Sentences with phrase «rubber car tires»

Sabotage on Auto Assembly Line to Slow it Down 2009 Conveyor belt, rubber car tires, and TV monitors (showing 0 % Down, 2008 and Shattered Screen, 2009) on mirror tiled wooden platform) 118 1/8 x 263 3/4 x 118 1/8 in (300 x 670 x 300 cm) ARG # MEJ2009 - 007 Installation view: 2X (I) ST Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany March 30 - May 25, 2014

Image: Josephine Meckseper, Sabotage on Auto Assembly Line to Slow it Down, Conveyor belt, rubber car tires, and TV monitors (showing 0 % Down, 2008 and Shattered Screen, 2009) on mirror tiled wooden platform), 2009, photo by Tom Powel

Not exact matches

This maneuver makes even the most pedestrian of cars look like fire - breathing monsters as they heat the tire rubber to gain a better grip on the asphalt.

It has rubber tires, locking front wheel, adjustable handlebars, suspension and tracking, as well as 9 height positions and the ability to work with just one car seat.

A rubber - like substance is now produced from the latex stems for car tire manufacturing, though supplies are still limited.

I mean, about the only things cars of then have in common with today's cars are rubber tires and a bumper sticker that reads, «I Was Abducted By Aliens.»

People, cars, and motorcycles are everywhere; Aston Martins with roll cages driven by professionals with helmets, brakes outgassing visibly and tires shredding rubber chunks audibly.

So, if you're like me and don't put many miles on your car I recommend making sure you are fully aware of the date codes on your tires when you buy a set of rubber.

It has specially formulated driving modes and steering rates, stiffer suspension, and Pirelli P Zero tires — our car wore available 245/30 ZR20 front and 305/30 ZR 20 rear rubber — with a distinct compound, structure, and tread design to yield sharper turn - in response.

You can try to save money by using one set of tires year - round; you can ignore the fact that your new car arrived on summer rubber in a four - seasons region; you can settle for the decent performance of all - season tires; but in a panic - stop situation, the laws of physics don't care about any of that.

It (as well as the Ferrari) is easier on tires than any other car, so I expect it will run a softer, faster rubber compound.

The tires are staggered in width, with wider rubber in back giving the Macan a poised stance — as well as handling that's more similar to a sports car than a family SUV.

Braking hard on a pocked downhill stretch at Algarve before a tight left - hander said to shred most other cars» tires, we find that the McLaren's otherworldly body control means braking is easier, speeds are higher, and rubber is spared.

Dodge says that this is the first production street car to come with drag radials and that the Nitto tires were designed and developed «exclusively for the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon» and uses a new rubber compound as well as a newly developed way of constructing the tire.

What I am concerned of is the aging the rubber of the tire as it's already on my car for 3 yrs.

The car, being on rubber tires, is pretty well insulated from the ground.

Both the 2015 Dodge Charger and the 2015 Chrysler 200C still pull away from a stop quickly, as the cars» computers shuffle power fore and aft as the tires slip, but attacking the slalom reveals how little cornering grip the factory rubber offers.

The F430 rides the bumpy blacktop on the sinuous mountain roads near Ferrari «s Maranello headquarters amazingly well for a sports car that has nineteen - inch wheels and rubber - band tires.

Both might be shocked by the coaching cars: a diesel Audi A4 and a tired Toyota Avensis 1.8 (on low - grip Event - branded rubber).

If your car stays stationary for very long times you need to be concerned about dry rot or the rubber on the tires, but if you follow # 1, you won't need to worry about this.

A car's aero is only as good as its tires, and as expected, Dodge didn't skimp on the rubber.

That would typically be too much power for driving a 3,000 - pound wide - body drift car on a frozen lake — in this case, Warners Lake in East Berne, New York — but Gittin's car wears Nitto rubber with 800 hand - installed studs per tire.

Oh, and it was smart of Mercedes to install a set of Pirelli winter tires on our test car because summer rubber in these conditions wouldn't be doing us any favors.

The handling's fluidity obviously has a lot to do with the tires; the Michelin Pilot Cup 2 rubber, 265/35 ZR20 up front and 325/30 ZR21 in back, have been through more than a million testing miles, so they suit the car's characteristics.

Also included with the sale of the car is the original suspension, original downpipe, rubber and cloth floor mats, as well as the stock wheels wrapped in Bridgestone potenza all season tires with less than 2000 miles of use.

The S2's Quattro edge was instrumental in enabling it to keep up with the BMW and Mercedes on snakey, twisting roads, the awd making up for the rear - wheel - drive cars» advantage in rubber: The Audi gave pursuit on 205 / 55ZR -16 tires, while the BMW rode on 225 / 45ZR -16 s, and the M - B was hoofing on 17 - in.

This my last car with run flat tires very disappointed it is a waste of money, time and resources (rubber).

If steering is about controlling the directional movement of your car, then suspension is about controlling its up and down movement - specifically, the motion that results because your car's body is suspended over its frame as it rolls down the road on four rubber tires.

Pirelli is the tire supplier for McLaren's Formula One team, so of course it also supplies rubber for the road cars.

I suspect that might have been remedied by less - aggressive tires with more sidewall than the 215 / 45R17 rubber Toyota equipped, though going with taller sidewalls might have dulled the car's respectable, if numb, handling.

And anybody who found the car skittish — they are right with the stock Pirelli tires — they are not good tires for this car — any other rubber will help a lot in the stability department.

I also expect the AWD cars» «softer» Turanza Touring tires will be better suited to the conditions than summer performance rubber.

This is one car that eschews low rolling resistance tires for the incremental economy gains they promise in exchange for purpose - made sport rubber.

Winter tires not only help the car stop and turn better than standard all - season rubber, winter tires also make getting started from a stop much more manageable.

A negative: Echoing the sentiments of Editor Wes Raynal every time he drives a car equipped with run - flat tires, this rubber is not nice in the ride - quality dept, at least when you drive it in the state with the country's worst roads.

As our many stories promoting the winter rubber have explained, using snow tires doesn't cost a car owner more money.

If your car uses modern Tire Pressure Monitoring (TPMS), the sensors will be pricey and it is better to just own the actual tire (the rubbTire Pressure Monitoring (TPMS), the sensors will be pricey and it is better to just own the actual tire (the rubbtire (the rubber).

According to Hot Rod, the company revolutionized the tire business in the early»60s with innovative, low - profile rubber and created the tire that changed the world of street cars with the Sportsman Pro.

The Red Bull Car Park Drift that I mentioned earlier was contest for passionate drifting enthusiasts to showcase high - speed drifting manoeuvres, gear - shifting, steering, braking and power sliding techniques in a stunning display of driving skills amid burning rubber, and smoking tires.

Because the 2007 model's stiffness allows the suspension to do its job more precisely, the car now comes standard with 17 - inch wheels with 225 / 50R tires (18 - inch wheels with 235/45 rubber are optional) replacing the old model's 16s.

Our test car came with 14 - inch tires; the ES comes with fatter 16 - inch rubber that probably would do a better job of keeping the car planted firmly on the pavement during hard cornering.

Manufacturers work with tire companies all the time to develop high - performance rubber for their sports cars.

The lower profile results in the car's standard 18 - inch alloy rim and tire combination filling the wheel wells, with minimal space between the rubber and the wheel arches, creating a hunkered - down look.

The driving experience is also incredibly similar to that of a regular car, even down to having decent tires instead of harsh «low rolling resistance» rubber.

Jaguar insiders say the concept car, initially shown 10 months ago at the LA Auto Show, is pretty much what the production i - Pace will look like, minus the rubber band tires on 23 - inch wheels.

I guess that has something to do with our car's optional 18 - inch wheels shod with 245/45 tires — I imagine the standard 17 - inch alloys with 225/55 rubber provide an even smoother ride.

We get our BMW E36 M3 project car ready for its first track day by replacing the tired and worn old rubber for a new set of Yokohama S.drive tires.

The 19 × 11 - inch fronts wear more rubber than most cars do on the rear with 305 / 30ZR19 Kumho ECSTA V720 tires, the same found on the front of the Viper ACR.

Edison's final project was at the request of Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone who asked him to find an alternative source of rubber for use in car tires to replace the increasingly expensive imported rubber.

The intricacies of shaving a turn with wobbly rubber of your tires made me appreciate just how difficult it must be to be doing this in the cockpit of an actual car, which is an experience that Project Cars 2 allows you to imitate through its ridiculous amount of settings aimed at fully realistic gameplay.