Sentences with phrase «upshifts like»

The exhaust blats on hard upshifts like most new high - performance turbocharged cars, but the exhaust is never overwhelming and, compared to some top - performance cars, somewhat remote.

It's alert and consistent, always seeming to be in the right gear and it rattles off upshifts like it can't wait to land you in the back of a police cruiser.

Not exact matches

In Corsa mode, upshifts at redline feel like a sledgehammer whacking the bucket seats.

To sit in a Ferrari's sumptuous driver's seat, savoring the aroma of leather and the voluptuous view over the hood; to press the red starter button on the steering wheel and hear the V - 8 light off with a cannon - fire report through quad exhausts; to flick one of the big shift paddles at redline and feel the 7 - speed dual - clutch transmission crack off an upshift so fast the M80 - like tailpipe explosion that follows seems at least a city block behind you... these are merely a few of the sensations that delight and excite and bedazzle any soul lucky enough conduct a Ferrari with his or her own hands.

It's also a shame that if you snag the limiter you get a stuttering pause before the upshift — like you're being punished for your clumsiness.

The upshifts are much faster now, and the batteries are doing everything they can to help you drive like hell, rather than helping you be efficient.

Then Chevy gives the gearbox to its calibration team to tune software and mitigate any wandering you might expect from a complex 10 - speed automatic transmission, creating shift - logic systems like «lift - foot gear - hold» mode, which aggressively holds a gear to prevent excessive upshifts and premature downshifts.

Perhaps the (untried here) manual «box is a better fit, because while we've become accustomed to the eight - speeder usually doing no wrong, even in Sport configuration here it feels ponderous during quick driving; it hates an upshift close to the redline and likes to remind you on down - changes that it and it only will decide when it's appropriate to engage the next gear.

It feels almost like sprint gearing, so you work the» box hard, but the response to each flick of a finger is good and there's a lovely parp on every committed upshift, a bit like a louder version of the ones you get with a VW DSG in similar circumstances.

Like Jen, I had a hard time perfecting my 1 - 2 upshifts.

When you shift down on the move with a flick of the left paddle, the chips will automatically blip the throttle; when you give it stick and keep the right foot firmly planted, a phonetic explosion marks the transition at 4500 rpm; when you upshift close to the redline, the four sounds almost like a five, and then very briefly even like a six.

Also they have a lot of gears (7, 8 or even 9 speeds like the Mercedes 9G - Tronic) and upshift quickly when cruising to have better gas mileage.

No chance of that today but just playing the engine via the paddles is addictive enough, especially when you take it all the way to the 8000rpm limit and hear the crack of what sounds like small arms fire on the upshift.

Around a race track in full automatic mode, it sounds like a legitimate pro is driving — rev matching downshifts, high - rev holds through exits and upshifts at precisely the right point.

There is absolutely no flex or slop in the shift linkage, so mid-corner upshifts are a breeze even at what feels like 1.3 g of cornering loads.

It will learn its way around a place like Circuit of the Americas faster than the vast majority of humans will, never confounding with its gear choices or early upshifts.

Shift response is OK on upshifts, but still slower than I would like for downshifts.

Once there, pull back to upshift, and push forward to downshift — you know, like a racecar.

The six - speed automatic is very intuitive and quick to upshift when needed, to the point that we feel the paddles are more for show than go (like in most cars).

Passing in traffic is an exercise in planning that goes like this: point, click, wait, accelerate, lift, jerk, upshift, and slow.

You can manually select the gears if you like to try and outsmart the computer, but if you get high enough in the rev range it will upshift for you.

Eco definitely makes the Santa Fe feel more like a desert tortoise, with quick upshifts and a lazy throttle, but it was tough to tell the difference between Normal and Sport.

Speed like this has to be mastered and managed, from throttle feathering to early upshifts, and it's what should set PC2 apart.