Sentences with phrase «wafting along»

Instead - and far more sensibly considering the car's design - it is happiest wafting along, ironing out bumps and pot - holes for you and taking the strain out of journeys.

OK, if you're used to the current Rangie's petrol V8 (or even diesel V8) you might miss the accompanying soundtrack, but we'd wager many more people will come to love the near silence of wafting along in a larger SUV on pure - electric power.

It will respond to a bit of vigorous driving but, like its engine, the NX is at its best when wafting along.

The supercharged engine settles into a gentle stride in eighth gear, wafting along nearly inaudibly.

All is forgiven, though, when you're wafting along in supreme comfort on the highway or carving into a series of corners, at which point the 760i feels so much more responsive and alert than the long - wheelbase car.

I took the GTC and after a slowish tour to video ON1 I stuck my foot down regularly wafting along at 150mph with the roof down.

A burning smell from the fire can be sensed for miles as smoke wafts along Route 303 in Orangeburg and Blauvelt and above Clausland Mountain toward Tweed Boulevard and South Nyack and Nyack.

(Because water ice is less dense than nitrogen ice, bergs of such material would waft along just as they would in Earth's seawater, the researchers explain.)

But there's also a softness to the dramatic arc of the film, which doesn't so much march forward as waft along, with rather low stakes and all - too - easy resolutions.

Rolls - Royce wants its cars to waft along the highway effortlessly, but maybe this isn't such a good thing for a GT, you think?

This is a luxury sedan that emphasizes the luxury part of the equation more than the driving part, as you waft along in speed and comfort if not with much feeling of communication between the car and the driver.

Yet its ability to waft along the motorway at 80 mph in virtual silence makes it a fine long - distance cruiser as well.

Switching between electric and hybrid operation comes with noticeable surges to the powertrain and the gearbox frequently hunts — up, down, up — for a different cog while the vehicle wafts along between 25 and 40 mph.

With VDC set to Comfort +, it'll waft along motorways and A-roads with ease.

Hitting the highway saw it wafted along without jostling the riders over a rougher section.

Having driven a European - spec model with Air Body Control, the GLC wafted along with a pillowy ride on Comfort mode.

In Comfort mode the S65 wafts along the roadway, floating over bumps and imperfections.

Yet, when you've had your fun and it's time to go home, put everything back into Comfort Mode and relax as the hybrid powertrain wafts you along in smooth, silky silence.

Motorways - even old and lumpy ones - see the Mercedes float along comfortably, keeping enough in the feedback to let you know what's going on, but essentially the air - suspension is set - up to waft you along as though you were travelling on... well, air.

It's best to be driven in a more relaxed frame of mind though, leaving the hybrid powertrain to waft along, with the IS 300h a very refined drive when driving to its strengths.

Astonishingly quiet, impressively comfortable and seriously refined at all speeds, the big wagon wafts along effortlessly under the power of its mighty 5.6 - litre petrol V8.

Just like before, ride quality is superb and the car's air suspension combines smoothness with complete control and utter stability as you waft along faster than you think.

At low speeds, the car runs in electric - only mode for up to 29 miles, which means it's almost silent inside as you waft along without a care for the outside world.

Instead, it wafts along in comfort mode with an aplomb that's only lessened by a fair slice of wind noise around the A-pillars and mirrors.

Being a 2.7 diesel, it's performance is very keen if not neck snapping, but that suits me as it does it with no drama - I waft along.

In Dynamic mode, it rifles off crisp shifts immediately but just as deftly wafts along like cream cheese at a school zone pace.

As for the new V8 S, it provides the best blend of handling (superb for such a big car), but still with the ability to waft along.

Smoothly, quietly and confidently, a silver Mercedes - Benz S - class casually wafts along an autobahn outside Stuttgart.

Buyers who want their cars to waft along, smothering out the road's irregularities and keeping quiet about it.

As such, it wafts along the highway just as well as many luxury cars.

Not exact matches

He wafted in later, as all good gurus do, to cast his vote along with the party leadership on the economy, looking constantly pained.

Instead of just letting scent compounds waft into the air, the plants use a particular molecule called a transporter protein to help move the compounds along, a new study found.

Neuroscientist Steven Jacobson and his colleagues at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke have determined that the virus makes its entry to the human brain through the olfactory pathway, right along with the odors wafting into our nose.

When one wafts into our nostrils, these receptors send nerve signals to sensory way stations called glomeruli, which pass them along to the brain for interpretation — «Oh, a rose!»

Walking into the large, busy newspaper office every day, just bubbling with excitement and possibility — along with long hours and pressing deadlines — meant smelling endless wafts of coffee in the air every single day and into the evening.

Appropriate amounts of waft accompany the ride in Comfort mode on smooth surfaces, but along technical Alpine roads with the diamond - knurled drive mode dial set to Sport, nary a hint of unwanted roll hinders the Conti's reflexes.

The smell of fresh - caught seafood and Mediterranean herbs waft through al fresco restaurants in the Alfama quarter or along Bairro Alto.

«greenhouse» gases in the atmosphere, since, as anybody but a climate change advocate nut knows, heat rises, most will then waft back harmlessly up into space, as the earth, as all functions seek equilibrium and homeostasis (those scientists believing that is a function of physiology and biology or entropy in a closed rather than open and single ended variant and changing input system don't know what they are talking about) then shifts back into balance, which is really what it is doing all along, since