While the DZire is the more fun with its high revving engine which rushes to
the redline quickly, the Zest offers better performance and drivability, along with an unheard off (in this segment) drive mode selector.
While the 81kW engine would spin freely and reach
its redline quickly — forcing an upshift mid-corner, for example — the 66kW engine would take a while to spool up the last 1000rpm on the way to its 6500rpm maximum.
A flat - plane crankshaft is less balanced than a cross-plane crankshaft, creating additional vibration, but the tradeoff is a high - revving mill that spins up to
redline quickly.
The naturally aspirated engine delivers satisfying thrust, spinning to
redline quickly.
Not exact matches
Although the transmission
quickly shifts itself out of first, it allows you to bump the
redline from second through sixth.
I never come close to
redlining so that's not the issue, but to keep me from slowing down to
quickly and spiking the RPMs I have to ride my clutch a little bit.
It was so intricately engineered that it was able to rev between idle and its 9500rpm
redline so
quickly a traditional tachometer needle was not able to keep up.
At about 5200 rpm, when the U.S. - spec E36 is
quickly nearing its
redline, there's another cam phase shift, and this M3 snorts a metaphoric kilo of crystal meth, sprinting headfirst into its 7600 - rpm limiter with clenched teeth and dilated pupils.
The race - bred V8 hits its amazing 8400 - rpm
redline almost too
quickly in the lower gears before its throttle shuts off to prevent over-revving; but shift before it reaches that point, however, and the M3 can rocket from rest to 60 mph in 4.7 seconds and on to a computer - limited top speed of 155 mph.
This output of 155 hp and 160 lb - ft of torque enables the 240 to loaf easily around town in the lower rev ranges, or accelerate
quickly onto the highway with repeated sweeps of the tach needle toward the 6900 - rpm
redline.
The engine wound up so
quickly that, in second gear, I was brushing up against
redline in seconds.
The engine revs very freely and
quickly to its
redline.
But you tend hit the rev limiter because its easy to misjudge the
redline which arrives too
quickly and you soon realise that your driving is actually smoother and quicker toggling the Anima down to the Sport mode.
The transmission doesn't really shift
quickly, even in sport, and
redlining it doesn't do much to increase the fun quotient.
Thus it gathers speed
quickly and remains silent till the
redline (4,500 rpm).
Very aggressive turbocharging and a slick six - speed manual transmission make for very linear acceleration, revving so
quickly that you have to be quick on the gears to avoid
redline.
Competent and sporty dynamics Once it shoulders past some turbocharger lag under 2000rpm, Renault's turbocharged 1.6 - litre four - cylinder petrol engine builds up steam
quickly and spins smoothly to its 6000rpm
redline.
If there's a downside it's that the Swift Sport reaches
redline very
quickly — and runs out of puff just as fast.
Push the accelerator all the way to the floor and the engine revved to a 5000rpm
redline, feeling strong and lively from just below 4000rpm, where the engine would
quickly recommence building a head of steam after each upshift.
The motor isn't as free revving as you would expect a Honda powerplant to be and
redline comes in
quickly at 4100 RPM.
During our manual - shifting tests, tapping the right side paddle produced a quick upshift, but we frequently didn't catch it in time, as the tach needle
quickly headed into
redline territory.