Sentences with phrase «of imperfections in the road»

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Is this safe to do in the northeast US or will common road imperfections and ramps damage the underside of the vehicle?

The suspension calibration is soft enough to shrug off road imperfections, but this also permits a fair bit of body roll in some of the tighter sections.

You'll be aware of road imperfections and expansion joints, but they aren't jarring as they were in the past.

Follow a more powerful sports car along a broken B - road and it'll spend its time weaving and braking around road imperfections, the driver wincing at the prospect of buckling a wheel, but in the Swift, you can simply breeze along.

Comfort is a priority over sportiness (keeping in line with what most buyers will appreciate in this class of sedan) and the car simply soaks up nearly all road imperfections, large and small, without fuss.

In addition to a suite of safety technologies, the Lincoln Aviator will scan the road with its forward camera to detect road imperfections and potholes.

You'll want to leave the chassis and suspension as soft as possible to offset the gigantic Alpina wheels and stiff Michelin Pilot Sport tires bouncing off of road imperfections, but putting the drive selector in Comfort + mode achieves the same effect as giving a tiger NyQuil.

It requires lots of steering corrections as it instantly follows any imperfections in the road, and the short wheelbase and low - profile tires make for a pretty harsh ride.

The steering is clean and finely filtered, not alive exactly but far from a dead weight in your hands, and the ride is incredibly pliant so you feel isolated from the unwanted white noise of road imperfections but completely tuned - in to the interface between tyres and tarmac.

Ford has done a commendable job in making the most of this arcane setup, but on broken back - county roads, the GT500's tail hops and skitters over road imperfections, resulting in a car that feels busier than it feels composed.

The Hankooks read road imperfections very literally, tramlining a bit and conveying every small joint in the pavement to the driver's rear end, and they're also the loudest of this group.

It doesn't smother imperfections in the road surface like an old Citroën, but there's none of the oversprung firmness that afflicts so many modern cars.

In Comfort mode, the A220 d makes a much better job of soaking up road imperfections before they reach the car's occupants.

There's some cowl shake over large road imperfections, whether the top is in place or stowed, and the hardtop and its associated hardware saddle the Q60 convertible with a few hundred pounds of extra weight versus its coupe counterpart.

The firm ride has plenty of road feel, revealing bumps and imperfections in highways that I previously thought were butter - smooth, and then jarring and jostling my body over the rougher surface streets and back roads around my San Francisco / Oakland stomping grounds.

It certainly is one of the best road imperfection absorbers we have driven in the category.

When driven over smooth roads in a straight line, the Allante feels almost as soft and forgiving of small imperfections as a Cadillac sedan.

Using a stereo camera, the system scans the road surface up to 15 meters ahead of the vehicle at speeds up to 130 km / h (81 mph), and it adjusts the shock damping at each wheel to account for imperfections in the road.

A commanding view of the road and comfortable, plush seating is mated to a controllable chassis and pliant suspension setup that yields well to imperfections in the road surface, yet refuses to wallow and bounce when placed under duress.

Accord handling still errs on the side of comfort, working to mute the imperfections in the road surface, but it does so without drifting into a sensory deprivation experience.

In terms of ride comfort, the Tucson is a step up from its predecessor and offers supple suspension that can easily deal with potholes and nasty road imperfections.

The bodywork stays fairly level, unless provoked by carrying lots of speed into a tight corner, and most imperfections in the road are dealt with.

But the ride is very smooth, with bumps and jars from road imperfections dissipating in the suspension instead of intruding into the cabin.

Most road imperfections are absorbed well by the truck's suspension, though we were reminded of its rugged body - on - frame construction during one particularly bad stretch of the 405 freeway in Los Angeles.

On the contrary, the Forester flows along the asphalt rather smoothly (albeit not as well as, say, a Volvo XC60); ironing out most of the harsher imperfections in the road surface.

Road imperfections are taken in stride, although it should be noted that we were let loose on some pretty sterling roads; a drive on the winter - cracked tarmac of Canadian city streets is what really challenges a lightweight like this, so wait for our report after experiencing the Fortes on our own roads in the near future.

The suspension is nicely firm, but you feel most road imperfections in the seat of your pants.

The drivetrain's Auto mode brings smooth gearbox shifts, a continuously variable damping suspension that gobbles ups road imperfections and lighter steering for my leisurely ride on rural roads in Maine and New Hampshire, many of which feature painfully slow 30 - mph speed limits.

It can occasionally crash over larger ripples in the road or tram lines / train tracks, but it's really only certain types of imperfections that unsettle it.

Regardless of the wheel sizes you specify, the Kia Soul flows over the road surface, filtering out most of the really obtrusive imperfections in the asphalt.

They allow the front wheel to react to imperfections in the road while isolating the rest of the motorcycle from that motion.

Admittedly, the ride can be a little bit crashy over rougher surfaces, but everywhere else the Legacy managed to iron out the imperfections in the road with admirable ease, and a decent job is made of quashing wind and tire roar.

Back on road, the Ranger's double - wishbone suspension and monotube shocks should make easy work of small road imperfections while parabolic leaf springs could give it an edge in payload capacity.

It does a great job of isolating the wheel from road imperfections — something not so great in sports cars, but commendable in a luxury - minded crossover.

This is more apparent when talking about the difficulty of the game too, as it's not just a straight up arcade game where you can rely on riding guard rails to get round corners, as FlatOut 4 does incorporate some realistic physics, this combined with the extremely aggressive AI will lead to a lot of restarts as quite often you'll be rounding a corner with the chequered flag in sight, only to be spun out by one of the AI, or hitting an imperfection in the road sending your car into a snake only for the back end to come around on you.