The seventh gear is a longer ratio delivering a quieter, more refined cruising gear for
motorway stretches and also delivers increased fuel economy.
That's over a real mixture of roads and traffic conditions, including long
motorway stretches, the continent's equivalent of A - and B - roads, and driving through German and Belgian city centres in rush hour.
Thankfully the large carbon - ceramic brakes (398 mm at the front) have plenty of power and feedback, although they can be momentarily disconcerting if they've cooled down (like on a long
motorway stretch).
I then got in and drove the Rapide for six hours and 331 miles, but I still can't vouch for its sports - car credentials because 99.5 per cent of those miles were on
motorways stretching from the Midlands to Scotland's east coast.
Not exact matches
One
stretch of
motorway turned out to have twice as much traffic as forecast while another has less than half.
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.
Second
stretches well beyond the legal
motorway limit, which in a «small» sports car is ludicrous.
The Mercedes is equally capable pottering around town as it is
stretching its legs for a long
motorway run.
A completely new interpretation of the cruise control system also moves the vehicle with minimum fuel consumption, allowing it to drop below the set speed within a certain lower limit in favour of lower fuel consumption, for example on gentle uphill
stretches of
motorway.
The new BMW 8 Series Coupe is equally as convincing in the role of the sovereign cruiser that pampers its passengers not only with ride comfort on long
stretches of
motorway or on country roads, but also with its modern luxury ambience and high - class equipment features.
[Its
motorway network was initially an 8 km
stretch of road].
Scarab Village is between Knysna and George, along one of the country's most beautiful
stretches of
motorway.
You had long
stretches of
motorway combined with boundless fields perfect for off - road shenanigans.
I am struck for example by the fact that I can travel quite lawfully at 80 mph on a
motorway on the continent but an exactly similar
stretch of road in Britain is subject to a 70mph limit.
R (Friends of the Earth) v Welsh Ministers [2015] EWHC 776 (Admin), [2016] Env LR 1 (High Court) Jonathan successfully resisted a major challenge,, based on alleged failure to comply with the SEA Directive, to the Welsh Government's decision to proceed with a # 1 billion project to build a new
stretch of the M4
motorway to the south of Newport.