Sentences with phrase «pretty good brakes»

Not exact matches

Fernando is pretty good at race starts, too, and the massive long run down to the first braking zone would give him every chance to gain fistfuls of positions if he qualified badly or something.

Given the weight of two kids and the fact that I live on a pretty steep hill, I'm glad to report that the brake holds very well.

We like the easy to click on foot brake and the wheels on the G - Luxe are pretty sturdy as well.

The brakes hold up to this behaviour pretty well, the six - speed manual» box is sweet and intuitive, even the engine feels surprisingly keen to rev when it's fully let off the leash.

The good news is the car is prettier inside and out, and it gets lots of new safety tech, including a pre-collision braking system and lane departure warning.

The track is greasy and cold but the LC 500 copes well, the big six - piston brakes staying pretty firm and resisting that horrible juddering that can make lapping feel like torture.

The balance of grip, power and braking ability is well matched, but it's pretty inert, so while there's no question the RCZ is effective, progressive, poised and exploitable, it's also fair to say exuberance is in short supply.

The brakes cope pretty well but are groaning within a handful of really hard laps, the car is slightly clumsy on turn - in and understeer sets in quickly and that engine — which sounds fantastic and promises so much — feels overly burdened.

And so is the magnetic - ride suspension, which continues to prove its worth in most every application: stiff when you want it to be, and pretty compliant when you don't, it's a genuinely all - purpose system that, matched to the big Brembo brakes, works equally well on the track and on the street.

He says I have a pretty good driving line around the wide 180 - degree turns at either end of our small oval, but says to brake and accelerate more enthusiastically.

But despite the reworked spring and dampers, beefed - up and cross-drilled brakes, and fat Pirelli P Zero Nero rubber, it stops somewhere slightly south of «pretty good».

Body roll is not annoying and brake performance is also pretty good.

Then and hour and a half later getting absolutely smashed by a PC car, and then fixing the brakes; fixing the car and finishing second which was kind of the best of the rest was pretty special.

It looked like we were getting a good run on a new tire, and coming out of Turn 6 into Turn 8, I'm behind a DP car and he's braked pretty much at the normal spot and then just continued to brake into the apex.

The brakes are again pretty decent and there shouldn't be a reason to complain on that front as well.

The driving dynamics are pretty good but the steering is vague and the brakes don't give much feedback, but again this is a passenger hauler not a sports car.

With 755 horsepower the 2019 Chevrolet Corvette zr1 is the most powerful Corvette ever it's also the most technologically advanced behind me are the rolling s's at Road Atlanta and we're here to see if we can reach to the supercar levels of performance afforded by this thing's massive power big tires and the tall wing on the back after that we'll take to the streets to see if a car this powerful can behave itself in public this is a monster of a car I've had some brief track opportunities moving this morning to get used to the pace of this machine which is phenomenal we're gonna warm up as we get out to the road Atlanta and sort of build up to the pace that this car can operate at now initially when you hop in this car you have this shrine to the engine right above you you see the line of the hood it kind of dominates the center of the view you can see over it it doesn't affect visibility but it's immediately obvious and that kind of speaks to what makes this car special it's a monster of an engine listen to that [Music] that is tremendous tremendous acceleration and incredible power but what I finding so far my brief time here at the Atlanta is that everything else in the car is rut has risen to match hurt me while I lay into it on the back straight look you know 150 mile - an - hour indicated we're going to ease up a little bit on it because I need to focus on talking rather than driving but like I was saying the attributes of the rest of the car the steering the braking capability the grip every system of this car is riding to the same level of the power and I think that's what makes it really impressive initially this is undoubtedly a mega mega fast car but it's one that doesn't terrify you with its performance potential there's a level of electronic sophistication that is unparalleled at this price point but it's hard not to get you know totally slipped away by the power of this engine so that's why I keep coming back to it this car has an electronically controlled limited slip differential it has shocks filled with magnetically responsive fluid that can react faster to inputs and everything this car has a super sophisticated stability control system that teaches you how to drive it quick but also makes you go faster we haven't even gotten into exploring it yet because the limits of this car are so high that frankly it takes a while to grow into it but [Music] I think what's impressive about this car is despite how fast it is it is approachable you can buy this car to track dates with it and grow with it as a driver and as an owner I think that's a really special [Music] because you will never be more talented than this car is fast ever unless you are a racing driver casually grazing under 50 miles an hour on this straight okay I'm just going to enjoy driving this now [Music][Applause][Music] this particular Corvette zr1 comes with the cars track performance package a lot of those changes happen underneath the sheet metal but one of the big differences that is immediately obvious is this giant carbon fiber wing now the way this thing is mounted is actually into the structure of the vehicle and it makes you know loading the rear hatch a bit more difficult but we're assuming that's okay if you're looking for the track performance this thing delivers also giving you that performance are these Michelin Pilot Sport cup tires which are basically track oriented tires that you can drive on the street but as we wake our way to the front of the thing what really matters is what's under the hood that's right there's actually a hole in the hood of this thing and that's because this engine is so tall it's tall because it has a larger supercharger and a bunch of added cooling on it to help it you know keep at the right temperature the supercharger is way larger than the one on the zo six and it has a more cooling capacity and the downside is it's taller so it pops literally through the hood the cool thing is from the top you can actually see this shake when you're looking at it from you know a camera from the top of the vehicle this all makes for 755 horsepower making this the most powerful Corvette ever now what's important about that is this not just the power but likewise everything in the car has to be built to accommodate and be able to drive to the level of speed this thing can develop that's why you had the massive cooling so I had the aerodynamics and that's why I had the electronic sophistication inside [Applause] we had a lot of time to take this car on the track yesterday and I've had the night to think about things Matt today two crews on the road and see how this extreme performance machine deals with the sort of more civil minded stuff of street driving the track impressions remain this thing is unquestionably one of the most capable cars you can get from a dealer these days a lot of that's besides the point now because we're on the street we have speed limits they have the ever - present threat of law enforcement around every corner so the question is what does this car feel like in public when you slow this car down it feels like a more powerful Corvette you don't get much tram lining from these big wheels though we as the front end doesn't want to follow grooves in the pavement it is louder it is a little firmer but it's certainly livable on a day to day basis that's surprising for a vehicle of this capability normally these track oriented cars are so hardcore that you wouldn't want to drive them to the racetrack but let's face it you spend more time driving to the track than you do on the track and the fact that this thing works well in both disciplines is really impressive I can also dial everything back and cruise and not feel like I'm getting punished for driving a hardcore track machine that's a that's a really nice accomplishment that's something that you won't find in cars that are this fast and costs maybe double this much the engine in this car dominates the entire experience you can't miss the engine and the whole friend this car is sort of a shrine to it the way it pops out of the hood the way it's covered with coolers around the sides it is the experience of this car and that does make driving this thing special and also the fact that it doesn't look half bad either in fact I think it has some of the coolest looking wheels currently available on a new car this car as we mentioned this car has the track package the track package on this car gives you what they call competition bucket seats which are a little wide for my tastes but I'm you know not the widest person in the world this automatic transmission works well I mean there's so much torque again out of this engine that it can be very smooth and almost imperceptible its clunky on occasion I think I'd might opt for the manual although Chevy tells me about 80 % of its customers will go for the automatic I don't think they're gonna be disappointed and that's gonna be the faster transmission drag strip on the street - and on the racetrack man it was a little bit more satisfying to my taste though we've talked about the exhaust I have it set in the track setting let's quiet it down a little bit so you can hear the difference now I've set that separately from everything else so let's put it stealth what happened to the engine sound that's pretty that's pretty amazing man stealth is really stealth and then go back to track Wow actually a really big difference that's that's pretty great the Corvette has always been a strong value proposition and nowhere is that more evident than this zr1 giving you a nearly unbeatable track performance per dollar now the nice thing is on the road this doesn't feel like a ragged edge track machine either you could genuinely drive it every day the compromises are few and that's what makes this car so special if you like what you see keep it tuned right here and be sure to visit Edmunds.com [Music]

On my favorite mountain road testing circuit, the Accord was a pretty fun drive with planted, predictable handling that impressed me and felt like a good match with the performance of Honda's chosen powertrain and brakes.

The benefits of having more weight on the rear tires for acceleration are, again, pretty obvious, but did you know that less weight (to a certain extent) on the smaller, narrower front tires also helps under braking as well as in the turns since nose - heavy stock Mustangs easily overwhelm their front tires to the point of locking the brakes or understeering in a corner?

It has a lot of power and brakes pretty good.

Our car is solid on the brakes and seems to rotate in and to the apex of the corners, and we can bear down on the apexes pretty well in most of the medium - and slow - speed corners.

Aside from that, this crossover does quite well in terms of safety, thanks to high - quality brakes, stability control, and a good airbag system, so even the base models are pretty well covered.

We reckon the RS 265 range is pretty good value for money and in the entry - level Cup model you get things like 18 ″ alloy wheels, Brembo brakes, LED daytime running lights, rear parking sensors, limited slip diff, dual zone climate control, Bluetooth audio and more as standard equipment.

Other than those things this car has been a lot of fun to have as my first car purchase, it's got good pickup, good brakes, the safety features are really helpful and overall pretty happy with it.

Our $ 51k - sticker «Touring» roadster was pretty well - loaded, as you would expect, featuring navigation, heated and cooled seats and the Sport package, bringing forged 19» Rays wheels, bigger brakes with four - piston calipers, «Euro - tuned Sport Shocks», and a viscous LSD.

If you can't have anti-lock brakes all around, anti-lock on the rear of a pickup is pretty good.

Plus, with standard Brembo brakes, it even stops pretty well, too.

Standard safety equipment levels are pretty good too, thanks to the car's complement of eight airbags, hill start assist and a brake assist system that helps slow the car down faster during emergency stop situations.

The AC is lacking punch, The steering is ultra light, the handling even with SE trim is floaty, build quality is better than last gen but not by much, the brakes are pretty much dead if one must make a sudden stop from say 50 mph, lots of fade, the gas mileage is horrible even when taking it easy on the engine.

Using the brake torque technique, I got a 0 - 60 time of 6.8 seconds, which is pretty good considering our press vehicle weighed more than 5,000 pounds.

The right - hand drive version translates pretty well — only the parking brake position on the far side of the centre console is a give - away.

This domestic monster even turns pretty well too, with adjustable suspension settings, giant brakes, and over a 1g of lateral grip.

On the safety front, you'll find that the Civic comes pretty well equipped with the following active safety features across the entire range: stability control, traction control, ABS, electronic brakeforce distribution, brake assist, rear view camera, TPMS, and LED DRLs.

The suspension system is really pretty basic, with MacPherson Struts at the front and a simple, coil - spring torsion - beam arrangement at the rear (brakes are discs on all wheels), but it's very refined in terms of its behaviour and works well with the Maxx - spec 16 - inch alloy wheels shod with 215/60 R16 tyres providing decent grip.

Amazon's 14 - day lending constraint, along with a limit of one lending per book and the fact that publishers don't make all books available for lending in the first place, puts a pretty significant brake on those freedoms while still permitting a person trying to infect a friend with enthusiasm for the latest good read.