Sentences with phrase «road in a hug»

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It's a total blast to drive, engineered to hug the road, leaning into curves in a way that only Alfa Romeo could muster at a price point like this.

Not only does it offer a full - service retail, specialty coffee and gelato café at GiGi's Playhouse Down Syndrome Achievement Centers, 2350 W. Higgins Road, Hoffman Estates, this year Hugs + Mugs is setting up shop at XL Catlin in the 190 S. LaSalle Building.

There are hints of an unspoken psychic bond between the woman driving around in the white van picking up men and the mysterious motorcyclist zipping around Glasgow, hugging the curves of hilly roads that dip and snake like the ones in the opening sequence of «The Shining» — but we never find out precisely what the connection is.

Blank for years, hugging a bend in the road like lonely sentinels doggedly doing their duty, they send a blistering message in enormous black letters on a 20 - foot - high background of the brightest red:

Hugs the road with perfect weight distribution, even in convertible form.

You sit closer to the road in body - hugging sports seats which can, at a price, be swapped for single - piece buckets Leopold von Sacher - Masoch would be proud of.

The lone upside was our tester's Continental ContiProContact tires — P245 / 45R19s up front and P275 / 40R19s in back — which hugged the road.

The wide - bodied, road - hugging stance is bound to look mean in the rearview mirror of a car in front of it, and the four fat tailpipes can either be neighbor - friendly quiet or hooligan - grade loud.

The B - Class EV has its share of road - hugging weight, yet the combination of 171 hp and 251 lb - ft of torque means the car doesn't feel sluggish with two passengers, and it'll get to 60 mph in 7.9 seconds on the way to a top speed of 100 mph.

As you'd expect from an A3 with an extra 276 pounds of road - hugging weight from a battery pack, the 3471 - pound Audi A3 Sportback e-tron delivers a resilient ride on the highway, relaxed and yet always in control on its 103 - inch wheelbase.

Additionally, our vehicle came in sporty «R - Line» dress that features paddle shifters, special sport tuned independent suspension, road hugging 18 - inch all season tires on alloys, exclusive front sport bumpers, side skirts and inlayed scuff plates.

-- What a relief to not have to CLIMB in and out, to not go to the gas station every 3 - 4 days, to have solid feel when it hugs the road — My only complaint so far is how noisy the air conditioning system is - Living in the south it's used 10 - 11 months out of the year and the volume of the AC is way to loud

The C36 is one of the few automobiles in which a set of road - hugging, 17 - inch wheels and tires are standard equipment.

It hugs the road and I feel very safe and comfortable in it.

Optimized suspension geometry settings with adjusted camber angles have made substantial improvements in road - hugging traction and riding comfort.

«I think it's glued to the road; it's super tight... so as soon as you move the wheel it just points in and hugs the turn.

0 — 160 km / h comes up in just 10.5 seconds and the Porsche Traction Management system along with active all - wheel drive, map - controlled multi-plate clutch, automatic limited slip - differential and traction - slip control ensure that when the going gets quick, the Cayenne keeps going hugging the road at speeds you wouldn't think of blinking.

You are likely to find the road - hugging SHO solid, stable and easy to control in nearly every driving situation.

Aerodynamically - focused, BladeGlider's narrow front track and wide, stable rear track reduces drag while generating downforce to enhance maneuverability and road - hugging performance, with high G cornering and acceleration - yet the vehicle is thrifty in its power use.

The 2018 Cascada convertible hugs every turn in the road just right with a Sport - Tuned Suspension that delivers impressive stability, noise isolation and improved driving dynamics.

The sports - tuned steering and low profile tires really make it hug the road and it zips in and out of traffic with ease.

A low center of gravity has the FR - S hugging the road as those bolstered seats we mentioned earlier keep you nicely in place.

You sit low, gently hugged by the sports seats and facing a stunning 918 Spyder - inspired steering wheel - if it wasn't for the raised view of the road ahead, you could be forgiven for thinking you were in a Cayman.

Throwing the Mazda3 into a tight hairpin corner, it was easy to forget that I was in a family sedan rather than the road - hugging MX - 5 sports car.

Comfortably enclosed in the gorgeous body - hugging sports seats, the driver is protected to a certain degree from the Anniversary's direct conversations with sharp bumps and dips in the road while directing proceedings through the delightfully sharp, light and accurate steering and the oily - smooth, if slightly long - throw and occasionally baulky (usually when upshifting from third to fourth gear) manual gearshift.

Moreover, the official claims there's been a spike in female buyers for the new Lambo Urus and that interest in high in areas like Russia or India, where the lack of proper infrastructure makes a nightmare out of maintaining a road - hugging supercar.

Hugs the turns / road... the mileage is AMAZING (so far in the city I'm getting 31mpg).

The soft - top roof has a visual lightness to go with its low physical weight and serves as a defining element of the silhouette in reinforcing the road - hugging impression made by the car's low center of gravity.

Because it's a smaller, sporty car, bolsters hug driver and front passenger tighter than in other Cadillac models, which is a good thing when navigating winding roads.

While some sports cars have a busy ride, letting you feel every rock embedded in concrete, and making a loud noise over rough surfaces, the Crossfire cushions out most of the small stuff, while remaining generally firm and hugging the road.

And, while it is fun to visit cloud nine from time to time and dream of a luxury sports car hugging the curves of a road, or picking up a date in something shiny and impressive, it's best to curb your excitement.

Follow Victoria's Great Ocean Road as it hugs our spectacular southeast coastline or experience Australia's Red Centre in an epic drive across the desert.

Stunning views are taken in as you drive along a road that practically hugs the Pacific ocean.

As we travel down this impossible road, passing through incredibly long tunnels, making use of concrete bridges that hug the walls in the most precarious way, we realise how one - dimensional our perception has become.

The Maloti Route covers the distance between Rouxville and Fouriesburg in the Eastern Free State; a self - drive tarred road that hugs the Maluti Mountains - a series of sandstone cliffs that form the border...

The Astoria and Columbia River Railroad Company owned the railroad, and later in 1907, the Great Northern Railroad acquired the line and became part of the Spokane, Portland, and Seattle Railway Company, commonly known as the S.P. & S. Also learn how travelers used Hug Point as a roadway, and with the completion of the Arch Cape Tunnel, Cannon Beach would no longer be «the end of the road» but rather a place people would pass through but where, it was hoped, they would pause and spend some money, perhaps even stay a night or two.

There are few roads in the world that hug a coastline so closely that you can actually hear the waves breaking as you drive.

Spot koalas in their natural habitat (Magnetic Island has one of the most dense populations of koalas in Australia) and view the Coral Sea and rugged rocky headlands from the roads which hug the coastline.

Starting out in Torquay the road meanders along the extraordinarily scenic coastline of Bass Strait and the Southern Ocean, hugging the coast most of the way to Allansford, in the west.

The light class which is really good at hugging the road and handling rough terrain (think a dune buggy), the medium class which would be similar to a stereotypical race car which grips the road well, and has a decent amount of speed and acceleration, and finally the heavy class which it lacks in suspension and acceleration but makes up for it in speed and grip.

Even the early model I rode in hugged the road impressively as the driver jerked the wheel from side to side.

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.