Sentences with phrase «somewhat high gear»

Not exact matches

Despite its unimpressive power rating, the 1.4 - liter turbo does an impressive job moving around the Cruze's 3000 pounds, although it's hampered somewhat by the six - speed automatic's insistence on finding the highest gear possible at all times.

What makes somewhat less sense is when a model variant such as the Camaro SS 1LE, with its numerically higher gearing and sticky tires, flies under the radar and wears the same window sticker as its more common — and surely more efficient — linemates.

It still has hints of some old muscle - car habits, like lazy gearing and somewhat vague steering at high speeds.

Don't get me wrong — the transmission is exquisitely paired with high - horsepower luxury rides like this, but it lowers the revs needed to extract the most from the AJ V8, making the whole experience somewhat less violent than the previous six - gear romp.

Reversing can be incorporated by setting the epicyclic gear ratio somewhat higher than the lowest ratio of the CVT, providing a range of reverse ratios.

Revs are somewhat higher in the automatic S mode, whereas D mode prioritizes taller gear ratios.

This was somewhat prescient as the book was written in the early 1990s, well before the passive investment fad was in high gear.