Sentences with phrase «tyres scrabbling»

The basic principle is to deliver drive to the wheel with the greatest traction — particularly handy when you're powering up a tight mountain pass with tyres scrabbling for grip.

The electronics suite that includes hill descent control keeps things tidy in the rough, and you won't find the tyres scrabbling for grip at any point either.

The nose responds lazily to steering inputs then dips strongly, the tyres howl and if you get back on the power mid-corner and catch full boost the front lifts up again and the front tyres scrabble at the tarmac.

Accelerate hard out of a corner and the tyres scrabble for traction as the car washes wide.

Not exact matches

Firstly, you would only hear «tyre squeal» if the vehicle is losing (or at least scrabbling for) grip during the braking period.

Go into a corner a bit faster than you should've and yes, the front tyres will scrabble for grip while going straighter than you intended.

If we were at any circuit other than Siverstone there would be a fair chance that I'd have been buried deep into a tyre wall, but this being the home of the British Grand Prix means it's thankfully festooned with run - off areas and I used all of this one, before scrabbling back onto the track via a small rough patch of earth.

The four - wheel drive system does sometimes scrabble for grip, but that's more down to the road - biased tyres, and on the whole it gives you confidence to push the car some way off the beaten track.

It's rapid enough to have the low rolling resistance Michelin tyres regularly scrabbling for traction.

In fact, given its sporty setup and road - biased tyres, I was amazed by the nonchalant way in which it scrabbled up down the slippery, muddy course, the Terrain Response system orchestrating the four - wheel - drive system to deliver maximum traction.

slightly more recently even my mark II mondeo slithered and scrabbled it's way out of a muddy field at the end of a festival with no greater difficulty than the shogun behind, possibly aided by the fact that it was on winter tyres despite it being august, but anyway it coped easily enough.

Even with the XDS electronic differential lock doing its best to stop wheelspin, the inside front tyre does tend to scrabble for traction on the way out of corners.

Another film has the OHO group manoeuvring a large truck tyre from one place to another, in a performance of stupendous effort, scrabbling against the inertia of a dumb object — that familiar comedic trope of the little man and the big machine.