Sentences with phrase «out gear lever»

The steering wheel feels special and the pop - out gear lever, high - quality leather seats and the wide touchscreen add to the feel - good factor.

Not exact matches

Nanoengineers can even carve out molecular gears and levers that act as microscopic machines; in theory, some materials could be self - repairing, and others could carry out tasks inside our bodies, like scraping plaque from artery walls.

In the split second before the Maserati could hurtle, brakeless, out of control, Moss coolly jammed the shift lever into low gear, bringing the compression of his eight cylinders against the speed of the car.

What knits those painful experiences together is the sight of a talented, ambitious team reaching — time and again — for the gear lever, yet failing to get out of first.

Toggling that switch with the lever in D allows blocking out upper gear ratios to avoid unwanted automatic shifts while towing heavy loads on aggressive grades.

There are two points which could cause your car to move if you start the engine: the clutch failing to disengage when you step on the pedal and the transmission failing to come out of gear when the lever is moved into a neutral position.

The ignition button, it turns out, is but a glistening dummy, as is the beautifully finished gear lever.

Purists would love to see a six - or seven - speed manual gear lever poking out of the center console, but the reality is we're likely to be offered a seven - speed dual - clutch automatic exclusively.

The five - speed manual transmission has that long - lost shift quality that only Ferraris of a certain age can deliver: a deliberate, weighty feel that's initially tight as you take the lever out of one gear, then frees up as you cross the gate before tightening once more as the next gear slots home.

So despite the obvious disadvantage of three pedals and a gear lever versus a twin clutch «box when ranged against the stopwatch, and the traction limitations of front - wheel drive, the Civic's 5.7 - secs - to - sixty - two time is entirely respectable, and edges out a manual Seat Leon Cupra 300 by two tenths of a second.

If you put the transmission in second gear, it will never downshift or upshift out of second, even from a complete stop, unless you move the shift lever.

The gear selector knob for the transmission is easy to use, plus looks nicer than the lever protruding out of so many minivan dashboards these days.

Citroën semi-automatic transmission of this era made no use of electronics: the entire gear selecting operation was carried out by simply moving the gear lever from one ratio to the next.

Nothing is out of place, or taken from a cheaper car, and there are a few wonderful touches, like the real crystal gear lever, or the machined start - and drive - mode controls.

This is perhaps most noticeable when reversing out of a parking space: several times I pushed the throttle to back up and found it so unresponsive that I looked down at the shift lever to make sure I had remembered to engage reverse gear — which I had, in fact, done.

The Nexon's clutch is lighter than the one on the EcoSport but the EcoSport's gear lever gives out more feedback.

The driver can move the gear lever over to a detent and lock out gears five and six.

And the drive mode selection button was on the wrong side of the gear - shift lever, out of sight from the driving position.

Put the gear lever into drive and just tickle the throttle and we're off, the dual - clutch gearbox automatically picking up first, second and then third as we lightfoot it through the small town heading out into the country.

Such a fracture can put the transmission shift lever out of sync with the actual position of the transmission gear.

The interior comes with Vianen fabric on the seats, with the steering wheel, gear lever and dash switches being decked out with silver chrome accents.

The stubby lever on the floor next to the shifter rises out of a transfer case, a secondary transmission that can step the 4Runner down into a lower gear range, for crawling.

One stand - out, however, is the mass of switch blanks surrounding the gear lever on even the most loaded - up Jetta GLI.