Sentences with phrase «tighter back roads»

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.

Couple this with its diminutive size and it's an absolute joy to thread down a tight back road.

Furthermore, fooling around with the R - Line Beetle on a tight back road exposes the classic flaws of an overpowered front - wheel - drive chassis: tire squeal, torque steer, understeer.

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Though, somewhat ironically, Newcastle will need to keep it tight at the back as well if they're to leave Wearside with all the spoils, as three of their four victories on the road have come without shipping a single goal.

It feels enormous inside and the all - round visibility is excellent, making it easy peasy to reverse into tight spaces and back out of the drive onto the road.

6 for dark hair blue eyes laid back great sense of humor easy to talk to like fishing rod in the back roads hold my baby tight

Aboard the BMW on tight California back - roads, the Michelin tires and adjustable sport - tuned suspension permit the big sedan to stick to the pavement with little drama.

We would have loved to thrash the GT - R on the twisting roads of Japan all day long but time was getting tight and we were due back at the circuit for the track portion of the test.

Ryan Tuerck is no stranger to drifting around tight corners on an open track, and while the last time he took his Scion FR - S out for a spin may have been on ice, it's time for him to head back home to New Hampshire Motor Speedway and become the first drifter to tackle the road course.

It's fantastic for a small family, throw the baby and dog in the back, doing the shopping and getting places quickly and securely, especially if you regularly drive on tight twisting grease / snowy roads.

Tadge Juechter didn't blink as the 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray blitzed through a series of tight kinks on a California back road.

Just how much, I'm about to discover on the back - road to Millbrook, which throws in a useful selection of curves, humps, dips, campers and one deleciously long straight with a tight right - left combination at its end.

It does everything a family sedan is supposed to do — rear seat room is a bit tight for adults, but fine for kids — but it also attacks winding back roads with such verve and enthusiasm that you forget this is a sedan.

That's welcome on back country roads, where a lot of the time you have just moments to react to a tight apex.

engine is very quiet... cabin is also extremely quiet... handles great... windows and doors close nice and tight... plenty of leg room and 2nd row seat backs recline for added comfort... sound system more than adequate... so far my only complaint is city mpg, about 11 mpg, I can only hope this improves with initial break in period... I haven; t been on a road trip yet to see an overall average

Sure it's big, and parking this beast or backing it up in tight parking garages can be challenging, but on the road it's like a high - riding luxury sedan with impeccable manners and a refined ride.

I thankfully never got to experience its full effect, but while barreling down one back road, coming up fast on a tight turn, the car read the tree directly in front of it as an obstacle, and flashed a helpful warning sign in the instrument cluster display that said «Brake.»

We found ample power to pass on tight back - road routes and plenty of oomph to push the car to autobahn speeds.

As thrilling as it may be to launch McLaren's 675LT again and again, molding your back into the aggressively tight carbon fiber shells before testing the seatbelt tensioners under hard braking, that low - slung body begs to be ripped around a curvy road.

The 20 - turn, 3.41 - mile road course's high - speed esses, long back straight, heavy brake zones and tight hairpins are a thorough workout for race cars and high - performance road cars alike, and here I am, tackling it in an SUV.

The front - end didn't push through tight, rain - lashed roundabouts either, and with the weight in the back the smaller road imperfections simply melted away.

No worries about the SportCross» handling — it loves back roads, and is predictable and forgiving when driven too quickly into a tight corner.

Up in the Scottish Highlands, it muscled through the glens with a baritone growl, slicing along the tight and twisty B roads like a running back who'd escaped from ballet class.

Which gives an extra feature to move around off road and also hatch back model, which is shorter than a normal car, gives a very good feature to move around in traffic and tight places.

With its standard backup camera that makes backing out of tight parking spaces a breeze, plus a Push Button Start and key-less entry system that adds convenience and security to your drive, the 2018 Corolla has your on - road needs and wants covered.

Since then, Rachel has released three best - selling novels - The Back Road, Sleep Tight and Stranger Child which have been phenominally successful in both the UK and the US.

Here she reveals some of the secrets of her success, having since published The Back Road, and Sleep Tight, and gives a taster of what's to come in her new book...

«This fifth consecutive month of improvement in builder confidence provides further assurance that the housing market is moving in a positive direction, but there's still a long way to go on the road to recovery and several obstacles are slowing our progress,» says NAHB Chairman Barry Rutenberg, a home builder from Gainesville, Fla. «In particular, unnecessarily tight credit conditions are preventing many builders from putting crews back to work — which would create needed jobs — and discouraging consumers from pursuing a new - home purchase.»