Sentences with phrase «nose of the car»

You have to think slightly further down the road than you're used to, and pour the distant nose of the car into a corner sometime before you — sitting over the back wheels — actually arrive there.

You need to guide rather than hurl the nose onto a trajectory and if it's a long curve then you'll find your hands making micro movements of the wheel, almost as if the big nose of the car is bobbing.

There are two more cameras on the doors, pointing in at us; one over our shoulders, pointing at the instrument panel; one mounted to the dashboard, pointing at my face; one under the nose of the car, to capture the road whizzing by; one attached to the front of the roof; and another looking up over the roof via a pole mounted to the rear end.

And all those pitot tubes and aerials along the nose of the cars spoil the lines, so lets have them banned.

But despite fans generally having an appreciation for the solutions the teams find, Arrows and Jordan surely crossed a line when they turned up at Monaco in 2001 with some extra wings on the nose of their cars.

The idea is that an elongated screen with stretch along the nose of the car, protecting the driver from oncoming object whilst also preserving the open - cockpit nature of the cars in a less hideous way than the Halo did.

Instead of landing back on four wheels, the nose of his car dropped as he went over the jump and smashed into the ground.

Previously, teams could legally tweak and manipulate the splitter on the nose of the car how it best saw fit.

The revised jacking points are not allowed to be the first point of contact when being hit by the nose of a car from behind as they can affect the way the crash structure of the cars work.

Williams still had the Rothmans livery, McLaren debuted their smart new West livery, and it was also the first year where Jordan put animals on the nose of their car.

«The steering has bundles of feel but is light and seems to twitch the nose of the car into corners almost unnaturally fast at first,» he wrote.

The WRX's electronic torque - vectoring brakes the front - inside wheel in corners and helps reduce understeer to the great effect of lightening the nose of the car.

None of the issues affected the car's drivability (thankfully I didn't need to use the function that raises the nose of the car a few centimeters to clear curbs and speed bumps), but it's still an annoyance one doesn't expect in a car this expensive.

The front features a dual grille opening that channels air directly into the two engine radiators positioned in the nose of the car, and in the centre of the front inlets are two uprights that, along with a deflector, channel air towards the car's flat underfloor.

The idea of the set - up is that it boosts agility at low speeds by more quickly pointing the nose of the car at the apex, while also increasing stability and grip when going faster.

Likewise, the sDrive35is gets a more heavily boosted N54, which results in jumps of 35 hp and 69 lb - ft of torque — and also results in the nose of the car jumping upward during hard acceleration.

They neither squeak nor bite down unnecessarily, but you've got to push hard on the pedal to even shift weight onto the nose of the car.

We dig the slushy ice away from the Challenger's rear tires, and he pushes on the nose of the car as I gingerly feather the brakes in Reverse.

The size of the shapes and patterns applied to the 525i start small towards the nose of the car, and grow continuously in size as they approach the rear.

Instead, the back end of the Boxster starts to slide a bit and the weight in the rear begins to come into play, gently tucking the nose of the car back into the apex.

The rear wing and front - wing main planes are smaller, and the centerline wicker from the nose of the car to the cockpit is tapered — an aerodynamic device intended to prevent the car from lifting off the ground when it spins.

Just the noses of cars peaking into frame from the top.

@Paulster2 - I was thinking about a proportioning valve that attaches to the body and linked to the axle and changes pressure when the nose of the car dives and the rear rises.

The steering has bundles of feel but is light and seems to twitch the nose of the car into corners almost unnaturally fast at first.

The low, angular front helped pin the nose of the car down in a faster corners, meanwhile the rear diffuser and flat floor negated the need for a large rear spoiler.

«The contrasting color is always black,» Weckbach says, and it's used effectively on the air inlets and the front spoilers, which are larger and give the noses of the cars an angrier look.

For starters, taking that weight off the nose of the car has significantly improved the Shelby's handling characteristics to a near - neutral stage.

The Impreza doesn't have much ground clearance, so a high curb could damage the front bumper cover, especially since you can not easily see the nose of the car when parking.

«Obviously, I'd love to get a win here again, like I did last year, my first win in ALMS, but at the end of the day is the championship and finishing the race and keeping the nose of the car clean, give it to Oliver and let him work his magic like he did last year.»

If, when starting from a stop, you drop the pedal all the way to the floor, you'll notice the turbos come on when the nose of the car suddenly lifts even higher.

There's barely any nose - dive as you take a huge chomp at the GTS's left pedal, and once the nose is settled, turn - in is crisp and precise, with the nose of the car - particularly on our 21in - wheeled example - millimetres behind every steering input.

What we can see, however, is that the nose of the car will now be shorter thanks to Audi's new grille design.

It looks like a lot in the cutaway because of how densely it's packaged, but the nose of this car is quite a bit more compact than that of a Chevrolet Trax, which is its closest platform - mate.

That may not seem like a lot on a car that weighs 3,820 pounds — or, in the case of our convertible, 3,969 pounds — but since that weight comes right off the nose of the car, it's noticeable.

The Adaptive Damper System also limits wheel load transfer during acceleration (through the front of the car lifting) and deceleration (through the nose of the car diving) which secures greater traction during acceleration and maximises braking performance.

Make sure that in the process the nose of your car does not scrape the car in front.

It was the sort of stuff you expect when you have a little too much on the nose of the car and the rear is too light.

The nose of the car is dominated by a massive mesh air intake and trapezoid bumper.

Thanks to the sweetness of old - fashioned, hydraulically assisted steering (as opposed to the newer, less sensitive electronic power steering set - ups) it's dead easy to place the nose of the car because you get the feedback through the steering wheel to know exactly what the front tyres are doing.

Honda's iconic red «H» badge, which adorns all Type R models, sits prominently on the front grille at the nose of the car.

The crudest systems use bias braking to pull the nose of the car back in line.

He came across the nose of my car as we were exiting Turn 10, nowhere near the start - finish line.

The brake cooling ducts in the nose of the car were also made larger, with the raised nose's tip being moved upward.

By adopting the new platform, future Bentleys will have much - improved weight distribution because the engine will be sitting well back in the nose of the car, greatly improving steering response and turn - in.

The nose of the car carries DNA of F - RS.

[4] In its original form the Bertone body is known as scalino (step) or «step front», because of the leading edge of the engine compartment lid which sat 1/4 an inch above the nose of the car.

The reworked twin - turbo 12 - cylinder engine has been moved back in the engine bay and the front tires have been pushed forward by over 5 - inches, which allows for a longer hood and the nose of the car to be lowered.