Sentences with phrase «roads at a steady speed»

When travelling on trunk roads at a steady speed close to the speed limit, we found the battery could run out of spark after only 55 miles.

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John Warburton explains his fruitful pre-WW1 relationship with the Luton factory and the car's début at Waddington Fell / Auto - biography: Ronald «Steady» Barker — Matthew Bell travels to Wiltshire to meet the incorrigible 93 - year - old motoring journalist and learn about his life and career / 10EX: the full - bore Phantom — An experimental car that was the first post-WW1 Rolls - Royce built purely for speed, David Burgess-Wise drives this fascinating machine / Vintage Revival Montlhéry — In a two - part article, Robin Batchelor describes The Automobile's journey to Montlhéry while David Burgess-Wise reports on the action as the banked circuit reverberated again to the sound of prewar cars and motorcycles / Back on the Road — Michael Ware reports on the restoration of a 1947 Dellow, one of only two survivors of the four original prototypes for this highly effective trials car

There's also a bit of surging and slowing as the batteries kick in and then lay off, but you're unlikely to notice it unless you drive at a steady speed on flat roads.

Out on the road, the XJ is one steady ship, cruising at speed without really being bothered by the everyday bumps in the road.

At steady road speed it can keep the engine at optimal rev speed without suffering a failure to accelerate if the driver floors it, and the 500h has a more efficient final drive ratio than previous Lexus hybridAt steady road speed it can keep the engine at optimal rev speed without suffering a failure to accelerate if the driver floors it, and the 500h has a more efficient final drive ratio than previous Lexus hybridat optimal rev speed without suffering a failure to accelerate if the driver floors it, and the 500h has a more efficient final drive ratio than previous Lexus hybrids.

The pilot is very steady at speed and makes it a very good road trip car.

The additional power reserves serve at the same time to give this unique saloon outstanding supremacy under all conditions, the reduction of engine speed at a steady level of road speed improving not only the standard of effi ciency, but also the running smoothness of the combustion engine.

The speeds are always excessive but at least on the gentler corners of the wider roads of some of the routes, maintaining a steady drift with slight steering adjustments is rewarding.

Just hearing the names of these transmissions would put second thoughts into most people not serious about driving a 40 ton rig at highway speed, or through tight turns on a mountain road, or for that matter steady up and down shifting in a city.