Sentences with phrase «narrow tires»

It also has slightly wider tires, though it's kind of hard to tell, because the i3 already had really, really narrow tires.

Oversteer is available for order in either car, although the ZL1, with narrower tires at the rear and big torque on tap, is a bit more agreeable to sliding its rear end around at will.

The plot unravels a bit at highway speeds where the tall body, short wheelbase and narrow tires conspire against it to induce a fidgety and wandering ride.

Means to this end include a low - flying tapered nose, small cooling apertures for the batteries and the rear - mounted motor, a flush underside, fixed upper and lower rear air dams, large - diameter wheels shod with relatively narrow tires, and a steeply raked windscreen to which one can attach a simple canvas top.

Large wheels and narrow tire sidewalls conspire to yield a choppier ride than expected â $ «a bit like animal hooves pounding the pavement.

But despite having more swept area, the SL55's heavier weight and slightly narrower tires hamper its slowing ability, requiring more time and distance to stop.

A tapering greenhouse cabin and a longer «tail» improve aerodynamics while reduction of drag is attained through a one - piece, smooth - as - glass, integrated underbody panel, narrow tire width and flush wheel design.

This bike is very lightweight with narrow tires.

The result is significantly faster lap times than a narrower tire.

«A narrower tire cuts through the snow and down to the pavement, rather than riding on top like a ski,» says Tire Rack product information specialist Woody Rogers.

By moving the engine back by 0.6 inch and lower by 0.5 inch, adding aluminum front fenders, aluminum front suspension knuckles, and narrower tires, this Miata has a lowered polar moment of inertia and is easily coaxed to rotate.

«So, OK, you can put on narrow tires, you can put weight in the front, but that is not the car [we make].»

In its earliest iteration, a 283 - cubic - inch Rochester fuel - injected V - 8 sat immediately behind the cockpit and narrow tires were fitted.

(Unlike dry - weather performance tires, winter tires work better in narrow sizes; the narrower the tire, the more efficiently it cuts through packed snow.)

But these slow apexes also tied up the i8, thanks largely to the narrow tires BMW put at the front of the car.

The low stance, narrow tires and clean shape give the CLA250 a slip - through - the - air drag coefficient of only 0.23.

A narrower tire does a better job in snow.

The front tilting wheels fit Tall and Narrow tires with reverse direction, inspired by the symmetric design of motorcycle tires.

Handling is modest at best, and the narrow tires offer little road grip.

Tall stance and narrower tires may cause this.»

Narrower tires than the likes of the BMW M4 are a recipe for disaster with the power on offer in 63 variants.

I really do hope nobody tries to buy a Porsche GT3 Cup «America» and muck up the whole thing with trying to slow down the FIA cars to compete with Cup cars with narrower tires and less aero.

The lighter LE, with its narrower tires, does even better with estimates of 43 city and 39 highway mpg.

Much to our surprise, in some ways more gets you less, such as: nine fewer amps from the battery - unless you order your Jetta with optional air conditioning; you also get higher - profile, narrower tires; and now for perhaps the biggest surprise - you actually get less room.

What really grabs our attention is its overall agility and, in trying conditions with those narrow tires, excellent traction.

They looked at physical factors like the design of the tracks or the width of tires and found that narrow tires were involved in more accidents than wider, hybrid tires, but that except for fat bikes, all of the normal tires could get caught in the flange.

They often have smooth, narrow tires and are not usually durable or comfortable enough to ride off - road.