Sentences with phrase «than road test»

You'll like the Lexus RX a lot more if you read sales reports rather than road test reviews.

A few of us have done just that: No sooner had I finished driving the car 460 miles from Kentucky to Michigan than road test editor Chris Nelson climbed behind the wheel and sped off to Chicago.

Not exact matches

With 45 cars on the road, Apple is now testing more vehicles than its top rivals.

But if you want a routine that is road tested by one of the most dynamic and successful entrepreneurs around, you can do no better than follow in the footsteps of Virgin founder Sir Richard Branson.

In 2011, after government researchers conducted a series of those tests, the European Commission found that diesel cars were spewing as much as seven times more NOx on actual roads than they were in the lab.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has accused Fiat of using «hidden software» that appeared to make some of its vehicles perform differently in testing than on - road use, according to a Reuters report.

The trial was one of three scheduled for the first half of this year over claims that Volkswagen deceived customers with the deliberate rigging of emissions controls to perform differently when being tested than they do on the road.

The black leather seats in our test car felt soft to the touch and offered more than adequate bolstering for both leisurely jaunts down the highway and dynamic drives on twisty country roads.

But among companies that did any testing on public roads, Tesla reported the lowest number of miles — 550, or more than 99 percent fewer than Waymo reported — and a relatively high number of disengagements, 182.

Waymo, in more than 2 million miles accrued from public road tests, only involved minor incidents, Bloomberg reports.

The Phoenix area was added a year ago, and quickly became the company's main testing ground, with 400 employees and more than 150 autonomous cars driving local roads because of «favorable regulatory environment, favorable weather conditions,» according to a company document.

I suspect because it is required to keep the belief going otherwise you would have to call in to question everything you believed in and that is a very deeply painful road — so most interpret it as a «test» rather than your brain working rationally because it is scary to go against tradition.

On Tuesday she was to take the road test in her quest to earn a driver's license, and she confessed to being more nervous about having to parallel park for an instructor than about playing golf in front of thousands of fans.

There were a couple of little bumps in the road at winter testing, but Red Bull are heading into the season in a better place than this time last year.

I'm fourteen years old starting my road to recovery and it's very fearing and to know that I have to live with it scares the living daylight a out of me I can't speak much about my cognitive behavior therapy because I've only really doing assements but I'm writing this for myself and yourself I haven't always been religious but in times of fear and need know that you aren't alone God is always there and even wen your in your worse state I usally just lay down meditate a bit and speak to my father God and he always gives me a sense of relief this past week I feel like I have been a constant circle of fear but I would always freak out and be scared for no reason but just know that more than 44 million people have this you are br alone and one day you will meet your savior Jesus christ he put you in a test of life and he's going to congratulate you, you must wait for him and on another note if any one knows how to deal with the fear of the future or staying in a constant state please email me at [email protected] thank you so much everyone and there is a recovery maybe but today or Tommie but you will overcome

Next up for the remaining contestants in summer 2010 are actual road races — actually more test track demonstrations than NASCAR.

It's been a long road and we've conducted many tests but every time we meet, he helps me understand what is going on with my body and it completely makes sense and every time we implement something new, I can't believe how I can continue to feel better than I felt before.

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

By balancing its party - minded ethic with a climactic test (albeit a crammed - for one), Road Trip winds up being a touch more college - comprehensive than the average kegger - comedy, but humor connoisseurs will note its flatness, room temperature, and empty calories.

They encounter more than a few bumps in the road that will test their marriage, sanity and remaining energy.

And you probably made more than a handful of mistakes along the way until you felt confident enough to head over to the DMV and take your road test.

Administrators can help the teachers focus on how and why they measure learning and especially, they can help teachers to remember to think of assessment in terms of the road to mastery rather than tests or grades.

The Volkswagen Dieselgate scandal also highlighted how diesel cars can emit more on the road than in the laboratory tests.

School «reform» in this country is well down a specific road, one that seeks to view the public school system as something of a business rather than a civic institution and that promotes choice in the form of charter schools, vouchers, etc., as well as standardized tests as the key measurement of student achievement and teacher effectiveness.

A person trying to choose their next set of wheels might see that car A made it farther than car B in a road test and assume it gets better gas mileage.

You feel the road surface, and there's plenty of body motion when moving in a straight line — again, better than the CR - V we tested, but often present nonetheless.

Road test editor Christopher Nelson probably takes the engine's true measure when he says, «It's better than the Korean engines but not as good as those of the Japanese.»

The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) was studying European diesel cars and discovered the on - road emissions of some models were notably higher than those measured in lab testing.

«It doesn't try to be anything other than a midsize sedan, which is actually refreshing,» concludes road test editor Christopher Nelson.

We'll also admit that we tested the maneuverability of this big Lincoln on more than just the narrow winding roads of Bel - Air.

What could be better than a McLaren buyer playing the role of «race engineer» in briefing the MSO team and directing them to test and validate those ideas to create a race - bred road car such as this?»

The International Council on Clean Transportation, or ICCT, found European cars on average emit 40 % more CO2 on the open road than the regulations allow in the test lab.

At highway speeds, the Meridian held up against road noise better than any other system, with clear and well - defined bass still distinguishable at 75 mph, and the audio experience for back - seat passengers was among the best of any car tested, with a pleasant and accurate soundstage.

Period road tests criticized the high beltline, but it's no worse than today's cars, although the roof is low.

This 3.7 - liter, fourth generation of Nissan's VQ V - 6 sounds better than other recent examples of this engine, and it certainly flings the 370Z down the road with enthusiasm, despite the automatic transmission in our test car.

The Crew Cab test truck was simply too large to be called nimble — length is 242.7 inches, nearly 9 feet longer than a Fiat 500 — but it was certainly capable of some moderate off - roading.

Nissan also is hitting the road to raise awareness of the NV, attending vocational trade shows, including December's International Builders Show in Orlando, where more than 1,000 consumers test - drove an NV, and conducting a mobile marketing tour.

And you can't realistically drive like this on the road any more than you can drift an M5 round every corner, so we've come to a beautiful private test track not far from Bowler's HQ.

Not only are you subjecting Tesla owners (many of whom are more than willing to be Musk's guinea pigs) to those tests, but there's the additional and rather important point that anyone who shares the road with a Tesla on Autopilot that is not being used properly is also at risk.

Unfortunately it's also a tightly twisting private test track with stone walls, random boulders and a man - made lake seemingly never more than a few perilous feet away and at times I wonder if it wouldn't have been less dangerous to stay on the wintry roads of Derbyshire.

As before, the mildly turbo - cushioned throttle response and linear power delivery conspire to make the acceleration feel less brutal than the figures suggest, but the eye - popping rate at which the GT sprints between the seemingly endless bends of Spain's Massis del Montseny mountain road KTM has chosen as a driving route (Carlos Sainz used to test here, apparently) is testament to the car's raw speed.

The 2019 Chevrolet Silverado is still a full - size truck, which means that unladen, it provides a fairly stiff ride over the Milford Proving Grounds» real - world test road, though it's much smoother than the outgoing pickup.

As we discovered with our road test in issue 134, as well as being faster than it has any right to be, the California is also the owner of a talented chassis and an extremely stiff body structure that doesn't flex, shimmy or shake.

Despite temperatures hitting almost 90 degrees on the day we tested at Road Atlanta, I saw more than 168 mph heading down the circuit's serpentine back straight heading into the 45 mph turn 10a.

Following that, it's no surprise that while the Cinturato All Season hangs on impressively well on dry roads when the pace quickens, the sickeningly light sensation brought on by understeer arrived through the steering wheel of our Mk7 Golf test car noticeably earlier than with most premium summer tyres.

Jaguar's plan is to bill the F - Pace as a «family sports car» more than a rough - and - tough off - roader, but nonetheless, testing in both sweltering heat and frigid cold give us a sense of what the 2017 Jaguar F - Pace can handle.

On unbroken pavement, the FX45's ride was smoother than the Q45 sedan's, wrote road test coordinator Tony Quiroga.

A rollcage extending to the rear shock towers offers 46 percent more torsional stiffness compared to the outgoing Gallardo Super Trofeo and «at least 70 percent» more rigidity than the road - going Huracán, according to chief test driver Giorgio Sanna.

Four years after moving to Michigan to be AUTOMOBILE's road test editor, I'm working out of our office in El Segundo, which now houses more than half of our editorial staff.

In fact, driving the 4E - Hybrid back - to - back with Panamera 4, on roads outside Zuffenhausen that allowed for no more than 5/10 the cars» capability, we would not have been able to pass the blindfold test to tell the two apart.