Sentences with phrase «kickdowns on»

The odd kickdown on the side glass is jarring — the mismatched lines almost make it look as if a separate vehicle were welded onto the rear third of the minivan.

Not exact matches

Turning the rotary - knob gear selector from D to S activates a transmission Sport mode that mitigates the kickdown steps by holding on to lower gears longer.

Find a highway on - ramp and the engine churns loudly through each endless gear; at 60 mph or so, the only kickdown option from 4th is 3rd, and that makes it a buzzy slog to 70 mph.

On the highway, however, shift behavior was more natural, with prompt and smooth kickdowns.

Purely electric driving up to 78 mph, the combustion engine is additionally enabled at higher speeds or on kickdown.

Lexus has developed a new «kickdown» feature for its hybrid system, which allows for more immediate power delivery on the highway.

The efficiency mode — it also engages the start / stop function — works to get the CLA into the highest gear possible as soon as possible and it takes a deep push on the accelerator to get kickdown.

Also, the transmission was clever enough to give you a lower gear on kickdown, even if the driver was holding a gear manually.

Some journalists groused at the lack of paddle shifters on the wheel (the console lever has a dedicated sequential slot), but I found the kickdown reaction speedy enough to be satisfying, even for our track laps.

All versions are fitted with the same smooth - shifting eight - speed automatic gearbox - although it's a little to keen to kickdown gears on the 2.2 - litre engined models.