Sentences with phrase «road testers»
"Road testers" refers to people or individuals who try out or evaluate vehicles, such as cars or motorcycles, by driving them on roads to determine their performance, quality, and safety. Full definition
I don't know why it is so difficult for road testers to emphasize this point.
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Now he's the chief road tester, driving each car for about 400 miles.
Many of those have been brutal, too, in the hands of road testers in big group tests (including evo Car of the Year) and on trackdays in my spare time, including one at Belgium's tricky Spa circuit.
We've rounded up 13 of»em — from Renault Mégane Trophy and entry - level Lotus Elise to V12 - equipped Ferrari FF and Lambo Aventador — and shuffled them off to Portugal, where scenic roads, the fantastic Portimão circuit and a bunch of road testers in shorts await them Preview eCoty 2011 with pictures and video of every contender here
Take one Welsh race circuit — Llandow, to be precise — a handful of evo road testers and Caterham's latest range of Sevens.
As for the drive experience, I join other road testers in thinking the new Tiguan feels a little less wieldy than the more compact original in, for example, tight parking situations: It is, however, only by a matter of degrees.
Reviews and first drives from the expert road testers at CAR magazine UK.
The car, as usual, will be ran by Mazda's motorsport friends at JOTA Sport, with Owen Mildenhall - the senior road tester of our sister publication, Auto Express — one of its drivers.
For $ 200, our certified road tester will pick your driver up, administer the road test, help them through the licensing process at Secratary of State, and drop them off at their desired destination.
Indeed, plenty of»80s road testers admired the ultimate Q - car look too, but if you were a schoolboy in 1986, I imagine the show - off, # 19,985 M535i with its aero kit (a very rarely specced option on the M5) was the more exciting - looking machine.
David Vivian, Contributing Road Tester, evo
If the driver did nothing, this yaw angle would increase and develop into the kind of scruffy tail - out photographic opportunity favoured by young road testers.
Boz the dog is perhaps the ultimate station wagon road tester.
As a professional road tester, you always hope that your skill can slice a couple of tenths off the time set with the electronics enabled, but although I tried various settings I couldn't make the SL accelerate as fast, let alone faster.
Mauro Calo, friend of evo and one of our associate road testers, will aim for a 10,000 ft (nearly two miles) continuous drift, via 12 laps of the perimeter track at Mercedes - Benz World at Brooklands, Surrey.
It's not a car for short - skirted starlets — or bulky road testers.
The biggest problem with the GT4, as highlighted by many road testers, is its extra long gearing which blunts performance.
That's why it comfortably made the cut for our Greatest Drivers» Cars list in evo 066, and that's why is still chosen so frequently by evo's road testers as a timeless favourite.
Road testers often waffle on about knowing a good car within the first half mile, but the Mégane's first half mile was slightly more testing than most, the surface seeming to have been cobbled by someone with very little interest in the finer points of the art.
While the Puma became a darling of road testers everywhere in the late 90s, the Ka was perhaps even more impressive.
Keep the throttle pinned, and there's more than enough space for all of these cars to comfortably surpass 200mph at Bruntingthorpe, meaning their drivers will join a very exclusive club often restricted to the likes of racing drivers and supercar road testers.
TVR SAGARIS Our new road tester used to keep a picture of a TVR in his wallet.
The interior of Christopher Kiss's 14,500 - mile 1981 De Lorean is finished in the optional gray, which relieves much of the claustrophobia that bothered original road testers.
I can certainly understand why road testers at the time were unnerved by it, particularly in the wet.
The Pacer did have many available options, and magazine road testers were put behind the wheels of Pacers loaded with enough equipment to nearly double the price.
The much - anticipated awards, held at Silverstone Circuit, recognises the automotive industry's high achievers and celebrates the cars that have achieved top grading by the magazine's road testers during the last 12 months.
Contemporary customers and road testers heaped praise on the car at launch, and thanks to the newly designed 478bhp 5.5 - litre V12 driving the rear wheels, there wasn't much to complain about.
What might have been seen as a mere gap - plugger — after the Porsche Macan's success drew attention to a yawning # 45,000 to # 70,000 price gap in the Land Rover range — was exultantly received around the world, even before a single road tester could slip behind the wheel.
The 930 was hugely impressive when new, and contemporary road testers gushed about its effortless ability to gain speed with deceptive composure, an attribute that seemed positively alien in a period when few drivers had experienced turbocharged cars.
Under the skin, Mazda has made the MX - 6 sturdier - and that may help reduce torque steer and wheel hop, two problems road testers have criticized the MX - 6 for in its first few years.
One of our friendly, professional, certified Utah Road Testers are waiting and willing to serve you.
Aston Martin's three - pronged attack on the 2013 Nurburgring 24 hours includes a hydrogen Rapide and an evo road tester
Admittedly, fairly short gearing also helps, but it's easy to work the gearbox quickly once it's up to temperature (our test car's was notchy when cold, though this was probably thanks to endless abuse from other road testers).
-- Parth Gohil, Senior Road Tester, MotorBeam.
Bovingdon began his career as a motoring journalist and road tester at evo in May 2001.
The big question, of course, is now that you — Jaguar fan and the most circumspect of road testers — and I have finally got our greedy little mitts on one, does it actuality meet expectations?
So, once again, despite an absolute pace advantage, the 991 isn't sending our road testers the messages they want to receive.
No fewer than 16 have featured in evo Car of the Year since 1998 - nine have won the title — and many in between have grabbed the attention (and quite often hearts) of evo's road testers.
Nearly 1600 kg according to other road testers.
As a result, the road tester didn't felt the desire of buying the car for himself after he spent time with it.
evo's road testers will team up with Mini's engineers during the development of the Challenge.
The Mazda MX - 5 will compete at the 2014 Nurburgring 24 Hours, with a road tester from Evo's sister title among its drivers
I'll blame the road testers on eCoty for that, though...
«The most important item in a road tester's toolkit is the data logger.
The well - received Leon is not only highly rated by our road testers either: Auto Express readers also recommend it, with the latest Leon coming seventh overall in the 2017 Driver Power survey.