Sentences with phrase «right hand paddle»

The switch between gears can be smooth if you get your technique sorted and lift off the throttle the exact moment the «box goes for an upshift, but when you start to push on the delay between you pulling the right hand paddle and the gear hitting home increases and frustrates with equal measure.

Similarly it won't upshift unless you pull the right hand paddle, to a point where you can bounce it off the rev limiter in a chosen gear and still it won't change up.

Not exact matches

The right arm was of enormous size and shapeless... The right hand was large and clumsy — a fin or paddle rather than a hand....

All four wheels spin up, the car snaps sideways off the line, you apply half a turn of lock, ease the revs whilst keeping the wheels spinning all the way through first gear then time the flick of the right - hand paddle just before snagging the limiter at 8000rpm (no automatic upchange) and from then on it's easy, just watch the rev - counter, keep changing up and bingo you've got your figures!

The paddles require just the right amount of weight applied to them to shift up or down, not so much that an upshift requires the same thought and physical process as a conventional manual shift (if it was the case we'd be demanding a return to an open manual gate), not so light that an errant index finger brushing the left - hand paddle could result in two ratios dropped mid-corner.

Upshifts are triggered by a light pull on the right - hand paddle.

If you don't want to drive flat - out, you can work with it by lifting off the throttle as you pull the right - hand paddle, or better still just not changing gear as much and instead leaning more heavily on the huge well of torque provided by the engine.

As expected, the car is steroidal and maniacal, excellent qualities when your hands are totally open on the steering wheel, your gas foot sucked to the floor and the right paddle triggered at every redline.

Poking the glass button labeled «D» on the center console enables us to launch the V12 Vantage S. Slight pressure of the right foot makes the 565 - hp 5.9 - liter V - 12 vociferate testily until we touch the leather grip on the right - hand shift paddle, pulling forward for the second of seven ratios offered by the unusual, rear - mounted automated - manual transmission.

Press the green «neutral» button on the steering wheel and flip the right - hand paddle to select first gear with a clunk.

Tug the right - hand paddle to select the seventh gear in this G37S's automatic gearbox (a six - speed manual is standard) and it takes nearly twice as long as the Beemer to see off each 20mph chunk.

Even so, it's much more exciting to select gears with my right hand and left foot than simply flicking the dual - clutch transmission's shift paddles.

It's gloriously brutal, and in Race mode you get a thump in the back every time you flick the right - hand paddle and a new ratio hits home.

Dab the brake pedal, pull back on the right - hand paddle and we're away, chuntering slightly as the e-gear software shuffles the clutch and engine revs, and the V10's torque fights against the all - wheel - drive viscous differentials as we peel away from our parking space.

Driving away is a cinch, for you simply pull back on the right - hand rocker paddle (or push on the left if you're feeling like Lewis Hamilton) and push gently on the smooth - acting throttle.

Twist the manettino fully clockwise to switch off everything apart from anti-lock, press the brake and select first with the right - hand paddle, then pull and hold the left - hand paddle for about three seconds.

I strap myself into the lightweight bucket with the multi-point race harness, the door slams shut, Max tugs the right - hand paddle and we're off.

It hits 170mph at 7500rpm in 6th, there's still another gear to go and when you pull the right - hand paddle for 7th, after shedding a few mph, the engine note hardens and it really hurtles back into the limiter.

The left - hand paddle «upshifts» the levels — from zero to four, with four being the strongest regen — while the right - hand paddle «downshifts» the levels.

Over 3800rpm the symphony is complex, and ornately crowned by a crisp «blurt» as you pull the right - hand paddle.

If you keep your foot down the eight - speed M Steptronic transmission shifts through the gears precisely and rapidly, but flick one of the paddles behind the steering wheel and it hands over control instantly and allows you to hold the gears right up to the limiter.

Patient on the throttle through the turn 11 hairpin, then enjoy the 7,000 - rpm staccato from the twin - turbo Ferrari - V8 - derived 2.9 - liter V6 as your right hand grabs the shift paddle to snap off fourth, fifth and on to sixth gear.

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Alternatively, the driver can also change gear manually using the standard - fitted shift paddles on the steering wheel — the right - hand paddle for upshifts, the left - hand paddle for downshifts.

But the two transmissions were equally adept at handing the driver the right gear for any occasion — not least of all when the two cars were being hurried along winding roads at speed and the driver was grabbing the shift paddle for a lower gear.

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In typical M configuration, the driver pulls the right - hand paddle to shift up and the left - hand paddle to shift down.

Asriel caught hold of the fixed line on the little jetty while Malcolm got out; then he let Malcolm hold the boat while he got in the right way round, took the paddle, and held out his hand to shake.

The Breakdown -8 min drive 30 min walk -20-minute paddle out (or a sketchy jump off the rocks)- Right - hand point break (advanced)- Works on all tides - Swell magnet

Perfectly situated right in front of Miramar Surf Camp, the point (Punta Miramar) is a left hand point break that loves a BIG south swell, ot has an easy paddle out thought the keyhole in thereef.