Sentences with phrase «slowed the car quickly»

Naturally, there's not a lot of performance to call upon, but there's reasonable throttle response and a light gearshift, so the old joy of driving a slow car quickly, stirring the gearbox to extract every ounce of power and pinning the pedal to the floor, is rarely far away.

As much as the rest of the car was willing and able to carve the corners, the brakes didn't offer the grip needed to slow the car quickly from straightaway to turn.

Our test car came with power - assisted disc / drum brakes that did a nice job of slowing the car quickly.

No, it's not an 86 or Miata, but it does offer a fun ride that invokes the age - old saying that «it's more fun to drive a slow car quickly than a quick car slowly.»

Touch the pedal and they bite hard, slowing the car quickly and without fuss.

Even in a heavy rain the brakes slowed the car quickly and predictably every time.

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Although Uber had slammed the February suit brought by Waymo as «a baseless attempt to slow down a competitor,» the case has quickly put careers and autonomous car bragging rights in jeopardy.

This infant car seat stroller combo also has a unique Click & Go System, which means the car seat and stroller fit together easily and quickly, so you never have to slow down.

Reducing the amount of fossil fuels (such as gasoline for cars and coal burned for electricity) that we use can help slow how quickly the ice is melting (by slowing the rise in average temperatures).

«He moved as if in slow - motion and was very uncertain about how far away a coffee cup was on a table or how quickly a car was approaching.»

The «slowest» shifts still happen quickly enough to be satisfying, and the fastest ones are impressively race - car quick.

A bad water pump will overheat an engine really quickly because there is insufficient coolant flow, a broken cooling fan usually only becomes a problem when a car is stationary or in slow traffic.

Alfa claims an impressive stopping distance of just 118 feet from 100 km / hr (62 mph), and they were just stellar on the track, repeatedly slowing the car down from much higher speeds more quickly than we anticipated.

Consider: Once, while cruising in fourth gear in this M2, we saw a chance to pass slower traffic on the two - lane PCH and opted not to downshift — the car got from just under 60 mph to triple - digit speeds so quickly we worried about those «speed limits enforced by radar» signs, but the M2 completed the pass in about half the expected distance.

Higher speeds you feel it in the Model S so you back off and the re-gen slows you down quickly ready for the next blast... M5, 3 seconds of Raw fun, stupids speeds arrive and then 20 seconds of coasting and nail biting before you slow down back to legal speeds... 3 seconds of fun and 20 seconds of fear... too quick and without re-gen you are just standing on those very expensive disks and pads... Honestly in todays traffic Model S far better and if you must, buy a lotus for the weekend B road blast... Also with all the sound insulation in the M5 you can't hear the engine until silly speeds... so again Model S.... My friend said don't you miss the V8 noise and my other friend sat in the car said its a bit like missing the clip clop of your horse at the advent of the Model T...

Sure, it's lacking in the power — and especially torque — departments, but the handling, steering, and gearbox are so good that it makes it one of the faster slow cars that are fun to drive really quickly.

But you learn to work with this, understanding how much speed you can carry, and in slower corners you quickly find that trail braking keeps the car loaded up nicely.

Initially, the A4 T is a bit slow, but when the engine winds up, the car gets moving quickly.

The Equus quickly recognized the car that had cut in, slowing abruptly, then picking up speed as the other car cleared the lane.

«I was quite surprised to see the cars in front of us — not necessarily the Risi Ferrari as we know that's fast — but Core Autosport has come out quickly with their brand new Porsche and the Falken car has worked extremely well on the slower speed circuits where it's not quite so warm.

Speaking of absent - minded, one more convenient safety feature is the available Adaptive Cruise Control with Stop and Go technology that can slow the vehicle down while on cruise control if approaching another vehicle quickly and can even bring the car to a stop, or try to, if that other car isn't moving, such as an abrupt traffic jam while on the highway.

If you come up too quickly or the car in front slows suddenly, LEDs on the dash light up and a warning chirp sounds.

Floor the accelerator at 50 mph, and the four - speed automatic will slip smoothly into third gear and the car will gain speed quickly enough to safely overtake slower traffic.

The pedal doesn't have to travel much before the brakes bite hard, and the car slows quickly.

Only when I pressed the pedal hard did the car finally slow quickly.

Our test car was equipped with power - assisted front disc / rear drum anti-lock brakes that easily slowed the car in an emergency stop and brought it quickly to a halt.

If you do enter a bend too quickly, you'll feel the front of the car running wide as a sign that you need to slow down a little — but there's none of the unpredictable behaviour that some hot hatchbacks exhibit when you slow down mid-corner.

The electric motor drives the car at slow speeds and assists the gasoline motor when the car is accelerating quickly.

The Brembo - produced, 15 - inch discs slow the car down remarkably quickly.

The emergency braking session brought a lot of nose dive, but the car slowed quickly and straight — you can't ask for more than that.

It doesn't brake the car (as on the Acura Collision Mitigation Braking System) but it does warn you, clearly, quickly and forcefully, to slow down and brake right now.

It score the full five stars in its most recent NHTSA crash test, for example, and a full complement of front, side and curtain airbags are standard on all versions pm top of driver assists like trailer sway assist and a stability control setup that can automatically start slowing the car down if it detects the Ford Explorer is going too quickly around a corner.

That feedback manifests itself in a number of ways including Lane Departure Warnings, Traffic Sign Recognition, Automatic High Beam Assist, Flank guard (helps with parking), Adaptive Cruise (which now brings the car to a stop instead of giving up when you slow down as it used to), Blind Spot Monitor, Closing Vehicle Sensing (which tells you when another car is bearing down on you quickly) and Reverse Traffic Detection.

When accelerating the car quickly and smoothly speeds up and also slows down nicely.

If the car ahead slows too quickly for ACC to cope, or if it's not engaged, collision mitigation braking kicks in to slow the car down.

They were quickly resolved by adding 300 pounds of carbon fiber... costly, and something FCA didn't want to do because it slowed the car down.

Cars tend to depreciate quickly, but because of how car loan interest works, you pay down your car loan at slower rates early in your car loan.