Sentences with phrase «of slowing the car»

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We've sung the praises of slow cars in the past and the Miata is the epitome of a slow car.

I hold my line on the inside for the last corner, ready to pass a bunch of slower cars.

And in 2017, it's almost criminal to be relying on crude, 100 % wasteful friction brakes as the sole means of slowing cars down.

We've never been the fastest car — most times we have had one of the slowest cars — but were it not for a late - race yellow we had victory in our grasp.

I bought the manual transmission because it gives me an extra way of slowing the car in winter driving.

The test car came with Saturn's optional four - wheel disc anti-lock brakes, which did an excellent job of slowing the car.

Our test car came with power - assisted disc / drum brakes that did a nice job of slowing the car quickly.

Overall, the Impreza is one of the slower cars in the small sedan / hatchback class.

There are many other driver - assistance systems available, from adaptive cruise control, which slows your car down to match the speeds of slower cars ahead, to automatic parking systems, which take much of the stress out of parallel parking.

Although the brakes felt a bit touchy at first, they were more than capable of slowing the car's plump mass.

Copy the CAR.INI file from here and paste it over the original CAR.INI file of a slower car in its own folder, eg the Elise.

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The review by a person identified in court documents only as «Sarah K» gave Kimzey's company one star out of five, saying it was slow to respond to a car lockout and then overcharged.

Blame the full - size sedan's slow demise on the national obsession with SUVs and Ford Motor Co.» s need to slash costs and remake itself for a new era of self - driving cars and shuttles.

At the same time, the city has a high rate of income inequality, slow employment growth, high levels of car crashes and crime, and low levels of Medicare enrollment.

New CEO Jim Hackett has been trying to convince investors that betting on a Ford turnaround is worth the wager by laying out a plan to get rid of slow - selling, low - margin car models and refocus the company on more lucrative sport utility vehicles and pickups.

While the auto - parts sector is cyclical — companies make most of their money earlier in the year, while automakers are assembling cars for September launches — many companies pay a dividend to get you through the slow times.

Musk blamed the negative media coverage for slowing down regulatory approval of self - driving cars.

However, growth in the classic car market is slowing, in part due to fears of a potential interest rate hike by the U.S. Federal Reserve and a downturn in global liquidity.

After years of massive returns the classic car market is slowing, with collectors focusing on provenance, rarity and condition of automobiles, an expert from a major auction house selling classic cars told CNBC.

Tesla's biggest challenge, going forward, is to avoid being such a disruptive upstart in a 100 - year - old business that it gets clobbered by the big, slow carmakers that just happen to be able to flip a switch and build hundreds of thousands of Tesla - like vehicles much faster than Tesla can build actual its cars.

That car was delayed for years, and it faced slow production at the end of 2015 and into early 2016.

After four years of strong sales increases — and limited discounts — as the economy improved, U.S. demand for new cars and trucks is expected to slow this year.

South Korea has already complied with this demand and agreed to a voluntary export restraint for steel, a further opening of their market for American cars and a slower phasing out of the limits on exports of Korean pickup trucks to the U.S.

Along with these test mishaps and the slow progress of the technology, there has also been a clear tension between the ATG team, which is focused on cars, and the Otto team, which is focused on trucks.

The company's automotive OEM segment has consistently generated growth in excess of industry growth — the segment's organic revenue growth was 9 % in the quarter compared to 6 % for global car build growth — so if China's automotive production growth slows then Illinois Tool Work's automotive OEM growth rate is likely to slow significantly too.

Not only is the Model S able to track the angle in which neighboring vehicles are traveling, it's also able to simultaneously track individual actions of five cars — up to six cars in slow moving traffic conditions — as they maneuver between lanes.

Like Uber, Google is intent on developing self - driving cars for urban taxi use — reasoning that the slow speeds and relatively predictable environment of city streets that can be thoroughly, digitally mapped is the best and safest near - term purpose of autonomous vehicles.

You slow down, drift to the left, watch the other car careen off the side of the road.

But fika is not buying a to - go coffee and inhaling it in your car on the way to somewhere else — it is intentionally slowing down to drink a cup of coffee (or tea), eat some kind of delicious baked good, and enjoy yourself — either alone or with friends.

Safety car out, after the end of the Slow Zone, we are officially raaaacing at Fuji!

I don't blame Giroud for have very little talent, or Mert for being slower than my grand mother, or Flamini having the control of a 2 year old in a bumper car, or Sanchez getting injured when he is played whilst being burned out, or Cazorla for getting injured and left on the pitch playing with knee ligament damage God knows prolonging his return date by how many weeks.

Drivers need to have razor - sharp concentration to get the best lap times out of the car, especially those at the wheel of prototypes as they weave their way through slower racing machines.

The qualifying order will be set according to the first practice speeds, with the slowest cars going first and the fastest cars going at the end of the session.

But for some reason — perhaps because of how slow the car was, perhaps because there's a bit of an early 90s Benetton vibe going on with the use of multiple colours — after a while it starts to look, well, kinda cool.

Having such a slow driver in such a quick car would put him right in the pack, which would make for plenty of hilarious wheel - to - wheel battles and comedy spins — good for getting TV air - time and therefore great for sponsors.

Watching the slow motion car crash that is Wenger in charge of Arsenal over the past 10 years has has spread to the fans who have become institutionalised into thinking that the sop of a «football / technical director» is change when it is simply a tactic to delay the one thing Arsenal critically needs which is a new manager.

Films of the flights were played and replayed in slow and slower motion: The car spins, slides a short distance, and suddenly it rises, two feet, five feet, 10 feet off the ground, lifting gracefully and twisting in the air, like a leaf from the sidewalk on an autumn afternoon.

Elliott's year - old Thunderbird was perhaps slower than the three cars ahead of him, but he was using their draft brilliantly.

1:31 p.m. — The first crash of the race came on Lap 53, when polesitter Scott Dixon was hit by the slowing car of Jay Howard, leading to a huge crash that saw the former car flip through the air, damage the safety fence and bounce off the barrier.

It proved to be a «defect on the air line between the turbo and the intercooler» which caused the No. 5 car to slow, allowing the No. 2 car of Jani into the lead.

It's tough to see from the camera angle, but as the pack slowed down it seems that Sho Onodera (in the white car) was unsighted and went clean over the top of the black car of Miki Koyama.

With respect to that, we were at the top and it seemed like there were a lot of rules changes us to slow us down and now you have cars that are so much faster than the field and the complete inaction by [NASCAR].»

It's not going to suit our car as much as the twisty, slower corners of Monaco, but I'm excited to get back in the MCL32, catch up with the guys and girls in the team and get back out on track.»

Having spent most of May driving a fast, competitive car and being in the running to win a race for the first time in years, Fernando Alonso says he is excited to go back to Formula 1 to drive a slow, unreliable one where even the idea of a 12th - place finish would seem a bit optimistic.

For example, whenever Johnsonlaunches into a five - minute explanation of what he was feeling in the car as itentered a turn — including information such as throttle position, brake pressureand how the steering handled — Knaus will visualize in slow motion what's goingon inside the car as it rolls through the turn.

Bring back the threat of there being so many cars that the slowest might struggle to qualify!

However Mercedes decided to go with Valtteri Bottas and Wehrlein was left with Sauber which, following the collapse of Manor, meant he would once again spend a year in the slowest car on the grid.

In the process, a couple of cars — Rossi's being one of them — caught up to me, and it slowed down their fastest laps.

The Sebring 12 Hours at the start of the year delivered this huge shunt between Jan Magnussen's Corvette and Kevin Estre's Porsche, with the two cars making contact as they lapped a slower car and spinning hard into the wall.