Sentences with phrase «national speed limit»

The suspension oddly works better at higher speeds, so rutted country roads tend to be dealt with fairly well at national speed limits.

Jumbo jets doubled airplane passenger capacity, and the federal government instituted the first national speed limit, 55 mph, to conserve energy during the 1973 oil embargo.

But when energy concerns became a priority during World War II, the U.S. government stepped in to create national speed limits.

Our three - horse race becomes Porsche versus Jaguar as the French national speed limit comes up.

It is now time to reduce the default national speed limit for residential and urban streets from 30mph to 20mph.

When the first OPEC oil shock hit in the 1970s, President Nixon responded by lowering the national speed limit to 55 miles per hour in a bid to conserve energy.

So before Deutschland finally succumbs to pressure from the European Union and gains a national speed limit, before I blow a connecting rod through the block of this hyperactive homebuilt engine, and before my editors come to their senses, I'm on the phone to make travel arrangements for the Scirocco.

Urban manoeuvring is where the sanity begins and ends though, because as soon as you hit a national speed limit sign the performance becomes as wild as the car looks.

Purely in the interests of conducting a proper test I performed some «emergency stop» maneuvers from the national speed limit, and the braking performance was scarcely believable in such conditions.

I know these people despise progress in all its forms, but when did that attitude become so literal as to resent another driver for wishing to travel on an open, clear road at the national speed limit, rather than 17mph below it (regular and unexpected jabs at the brake pedal permitting)?

Your future performance car could trundle through town silently in electric mode with light steering and comfortable damper settings, changing instantly as you see the national speed limit signs to a more aggressive setup.

If you do that in second gear, you will quickly surpass the national speed limit.

When the federal government abolished a national speed limit in 1995, Georgia picked up its speed limit to 70 miles per hour on «rural interstates,» but on «urban interstates» and other limited access roads, the Peach State sat at 55 miles per hour, a speed that was enacted before the widespread adoption of radial tires, let alone anti-lock brakes and more advanced collision equipment.

Despite not feeling like the torquiest motor, a brief look at the speedometer yields to the fact that the Corsa is more than capable of running beyond the national speed limit in a very brief space of time.

Even beyond the national speed limit, wind and road noise are brilliantly contained, and that brutal V8 is easily tamed as a gentle cruise once backed out of Sport mode.

They might also impose a national speed limit on the autobahn.

Diplomat takes its time getting to the national speed limit, but once there, it's a cushy cruiser.

Thanks to a set of traffic lights on my journey home with a national speed limit road on the other side, I can verify the 0 - 62mph time of 3.4 seconds feels as fast as it sounds.

Further, a national speed limit of 55 miles per hour was imposed to reduce fuel consumption.

Since the national speed limit was repealed in 1995, it's been left up to the states to set their own guidelines for speeding.

You feel like you bought a Bugatti Veyron just before the government changed the national speed limit to 6 MPH.

A study examined the impact of higher travel speeds on US rural interstates after the repeal in November 1995 of the national speed limit.

Luckily it was a national speed limit road.