Sentences with phrase «passive dampers»

We weren't able to try a car on passive dampers, but for # 530, we think its an option box worth ticking.

Rear - wheel drive, a manual gearbox and standard steel springs with passive dampers are not available.

When we can, we'll try one of these on passive dampers - stick with those, and you'll save yourself # 2000 too.

With passive dampers, there's no effect on the ride.

Both of the RSs that we drove (on track and then road) were equipped with the standard passive dampers as opposed to the optional adjustable Magnetic Ride dampers and it's a set up that we would heartily recommend.

It gets lowered, stiffened suspension springs, uprated anti-roll bars and upgraded passive dampers as standard, but it can be had with switchable «sport select» suspension as an option (which isn't «DCC» adaptive damping as such but instead describes dampers with two lots of compression and rebound settings that you can chop and change between electronically via the car's driving modes).

Unlike some of its rivals, the Megane R.S. uses passive dampers rather than electronically controlled adaptive shocks, and its rear suspension is a torsion beam while the Civic's is independent.

Like the Hyundai, a six - speed manual is the only transmission option (the Golf can be had with three pedals as tested here, or with the latest seven - speed twin - clutcher), but the 308 stands alone in having purely passive dampers.

The double wishbone system, front and rear, features passive dampers with optional magneto rheological suspension.

The base model V6 twin - turbo gets passive dampers; it's a non-adjustable fixed setting.

The steering has been re-tuned to make turn - in sharper, too, and while passive dampers are standard, adaptive dampers are an option.

The coupe features a revised rear spring coil rate and both body styles have retuned passive damper valves and revised bump stop rates and lengths.

The ride can feel overly firm too on passive dampers, but cars equipped with Magnetic Ride offer a B - road appropriate pliancy in Comfort without sacrificing too much body control.

On standard passive dampers, the 4 Series is a little less able to react to changes in the road surface, so lumps and potholes are felt as heavier thumps inside the car.

The standard suspension uses passive dampers and is calibrated to be close to the Sport type settings.

Both the Macan S and Macan S Diesel come with steel springs and passive dampers as standard, while PASM adaptive dampers are optional.

The car's project manager Loic Feuvray says they'd rather sell two suspension setups with passive dampers and get them both right than use electronic dampers, which he describes as being «always a compromise.»

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.

16 - inch wheels are standard, as is «comfort» suspension with steel springs and passive dampers but a sportier, 15mm - lower «comfort» setup is also available.

True to Hennessey's «keep things simple» mantra, the Venom GT's suspension shuns trick electronics and active damping in favour of passive dampers and coil springs.

The ride on the passive dampers is firm — firmer than some Aston customers might expect — but perfectly judged for the character of the car and in no way uncomfortable.

The ride on its passive dampers and 17 - inch alloys was pretty good too, a touch firmer than the Comfort mode in my GTI with its adaptive dampers but still pretty acceptable, and well controlled.

Sport specification includes full LED headlights, 18 - inch alloy wheels, standard passive dampers, a pair of touchscreens (8.8 in and 8.6 in), a suite of safety systems and mild hybrid technology.

The passive dampers are definitely set up with hard driving in mind, though, and the car comes alive when you take it beyond seven - tenths; the firm springs give you the security and confidence to really lean on them in the corners and know that they will support you.

All versions of the XC60 get double wishbone front suspension and a multi-link rear axle, both of which feature coil springs and passive dampers.

This is a «poverty spec» R8 on passive dampers, but the way it flows over the ground is sublime and the combination of perfectly weighted steering with the low - skimming view out means you can pick off apices with joyful ease.

«The Performance Pack includes front lateral - link ball joints (bushings are standard), Michelin Pilot Sport 4S tires (255 / 40/19 front and 275 / 40/19 rear), unique anti-roll bars and springs, passive dampers or optional MagneRide and four bolt - in structural braces,» said Mike Del Zio, vehicle dynamics engineer at Ford.

The passive dampers meanwhile give a much more natural feel to the way the R8 drives - there isn't that floaty, alienating attitude you get on magnetic ride cars.

Unlike the fully independent, actively damped Honda Civic Type R, the Megane uses torsion - beam rear suspension, and passive dampers all round.

Eck says with the optional dampers in Comfort it's more supple than those cars with the standard passive dampers, underlining one of the key development goals: improved refinement and comfort.

The passive dampers of our UK test car are more like it, but it's still considerably firmer than the RS3, and despite the harder setup it's more prone to body roll - an inevitable consequence of the circa 200 kg extra weight the larger vehicle is carrying around.

Our 35t test car had optional adaptive dampers (standard for S) and lulling, well - controlled vertical movements characterized the supple ride at 70 mph — it's more pillowy than the 2.0 D Sport's passive dampers, that set - up being is special order only in the U.S.