Sentences with phrase «weight penalty for»

I'll gladly take the weight penalty for the RR and just drop the ounces somewhere else.

Thanks to a canvas roof and carbon fibre rollover bars, the weight penalty for the Spider is only about 60 kg (around a 7 per cent gain) which shouldn't hurt performance too much.

Both the Volkswagen Golf R and the Focus RS send power all around — and take a weight penalty for it.

Infiniti says the weight penalty for the hybrid system is 265 lb, which sounds quite optimistic given the enormous battery.

Not exact matches

While most organizations will tout the body of research highlighting the effectiveness of employing financial incentives and penalties for inducing weight - loss, dig a little deeper to understand the background of those designing and contributing to the actual weight - loss programming.

The problem is there are no mandatory penalties for being above 8 %, just daily weight and health checks like Max underwent.

In theory consuming 7,733 kJ each day (or 54,129 kJ a week — there's no penalty for zig - zagging to accommodate a dinner party) will maintain your current weight.

Not for our trio the weight and packaging penalties of the now - popular folding hard - top.

Both the seven - speed manual and twin - clutch PDK transmission are available, but you'll do without the limited slip diff if you choose PDK, and its weight penalty and ethos seem at odds with what the T stands for.

Compared with the 360 Spider, the F430 claims 10 per cent greater torsional rigidity and 5 per cent greater resistance to bending for a weight penalty of about 70 kg, some 45 kg of which is accounted for by the difference between 360 and F430 Berlinettas.

It carries its weight pretty well, too, but the penalty for determined body control is an overly fussy ride and a curiously wooden feel to the chassis.

Phil Floraday mentions that he sees no penalty for the A6 having Quattro all - wheel drive rather than simply rear - wheel drive, and part of the credit for that probably goes to the fact that the A6's weight distribution is now 55/45 % front / rear, which is 3 % more at the rear than before.

Does Lexus's 471bhp, V8 - engined rival for the BMW M4 match the German car's thrills on the road, or is the extra quarter of a ton weight penalty it carries a little too much to bear?

With a single piece tailgate manufactured from aluminium the Sport Turismo carries only a small weight penalty over its saloon counterparts, with kerb weights ranging from 1880 kg for the 326bhp V6 to 2035 kg for the Turbo, a circa 30 kg weight increase over the saloon.

All for $ 5000 more than a hardtop Mini, with a weight penalty of 220 lb.

Clever engineering like torque vectoring and rear - wheel steering let Porsche make up for the hybrid system's weight penalty and create a phenomenally, ludicrously fast car that handled exceptionally well.

To overcome the C - MAX Energi's battery weight penalty, Ford installs a 2.0 - liter, 141 - hp gas engine that works with its 88kW electric motor for a combined 188 hp.

What you get in return for the weight penalty is a 90 lb - ft of torque boost with the V6 and a full 130 lb - ft worth of help with the V8.

The AWD is a good choice not only for the obvious traction attraction, but also because it comes with a 17 % deeper axle ratio that more than offsets the 5 % weight penalty of the AWD hardware — ergo, peppier acceleration.

It should also make it a bit more stable and useable in really bad weather, but given the extra cost, fuel economy and weight penalty you may find a set of winter tyres does the same job for less.

There also are small penalties of complexity, weight and cost ($ 20 for a high - volume car but hundreds of dollars on small production runs).

The GTP was successful in IMSA racing for six years, however its excellent power to weight ratio, responsible for its success, effectively made the car unbeatable; [4] the car was eventually saddled by IMSA with a 300 - pound weight penalty before being banned entirely in 1991.

As for the other important aspect of the driver experience — handling dynamics — the Q5 hybrid's weight penalty is only equal to that of a young child — 86 extra pounds — and the car is set up for shuttling around corners with confidence.

The weight penalty of these great features is negligible which makes the Blackbird the perfect hammock for me.

Those consequences give extra weight to every action, but the penalty has often seemed too steep for some.

Though the Court of Appeal affirmed the conviction, the court found the penalty, for which the committee had given no reasons, had been increased by reason of the committee's annoyance at the member's cavalier attitude and personality [25], and accordingly the committee gave weight to the member's attitude in an improper manner [26].

The court was considering the constitutionality of the death penalty in the Kansas, where the statute specifically provided for this punishment where the mitigating and aggravating factors during the sentencing of a murder were of equal weight.

Throw on top of that Lenovo Pen Pro with 4096 levels of pressure sensitivity and you get a very strong argument for getting the convertible over the traditional laptop with a touch display (though there is a half - pound weight penalty in making the switch).