Drivers can adjust Avalon's ride feel with the simple depression of a button — Normal mode prioritizes comfort, while Sport + emphasizes handling with tauter, highly responsive footing without diminishing Avalon's celebrated
ride suppleness.
The car's Comfort, Sport, Cupra and Individual drive modes allow what seems like plentiful scope for adjustment of the ride to begin with, but ultimately none of them produces the balance of
ride suppleness and close wheel control that a hot hatchback needs to work well on UK roads.
Not exact matches
Again, the
suppleness of the
ride is a real boon, the satnav is superb and the ordinary - looking seats are actually supremely comfortable on a long haul.
Look at those vast wheels and you'd expect it to deliver the sort of washboard
ride that'd leave you with double vision, yet there's
suppleness to its damping.
«Despite cast - iron body control and low - roll handling, the Renault
rides with rare
suppleness for a passively damped machine.»
Despite cast iron body control and low roll handling, the Renault
rides with rare
suppleness for a passively damped machine.
It's said that the superior wheel control it brings improves braking to P1 levels and cornering to trackday - tyre levels, all on the latest spec «everyday» P - Zero with its all - weather performance and
ride - enhancing
suppleness.
Or the
suppleness of the
ride.
Getting under way, we marveled at the lack of impact harshness and the
suppleness over rough patches: a truly premium
ride.
Equipped with VW's adaptive dampers (called Dynamic Chassis Control) there's a
suppleness to the GTI's
ride quality that makes it an effortless day - to - day and long distance machine.
It doesn't
ride with quite the
suppleness and fluidity expected in a mainstream Citroën, though, because there's only so much you can do with a simple torsion - beam rear axle.
The damping feels fabulous, the low - speed
ride displaying an almost oily
suppleness, belying the stiff - sidewalled tyres that barely smear themselves around the 17in rims.
Driving around Sarasota in the fastest of all the 792 GTs built over a nine - year production run, I find the
suppleness and
ride comfort to be the most notable characteristics.
And yet it
rides with impressive
suppleness and poise, being caught out only by big bumps and sharp ridges.
This Astra SRi feels sweaet,
riding with great
suppleness, steering with precision and cornering with innate poise.
The open - top Bugatti
rides with surprising
suppleness.
It's a worthwhile option to select, as without it the
ride lacks the
suppleness afforded with it, and on smoother surfaces under hard cornering there's more body roll than is comfortable — though that's also partly due to the convertible's reduced rigidity.
The unladen
ride is on the firm side but the suspension takes the edge off the bumps with impressive
suppleness and never becomes crashy, even over major craters in the surface.
There is plenty on offer though to put a smile on your face, and the Mercedes also works well in town, providing a
ride balanced nicely between agility and
suppleness.
There is an extra layer of
suppleness to the
ride (especially the heavier diesel model) over sharp - edged potholes and road joints and we noticed that the lower - spec petrol variant with the higher profile rubber seemed to
ride better overall.
For instance, comfort is taken extremely seriously in the Ford Edge, with the
suppleness of the
ride and the impressive levels of noise insulation resulting in a five - seater SUV that feels right at home as a mile muncher on longer journeys.
Comfort is taken extremely seriously in the Ford Edge, with the
suppleness of the
ride and the impressive levels of noise insulation.
The suspension is firm, but with enough
suppleness to make the
ride comfortable for every day driving.
That steering points a chassis that offers
ride with more
suppleness than the sports - biased German options, such as the 5 Series with M Sport Package.
Yet this agility on twisting roads doesn't come at the expense of comfort, as the 3
rides bumps with surprising
suppleness.
The Alfa's grip was uncompromising in the dry, yet the car
rode with an unexpected
suppleness that's just not found in cars boasting this level of adhesion.
There's also a great deal of comfort, since the
ride quality achieves that fine balance between stability and
suppleness.
There's a
suppleness to the
ride of the sport - suspended (non-adjustable) standard version which memory suggests the CLA 45 AMG would have trouble matching.
The combination of
suppleness and firmness means the
ride is never uncomfortable.
There's so much
ride quality to spare in Comfort that the other two don't ruin the
suppleness, though there are roads on which you wouldn't choose to use them.
It sits flatter through bends than its predecessor, which means you can corner with more confidence (and speed if you wish) but there's a level of
suppleness in the
ride quality that makes this a balanced all - rounder.