Sentences with phrase «smooth twisty road»

Over to Green: «The damping is just about perfect and on a smooth twisty road it pours through the bends with just the right amount of help from the rear.

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However, real - world conditions count too, and while this car excels where the road is twisty and the pavement is smooth, it needs to be a more comfortable driver in the conditions that most Americans experience every day.

On glassy - smooth twisty bits through the hills around Austin, it's acceptable — but try rolling calmly down the access roads to Circuit of the Americas, and the nature of the tightly tuned suspension and 20 - inch wheels with low - profile tires reveals itself.

The ride seemed rough on my first drive, but after a solid week of commuting over potholed city streets and smooth, twisty roads, the Focus grew on me.

Smooth, uncrowded roads, nice and twisty ones if you're unveiling a sports car, perhaps not so serpentine if you're introducing a family sedan.

It's very smooth, and easy to drive away from a stop (BMW, please examine this powertrain and make the 5 - series this smooth) It's also happy to be driven aggressively if you're in the mood to attack a twisty road.

The roads around Pfaffenhausen are almost laughably smooth but they're challengingly twisty nonetheless.

Keeping it in Eco pro mode most of the time it gives 55 mpg in mixed driving and provides a relaxed ride due to generous torque and a smooth gearbox, yet switching to sport mode the car changes its character considerably and you can then have a tail twitching time on twisty roads.

Magnetic Ride Control (with StabiliTrak and Brake Assist) Using magnetically charged particles suspended in a synthetic fluid, the Lucerne's shocks continually adjust to varying road surfaces and driving conditions, this remarkable feature responds far faster than conventional valve - damping systems to provide the rare combination of exceptional twisty - road handling and silky smooth highway ride.

Take it hard on a twisty mountain road, and the suspension reveals that it would rather be smoothing the ride over rough gravel tracks or speed bumps than holding the road.

At speed on the motorway or on smooth surfaces the car is relatively composed, but once you turn off on to twistier, more undulating roads, the Tivoli loses a little of its poise.

Despite its tall, narrow body, however, it's also an impressively grippy hatchback and one that you'll have fun with on a smooth and twisty B - road.

The ride is still good on smoother roads, but on twisty pavement like Angeles Crest Highway, the chassis shows just how capable it is.

Driving the 2015 Mercedes - Benz S550 Coupe along one of my usual test loops, combining city streets, the freeway, twisty mountain roads and a scenic stretch of coastal highway, I enjoyed the incredibly smooth ride quality and able cornering, the low growl of the engine, and the high fidelity sounds coming from the 24 - speaker Burmester audio system.

Smooth and compliant, it doesn't wallow through corners and sits flat and inspires confidence through the twisty bits on the secondary roads we travelled.

Get the 4C out on a smooth, twisty road or race track, however, and it makes its purpose known, which is all about having fun behind the wheel.

There's no tradeoff in overall ride comfort during highway cruising, either — as planted as the Sportbrake is up on those twisty canyon roads, it delivers a smooth, compliant ride, even over pockmarked stretches of pavement.

This MPV provides passengers with a smooth, comfortable ride, but its driver can enjoy a twisty road after dropping the kids off.

The optional air suspension system helps smooth the ride of the large SUV, but on twisty roads we could feel the XC90's bulk in the form of noticeable body roll.