most cars require two.

Terminal velocities (197 mph, PDK; 198 mph, 6MT) are achieved in top gear for both.

The real benefit in terms of fuel economy with an automatic shift is that it allows a higher gearing ratio in the top gear.

For instance, in city drives [in default and in even in sports mode] the car can run lazily at 80km / h in top gear without batting an eyelid or missing a beat.

Preparation for the Yobo Testimonial game in Port Harcourt on May 27 is currently in top gear as the match tickets will go on sale on Tuesday, May 17.

we arent in top gear and yes, the ref defeated us.

Before the judgement that stopped the election in the affected states was delivered, arrangements were already in top gear by the INEC, political parties and stakeholders in the state to conduct credible elections.

The ability to fly in top gear might indicate that a butterfly is naturally in better shape — whether through access to more - nutritious food or individual genetics — to override high metabolism's harmful side effects, the researchers reported online last month in The Journal of Experimental Biology.

It's a little over three months until Solo: A Star Wars Story arrives in cinemas and with the marketing campaign now in top gear, we are constantly learning more about -LSB-...]

With an Oscar squatting in her house thanks to her performance in Room and her career in top gear, you might think Brie Larson would have enough to do.

Victor Fleming, one of the sturdiest of MGM's house directors, and a solid cast of supporting players (Frank Morgan as her fraud of a father, Una Merkel as her sassy assistant, Pat O'Brien as her exasperated director) keep the film running in top gear.

At sunset, we head for the city lights of downtown Berlin, parading up and down Karl - Marx - Allee in top gear, the G's sidepipes blowing dust off the pale graffiti around Checkpoint Charlie.

I would imagine that even in top gear you'd have to be going relatively slowly to stall your car... What sort of speeds are you thinking of in terms of stalling here?

Shift in top gear at 70km / h or slower so the engine revs at 1000rpm, and put the pedal to the metal.

Stab the throttle in top gear at 2000 rpm, and then quickly brace yourself as the M3 takes one big fast swig before building momentum like a slingshot and zooming toward the horizon.

It's fifth gear; nobody is overtaking with any sort of urgency in their top gear.

Instead of that, we head east on the A4 to Strasbourg, aiming to cross into Germany and then search out 8000rpm in top gear on the largely derestricted A5 that follows the Rhine to Basel in Switzerland.

Despite that, it's supremely relaxed when asked to cruise at more normal speeds — an 80mph motorway schlep sees the engine turning barely 2000 times a minute in top gear.

On the highway, the S3 will surge smartly forward in top gear with just a nudge of the gas.

Is it a problem that the FF can't engage the front wheels in top gear?

The 1.8 T has enough torque to cope with low revs in top gear, but if maximum forward thrust is desired, you're better off leaving the transmission in the «S» setting or taking control manually.

100 km / hr in top gear equates to 1700 RPM on the tachometer while the Q3 doesn't bog down one bit till 170 km / hr, post which it takes its own time to gather further momentum and the lack of ponies is quite evident then.

Great looking car and drives very well, the powerful diesel engine pulls easily in top gear at 70mph for effortless overtaking.

100 km / hr comes up in 3rd gear while the C63 touches the ton in top gear at a notch below 2000 RPM.

I would expect this transmission to have pretty comparable (and high) mechanical efficiency to the various DCT or manual transmissions, better than any CVT, and certainly better than old - style automatics (that had ratios too far apart to allow torque converter lockup except in top gear).

It loves to loaf along in the top gears — fine for freeway cruising, but it takes a heavy boot to initiate a few downshifts, and the tuning detracts from the fun of this powertrain.

Under normal conditions, the automatic transmission doesn't suffer from the gear hunting issues that some slushboxes do, but its tendency to want to stay in top gear makes sport driving a bit of a mess, with downshifts coming on unpredictably.

100 km / hr in top gear results in 1600 RPM on the tachometer, so a prod on the big pedal is enough to make quick overtakes as the increase in power has given it ample reserve to whizz past traffic.

The lack of torque is even more noticeable in top gear, with the Clio taking 13.5 seconds to accelerate from 50 - 70mph in fifth.

The Amazon is referred to as a climate tipping point because research shows following a 21st century global average temperature rise most of the Amazon basin may dry out, leading to a massive biome shift — accompanied by many gigatonnes of extra CO2 emissions and almost unimaginable biodiversity loss, placing the cascading Anthropocene Extinction in top gear.

The symposer opens in lower gears and under hard acceleration, closes while cruising in top gear.