Practically tasting the creamy deliciousness in my mouth, I didn't bother to slow down much for the exit ramp, sliding through all 270 degrees of slightly banked, constant -
radius corner with all four tires howling and the stability control light flashing.
Not exact matches
This is not a stroller you can jog
with (per the instructions manual), but the turning
radius and skinny frame make it easy to go around
corners and squeeze through tight spaces.
The nation - wide sites have members living in every
corner of the country, which means there are thousands of users for you to choose from, but the trick
with sites like these is to set up your geographical preferences to within a 100 - mile
radius so you don't find yourself in a long - distance relationship.
Circuit Paul Ricard is tricky,
with dips and rolls and
corners that decrease in
radius where you expect them to open up.
If they're of a tighter
radius, however, you'll be forced to deviate from the ten - and - two position on the steering - wheel to dial in the necessary lock,
with the seat bolstering often obstructing the arm as you twirl the wheel through a
corner.
Even the long variant is a short circuit
with 13
corners, but because of the great variety of crests, climbs, descents,
radii, and surfaces, the roller - coaster drive invariably advances pulse rates.
It's a wonderful feeling, though, particularly through a long, tightish
corner where you get to feel the nose dragging everything behind it on what seems like an ever - tightening
radius, the lateral loads building and building until,
with all the grip focused on the front, the rear almost starts to feel like it's oversteering.
It's not just the distance that fatigues — Thunderhill is littered
with off - camber sweepers, blind crests, and decreasing -
radius corners that impress and intimidate.
It begins
with a little smile during the triple - digit approach to a braking zone, gestates into giggles as you fly around a long, constant -
radius right - hander fast enough to bend your neck like licorice, and finally breaks into full - on snorts as the car comes off the
corner and accelerates into oblivion for about the 23rd time in the past three minutes.
Just a stone's throw from BMW's U.S. manufacturing plant in Spartanburg, the Performance Center is home to a driver training school run on a purpose - built track that combines high - speed sweepers
with decreasing
radii, evil little low - speed
corners, and a huge dip that's sort of like a junior version of Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca's corkscrew.
European Bureau Chief Georg Kacher drove an M5 prototype three months ago and wrote, «Not only does this new M5 curve and carve through
radii at whatever degree of ostentatiousness that appeals to you most, it also slides and swings out of
corners with raw urge and determination.
This was the most challenging section,
with decreasing -
radius corners and steep hills, and we loved the firm pedal and precise modulation of the Brembo brakes, which are standard on all ATS coupes.
With the aid of high - resolution navigation data and information supplied by the radar and video sensors, Porsche InnoDrive determines speed limits and topographical road features, such as gradients or
corner radii, along your route even before you reach them — and modifies the gearshift strategy and speed of the Panamera accordingly.
In the small overlap test, we use a 5 - foot - tall rigid barrier
with a
radius of about 6 inches representing the outer
corner of a car or a tree or post.
With InnoDrive, the system would read the 45 speed limit sign — or, when one doesn't exist, use topographical road features (i.e. gradient and
corner radii)-- and know to slow down to a safe speed.
With the aid of high - resolution navigation data and information supplied by the radar and video sensors, Porsche InnoDrive determines speed limits and topographical road features, such as gradients or
corner radii, along your route even before you reach them — and modifies the gearshift strategy and speed of the Panamera Sport Turismo accordingly.
As such, on unfamiliar canyon roads
with poorly banked
corners and blind decreasing -
radius surprises, the X2 was a bit more difficult to drive quickly and smoothly.
In a nutshell,
with GVC, the same
corners at the same speed required slightly less steering angle to enter, and mid-corner bumps required slightly less wheel correction and slower steering wheel inputs to maintain a constant -
radius line over.
The drive is substantially better
with a tighter turning
radius, much less body roll when
cornering and traction control along
with a new 6 speed automatic transmission.
It handles
corners very well
with a very tight turning
radius.
It has the turning
radius of a Batillus - class supertanker, and it understeers through
corners with the body lean of an Airbus A380.
While the X1
with the 23d engine shows an initial reluctance to turn in, it will dig in and turn once committed to the
corner — and handling is closer to neutral at higher speeds and in wider -
radius turns.
Smooth exterior styling,
radius -
corner windows
with tough finish stands up to all climates.
The significant overdrive percentage in the new Ridgeline means that the torque vectoring effect is pronounced and effective even in
corners with a
radius of as little as 49.2 feet (15 meters).
â $ œLike all big vans, these are clumsy to drive,
with a wide turning
radius, copious
cornering lean, and modest grip.
Apart from the short turning
radius you can maneuver around urban and suburban confines
with greater ease than you could in a regular minivan, the
corners aren't as far away.
The new rear - drive unit is constantly overdriven by 2.7 - percent (compared to 1.7 percent on the previous system),
with a greater torque - vectoring effect across a broader spectrum of driving situations, further enhancing
cornering capability at lower speeds and in tighter -
radius corners.
HELEN FRANKENTHALER
Radius (H. 234) woodcut in colors, 1992 - 93, on White TGL handmade, signed and dated» 93» in pencil, numbered 30/30 (there were also 8 artist's proofs),
with the Tyler Graphics, Ltd. blindstamp, Mount Kisco, New York, the full sheet, one small area of surface soiling in the upper left sheet
corner, hinged to the support in places at the reverse of the sheet edges, otherwise in very good condition, framed S. 28 x 28 in.
This intersection has two different conditions; one which forces cars to slow down to actually turn, and another
with large
radii that let the cars just swoosh around, and removes the
corner where the pedestrian actually has some control.
Both have the same wide -
radius corner, aluminum unibody design, but the 6s makes some minor differentiations
with an S logo in place of the typical regulatory markings, and a new rose gold color option.
The OnePlus 5T boasts a 80.5 % screen - to - body ratio,
with minimally curved
corners (the
radius of curvature is smaller than what's found on devices like the Galaxy Note 8 and Galaxy S8, for example).
The Samsung Galaxy 8 will arrive
with a vertically - aligned dual - lens rear camera, an on - screen fingerprint sensor and an Infinity display
with a smaller
corner radius to cram in more pixels.
It has hand sanded American Maple frames
with Smooth
radius corners.