Sentences with phrase «turbo cars like»

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«It's like driving a fast car with a lot of horsepower, and all of a sudden there's a surge when your turbo comes on.»

Even if you're in the minority that actually likes the sound of the new V6 turbo hybrids, you can't not love the noise from classic Formula One cars.

It's kind of like putting a big, turbo charged engine in a car with misaligned tires or worn down brake pads - a recipe for disaster!

It's true, that's not very fast compared to really crazy cars like the Porsche 911 Turbo and the Lamborghini Gallardo Performante, but the Super20 is more nuts than either of them, because it's a half - baked tuner special that underscores what's wrong with modern cars.

A rather expensive cake, mind you.The twin - turbo, 3.0 - liter diesel accelerates like a sports car, yet it... Read more

Such a small car with its unique shape and the way the wheelhouses fit with the body — it was like a Porsche 911 Turbo S.

Set to make its debut at the 2016 New York auto show, the GLC will be a rival for cars like Audi's SQ5 and the Porsche Macan Turbo.

Though our previous prediction that this car would be called 500S turned out to be incorrect, we have plenty of other information on this upcoming model that sits below the 650S and targets higher - end Porsche 911 models like the GT3 and 911 Turbo.

The $ 130,000 CLS63 is definitely not a cheap car, but compared with, say, the $ 194,000 Porsche Panamera Turbo S we recently tested, it almost seems like a bargain.

Like seemingly every new sports car these days, a twin - turbo has been bolted on to the ATS - V's 3.6 - liter V - 6.

You're trying to drive the Turbo like a regular 911, on the traditional racing line, but you're too aggressive on the gas, getting the car out of shape.

Roll on the throttle and the twin - turbo V - 12 will surge this 5500 - pound car forth like a freight train at full steam.»

The S, like any 911 and particularly the Turbo, is not a car you slide around on the road with any regularity.

Three liveries are offered and, like many Vision GT cars, there's plenty of power to move the hypercar - like shape along the game's courses - 1134bhp to be precise, between a 4 - litre twin - turbo V8 and electric motors.

There's also a certain amount of trepidation at what this kind of power will feel like on the road in a mid-engined car on regular street tyres, but human nature being what it is, it's not too long before your right foot pushes a bit harder for a bit longer until those turbos wake up with a banshee wail.

More than anything, the Dart felt like the quirky car of the bunch, its inner Alfa Romeo coming out — we agreed that it almost was like an older Saab 9 - 3 or Audi A4 1.8 T thanks to its slow - spooling turbo and larger size.

With the speeds here too slow for the turbos to build up steam and the road shoulder narrow to nonexistent, the GT - R feels like the big and heavy car it is.

With Nissan insiders under a strict, mafia - like code of omerta (silence), the Tokyo grapevine reports that the 2008 production car will have a twin - turbo V - 6 engine displacing about 3.8 liters and producing somewhere between 400 and 500 hp.

Like very few sports cars, the new 911 Turbo feels at home in all three quintessential speed zones.

These irritants rather debunk the idea that rally specials like this offer 911 Turbo - baiting performance in a more practical, everyday saloon - car shell.

Turbos feature in cars like the Chevy Cruze Eco, the EcoBoosted Ford Edge, and the BMW 328i (with EcoPro mode, of course).

We have previously seen high - performance street cars, like a 700 - hp Bisimoto Tucson, a 500 hp Blood Type Racing Veloster Turbo, and a supercharged Genesis Coupe.

The car will accelerate like a slightly turned - down 911 Turbo.

Much like the marque's sports and saloon cars, the Turbo has wider rear tyres compared to the front.

And now comes the new - for - 2018 production Stinger GT — looking almost exactly like the concept car and boasting a thunderous, 365 - hp twin - turbo V - 6 behind its dramatic prow.

i don t like the 991 turbo, but I have to admit, it is a great car.

Its list price of 137,504 euros in Germany (no UK price has been announced yet, but that equates to around # 110K) puts it ahead of far more accomplished cars like the Porsche Cayenne Turbo but the appeal of the G - Class is that it's not a conventional SUV; Mercedes calls it a «performance off - roader», and says it's better viewed as an extremely posh Land Rover Defender rival.

«The turbo, much like most powerful, front - wheel - drive mid-size cars, has more torque than it can put to the ground.»

Preuninger says he wanted the car to «really feel like a turbo,» rather than the industry trend of turbocharged engines that try to mimic normally aspirated ones, and while the throttle response isn't GT3 sharp, neither is it laggy in any meaningful way.

I swear it sounds exactly like the old Porsche 935 and Audi Quattro turbo race cars.

The only choices you'll make in choosing your G90 are what sort of engine you'd like (a turbo V - 6 or a V - 8), whether you'd like rear - wheel drive or all - wheel drive, the car's exterior color, and, in a few cases, the interior color scheme (most exterior colors offer only one interior color scheme).

The 991 Turbo S is obviously better than ever but to me its like the Turbo model has lost its wild character for a more composed everyday usable car.

Under that long hood, the 2017 Fiat 124 Spider is expected to use the 1.4 - liter turbo - four engine available in other cars like the Dodge Dart and Fiat 500 Abarth, 500L, and 500X, likely with around 160 - 180 hp.

The supercharger covers turbo lag and, like the chassis, the engine puts the power down on this unusual test - car surface seamlessly and without drama, though there's some four - banger roughness at idle.

All of the incredibly esoteric driver - information screens are still available, providing information like steering angle, temperature gauges for seemingly every fluid in the car except your saliva, and lots of graphs on turbo boost, braking g's, and lap times.

Last but by no means least is the Mercedes - AMG GT S. It's not as focused as some of the cars above, but it's already dispatched the likes of the Aston Martin Vantage N430, BMW i8, Nissan GT - R and almighty Porsche 911 Turbo in previous evo tests — meaning there's little doubt as to its ability.

Combined with a 365bhp twin - turbo straight - six engine, you have a car BMW is labelling as a spiritual successor to the likes of the original E30 M3 and much loved 1M Coupe.

BMWs are excellent cars and as good as Benz and Audi in my view, I was a fan in my youth, my father had the first M5 (286hp) but then we got our first Audi, a 200 Turbo Quattro - and this car was awesome, like science fiction compared.

It's also the latest in a long and illustrious line of slightly unhinged high performance road cars from Renault, following the likes of the 5 Turbo, Spyder and Clio V6 models.

Like a modern sports car, the Cayenne Turbo has adaptive aero devices that move to either reduce drag or help reduce lift.

The Evolution's obvious bogey is anything with a turbo, a too - large sticker price, and four driven wheels, and there are a lot of cars like that to choose from.

The 178bhp 1.6 turbo (more on which in a minute) makes a much better partner for what looks and feels like a big car for its class.

That gasoline garden hose douses the sixteen cylinders, the four turbos sound like they're altering weather patterns in China, and for a brief moment it's entirely likely that I am driving a car faster than anyone else on planet earth.

As a rival to the new - age supersaloons like the Porsche Panamera Turbo and Mercedes - AMG GT63 S 4 - door, the Aston Martin Rapide AMR will struggle to match those cars» insatiable capability, but as an expression of sophistication, and a chance to enjoy an increasingly rare naturally aspirated V12 engine, the Rapide AMR will likely find 210 very happy buyers.

As spectator numbers had dropped in the 1990s when only rather standard FIA Group N cars competed, more spectacular vehicles were admitted since 1999, like the Zakspeed Chrysler Viper GTS - R which originally was built by Oreca to FIA GT2 - spec, turbo - charged Porsche, modified Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters cars from Opel and Abt Sportsline - Audi, and the Schnitzer Motorsport - entered BMW M3 GTR V8 that had been run in the 2001 American Le Mans Series.

Like the R8 Spyder, the Turbo is an easy and approachable car to drive on first acquaintance.

The Veloster Turbo is a modern car but some of its most interesting characteristics come from old school charm — a mechanical handbrake, no stop / start and an ESP system deactivated with one press rather than a hold - down - for - what - feels - like - eternity process all help endow it with a sheen of character more polished (and technically more capable) rivals can lack.

The 996 Turbo, Like All The Other 911 Turbo Cars Of The Past, Have Instantly Fallen Into The Collectable Classic Porsche Title.

That might not sound like much compared with the 560 - and 577 - hp ratings from Audi's RS7 and Mercedes - Benz's E 63 AMG, but compared with the more pedestrian iterations of those same turbo V8s — 450 hp in the S7 and 402 in Mercedes» E 550 — the 5.0 L is plenty powerful, even if the car it has to motivate weighs in at a considerable 2,126 kilograms.

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