Sentences with phrase «tight bends»

The excellent handling the 3 Series is famed for remains, even if its higher centre of gravity means there's a fraction more body lean in tight bends.

The steering's variable ratio steering rack comes into its own on tighter bends, making the steering feel more direct and responsive.

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

The front end is lighter, eager to dive into a turn and much more willing to rotate around tight bends.

They're even more polished if you specify the optional rear - wheel steering; the car becomes even more nimble when attacking tight bends.

The road features gradual and tight bends featuring elevation changes that really give the chassis a workout.

When it comes to making tight bends, you might have some difficulty.

At low speeds and on tight bends, the luxury sedan significantly reduces steering effort.

The well - weighted steering (Normal is best as Sport feels a touch synthetic in its heft) is quick, precise and uncorrupted, allowing you slice through corners quickly and accurately — although there's some stiffness to the rack out of tighter bends as the differential works hard.

In an instant, the suspension morphs from pliant to nimble, squeezing the DB11's substantial body through tight bends with ease.

The static cornering lights activate the auxiliary headlights so as to light up more of the road at tight bends and turns.

Fast corners were rarely an issue either, but like a full - size bullet train, our 36 - cylinder convoy had to slow down significantly for tighter bends.

No, it doesn't have the acuity and exquisite balance of the Porsche, and the ESP you can never fully disengage is frustrating if you want to celebrate the motor's heftier kick with a smoky tribute exiting tighter bends.

The second rollercoater is Velociprator, a breath - taking boomerang which drops from 20m in the air and flies around tight bends up to 40mph.

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.

Out of relatively tight bends there's enough grunt from either engine to have a real influence over the car's angle.

In really tight bends the Sprint doesn't feel as rewarding.

But with less weight in the nose thanks to a lighter diesel engine than before, it doesn't torture its tyres on tight bends like previous versions used to.

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

On the road, the Velar generally feels safe unless you mix tight bends with enthusiastic speeds.

That tremulous V6 conjures real pace where you can really let it rev, where before it had failed to blow you away sprinting between tighter bends from lower revs.

In either guise you'll find yourself making excuses to take the long road, and you'll make sure there are plenty tight bends on the route to «test the handling», that's how fun these cars are.

Tighter bends now highlight the ultimate party trick of the Lancer Evolution — reality distorting agility thanks to the laundry list of acronyms dotted around the car.

The static cornering lights activate the auxiliary headlights in order to illuminate more of the road in tight bends and turns.

Sometimes out of tight bends, as the front begins to scrabble for grip, the rear gets sent some torque and you can begin to feel the back axle faintly push you round the corner.

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.

Pushing the car hard — perhaps, in retrospect, at times a little harder than I should've - I found that a significant improvement in cornering turn - in around tight bends.

For instance, when attacking tight bends in an aggressive manner, I was scolded by a multitude of pings, beeps and vibrations as the car fought to takeover.

The dynamic cornering light function swivels the main headlights towards the inside of a bend, based on steering angle and road speed, so as to light up more of the road at tight bends and turns.

Its electro - mechanical steering feels a touch light until you call on the sportiest mode, when it adds weight and initial speed, and the chassis feels more at home on longer bends than it does rapidly changing direction on tighter bends.

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.

Indeed, through the tight bends and sweeping curves, the Hybrid proved relatively fun to drive.

Brake early for a tight bend and you can put a lot of power down while exiting.

It didn't take many swooshing curves and tight bends to make the connection to the GTI and Golf R.

It can be placed with pinpoint accuracy and turns in with a lightness of touch unprecedented in a car of its size and weight, locking onto the apex of even the tightest bends with minimal coercion from the helm.

Of exploring the wavy blue lines in your Rand McNally for the pleasure of working the roadster's crisp little stick, and of twisting its wheel to sling the tail around the tightest bends.

The tighter bends with poor visibility that you often get in the Britain mean you just can't carry the same pace into a corner, and the winters felt grippy enough.

Correcting mild initial understeer in fast sweepers or power oversteer in tighter bends is natural, because the steering has linearity and feel, if not quite the communication of a 5 - series.

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.

That ride might suffer a bit in the UK thanks to the large 17 - inch alloy wheels, and inevitably gravity eventually gets the better of the body in tighter bends but the Juke is surprising fun on a twisty backroad.

Come to a tight bend with considerable speed, turn the steering wheel as your foot is stapled to the throttle, and you'll witness the car tucks in as the dual differentials do their power modulation dance.

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.

It proved less nimble around the tight bends of the famous Angeles Crest Highway than expected, but in an easily correctible manner.

There's a touch of steering tug if you accelerate hard out of a tight bend, a bit of dynamic spirit too easily quelled by an intrusive traction and ESP system.

At low speed and high steering angles, the rear wheels turn the opposite direction to the fronts to scoot the rear end around tighter bends, virtually reducing the turning radius of the long sedan.

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.

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 judges love the baby of the field, and it surprises many of them with its speed and agility, particularly when driving downhill or in a run of tighter bends.