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We just love this photo of the customized Corvette Stingray with two matching power wheels at a car show.

There is no transmission — the engine powers the wheels at a fixed drive ratio for more efficient highway driving.

Not exact matches

So, instead of building a website that is dramatic from a visual standpoint, but requires the equivalent effort of a million hamsters running on wheels to power up a switchboard to manage all of the data and bytes your site is throwing at the visitor, you should probably go with a more «minimalist» approach.

Personally, the highly capable torque - vectoring all - wheel - drive system gave me all the grip I needed when I needed it, while at the same time piping the power to the rear wheels often enough that I didn't want for more grunt.

Me neither, my physical energy is like a freight train, the wheels start slow, then gather so much power and stamina it's hard for me to stop at the end of the day.

Powered by three electric motors — one in front and two at the rear — FF 91's all wheel drive system will be capable of blasting off a 0 - 60 mph time of 2.39 seconds, making it the world's quickest electric vehicle.

The planet itself seemed less impressive, in its old - fashioned, deliberate, annual or daily revolution, than this huge wheel, revolving within arm's length at some vertiginous speed, and barely murmuring, — scarcely humming an audible warning to stand a hair's - breadth further for respect of power, — while it would not wake the baby lying close against its frame.

You got to get it up right on top of the power curve, right at the peak so that the rear wheel is driving fast off that chain.

Michael Schumacher scored the first of his seven world titles in 1994, at the wheel of the stunning Ford - powered Benetton B194.

Montoya's been driving the Chevrolet - powered, Penske - run car, with Servia at the wheel of Schmidt Peterson Motorsports» Honda - engined version.

Either way, the master at wheeling and dealing hasn't been able to put his powers of persuasion to good use, with Rovers only addition since last season being Mame Diouf on loan from Manchester United.

I smiled and thumbed over at Lucy rolling around in her power wheels.

Many off - highway vehicles are left running at full power whilst idle for much of their life — such as telescopic handlers, heavy excavators and wheeled loaders — potentially wasting fuel with a direct impact on local air quality.

Driving a car at Indy — when there's no power steering — is where you need a lot of grip strength to hold on to that wheel.

Carbon fiber frames are expensive but generally more flexible, making for a smoother ride at the expense of worse power transfer between the leg and the wheels.

Most of the story is set at a small nuclear reactor in California and centers on a free - wheeling cameraman, the chief engineer at the reactor, a man who truly believes that nuclear energy is a safe and efficient form of power, and a female reporter who is trying to prove that she is better suited to hard news than the never - ending stream of fluff pieces she is handed.

Again, the powers that be cast the central part terrifically, but just were asleep at the wheel when it came to most other aspects.

Sure, it's not as focused or involving to drive at the limit as a Ferrari 458 or Porsche 911 GT3, but it's incredibly fast, devilishly good - looking, and sends its power to all four wheels.

Arguably our favorite exercise involved circling the skidpad with no hands on the steering wheel, controlling the trajectory of the rear - drive 86 using only the throttle, a lesson in how power application influences a car's line and a precursor to some serious attempts at drifting — attempts that varied from semi-impressive to hilariously inept and had our entire crew in stitches as we observed each other's runs.

You're not getting oversteer under power like you would in a rear wheel drive car, you're getting it at arbitrary times.

Push too hard and despite its strong body control the wheels start to skip and hop in the arches as the traction control claws at the power delivery with sharp - edged interventions that feel clumsy.

Unveiled at the 2014 Geneva motor show, the stunning 2 +2 coupe harnesses power from a 3 - litre V6 available with three power outputs driving either the rear or all - four wheels.

At 296bhp, its power output is up 20bhp over the standard Astra VXR, making this the most powerful front - wheel - drive car in Vauxhall's history.

My race - car experience has heretofore been limited to 50 - mph camera passes in a 1966 Ford GT Le Mans race car for a cover feature in Motor Trend Classic and laps at a short road course at Honda's Twin Motegi racetrack in a Honda Side by Side open - wheel, motorcycle - powered racecar.

The Q50's fast - acting AWD system defaults to 100 percent rear - wheel drive when the road is dry, but it will send as much as 50 percent of available power to the front wheels when its sensor array detects any loss of traction at the rear.

Attached to the engine is a CT supercharger, bumping power to an estimated 380 hp — on the dyno, the NSX was tested at 343 hp at the wheels.

We're at the Millbrook Proving Ground because of the new Focus RS and a question, namely how much power can a front - wheel - drive car cope with?

So, if you know the power and the wheel speed, you will know the torque at the wheels.

Not only do you get the 8.4 - inch Uconnect screen along with satellite radio by upgrading to the Plus, you also get rear park assist, heated and cooled front seats, power - adjustable heated steering wheel, 20 - inch wheels with wider tires (245 / 45R20 Firestone Firehawk GTVs versus 235 / 55R18 Michelin Primacy MXM4s), and upgraded brakes (13.6 - inch discs with two - pot calipers instead of 12.6 - inchers with a single - piston clamp up front and vented 12.6 - inch discs with a single piston at rear instead of solid ones at rear).

With that kind of power at your command — beautifully managed by an eight - speed ZF transmission with a towering 4.72:1 first gear — you will instantly notice how great the steering wheel feels in your hands and how precisely it responds to your command.

At high speed, the force required to turn the steering wheel is minimal with or without power steering.

Wheel horsepower is generally the car's power, measured at the drive wheels.

The Rotsun is powered by a Chevrolet 4.3 - liter V - 6 force fed via a turbocharger from a Ford Powerstroke turbodiesel V - 8 making 320 hp and 420 lb - ft of torque at the rear wheels.

The Explorer has a turbocharged four - cylinder engine at a price comparable to my Traverse test vehicle, but you also get power - folding third - row seats, heated second - row seats, power - folding mirrors and a heated steering wheel in a Limited model.

Proud Proboscis — Ronald «Steady» Barker pays tribute to one of motoring's most magnificent white elephants the 50cv Renault and its successor the 40cv / The Healey Heritage — Malcolm Green traces the development of the big Austin - Healeys from Donald Healey's Riley - powered cars from Warwick to the Mark III 3000 that was built at Abingdon / Back on the Road — Michael Ware reports on some recent restorations by readers of The Automobile / Austin Seven Ulster Rebuild / Batteries — Workshop / Enfield Underslung — Michael Worthington - Williams relates the story of the Adamson cyclecar / Swooping Kestrel — Brian Heath experiences the pleasure of preselector gear changing at the wheel of a 1937 Riley 12/14 Kestrel / Butler's Babies — The American Austin was one of the first attempts to popularise the European small car in the USA Kit Foster tells its story / Commercially Speaking — Panels & Parts

There are three trims of the GX 460 available: Base, which starts at $ 51,730 including destination; Premium, which adds LED fog lights, a perforated leather interior, navigation, heated and ventilated front seats, heated backseats, three - zone climate control and rain - sensing wipers and starts at $ 56,175; and Luxury, which starts at $ 63,105 and adds an adaptive suspension, power folding mirrors, a leather - and - wood steering wheel, blind spot monitors with cross-traffic alert, and a power - folding third row.

When the steering wheel is at the end of its travel (completely left / right) it is normal that the power steering pump starts making some extra noise

Many of the 25 turns at Spain's Circuit Ricardo Tormo are large sweepers that challenge a mid-engine supercar's balance and power distribution, and it's here where improvements to the Aventador's seven - speed automated transmission, all - wheel drive, and stability control become evident.

Each time we thought we'd become stuck, smooth application of the throttle gave the electronic brain the power it needed at each wheel to get moving again.

Mostly it just soaks up the power and takes you exactly where you point it, but get that left - foot braking going and the MR allows you to slide into and out of faster corners, all four wheels ripping at the surface with no opposite lock required.

One wonders just what it is that the Murano lacks, and it's pretty hard to put a finger on it when you look at the example we drove and see everything you get: power - adjustable steering wheel, navigation system, backup camera, Bluetooth, a power liftgate, twenty - inch wheels, leather upholstery, heated seats and steering wheel, and the list goes on.

Sitting at the top of the new GLE range, it's powered by Mercedes» 5.5 - litre twin - turbo V8, which pushes as much as 560 lb ft of torque to all four wheels from just 1750rpm.

Still, at higher revs it belts out a pleasing, high - pitched whine, and Audi's all - wheel drive sends enough power to the rear to make the car feel like a proper sports sedan.

The MX - 5 recipe is a tantalising one: a small, lightweight, rear - wheel drive car powered by a naturally aspirated engine and equipped with a manual gearbox, all sold at a price to tempt a select few from their hot hatchbacks.

4x4 may also have an «automatic 4wd» feature which ties in the hubs to the differential, but won't apply power to the front unless there is slippage at the rear wheels.

It feels like there's way more energy and power at the rear wheels compared to the softtop.

There are power bleeders to make it easier, but flushing the fluid is normally a process of letting it leak out the bleeder screws at each wheel and adding new fluid before the reservoir is empty.

My test vehicle came in at $ 42,785 for a front - wheel - drive 3LT model with a rearview camera mirror, rear park assist sensors, 20 - inch wheels, foglamps, bi-xenon headlights, leather seats, a power liftgate, remote start, power front seats, a leather - wrapped steering wheel, a Bose premium 10 - speaker audio system, automatic tri-zone climate control and a 4G LTE Wi - Fi hot spot that can accommodate up to seven devices.

Our all - wheel - drive model started at $ 75,830 but added blind spot monitoring, the Mark Levinson sound system, a cargo net and a trunk mat, along with the F - Sport Comfort Package, which includes heated and cooled front seats, a power rear sunshade, power - opening and closing trunk, and heated rear seats.

There's less power assist at highway speeds, which gives the wheel some extra heft and enhances directional stability, but feedback doesn't improve.