Sentences with phrase «neat party trick»

It not only saves a serious amount of time zipping from one tile to the next on your own, it's a pretty neat party trick as well.

Feed in a little accelerator and the F - 150 picks up speed without the need to downshift, a pretty neat party trick and no doubt a contributor to the engine's remarkable highway fuel economy.

Not so for the budgie Piko - chan, that Fumie Takahashi, of Yokohama, Japan, taught to recite its home address — a neat party trick that came in handy after Piko - chan flew out a window last week and ended up on the shoulder of a guest in a downtown hotel.

And my best friend thinks its a neat party trick that I know how many carbs are in foods off of the top of my head.

Although I do admit it may be a neat party trick, it is much more than that.

It's a neat party trick.

Its neatest party trick is its ability to parallel park itself.

Manual transmission models have a fairly conventional control layout but the automatic versions have a neat party trick, including an aircraft throttle - style low - mounted handbrake and dash - mounted gear selection buttons, both of which clear space for the front seat to become a bench.

It's a neat party trick, but not one you reckon that many long - wheelbase A8s are going to be called on to do without Jason Statham at the wheel.

Another neat party trick was the TT's auto rev - matching downshifts in this mode as the car slowed ahead of a curve.

While somewhat annoying around town, it was a neat party trick on a deserted curvy backroad.

Also more efficient is the 8 - speed automatic transmission, which features a wider spread of gear ratios and a neat party trick: its shift logic is linked up to the car's navigation system, meaning it can predictively match the transmission's responses to the conditions of whatever road you're on.

It's a neat party trick, but more usable is the lashings of power available pretty much wherever you'll have the engine going.

At the very least, Tango is a neat party trick.

You basically wave your hand in front of the proximity sensor for it to work — a cool feature and a neat party trick, but unfortunately nothing more than that.