Sentences with phrase «turbo whistle»

Power comes on smooth, with just whiff of turbo whistle.

Road noise and engine noise were really well muted, with just a faint turbo whistle in high - load situations.

Now we have clear - cut proof, as the GT4 was just caught testing at Monza without a hint of turbo spool, turbo whistle, or wastegate blow off.

It wasn't just its heretofore unfamiliar sounds of a diesel rumble backed by a turbo whistle that threw me for a loop; even with 800 lb - ft of torque at 1,600 rpm, there seemed to be a bit of a lag as the turbo kicked in.

Driving the Linea T - Jet is addictive and 207 Nm of torque is class leading here, you simply love the turbo whistle.

The engine is smooth and refined, with just a hint of turbo whistle and a subtly raspy exhaust note.

Open a window and the gentle turbo whistle and soft tsss when you lift off are clearly audible, the insistent exhaust providing accompaniment.

It also has a pronounced turbo whistle.

The dominant sound is the turbo whistle, which builds to a crescendo as the four - cylinder reaches its maximum speed.

It's great just off idle and until 2000 rpm (where it sounds like a diesel truck's exhaust — deep and staccato with that ever - present turbo whistle) but then it all just kinda goes... vacuum cleaner.

«Billie Jean» is soon coursing through the Subaru's Harman / Kardon sound system, competing with road noise and the WRX's turbo whistle as we merge onto the highway and head north.

Wending across the Continental Divide, a note of turbo whistle overlaying the diesel's growl, fresh mountain breezes wafting through the open - air cockpit, I might've fallen a little bit in love with that thing.

The new 402 - hp, 4.6 - liter turbo V - 8 emits only a slight turbo whistle, the only obvious indication that it's turbocharged (read: no noticeable turbo lag).

Charging uphill on a favorite mountain two - lane, the turbo whistling with boost and the chassis tight and eager, the ST at last felt completely in its element.

Not exact matches

Under full throttle, the engine's racket is even more considerable, but the noise is overlaid with a bewitching whistle from the turbo - and if you pull your foot off the accelerator quickly enough, an intoxicating whoosh from the blow - off valve.

It nestles into the single - track roads, the whistling turbo and growling engine pushing us along nicely.

This particular Evo I is running around 280bhp but you'd swear it was more, and the whistling, chirruping turbo sound effects are pure WRC.

The standard exhaust is sure to make a difference, but I can't imagine escaping the sound of the engine itself — right behind the cabin — and especially the turbo, which whistles away at the slightest provocation.

«There's the whistling from the turbo, the grumbling from the exhaust, and the road noise from the tires, and it all gets mixed up inside the cabin, banging and resonating off the exposed carbon tub,» says features editor Rory Jurnecka.

The turbo's power delivery doesn't really lag, but it does build, with a faint, telltale whistle in the background.

When I got it back it was fixed, and boosting with a healthy sssh on acceleration from 2200 RPM, which lasted for about 6 days and then suddenly back to poor performance or worse, and no noise from the turbo except at 6000 when high pitched whistle / whine evident.

For the first, oh, thirty seconds, it sounds like there's an emissions pump running, and all you hear is a tremendously deep growl overlaid with the turbo's whistle.

With 260 pound - feet of torque, it pumps out steady power and a cool whistling turbo sound as it climbs through the gears.

The cat - back exhaust has a grizzly growl as the turbo - four revs up smoothly and freely, and the turbocharger's wastegate spits and whistles when we lift off the accelerator.

It's based on the Altima Platinum VC - Turbo trim, so you get all the bells and whistles in addition to a variable - compression I4 that puts out 248 horsepower and 273 pound - feet of torque.

Also disturbing the peace in our test car was an annoying, drivetrain - like whine when accelerating from standstill; some turbo «whistle» at higher revs, excessive tyre rumble as well as the odd bang and crash as the suspension struggled with potholes and the like.

When the gasoline engine kicks in to supplement the battery pack's wattage — to trim the 0 - to -60-mph run from a claimed 7.9 seconds to 5.9, or to add 250 miles to the driving range — the extra thrust is accompanied by the whistle of a turbo spooling up, the snarl of angry exhaust gas, and a resonant boom or two.

If you just don't like turbo engines, the only non-turbo CR - V is a base model with fewer bells and whistles.

In the Honda Clarity Fuel Cell, for example, I could hear a little turbo - like whistle when accelerating hard.

The high - pitched trademark whistle of a turbo is very clearly heard when you're top - down in the cab, especially at low speed and on part throttle.

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Yes, the Turbo S is ultimately the faster vehicle — although not so much in the icy conditions of today, where the slightly lighter, more agile GTS is more in its element — and it comes stuffed with a far greater quota of bells, whistles and luxury features, but almost double the money?

KOVACH: The only complaint I have with the Forester is that the whistle of the turbo spooling up at times sounds like a distant emergency - vehicle siren.

Kunos Simulazioni has captured every whine of the transmission, every pop on the overrun, every whistle of a turbo, and the results sound incredible.

Our only criticisms were with the mini turbo brush: it sticks out straight, rather than an angle, which feels wrong at the end of the wand, and sometimes it made a whistling sound.