Sentences with phrase «motorway cars»

And there can be few more refined motorway cars, especially as the gearbox's stratospheric eighth gear means the engine stays under 2000rpm even at brisk cruising speeds.

On the motorway the car's a better prospect than before with a supple ride, even on the ST - Line models with the sports suspension that sits the car 10 mm closer to the ground.

The engine itself is smooth and offers reasonable power, making it a decent motorway car, but the TCT auto is too jerky.

Still, the engine settles down once you're up to cruising speed, and the Touareg is a refined motorway car.

This is a great long - distance motorway car, mainly due to the quiet cabin and the plush ride.

Plus, the cabin is very quiet and refined, so this is a great motorway car.

As a town and, indeed, motorway car, though, where high - speed stability is good and noise levels low, the RS4 is refined, capable and perhaps more comfortable than you'd credit given the appearance and the wheel size.

It's unfair to judge them by the standards of a regular, highway or motorway car.

Not exact matches

Michigan is to work with Britain on the development of rules for self - driving cars and technology for smart motorways, the Financial Times reported Monday.

The car's sensor system was not able to distinguish a large white truck and trailer crossing the motorway and attempted to drive full speed under the 18 - wheeler.

Them Scouser's are the original Artful dodgers, They could robb the wheels off your car whilst your driving down the motorway!?

But apart from the window slamming shut we get all the final day drama with all the usual jargon, last minute dramatic swoops, pictures of helicopters that may or may not contain David Luiz, phones buzzing, alleged sightings at motorway service stations or petrol stations anywhere, Ronaldo or Messi shopping at the Westfield shopping centre, Valencia in the back of a cab in Swansea or Liverpool (or putting his feet up in Ecuador), everyone with their sources, players spotted at training grounds, Jack Wilshere driving his car to Bournemouth, last minute intervention by Daniel Levy who suddenly decides he wants Sissoko, and descriptions of transfers or done deals or rumours using words like amazing, dramatic, sensational, shocking, exciting, impressive or incredible.

Although, that being said, I know a local man who jumped off a motorway overpass attempting to kill himself, and landed on a consultant neurosurgeon's car, which is the only reason he survived.

He built the motorway between Accra and Tema, and it was called a white elephant project because at that time, the number of cars using it were very few.

A man has died after the car he was in plunged into a river from a motorway near Doncaster on Monday.

Gaak, a predator, was left unattended for fifteen minutes and, in that time, managed to find and navigate along a barrier, find a gap, move through it and continue across a car park to the M1 motorway.

Pryce is relying on a defence of marital coercion against allegations she took Huhne's speeding points over a March 2003 incident when his car was caught by a speed camera on the M11 motorway between Stansted Airport and London.

The former energy and climate change secretary is accused of asking his wife to take speeding points intended for him after his car was caught by a speed camera on the motorway between Stansted Airport and London in 2003, when he was an MEP.

«I received a phone call from the Mail on Sunday saying «we've heard a story that you were involved in an accident on a French motorway and that somebody had tampered with your car».

Like Google, Here drives its own mapping cars around cities and motorways.

On the Ring Road, another Stalinist creation, an eight - lane motorway that surrounded the city center in an asphalt moat, the dozen limousines and chase cars turned north, breezing past block after block of leviathan government buildings that heralded the new Moscow.

The complete system, called Metro, will be an integrated network of underground and surface railways, shuttle buses and an improved freeway (motorway) system with new routes, high - technology aids to improve traffic flow, some toll roads, and «car pool» lanes reserved for vehicles carrying more than one person.

In the same tests, the car was 11 per cent more fuel efficient than a control car in city driving and 8 per cent more efficient in motorway driving.

At one point I was so scared as the speed limit in UK is 70 mph on motorways and he drove at the car's maximum (we have BMW 3 series sports coupe if you are wondering) speed for 30 mins.

Put the pedal to the metal in your very car and cruise along a scenic miniature motorway at Autopia in Disneyland Park at the Disneyland Resort.

Cheang Pou - soi's Motorway takes an appropriately soft - shoe approach to the setup: Favoring (comparative) restraint over expected spectacle, the film's abundance of car chases derive an impressive visual dynamism from the elegance of their conception rather than the caliber of their execution.

Knowing how car enthusiasts like to use rural strips of the motorway for their own version of Ridge Racer, I wasn't surprised when I saw that exotic car carnage on the news: dead Ferraris.

He and girlfriend Heard must escape the Turkish Gang, presumably at high speeds in fast cars along German motorways.

Think about the video that went viral in February of the nine - year - old girl who successfully called 999 after her mother passed out in a moving car on the motorway.

The truck - rutted inside lane of motorways is best avoided, so what this car's claimed 7 min 27sec lap of the Ring must have been like is unthinkable...

As Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2 says lots of answers here, but I would go with the prolonged effect of poor maintenance, the are many cars that do a huge amount of motorway miles eg some sales people do 200 - 500 miles each DAY and don't have many breakdowns.

The back end of my car kicked out on the motorway at 100km / h, and I skidded sideways along the highway several seconds before hitting the grass verge, which set the car spinning.

Every time we encountered smooth pavement, we swayed, overcorrected, and slalomed our way down the motorway until our guide, who was leading in a Challenge Car of his own, turned off onto one of the many tributary roads connected to the highway.

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It's fine at lower speeds, but the diesel - powered Jaguar XE simply isn't a very fast car, and this becomes apparent when merging onto an English motorway or passing on a two - lane road.

It only seems to happen when stopped in traffic - once I get onto the motorway it drops down quick - I guess this may be down to airflow cooling the car?

Of course, the 320d is built for this stuff and the freezing temperatures and howling wind hold no fear for a car that lives for the motorway.

Hybrids are a great idea in theory, but received wisdom is that the advantages evaporate when a car is driven with verve or pounded up a motorway, conditions which favour a good diesel instead.

The seats remain beautifully built, with cushions that conform perfectly to your posterior as either you rail the car through a tight switchback or along a long stretch of a motorway.

I went on the motorway today, and the car shakes and vibrates really badly at high speeds.

In Normal mode the 570S is hugely comfortable, both around town and on the motorway, with none of the crashiness that you might expect of a car with such dynamic ability.

The car's OK on the motorway but if there's a route that avoids them or dual carriageways, I'll choose that — it's what it's made for.

This is an almost relentlessly competent car when it comes to making refined, relaxed progress — it's small wonder you see so many of them filling the middle lanes of the nation's motorways.

The diesel engine tested here doesn't feel as keen as its torque figure suggests, but as a cheap to run company car choice it's hard to fault, with little fuss at motorway speeds and just enough grunt to make the odd country lane interesting.

First, we're not sure exactly what you took from the review, but the Fortwo's ride issues have definitely been resolved - the new car is better on every surface we drove it on than the old model, whether country roads, city streets or motorways.

Second stretches well beyond the legal motorway limit, which in a «small» sports car is ludicrous.

The airport car won't trundle car parks or hammer motorways.

Take the car onto the motorway however, and you'll want one of the larger offerings from the engine range.

In the new car, Ford has fitted a longer sixth ratio for improved motorway economy.

It sounds like a supercar and feels as eager as one, and away from the motorway it's easily my car of choice to be transported in.