Sentences with phrase «of front wheels drive cars»

I recall the days of front wheels drive cars in the snow with no TRAC.

The New Yorker was Chrysler's ultimate expression of the front wheel drive car and the top of Chrysler's line (later models were more expensive than even the Fifth Avenue.)

Not exact matches

From electric cars that can drive themselves to modernized public transport such as the Hyperloop to human - sized drones and hover boards (real ones, not those silly two - wheeled contraptions that catch on fire), we are entering an era of potentially dramatic change on the transportation front.

Gov. Rick Snyder signed legislation at the Automotive Hall of Fame on Friday allowing for the testing of self - driving cars without a steering wheel, brake pedal, or human in the front seat.

Handy Motorsport will run a front - wheel - drive Alfa Romeo Giulietta from next season onwards, with fan - favourite Rob Austin behind the wheel of the car.

With the car falling apart, Villeneuve was essentially driving on two wheels as the right front was in the air for most of the lap.

Our first advice to tyro voyagers in the Savoie: The items you will need most are 1) a car with front - wheel drive and chains, since you will be driving on some of the steepest, slipperiest, narrowest goat paths in the civilized world, and 2) a really thick — no less than two inches — paperback French and English dictionary.

Experts agree that the car seat shouldn't touch the rear of the front seats... but we also know it's not safe for you to position yourself so close to the steering wheel that it hinders your driving.

An 87 - year - old Orland Park man escaped injury Monday after the car he was driving allegedly surged out of control in the parking lot of the Village Hall, striking a truck and landing with a front wheel on the windshield of an unoccupied car.

Zielinsky notes that its compact power train system allows the wheels to be positioned near the corners of the chassis, which makes for short front and rear overhangs and a wide track, yielding an overall layout that resembles that of a rear - wheel - drive car.

Alfa Romeo's version of the car — ostensibly called the Alfa Romeo Spider, a name long tied to sporty, spritely rear - wheel drive roadsters until it was applied to a front - wheel drive car in 1995 — won't necessarily use the same engines as its Mazda sibling.

The Scalable Product Architecture (SPA) platform the S90 and V90 share with the XC90 also contributes one of the key external design features: a long dash - to - axle distance, which gives the pair of Volvos the proportions of rear - wheel - drive cars despite their front - / all - wheel - drive drivetrains.

As you might expect, the ALL4 remains a front - wheel drive car for most of the time, only diverting power to the rear wheels when necessary.

Key to the car's impressive appeal are its twin electric motors (one for the front axle, the other for the rear to make this a four - wheel drive machine) that feed of a lithium ion batter to deliver a very healthy 603bhp.

Lefebvre was a bona fide genius — a onetime grand prix driver and protégé of aeronautical and racing - car pioneer Gabriel Voisin, he was also the visionary behind Citroën's revolutionary front - wheel - drive Traction Avant.

The 5.2 - liter, naturally aspirated gas engine would drive the Asterion's rear wheels via a seven - speed dual - clutch automatic transmission while a pair of electric motors hooked up to a computer - operated torque vectoring system on the front axle would power the hybrid car's front wheels.

Last year, there were rumors Fiat Chrysler would sign a deal of some sort with PSA Peugeot Citroen, which has nothing but front - wheel - drive platforms for its passenger cars.

No amount of detailing, however, can hide the stubby - hood, long - overhang proportions typical of a front - wheel - drive car with a transversely mounted engine.

Actually, it's fair to say that the current Art & Science design vocabulary at Cadillac also has its roots in the front - wheel - drive Eldorado, as a look back at the hard - edged abstract geometry of the 1999 Cadillac Evoq concept car confirms.

Early in our deliberations, deputy editor Joe DeMatio called this car «the antithesis of the Honda Civic,» spelling trouble for the front - wheel - drive Dodge.

Despite the 2015 Scion tC's diminutive size, Cars.com reviewer Kelsey Mays says the front - wheel - drive hatchback is a lot of car for the money.

Despite the traction issues inherent in a heavy, front - wheel - drive car, the Accord tends to encourage bad behavior, mostly because of how good the V - 6 sounds.

While we don't get the rear - wheel drive and the wild swept - back appearance of the show car, the 2017 Buick LaCrosse does incorporate a variant of the Avenir's front grille, with a chrome strip in the center of the grille linking the two front headlights.

We're at the Millbrook Proving Ground because of the new Focus RS and a question, namely how much power can a front - wheel - drive car cope with?

Because it's a front - wheel - drive car with scads of torque, I was expecting a ton of understeer.

After all, this car is the offspring of the 2003 Infiniti G35, the sedan that reinvented Nissan's overall performance identity with its rear - wheel - drive FM («front midship») chassis and VQ V - 6 engine, both of which also found their way to the Nissan 350Z.

The top - of - the - line Platinum model, which starts at $ 59,080, has the dubious distinction of being the most expensive front - wheel - drive new car you can buy.

Drive harder, transferring more weight over the front wheels into corners, and it improves somewhat, but it's still too vague and quells some of the confidence the car's competent chassis and myriad diff settings otherwise build.

It's been many years since I owned a stick - shift or front - wheel - drive car; I am, contrary to most in this business, a huge fan of double - clutch gearboxes.

We're all quite familiar with the Toyota GT86 by now: It's one of the very few cars with a semi-affordable price tag that allows you to indulge in the classic recipe of front engine, rear - wheel drive, a manual gearbox and a naturally - aspirated engine.

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If you like the experience of a front - wheel drive car, the 308 offers all the sensations you'll be familiar with — its passive dampers, mechanical locking differential, torsion beam rear axle and Michelin Pilot Super Sport tyres combine to make a car that behaves in such a predictable manner.

Cursed with a tiny engineering budget, Aldikacti had relied heavily on the GM parts bin to get the car built, and the Fiero's plastic body panels and innovative spaceframe construction hid the front suspension and brakes of a rear - wheel - drive Chevette and a rear suspension derived from the strut - type front suspension of a front - wheel - drive Chevrolet Citation.

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The all - wheel drive takeoff is from a clutch pack in a transfer case at the back of the gearbox and although the car is rear - drive in most circumstances, in default all - wheel drive mode, torque can be sent to the front pre-emptively when the car thinks the extra traction will help, or in response to rear slip.

When both of the clutch packs on the rear axle are open, and no torque is being sent to either rear wheel, the RS is essentially a front wheel drive car.

Quattro all - wheel drive has a 40/60 torque split (front / rear), giving the car more of a sporty rear - wheel - drive feel

Nonetheless, we still expect a non-hybrid version when the car reaches American dealerships; both front - and all - wheel drive should be available, as is the case for most of this car's competitors.

So how on earth do you replace a car like the F12, which was surely one of the great front - engined, rear wheel - drive sports cars there has ever been, Amen?

«Inexplicable» is the only word for this premature incapacitation: What kind of front - wheel - drive car can't control wheel hop with a mere 170 hp?

Always one of the more captivating and enigmatic Pre-War cars, the L - 29 is best known as the first American front - wheel - drive car offered to the public.

It has a series of pushbuttons in place of the front - wheel - drive car's conventional gearshift and will be a standalone option rather than a separate trim level.

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The SL63 displays how entertaining the inherent balance and predictability of a front - engined rear wheel drive car can be.»

The Miata has Mazda's second implementation of rack - mounted electric power steering The first application was in the RX - 8, but while most modern Mazdas use electric power steering, it's really tricky to fit rack - mounted systems in front - wheel - drive cars.

All of that falls within the wheelbase, as the front axle has been moved forward, the front overhang shaved, and the cabin moved slightly rearward, allowing for proportions that are a bit less like the typical front - wheel - drive car.

While prepping for a drive tomorrow I noticed the far side front wheel of my car has one stud out of five that is somehow loose.

You'd think that a list of powerful front - wheel - drive cars would include plenty of hot hatchbacks and inexpensive performance cars.

On front driven cars, the motor sits about over the front axles, which means any torque applied to the frame by the motor would not cause an increase or decrease of «weight» on the front wheels, only on the rear wheels.

With a top speed of 167 mph and myriad upgrades to its brakes and suspension, the Civic Type R lapped Germany's famous Nürburgring in just 7 minutes, 50 seconds, a record for a front - wheel - drive car.