Sentences with phrase «tight highway roads»
On some tight highway roads arching through mountains, the car would sometimes not detect the curvature, and had we let the car navigate itself, it would have clipped the handsome front end on a retaining barrier.
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Automated systems that would let cars travel in tight packs would cut drag and therefore fuel consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, highway congestion and road noise.
The Velar, in turn, is floatier and cushier on pavement, inspiring less confidence through the tights turns of Highway 74 that Rover chose for on road portion of the Velar drive than the F - Pace.
The GLC is a highway cruiser, not a sprinter, built for the Autobahn or America's wide and straight interstate highways, though it also feels in its element on the broadly sweeping, serpentine highways where the majority of our testing took place — and less so on tighter back roads.
The non-turbo car is better on the highway than on the tighter, windier roads.
On the highway, it goes down the road perfectly straight and is, for lack of a better word, «tight.»
This means it feels fairly nimble through the corners, and for a rear - wheel drive sedan, it strikes what seems to be a perfect balance between having a playful rear and not feeling like you're going to crash nose into the apex of every tight corner... It is, coupled with the excellent steering, probably the XE's most interesting and praise worthy point, an area where it beats the overly - stiff Germans whose offerings give you the feeling that they are more suitable for highway cruising rather than blasting down country roads.
Blemishes in the road surface are handled with the comfort and ease of a crossover SUV, yet body roll is more akin to that of a compact hatchback than crossover SUV; and around highway flyovers and even tighter turns, the Soul remains planted and well supported — a confidence inspiring trait in such a lofty vehicle.
Our mountainous ascent into the hills above Los Angeles resulted in a challenging few hours for our tester, which seemed initially eager to conquer the tight turns and dramatic elevation changes, but in the end, didn't behave with the level of composure demonstrated earlier on city and highway roads.
We ran our test car north and south of San Francisco on Highway 1, and along some twisty mountain roads, where we pushed it hard on tight turns.
And they both provide more than enough power whether driving tight mountain roads or straight - laced highways.
Just hearing the names of these transmissions would put second thoughts into most people not serious about driving a 40 ton rig at highway speed, or through tight turns on a mountain road, or for that matter steady up and down shifting in a city.