Sentences with phrase «upper gears»

The short off - the - line gear ratios are complemented by very long, widely spaced upper gears.

Add long, widely spaced upper gear ratios, presumably to help lower the CO2 figure, and the perverse consequence is that you have to rev the high heavens out of it on wide throttle openings to make the car feel reasonable sprightly, which results in anything but low CO2 figures.

Toggling that switch with the lever in D allows blocking out upper gear ratios to avoid unwanted automatic shifts while towing heavy loads on aggressive grades.

The manual transmission has also been revised and now has a longer ratio in the upper gears.

And taking the driver's reaction time into account, the display comes on earlier in the lower gears and later in the upper gears.

I've got the Max Tow package which came with a slightly lower gear ratio, but with a 6 Speed transmission, it still has a nice power band through the upper gears.

The long ratios in the upper gears reduce fuel consumption.

The transmission offers a manual gear selection mode, which amounts to a cutoff of the upper gears and which is out of place in this vehicle.

Both automatic transmissions in the new A4 series feature a wide spread of gears: Their lower gears have sporty low ratios and high ratios for the upper gears to reduce engine speed and fuel consumption.

A flick of the steering mounted paddle shifters could enforce an upper gear to bring revs down to around 1500rpm, but only momentarily as the slightest demand on the engine prompted an automatic down - change.