Sentences with phrase «rutted roads of»

That is traditionally the first sacrifice at the altar of a raised ride - height, and while this car has previously impressed us enormously on the glass - smooth roads of Jebel Jais in the United Arab Emirates, the salt - caked, rutted roads of the Brecon Beacons ask of it rather more challenging questions.

Thank you for stepping out of the rutted road of going in the same circles day after day after day following the donkey in front of you.

Not exact matches

During the 1980s, our first years in business, I felt great relief each November as we left behind the ruts of our New Hampshire dirt road, glided onto the interstate, and headed south to Mom's New York home for Thanksgiving.

When landmen from Cabot Oil & Gas came knocking on doors along the rutted dirt grade of Carter Road in Dimock, Pa., last year, they sold a promise many residents in the farming community were eager to hear: Sign a gas lease and the land might finally pay for itself.

Ike described the roads across Nevada from Utah to Carson City as a «succession of dust, ruts, pits and holes.»

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.

The literary tropes of sex and death in the Twilight series, it has to be said, are well worn, as worn as the ruts in the Roman roads that turned into the standard gauge for European railroads.

Break up all of those ruts in the road of my mind so I can forge ahead on a new path because the way so many of us have been told to think is not working.

There are few long and straight roads in the state, and after mud season, many of the dirt roads are rutted and bumpy, like giant washboards.

«Romie Lane was muddy with pools of water standing in the new wheel ruts, and the tall wild oats and mustard grew beside the road, with wild turnip forcing its boisterous way up and stickery beads of purple thistles rising above the green riot of spring.»

The bridge held up, and the road was not really all that bad — mostly rutted and full of gravel — but Mary Jane was still afraid I'd drive off the edge and into a crocodile - infested river.

Of all of Agassi's cars, Juanita is closest to his heart, because she is the one most like him these days: a stripped - down all - weather off - roader impervious to rocks and rutOf all of Agassi's cars, Juanita is closest to his heart, because she is the one most like him these days: a stripped - down all - weather off - roader impervious to rocks and rutof Agassi's cars, Juanita is closest to his heart, because she is the one most like him these days: a stripped - down all - weather off - roader impervious to rocks and ruts.

Horse drawn sleighs dashed along over this slippery surface much more quickly and comfortably than was possible over rutted or muddy dirt roads the rest of the year.

During the period of social growth there will be minor triumphs, but the road will undoubtedly be rutted with an occasional major disaster.

Two hours south of Georgetown, Guyana, a paved highway recedes, giving way to a rutted red road gushing through thick rainforest.

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.

«Every path, every steep hillside and grassy slope, every familiar rutted road has its memories of moments of insight when the solution, or at least a way forward for some problem that had been holding things up, suddenly became clear,» she wrote.

There's no better excuse than the holiday season to break out of your self - inflicted hair rut by road - testing a new style.

An indie film that was lavishly praised and won the Filmmakers Trophy at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, rolls along in the well - rutted, dusty tire tracks of other mother - and - daughter road trip

Most directors believe this to be the end of cinema, but I believe we are in a rut that will take a while to get out of, because we are having trouble finding the absolute best talent out there, or just settling for middle of the road.

Road to the Open (PG for mild epithets and mature themes) Buddy dramedy about a guy (Phillip DeVona) who tries to help his reclusive best friend (Troy McKay) out of a rut by entering the two of them as a doubles team in a national tennis tournament.

Bite off the job of changing the world and this is where you find yourself: driving on a desolate Oklahoma road, past chicken farms and trailers, turning onto a muddy lane, and stopping in the ruts outside a ramshackle old house where a lazy black dog watches over the littered yard.

The only thing to watch out for is the ruts that form on each side of the road because of the lorries that regularly drive on it.

There is masses of grip, it's well balanced, and away from rutted urban roads, the taut ride results in keen responses and impressively flat cornering.

On the outskirts of the lakebed, the desert terrain is something very much out of «Mad Max: Fury Road,» and its paths and trails are what you'd expect if someone used toad skin as tarmac, ranging from soft and sandy to rutted with slight jumps.

The GLC displayed impressive ability, at one point climbing a hard - packed 33 - degree grade (and descending at a similar angle) and showing impressive articulation while scrambling through a section of staggered, deep ruts in the road.

But it's also a car that some may quickly tire of, with no LSD to tame the 247bhp the ST puts to its front wheels, and a nose that seems to react to every camber and rut in the road.

No, the stages this cast performs best on are little - trafficked roads garnished with a few dozen interesting corners and a wide variety of surfaces from rutted and weather - beaten to polished and fast.

Driving back toward the highway, I notice a small, rutted fire road running north into a small cluster of hills.

Not a minute after Dobrott jinxed us, we hit a slick patch of road that sends the Allroad into a four - wheel slide, and the passenger - side tires land in a deep rut on the edge of the trail.

The eight settings consist of four for on - road (Sport, Bentley, Comfort, and Custom) and off - road (sand, mud & ruts, gravel, and snow & wet grass).

Only minor downside is relatively low clearance, so not good for off road or badly rutted roads or driveways with piles of snow.

It delivers comfort and composure around town and on rutted roads, along with less roll while cornering on the track than most will have ever experienced, minus the inevitable downside of a roll bar's permanent connectedness — a loss of ride smoothness.

Transmitting 237bhp and 236 lb ft through the front wheels inevitably resulted in torque steer under hard acceleration, added to which was the VXR's fondness for following ruts in the road — both under acceleration and braking — a problem which, we discovered, got much worse as the front tyres wore down and the amount of «give» in the tread blocks reduced.

The road is a narrow, twisty assortment of ruts, gravel, and thick mud, so I switch the 2015 Land Rover Discovery Sport's Terrain Response system to «Grass / Gravel / Snow,» figuring it's most appropriate for the varying terrain.

It's been tuned to go fast and even the softest of the three suspension settings will have you spitting your teeth out if you so much as look at a rutted dirt path, never mind an actual off - road trail.

However, my newest car is equipped with low profile tires and inflating them to the recommended PSI makes the car feel like the rim is hitting the edge of ruts and large cracks in the road.

The ride is smooth and not rambunctious, with a suspension that eats up whatever bumps and ruts have not yet been resurfaced by what seems like an endless supply of Swiss road crews.

The cabin is nicely trimmed, there's leather, alcantara and carbon everywhere, and the ride quality, while undeniably firm, has that polished precision that almost laughs at the kind of normal bumps and ruts found on an average urban road.

That said, with the softer set - up the Clio is more controlled on really rutted roads and easily my recommendation if you've a lot of town driving to do or a family to transport.

Our Sport was fitted with the latter and, on standard Michelin tires, it excelled in every off - road challenge we threw at it: powering through deep mud ruts, driving down the middle of a shallow river, and — about as likely for most owners — tackling an obstacle course set up inside a 747.

Better yet, its suspension, which is so good at isolating passengers from the outside world, does a fine job of absorbing dips and dives on gravel roads, dirt tracks, and rutted grass.

Most of the Discovery Sport's competition can't come close to its capability off - road, thanks to its ground clearance, suspension travel and Land Rover's all - wheel drive and Terrain Response system with various settings for Grass / Gravel / Snow, Mud and Ruts and Sand.

New England roads are a rutted mess of potholes right now and they can be treacherous in heavy rain.

The off - road test featured some fairly deep ruts, a sticky mud hole and a rough berm that was a rigorous test of clearance and departure angles.

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.

This standing could be reversed off - road though, where the Outlander's high ground clearance and four - wheel drive means it can cope with deeper ruts and steeper slopes than most of its rivals.

For off - roaders, there's an FX4 package (all trim lines), giving it some of the capabilities of the F - 150 Raptor, including four drive modes: normal, grass / gravel / snow, mud / ruts, and sand.

We became painfully aware of this after stumbling across a very lost Chicago delivery van that was stuck in the mud on one of our rutted, muddy, isolated roads.

Granted these roads were not too challenging but we did find a little mud and ruts, of course this was not even noticed by the Sport.