Sentences with phrase «odd little car»

Healing begins when the Darrows» self - appointed nanny, a strange man named Mr. Gedrick, suddenly appears on their doorstep — a Mary Poppins - like figure with a fuzzy green jacket and an odd little car he calls Fred.

Not exact matches

It's always a little bit odd to see an F1 car being driven by someone without a helmet, but it's even stranger when it's on the public road as well.

Wilson had car trouble and was given a lift by an odd little man, a doctor (Ben Kingsley) who seems to have an inordinate fascination with Wilson's celebrity.

The diesel engine tested here doesn't feel as keen as its torque figure suggests, but as a cheap to run company car choice it's hard to fault, with little fuss at motorway speeds and just enough grunt to make the odd country lane interesting.

Perhaps the oddest element of the Corolla driving experience is the car's tendency to surge a little while trying to maintain a steady speed (without using cruise control).

Though it sounds a little odd, but the dynamics are almost like those of a very big Caterham: engine in the front, driver sitting over the back wheels, enough power to happily steer with the throttle almost as much as the steering, and a stiffness that makes the whole car wonderfully reactive and easy to place on the road.

A little odd for a $ 50K car that has summer - only rubber.

We're not talking a car that looks a little odd or an interior that only works ergonomically if your arms are 6 - feet long.

The unassisted steering feels odd, the way the car moves around on rough, cambered roads is unsettling, and the hard - working engine is a little too boosty and blunt to truly convince.

Okay, any amount of decals with the number two is a little odd on a car, but apparently it's a design that will spark interest among Canadians.

The front fenders are muscular in comparison to the rear quarters, which is a little odd, but not too outlandish while the jagged waistline toward the rear adds a lot of character to what would be an otherwise rounded and bubbly car.

Add to that the news that Bentley may be looking at releasing a # 100,000 ($ 166,320) smaller car, and things are starting to get a little odd.

The Smart car is weird; it always has been an odd little micro-machine, but the 2016 Smart ForTwo is somehow even weirder for a variety of reasons.

My financial goals are a little odd in that I'm referring to my own PERSONAL debt, not including that of my husband who is covering the mortgage, son's car payment (finishes in August / September), and the travel trailer.

Here's an odd little story — and one that raises more questions than it answers — out of Chattanooga, where a dog apparently decided to eat a police car.

You can also by cars, boats, planes and helicopters now; which I find a little odd.

Or how about something a little more metropolitan, a bustling cityscape that's alive with the sounds of people going about their everyday lives, cars whizzing about, possibly the odd siren or two.

Here are people, landscapes, and odd little moments in and around Eggleston's hometown of Memphis — an anonymous woman in a loudly patterned dress and cat's eye glasses sitting, left leg slightly raised, on an equally loud outdoor sofa; a coal - fired barbecue shooting up flames, framed by a shiny silver tricycle, the curves of a gleaming black car fender, and someone's torso; a tiny, gray - haired lady in a faded, flowered housecoat, standing expectant, and dwarfed in the huge dark doorway of a mint - green room whose only visible furniture is a shaded lamp on an end table.

An odd collection of groups and individuals, including former Sierra Club «CAFE» (car fuel - economy) lobbyist Dan Becker («Even as gas prices have doubled and trebled over the past several years, we see little change in driving behavior,» Becker told the New York Times in October, 2006.)