Sentences with phrase «less torque steer»

The specs on paper are virtually the same — 190kW at 5500rpm and 380Nm at 3000Nm — but the Mazda propeller heads have fiddled around with a few bits to make it a smoother drive, with less torque steer.

There seems to be less torque steer than before, and the shifter seems much more robust.

Less power means less torque steer, and better balance means fewer moments of annoyance.

The Ford Focus ST is also less squirrelly and gives less torque steer than the older «Speed3.

The GTI exhibits the much less torque steer, but also has about 50 less horsepower to deal with.

All - wheel - drive is the cure for a turbocharged, torque - steering, front - drive hot hatch — except that the GTI exhibits less torque steer than a Little Tykes Cozy Coupe.

Not exact matches

The famously athletic chassis is now aided by optional active torque vectoring, but we're less enthusiastic about the new electric power steering, which isn't quite as communicative as before.

Thanks to patented Porsche tech like all - wheel steering and torque - vectoring, it'll lap the Nurburgring in less than eight minutes.

Partly it's the torque converter of the six - speed ZF auto, which fuzzes the throttle response at low speeds, partly the variable - assistance steering, which offers less resistance than expected as you twirl the wheel.

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While there is now less mass resting on the correspondingly lighter steering, front - wheel drive assistance has vanished, and with it, torque vectoring.

Less easily fixed are issues like the flex - prone body structure, the torque - steering chassis, or the imprecise tiller that has little sense of straight ahead.

There is torque steer, though less than you'd expect with 325 lb ft, and scant feel.

And with less torque on offer, there's less torque - steer too...

There is a fair amount of torque steer under wide - open throttle, and the turning radius is just slightly less than that of a school bus, but it handles and accelerates well.

Drivers will find brisk acceleration without torque steer, and Nissan claims it'll hit 60 mph in less than 8 seconds.

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Despite pumping all that power through only the front wheels, Honda's magical suspension engineering nullifies the torque steer that makes lesser front - wheel - drive vehicles feel as if they tug to one side during heavy acceleration.

Downshifts from the 7 - speed torque converter automatic are delivered with less prodding from the gas pedal, and the steering is organic and features actual road feel, a trait that's rapidly diminishing in new cars.

Off the mark, you might want to go easy on the throttle as anything less than a sedate launch unleashes some torque steer.

Turbo lag and torque steer were still present, but to a much lesser degree.

They're two completely different animals, one beset with torque steer and a far - less - advanced powertrain and chassis, while the other packs all the pure performance potency of the world - beater 3 - series in a more compact and lighter - weight package.

Along with the introduction of electronic torque vectoring to improve agility, the front and rear tracks have increased by 30 mm and 10 mm respectively for a wider stance, and there's 20 per cent less friction in the steering to help feel.

Lesser - controlled models would torque - steer the wheel right out of your hands,» says the same staffer, who finally got a chance to spend some time behind the wheel of the Altima, which had been sidelined for more than a month because of a parking - lot bang - up.

With less power at the front wheels, torque steer and tire squeal are reduced also, along with, naturally, acceleration.

When powering off the accelerator, less torque is shifted to the front axle to enhance the car's agility, with oversteer and drifting easy using light throttle and steering wheel control.

Then we drove the lusty 2.0 TDI, which revs cleanly beyond 5000rpm and delivers smooth, effortless, muscular torque everywhere and therefore suffers less from the lack of a seventh S tronic ratio, although there's more vibration through the steering wheel at low revs.

Torque steer is even less of an issue than it was in the pleasant ST.

Either way, there's torque steer still in both the current Mazdaspeed 3 and Focus ST, but I will say the Ford suffers from it much less and it's rather easy to control.

With Sport engaged and starting off more or less normally, the front inside wheel first breaks loose and then the torque yanks the steering wheel to the side.

All this takes place in less than 50 milliseconds (one - twentieth of a second) from steering wheel input to torque reduction, so it's effectively instantaneous.