Sentences with phrase «low gear»

On a sandy beach in low gear, the engine offered tenacious performance through terrain that might have stopped a lesser vehicle.

These top out with the Freedom Drive II Off - Road Package, which rides an inch higher for better ground clearance and has (among other items) a low gear range in its transaxle.

The six - speed brings a new low gear for torque multiplication from rest and a taller top gear for more relaxed and fuel efficient highway cruising.

With QuadraTrac II four - wheel drive providing high and low gear ranges, the biggest, most expensive Jeep tore into the most treacherous terrain with as much eagerness as the trail - bred, almost uncivilized Jeep Wrangler.

HOWEVER THE MANUAL BUTTON HOLDS A LOW GEAR IF SELECTED WHEN YOU ENTER BACK ON HIGHWAY AT HIGH SPEED IN LOW GEAR ASSUMING AUTOMATIC STILL.

The compact and efficient electro - hydraulically controlled planetary gearbox is tuned to provide very short low gear ratios and longer high gears.

I was giving her a driving lesson, and she thought I said it was «safer» to drive in low gear.

I learned about this at the end of the day when I asked her to put it in low gear to drive back down the driveway hill.

She told me she had been driving in low gear all day.

But in city traffic, its small amount of power can be mitigated somewhat by low gear work with the five - speed manual transmission.

I have never driven the car faster than 5 mph in low gear.

The 09 with automatic transmission has design flaws which cause the vehicle to drop into low gear and race the engine.

Along with up to 100 percent rearward power transfer, it includes high and low gear ranges, auto - locking front and rear axles, and another inch of ground clearance (8.7 inches in all).

To engage the low gear range, Toyota opens the conventional planetary gearset's brake 1 and locks brake 2, resulting in a reduction gear ratio of 3.900.

Push for four - wheel high or low gear selection.

When the engine is working hard, during heavy acceleration or in low gear churning through dirt, the engine sounds a bit too raucous.

In some cars, a manual gearbox can also be useful for towing and off - road driving, where you want to hold a low gear.

You can accelerate hard in a low gear with little in the way of steering corruption (on a smooth race track, at least).

Both have low - range and driver aids like hill descent control and hill start assist, and while the Everest has a marginally lower first / low gear ratio (1:15.6 v 1:14.1), the Prado actually feels more settled in this gear on steep descents, requiring less braking input.

A hill - descent control system enables the Ascent to negotiate steep downward grades using low gear and intermittent pumping of the ABS brakes.

Paired with an eight - speed automatic transmission that can be switched to manual mode and controlled by paddle shifters, you can grab as low a gear as you want and feel that power surge up the inclines for several thousand rpm before grabbing the next gear, though it was rare to get beyond fourth gear on this climb.

It is usually controlled by the power train computer and will operate only after the vehicle has moved away from a stop or shifted out of low gear.

AWD is almost the same as full time 4WD, except that AWD vehicles generally don't have the high - torque low gear option (4L) that you get with a 4WD vehicle.

Performance isn't everything, as Jeff puts it, «The sound of the door, the sound of the key turning the ignition on, the sound of the e-brake being released, the sound of the carburetors springing to life, the sound of the precise shift from 1st to 2nd — that click, that you know you're seated right there — the sound of the cams chattering in a low gear,» that's what gets him excited.

It's no slouch, and a W - 31 has run 12.80 quarter - miles at the Pure Stock Drags with a ridiculously low gear of 4.66.

Grip is strong from turn - in to corner exit, and while the lack of low - down urge means a low gear and big commitment is necessary to unstick the rear tyres in the dry, it's also less intimidating than some of its rabid turbocharged equivalents.

Then add acetone at a rate of six ounces for every ten gallons and run the engine immediately in low gear at high RPM (3,500 RPM) for 15 minutes and floor it on the highway six times.

Ensure you're in a low gear, jump on the power early, and the rear tyres carve a smooth, progressive arc.

Recently we spent some time visiting the local mountains, and I needed to use the auto box in a low gear for both ascent and descent, switching between 2nd and 3rd on the tiptronic as needed.

If I take off my foot off the accelerator while in a low gear and then step on it again, the car jerks rather aggressively, resembling the bounce a bit.

Add people, stuff, and hills into the mix and you might want to start in first, but because first is such a low gear it is almost never needed in normal driving.

When releasing + pressing throttle car bounces / rocks forward like the car is lurching in a low gear, followed by a kick (engine brake on / off?).

I have an»07 kow vulcan only 6k miles and recently rebuilt carb., now it is losing compression and is killing me to speed up even in low gear, could the clutch plates be shot even at this low mileage?

«L» means Lo / Low gear and there won't be an upshift at all.

A Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution heading northwest around Pontiac is clearly just going home, and yet its driver can't resist the challenge when an unfamiliar - looking large sedan rolls up next to him in a low gear.

Usually those signs read «Use low gear».

Shifting to a too low gear will cause wear and damage to the gearbox and clutch.

Because there is no need to mate a very fast throttle response to an unsuitably low gear and correspondingly high revs.

The Jeeps are already in low gear, anti-roll bars disconnected.

Driving above 8,000 feet on a 5 percent road incline, the Niro sounded like it was stuck in low gear for much of our ascent.

As predicted, the strength of the V6 is its incredible pick up, regardless of revs, and so keen is it in a low gear that a pre-emptive tag of the upshift lever is required in manual mode if you're not to snag the limiter.

Transaxle choices include a 3 - speed automatic or fully adaptive 4 - speed electronic automatic, which if run too hard in low gear will automatically upshift to second before it redlines.

With the legislative shaping period drastically condensed, the edu - advocacy apparatus — in low gear for ages now — is suddenly being redlined.

With the nation's economic recovery seemingly stuck in low gear, the need to better understand the link between learning and a career seems more critical than ever for high school students preparing to graduate and enter the next phase of their lives.

So why do the Farrellys huff and puff and hem and haw and meander through a full third of the picture before the premise even clicks into low gear?

I had a great time on my bike: I made sure to stay in a low gear as to not irritate my bad knee, and so I was able to speed up some of the steeper hills past people stuck in a higher, harder gear.

Lightning - quick muscle contractions make a galloping cheetah like an engine in low gear.

The Conservatives are on a low gear, but you can feel their presence.

Ed signaled for her to do a burnout, and Cleo shifted her automatic into low gear and stomped on the gas pedal.

In the split second before the Maserati could hurtle, brakeless, out of control, Moss coolly jammed the shift lever into low gear, bringing the compression of his eight cylinders against the speed of the car.