Sentences with phrase «twisty corners»

Its quick steering and low curb weight will help you dance through twisty corners.

It's quick steering and low curb weight will help you dance through twisty corners.

It stuck to the twisty corners of my favorite backroad even as I pushed far beyond the posted speed limit.

Drifting, sliding around the tight and twisty corners, even though it really shouldn't be there.

Not exact matches

As the road turns twisty, the Aston hunkers down, moving swiftly and efficiently through the corners without compromising comfort.

It's not going to suit our car as much as the twisty, slower corners of Monaco, but I'm excited to get back in the MCL32, catch up with the guys and girls in the team and get back out on track.»

Twisty thriller unfolds in the darkest corners of a man's mind.

Then, occasionally, you find yourself on a twisty road in the middle of nowhere approaching an on - camber corner with an opportunity to heel - and - toe from 4th to 3rd, kissing the apex and feeling the car squat and dart ahead as you squeeze the throttle.

When adaptive high beam assist plus is used, the main beam helps illuminate the road with better precision and distribution of bright light while cornering on twisty roads without blinding oncoming traffic.

A concerted attack on the twisties coated the wheels with thick layers of furry brake dust, while our cornering adventures shaved off rubber all round.

This gearing also helps keep 86 in its performance «sweet spot» while in the twisty stuff, making it easier to accelerate out of corners.

Being fast is one thing, the ability to put the power to use without seeing the driver's knuckles whiten in a hard and fast corner is quite another; the SQ7 proved to be as sure - footed as a mountain goat on the twisty roads in the French countryside.

In Sport + mode, the E-Class feels focused in corners, but you can tell the big sedan doesn't particularly enjoy going fast on twisty roads.

Then, toward the end of my loan, I took it over some very twisty Northern California back roads and really hammered on it — paddle - shifting up and down through the eight - speed gearbox, braking smoothly into corners then easing just as smoothly onto the ample throttle.

On twisty mountain roads, it's quite fun to drive with little body lean in fast corners and minimal noseplow.

The good news is that when it comes to cornering, braking and tackling a twisty mountain road the Camaro is totally in its element.

However, faced with a twisty road, I couldn't help but dive into the corners at speed.

Through some twisties, the handling didn't feel particularly sharp and understeer, typical for a sedan of this size, made the corners a challenge.

Millen is aiming to break the existing production SUV record of 12:35.61 and for this the Bentayga will need to average a minimum of 100 kmph up the exceptionally tight and twisty 156 - corner course.

The chassis is more than up to the task, though; you can feel a little more weight over the nose but in general the combination of the stiffer suspension, reduced ride height and the XDS electronic differential system — which brakes individual wheels in corners — means the GTD is quick to respond to inputs in the twisty stuff.

You can order the Panamera with three - chamber air springs, an active anti-roll system that reduces roll in corners (like a plane banking into a turn), and rear - wheel steering that can steer a few degrees in the direction of a turn (for, say, lane changes) or in the opposite direction (for twisty country roads).

We've tested the sedans and coupes on slow, fast, twisty and hilly roads and on challenging race courses, and they go, steer, corner and brake as well as, or better than, anything in their segment.

On a twisty mountain road the Camry willingly dug into corners, but exit speeds were hampered a bit by a confused transmission.

Tacking around the corners of a twisty mountain road with the transmission in Sport mode, I was impressed how well the suspension kept the G63 AMG from wallowing.

Cutting through the tight twisties of Germany's Black Forest, the hybrid cornered flatly and with confidence.

Responsive steering, flat cornering and neutral behavior when unraveling a twisty road make one realize that a ripping sport sedan needn't cost $ 40,000.

New this year for the Crosstrek is active torque vectoring, which applies the brakes on the inner wheel during cornering for better twisty fun.

The Mazda6 is widely applauded by auto reviewers for its crisp steering and agile handling, which make it especially fun in corners and when threading through the curves of a twisty road.

As with the town driving point we made earlier, we're not saying the Kia is built to be thrashed hard (and, if we're being honest, the Ford Edge is the more enjoyable car to drive down a twisty road), but the Sorento can navigate tighter corners without washing wide into understeer; suppressing body lean surprisingly well.

The C - Class coupe's sporty suspension setup keeps it stuck to the road when things get twisty and it carves up corners in a very satisfying manner.

When the going gets twisty, the new Focus bolsters its standard AdvanceTrak stability control with a new torque vectoring control system that acts like a limited - slip differential and helps the car accelerate out of corners more adroitly.

The Evoque offers a more car - like driving experience than its tall dimensions would suggest and it can tackle sharp corners and tight and twisty roads with confidence.

As well as being rapid in a straight line, the Focus ST estate is great in corners, with sharp steering, well judged ride quality and great agility on twisty roads.

Driving the 2015 Mercedes - Benz S550 Coupe along one of my usual test loops, combining city streets, the freeway, twisty mountain roads and a scenic stretch of coastal highway, I enjoyed the incredibly smooth ride quality and able cornering, the low growl of the engine, and the high fidelity sounds coming from the 24 - speaker Burmester audio system.

The car's body rolls a tad more in corners and it generally doesn't feel quite so well tied down through fast, twisty bends — although the difference is only slight.

Driven through some seriously twisty blacktop in the hills not far from Port Douglas, the A3 showed a very clean pair of heels, tipping into corners with such keenness I had to check it was in fact a front - wheel drive vehicle.

That stiffness let it handle corners on twisty mountain roads well, without any wallowing around.

During our drive through twisty mountain roads, the iA required that extra split - second to resettle itself before it was ready to pitch into the next corner.

Body roll is nicely managed in the corner, giving the crossover a surprisingly fun feel on twisty roads.

Around the hairy, high - speed Big Willow track at Willow Springs in Rosamond, California — and the twisty, rolling public roads surrounding it — the rear - drive GTS coupe delivered the closest thing to the GT3's preposterous cornering and braking.

I'd wager it's happier on twisty public roads, however, as the tough suspension and tiny body get quickly overwhelmed by sweeping corners and rumble strips out on the track.

The Equus holds its line well in corners and is more than capable of managing its substantial weight on twisty roads, but there's more float and isolation than in the German flagships.

There was a fair amount of twisty turns and off - camber corners, too, but I was not inclined to push the limits of the nearly 5,000 - pound behemoth.

Handling has always been a forte of the A-Class and it continues to offer an engaging experience around the twisties, being eager to dart into corners with speed, keeping its line and offering good feedback from the steering wheel.

It thrashed the BMW X5 in the bush, but couldn't keep it in sight on a twisty road as the suspension, brakes and V6 turbo - diesel struggled to accelerate, stop, and maintain cornering speeds when all the leaden 4 × 4 wanted to do was continue in a straight line.

With reduced traffic, speeds ticked up and in the twisty canyon roads in the more sparsely sections of Malibu, and I began to carry more speed into corners.

We had a good, twisty mountain road complete with a few 15mph hairpins to drive the Mazdaspeed Mazda3 on, and it gripped the corners well.

Point - to - point on a twisty road you can turn in carrying huge speed through corners.

We found that the Equus holds the line very well in corners and is more than capable of reeling in its substantial weight on twisty roads.

Smooth and compliant, it doesn't wallow through corners and sits flat and inspires confidence through the twisty bits on the secondary roads we travelled.