Sentences with phrase «per cent of the drive»

In Sport mode, when the car's in its most aggressive settings, only 17 per cent of drive ever goes to the front axle.

The six - speed automatic drives all four wheels; under normal driving conditions it powers the front wheels, but can send up to 50 per cent of the drive rearward should the need arise.

The power is relayed to the road through a new eight - speed automatic transmission and Audi's quattro all - wheel drive system, which sends 40 per cent of the drive to the front wheels and 60 per cent to the rear.

Our test cars were fitted with an optional sports differential that helps deliver extra punch at the right moment, building on the all - wheel drives system to apportion up to 85 per cent of drive to the rear.

An aptly named «drift» function allows up to 70 per cent of power to be sent to the rear wheels, with as much as 100 per cent of that driving torque sent to one individual wheel.

Following the strip rear LED lighting of the AMG GT S, the 911 Turbo does a fine job of shrinking around you on the road and it turns - in with assurance, assisted by active rear - steer and an electrically - controlled all - wheel drive system that can shuffle 100 per cent of drive torque to the front or rear axles as required.

Audi says the system is retuned to send a greater share of power to the rear axle more of the time — between 50 and 100 per cent of drive can now be channelled directly to the back wheels.

One of the headline fitments in the new 4.0 - litre twin - turbo V8 performance sedan, due in Australia next year, is a clever setting in which the car's all - wheel drive system apportions up to 100 per cent of drive to the rear wheels.

Audi's injected some two - turning / two - burning spirit into the RS 5's quattro all - wheel drive by setting it up with a static 40/60 front / rear torque split and it can channel as much as 85 per cent of drive to the rear, which is then distributed side - to - side by an electro - mechanical sports differential.

It also features Audi's updated adaptive AWD system which can send up to 100 per cent of drive to the rear wheels.

The fully variable set - up, which is capable of apportioning up to 100 per cent of drive to the back wheels, has been developed to provide a distinctive rear - wheel drive bias in a move Moers hints will see the new E63 continue to offer power oversteer traits despite the move to four - wheel drive across the model range.

Normally, the front axle is the primary drive axle in the Passat Alltrack 4MOTION; while the rear axle only gets ten per cent of the drive torque, saving on fuel.

While, when driving smoothly in a straight line, the front - to - rear power split is 40:60, up to 80 per cent of the drive power goes to the rear axle in a bend, ensuring spontaneous steering behaviour precisely following the actual radius and course of the bend.

The all - wheel drive system endows the Impreza with a surefooted driving feel, thanks to its ability to apportion 60 per cent of drive to the front wheels and 40 per cent to the rear wheels.

Recent research carried out by RED Driving School suggests 75 per cent of driving instructors believe the UK driving test should incorporate a module on the awareness of cyclists.

Red Driving School believes its education not just legislation that's needed Recent research carried out by RED Driving School suggests 75 per cent of driving instructors believe the UK driving test should incorporate a module on the awareness of cyclists.

It's education not just legislation that's needed Findings from our recent research with instructors suggests that 75 per cent of driving instructors in the UK believe the driving test needs more consideration for cycling awareness.

Findings from our recent research with instructors suggests that 75 per cent of driving instructors in the UK believe the driving test needs more consideration for cycling awareness.

Not exact matches

Consumer spending drives 70 per cent of economic activity.

Business investment is a relatively small share of GDP (about 12 per cent) but it's an important indicator of future expectations, and drives all sorts of other economic activity.

The whole concept of inversion, and the simpler relocation of smaller firms» HQs, is driven by one simple desire — to avoid America's corporate tax rate which headlines at 35 per cent, which is the highest corporate tax rate in the industrialized world.

drive - in fast - food restaurant chain reported adjusted earnings of 45 cents per share, beating estimates by 1 cent.

Tighter supplies of gasoline and diesel in B.C. would likely drive up prices in B.C.'s Lower Mainland by about 10 cents per litre, said fuel market analyst Michael Ervin, senior vice-president at the Kent Group Ltd..

The deal values Andeavor, formerly known as Tesoro, at about US$ 152 per share, a premium of about 24 per cent to closing prices on Friday, driving shares in the San Antonio - based firm 14 per cent higher in premarket trading on Monday.

Chinese export growth did slow towards the end of last year, but only from around 30 to around 25 per cent, and, in any case, the bulk of China's growth is being driven by domestic demand.

The company's network of 376 brokers — which grew by 15 for the half — delivered GWP of $ 2.6 billion, up 8 per cent driven by prices rises and growth in the authorised representative network.

Foreign investment accounts for around 1 per cent of Shanghai - listed A-Shares, a market driven by Chinese retail investor sentiment, not fundamentals.

Ron Wilson, president of Best Buy Canada, said 80 per cent of customers are within a 15 minute drive to a store and «this won't change.

ANZ Banking Group said growing revenue will be harder for banks, as it delivered a cash profit up 4.1 per cent to $ 3.49 billion for the past six months driven by a strategy of reducing complexity and costs and honing its focus on home loan lending.

This net foreign currency asset position before hedging has increased from 7 per cent of GDP from the end of March 2009, driven by a decline in the value of foreign currency denominated liabilities.

«The services segment will grow between 13 per cent and 20 per cent per year over the next five years driven by continued growth in existing services along with new, innovative services,» Gene Munster, co-founder of Loup Ventures and a veteran Apple analyst, wrote in an email following the results on Tuesday.

Synovus's Morgan recently estimated that services will drive about 60 per cent of Apple's revenue growth over the next five years.

Second, fluctuations in business investment can drive the business cycle — roughly 50 per cent of the movements in quarterly GDP during the Great Recession and its aftermath were due to shifts in business investment.

Excluding oil, the domestic component increased by around 1 per cent in the June quarter, driven by rises in utilities and metal ore prices, while the non-oil-related prices of imported inputs rose by a similar amount.

Growth in household disposable income picked up steadily over the past year, driven by solid employment growth, to be running at just under 6 per cent over the year to the June quarter, the highest rate of increase for almost three years.

The prices of other resource commodities increased on average by 5.8 per cent over the three months to April, driven by increases in the prices of alumina, coal and iron ore.

Retail sales weakened markedly, with growth slowing to 10.6 per cent from 2014's full - year expansion of 12 per cent, threatening to undercut official efforts to nurture a consumer - driven economy.

Following declines over the past three quarters, driven by significant price falls, expenditure on imports of goods and services rose by 6 per cent in the September quarter, to be 3 1/2 per cent higher than a year ago.

The number of private building approvals has risen by around 5 per cent since the March quarter, driven by strong growth in approvals for houses.

Still, passenger revenues climbed in the first quarter from $ 3.1 billion last year to $ 3.5 billion this year, driven by traffic growth of 11.4 per cent and yield improvement of 0.4 per cent.

An estimated three - per - cent expansion overall in 2017 — driven by an out - sized first - half growth spurt of more than four per cent — will likely be followed by slower output of 2.1 per cent next year.

The meetings, which were organized by Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters and the Canadian Manufacturing Coalition, focused on raising the profile of issues critical to driving investment in manufacturing and growing the sector that accounts for $ 287 billion in provincial GDP and 81 per cent of exports in 2014 despite challenges stemming from the economic downturn.

Engineering construction has risen by 50 per cent over the past year, to reach very high levels, and is set to expand further in the near term, driven by a considerable stock of resource and infrastructure work in the pipeline.

Stockland chief executive Mark Steinert this week said the national population growth rate of 1.6 per cent would keep driving demand for new facilities, even though traditional retailers were planning fewer new stores than they were five or six years ago.

In a sixth year of consecutive growth, organic sales rose by six per cent to a record # 2.2 bn, driven largely by independent outlets and home deliveries

In contrast, the national accounts measure of buildings and structures investment fell by a surprisingly large 3.8 per cent in the September quarter, driven by a large reversal in the previously robust structures component.

This national increase was driven by a jump of 9,480 or 12.9 per cent in Ontario, the largest monthly increase in the province -LSB-...]

More recently, the volume of retail sales rose by 0.8 per cent in the March quarter, driven by solid growth in January and February, with the value of sales unchanged in March.

Tech Mahindra, for instance, has retrained over 70 per cent of its employees «in different modules around new - age technologies driving digital projects,» says company chief executive CP Gurnani, adding that, being «future - ready is our prime responsibility.»

The RBA Commodity Price Index rose by 4.3 per cent in SDR terms in the three months to October, driven by rises in the prices of rural goods and base metals, to be 1.7 per cent higher than a year ago (Graph 48).