Sentences with phrase «rutted dirt roads»

As before, though, the Allroad's calling card is its extra ground clearance, which helps you out when driving on rutted dirt roads or during the occasional snowstorm.

Finding the entrance road is not the end of the ordeals, next you have to experience long winding narrow road flanked by forest which lead you to a check point where you pay 5000 rupiah to enter the beach but you have to experience another km of heavily rutted dirt road among the coconut trees.

They live in isolated villages days from any town on foot, or hours away by jeep or motorbike, down rutted dirt roads that become impassable in the monsoon rains.

We did notice some rattling sounds emanating from the vicinity of the passenger door when driving at speed over rutted dirt roads, but we weren't able to pinpoint the exact cause of the rattle.

As fast and nimble as a 5,000 pound car can possibly be, accelerating hard and cornering respectably well, yet able to absorb the worst of potholes and float across rutted dirt roads, all while offering enough passive and active safety features to make me not worry about becoming a statistic.

That's not enough to go rock crawling, but it could make a difference on rutted dirt road.

Additionally, for a short stint at the intro, we were able to drive a brief on - road / off - road stretch in European diesels, which were closer to how the non-M version of the X3 would be set up for the U.S. Driving that model, both on and off - road, revealed a very capable non-M-Sportified platform — which beat our expectations even on heavily rutted dirt roads.

I got word of an LRA attack on a village along the road to Pageri about twenty miles away, an hour's drive along the rutted dirt road through the bush from Nimule.

Then we went out and got into the back of a large, covered truck that bounced and shuddered down a rutted dirt road in the direction of the Tapajós River, into the heart of the national forest.

One passenger said while we drove over rain - rutted dirt roads that «it almost feels like we are floating above the road.»

The re-engineered air suspension system with its new +35 mm intermediate setting means that the off - road mode can remain available at much higher speeds (80km / h up from 50km / h) than was possible before, which is valuable in terrain with long, rutted dirt roads.

A low - slung sports car with rear - wheel drive is not a good choice if you live at the top of a steep hill accessible via a rutted dirt road that usually is buried under ice and snow all winter and slick with mud all spring.

Even rough pavement and a rutted dirt road where impressively smooth and not jarring to passengers who are the focus in the Santa Fe.

I took the Forester up a rocky and rutted dirt road, a moderately steep ascent, then back down again.

After conquering this heavily rutted dirt road you can park your car on the free spaces among the coconut trees near the beach.

A hydrofoil service from Jaco to Montezuma wasn't running because of high winds, so we took the scenic route: a two - hour drive to Puntarenas, followed by a wait for an hourlong ferry ride to Paquera, and an hour - plus drive to Santa Teresa, with the last seven and a half miles spent on a rutted dirt road.