Sentences with phrase «on uphill grades»

The engine gets a bit raspy - sounding during hard acceleration, but the automatic transmission shifts smartly and does a good job of holding gears on uphill grades to help the car maintain a consistent speed.

With the base five - speed manual, for example, the engine will pull in top gear on uphill grades from 2000 rpm or lug down to 1200 to 1500 rpm around town without the need to downshift.

And when you're on the way to the lake on the weekend, EV power can also give the Cayenne a quick boost of acceleration when you want to pass that propane truck on an uphill grade.

Start - off Assistant briefly holds the car when setting off on an uphill grade.

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Especially focus on pedaling form on slight uphill grades or into the wind.

While the snow portion or «dense flow» of an avalanche will typically stop when it hits an uphill grade, a powder cloud often rushes on, ushering mayhem up and over the top of the hill.

Not only does this describe an uphill battle, but it serves to illustrate the puzzling priorities we often emphasize — one half of minority children don't complete high school, over one half of third graders can not read at grade level, and our policy and media attention are focused on affirmative action to achieve diversity in admissions as a compelling objective at our two flagship universities!

Its Predictive Energy Control system will use information on uphill and downhill grades in the navigation system (when activated) to make better use of the stored battery power and the regenerative braking.

The turbo engine's power is plenty to motivate the relatively light Envision (it's 200 pounds lighter than the Audi Q5), and even with three big people on board and scaling a 6 percent uphill grade, the Envision never lacked for grunt.

With optional full - time four - wheel drive, a system that varies torque distribution front to rear as conditions dictate, the car maneuvers equally well on loose gravel and on rough, uphill grades.

Hill Start Assist Control (HAC) and Downhill Brake Control (DBC) also come standard on all models, the former assisting in preventing the vehicle from rolling backward when trying to pull away from an uphill gradient, while the latter helps keep the vehicle moving straight and steady down steep grades.

Hill mode eliminates sixth gear, extends lower gear operation on uphill climbs, and provides additional grade or engine braking for coast downs.

Given the roof begins at grade level on the uphill side and I built it with 1 inch plywood skinning 2 ′ centered rafters on the top side a small crowd can hang out on the roof and step straight onto it.