Sentences with phrase «through tight bends»

Nor do they lend the car to excessive body roll, with plenty of control through tight bends.

The steering doesn't offer a lot of feedback and you can feel the car's weight shifting through tight bends, but keep things sensible and the CR - V's ride will keep everything calm.

It's all clever stuff, but the important thing is that we found ride comfort to have improved to an impressive extent, yet body control through tight bends is as good as ever.

The steering is slow and not particularly precise, but once you've found your line and committed to it, you can rely of the 4's chassis to hang on to surprisingly high speeds through tight bends, albeit with plenty of lateral pitch.

Through tight bends, there's surprisingly little body roll, and with four wheel drive providing excellent traction, the car is a delight to fling through the series of switchbacks we found on our test route.

The steering is a bit light in Comfort mode, but put it in Sport and it weights up nicely, giving you confidence through tight bends.

I can just about detect it working through the tighter bends, allowing you to pick up the throttle a little earlier, but the lack of connectivity between driver and chassis isn't helping the Abarth's cause.

The steering is as precise as ever and offers decent feedback, and while there isn't quite as much grip as in a Ford Fiesta ST, turn - in is excellent and there's enough composure to lean on the car through tighter bends.

Not exact matches

An onward car journey to Sheffield — about the same distance — involves travelling over one of two winding, single - lane passes through the Peak District, where lorries take tight bends at 10 mph.

Exhale and fold forward, bending slightly through the knees if your hamstrings are tight.

No matter if you're gliding through a tropical forest or an icy mountain range, most tracks comprise of a similar assortment of tight bends, wide caverns and the odd vertical drop or two.

True, there are things you have to adjust to in the XJ220 — size, turbo lag, steering that initially seems heavy and unresponsive, strong understeer in the tightest bends, brakes that aren't really up to the job — but learn its ways and it's actually a skilled poise - and - purchase practitioner, parlaying extremely serious stonk into fairly stunning speed across the ground through a polished fusion of grip, neutrality and benign adjustability.

The turning circle is improved on the JL, enabling it to snake through tight mountain bends that the JKs along with us could only manage by stopping, backing up, and re-turning into the corner.

Like the Nissan GT - R, the LFA struggles through tight and slow uphill bends, where torque delivery is anything but smooth.

Through fast bends, tighter twists and along short straights, the CR - Z is proving quite good fun.

Mk 2 GTi 16v 1.8 L Output: 123 hp @ 5800 rpm 120 lb - ft @ 4250 rpm Weight: 2267 lb «Even at heart - quickening velocities, driving the GTI through tight ess - bends is a routine operation.

Through mountain passes extending from Germany into the low - hanging clouds and quaint villages of western Austria, the GLE450 AMG is impressively competent, especially with the all - wheel - drive system's 60/40 rear - torque bias helping guide the car around tight bends.

«The technique that worked best for me was to drive to and through the understeer limit,» Sherman recalls, «then back off slightly to let the front rubber secure a tight grip in the first half of the bend.

Use the paddles to keep the car in second gear through a tight corner, stand on the accelerator and power into third gear down the brief straight, then mash the brakes and tug the left paddle again to ready for the next sharp bend.

In this small circuit's few quick corners the R.S. 16 feels very well settled and it holds a tight line, too, which means you can carry lots of speed through bends.

By the time I reach a tighter series of S - bends I'm feeling inclined to pitch it in, but thankfully I'm a bit cautious the first time through.

We slowly manoeuvred through the terrain, going wide on tight bends so that the rear didn't get caught up.

In manual mode it snaps through the gears like a sports car, while four - wheel drive means you'll rarely see the traction control light flicker as the engine pulls you out of tighter bends.

Under power in a tight corner, we want the rear wheels to dig in and shove the back end around, thus helping the car through the bend.

For even tighter dynamics over the standard Touring setting, Sport mode firms up the suspension for marginally better handling through bends, but at the expense of ride quality.

There's no denying the laws of physics and, in spite of the use of carbon fibre in the body, this is still a big, heavy car that'll lean a touch through corners and with a natural tendency to understeer in tighter bends.

On the fast and at times tight, winding roads in the Snowy Mountains this week, the SQ7 builds confidence quickly, showing efficacy through fast, flat bends and tight, undulating roads alike.

Dialed in to Sport mode, this X5 proves satisfyingly agile through bends both tight and sweeping.