Sentences with phrase «like kerbs»

These intelligent canines can assess the surroundings and lead their partners safely from point A to B, guiding them up elevated obstacles like kerbs and stairs, and away from overhead ones like tree branches.

Both cars are limited to 250km / h (with 280km / h options), though they achieve both this and their straight - line sprinting despite a large, seven - seat SUV - like kerb weight of 1910 kg, or 1925 kg for the C 63 S.

Not exact matches

It looks like he took a bit too much kerb on the exit, which unsettled the car and caused him to spin.

The photo then goes through a «dewarping» stage, in which straight lines like walls and kerb angles are corrected for the new point of view, and «hole filling», in which nearby pixels are copied to fill in gaps in the image created because some original elements were obscured.

I've been after a blazer like yours but have vowed to try and kerb the spending, I've spent a bomb in Zara recently.

Through direction changes it just shrugs off its kerb weight and transitions like a modern four - wheel drive hot hatch.

As well as sounding like a WW2 fighter, it feels every bit as stupidly fast as it should with 360bhp and a kerb weight of just 1100 kilos.

Rather than «just» 542bhp and 568 lb ft, like the engine makes in the Cayenne, the Urus has 641bhp and 627 lb ft.. Such vast figures help counter the car's kerb weight of just less than 2200 kg and make it capable of achieving supercar - like acceleration of 3.6 sec to 62mph — that's 0.1 sec faster than the Lamborghini Gallardo LP560 - 4.

Despite a relatively light kerb weight (1465 kg) the GT won't set your hair alight, reaching 62mph in 8.9 seconds from rest and topping out at 131mph, but you'd question whether any more is really necessary in a car like this from a non-premium brand.

The recent rise of the premium compact SUV has been nothing short of meteoric and this second generation Audi Q5 joins the likes of BMW's X3, Mercedes» GLC, Jaguar's F - Pace and Porsche's Macan in fighting for your monthly payment and a parking space on the kerb outside of the school gates.

But the Competition Package can't alter the basic physics of the M6's 1850 kg kerb weight, and it always feels like a big, heavy car — especially if you indulge the temptation to disarm the stability control to steer it from the rear.

Coupled to stronger traction, superior stability into the most critical braking area and an ability to ride the kerbs without deflecting the car from your chosen line, it feels like a car you can place with pin - point accuracy, even when driving at the limit.

Just as on the road, during moments of very sharp suspension loading — such as those from a ridge, pothole or a racetrack's kerb — the DFV acts like a blow - off valve, allowing oil within the damper to bypass the compression and rebound ports.

Find a deserted car park or area of tarmac where there's nothing to hit and no kerbs or bits of broken concrete or the like, and preferably with a wet surface to save the machinery a bit.

With 89bhp from its 1.3 - litre engine and a 775 kg kerb weight it was certainly lively by the standards of early 1980s shopping cars, and like the XR2 the styling still looks great today — think stripes, spotlights, chunky 13x6in alloy wheels, and a matching front lip and tailgate spoiler.

In Abarth configuration, the 124 works with a 1060 kg kerb weight and — like the Mazda on which it's based — has a 50/50 weight distribution front to rear.

It just feels like you are the one in the car, battling with understeer on the way through a fast corner, wrestling with snap oversteer on an exit kerb.

The interior treatment could be called «pared back» as a result, with carbonfibre inhabiting most surfaces, and comforts like electric windows and a stereo all sacrificed in the quest for a low kerb weight.

Like all the high performance versions of compact executive models you'll need to drive with a bit more care and attention to avoid kerbing those beautiful alloys or knocking chunks out of the front splitter on parking bay kerbs, but otherwise the practicality is largely on a par with regular Giulia models.

Even a kerb weight that starts with a two doesn't stop the 4S Diesel from gaining speed like it's fallen off a cliff.

With a kerb weight of just 600 kg this would have gone like a rocket.

It does still look like a DB9 with a bit of hurriedly applied make - up, though — but Aston says the construction is defined by «the need for high - performance stability, handling stability and low kerb weight».

It oozes kerb appeal like no 3 Series can, and is in a different league to its predecessor.»

The two power sources harmonise beautifully and, with a total available joint power output of 308bhp and 332 lb ft of torque, deliver sports car like acceleration with 0 - 62mph in just 6.8 seconds - though at higher speeds the X5 doesn't feel that fast, probably because of its hefty 2,230 kg kerb weight.

The Gypsy comes with no bells and whistles like modern SUVs but is still a favourite with the rallyists for its excellent ground clearance of 210 mm and a kerb weight of just 985 kgs for the soft top.

Renault says that's enough to propel the pint - size two - seater, which employs a carbon - fibre body and Kevlar - protected steel roll cage to reduce the kerb weight to 1400 kg (including 450 kg for the 40kWh battery), to 100kmh in a supercar - like 3.2 seconds, and on to 130mph (210km / h) in less than 10 seconds.

That may not sound like too much, but when the car's relatively light 1,485 kg kerb weight is factored in, the numbers do look better.

And it feels like there's just no end to the systems» flexibility, each sub-system providing some previously unexpected «Easter egg» function, such as the Drive Assist system, which displays outputs from cameras either side of the car to keep the nice alloy wheels pristine whether parking close to a kerb, or steering around a sharp - edged rock on a tricky, narrow bush track.

The fact is, with their higher centre of gravity and significant kerb weight, wagons like BMW's X5 and the Range Rover Sport have some work to do to win us over.

A 1.6 - litre turbo petrol four provides the firepower, rather than a 2.0 - litre like the Golf's, but in the context of the trim, 1200 kg kerb weight and flexible outputs encroaching on Golf R territory we see no downside, only the benefit of 6.0 L / 100 km combined cycle economy.

The entire conversion adds about 120 kg to the car's kerb mass, though you can option things like a carbon - fibre driveshaft and bigger brakes to compensate.

From its near - perfect weight distribution to its pared - back kerb weight, the fast and fun BMW feels like a car that's been developed with the driver's best interests at heart.

It's surprising how car - like the Transporter driving experience is, other than a truck - like late turn - in technique that ensures the rear tyres don't clip the kerb.

Even with a standard console controller, you get incredible force - feedback (somehow, for example, you can feel individual tyres passing over low kerbs and the like), and the cars» attributes feel very different, yet utterly convincing.

There are some suggestions that you don't usually see like «if a driver behind you is getting impatient, don't feel that you should move to the kerb» and «Cyclist Solidarity»