Sentences with phrase «wheel drive cars do»

The lighter four - wheel drive cars do not employ the heavy machinery of trucks but instead use a variety of new systems — and they are based on front - drive designs.

The Ford Fiesta ST is turbocharged proof that an affordable, front - wheel drive car doesn't have to be dull.

Not exact matches

The Young Entrepreneur Council founder and New York City native doesn't drive his own wheels, rental car or otherwise, in the City of Angels either.

This primarily makes the car harder to drive at low speeds and for parallel parking, but does not materially affect control at high speed, where only small steering wheel force is needed.

Google's self - driving pod - cars don't even have a steering wheel or pedals.

For people living in rural areas, where wait times for driverless Uber or any kind of public transit are completely unreasonable, yet don't have money to burn an extra $ 10k on their car to make it autonomous, will continue to buy old - fashioned human - driven cars with gas pedals and steering wheels long into the future — and will not accept not being able to drive their cars into cities.

Uber said its self - driving cars, which require a person at the wheel to monitor or control them, did not fall under that strict definition.

When one is driving a car in normal circumstances, one has guidance control; when one sneezes while driving and causes the wheel to jerk to the left, one does not have guidance control.)

• On fishing cars: «One lesson was that four - wheel - drive doesn't mean you can go anywhere, it just means you can get stuck in worse places.»

Unsurprisingly, driving on three wheels didn't do the car much good and the rear suspension ended up completely destroyed.

No, the surprising twist is that Montoya will not be doing so as a member of Chip Ganassi Racing, but instead has signed to drive a third car for Ganassi's open - wheel rival, Roger Penske.

«He is doing a great job and driving the wheels off the car and he is racing hard.

Pros - Looks stylish especially brown leather detailing Very roomy, good for growing baby Easy latch system with isofix, good for car users Spacious storage beneath pram Easy brake system Cons - Car seat does not match rest of pram Slight rock to it Not good for rough pavements best for flat shopping centre type floors otherwise baby is shaking all over the shop (i guess this is where rubber wheels come in) Not good over kerbs no foot tilt to help Handle poor design when folded away the handle scratches on the floor Cant fit into fiesta boot The hood keeps falling backward when walking, not robust to hold itself Could be slightly smoother at turning corners Overall the venti is a good looking pram however due to the comfort of the drive i would not recommend it as a sleeping newborn quickly wakes up due to the rattlicar users Spacious storage beneath pram Easy brake system Cons - Car seat does not match rest of pram Slight rock to it Not good for rough pavements best for flat shopping centre type floors otherwise baby is shaking all over the shop (i guess this is where rubber wheels come in) Not good over kerbs no foot tilt to help Handle poor design when folded away the handle scratches on the floor Cant fit into fiesta boot The hood keeps falling backward when walking, not robust to hold itself Could be slightly smoother at turning corners Overall the venti is a good looking pram however due to the comfort of the drive i would not recommend it as a sleeping newborn quickly wakes up due to the rattliCar seat does not match rest of pram Slight rock to it Not good for rough pavements best for flat shopping centre type floors otherwise baby is shaking all over the shop (i guess this is where rubber wheels come in) Not good over kerbs no foot tilt to help Handle poor design when folded away the handle scratches on the floor Cant fit into fiesta boot The hood keeps falling backward when walking, not robust to hold itself Could be slightly smoother at turning corners Overall the venti is a good looking pram however due to the comfort of the drive i would not recommend it as a sleeping newborn quickly wakes up due to the rattling.

One Blairite cabinet minister told me yesterday that not only are the wheels «definitely» coming off the government: «I don't think anyone's driving the car.»

Google unveils design for its own self - driving car After a million kilometres of road tests, the firm has announced it will be building its own driverless cars that don't even have pedals or steering wheels

We realized very quickly that what we had to do was make it hyper - clear to ourselves that that was not going to work, and the only way to do that was to make a car that has no steering wheel, that has no brake pedal, that has no acceleration and that drives itself all the time from point A to point B at the push of a button.»

At its headiest, it's like Singin» in the Rain with a souped - up engine, but even if Baby is the Gene Kelly of the getaway car, watching Baby Driver always feels like watching someone else do the driving rather than being behind the wheel yourself.

The biggest problem with all - wheel drive, Rogers reminds us, is that it helps vehicles accelerate on slick roads, but it doesn't help these cars stop or turn on ice or snow.

Here we have the most crossed - over of crossovers, the car that can do everything provided you live somewhere spacious, like the US where the four - wheel drive R - class is made; it's an inch short of 17 feet long.

Apart from a few missing options (this tester didn't have the rear side - window screens, for instance), the biggest difference between this car and the last S550 we tested is the lack of Mercedes - Benz's 4Motion all - wheel - drive system.

Fortunately, buying a car with all - wheel drive doesn't have to break the budget, as we've proven here with a list of the ten most affordable cars with AWD.

If you leave the car in gear, and depending on if the vehicle is front - wheel, rear - wheel drive, don't jack both front wheels up if front - wheel drive, etc..

Despite having all - wheel drive, the Golf R behaves like a front - wheel - drive car because it doesn't direct more torque to the rear wheels; under light loads and when coasting, the rear wheels are decoupled from the driveshaft to improve gas mileage.

While we don't have any specific details on the powertrain of the new car, an updated V - 6 engine with optional all - wheel drive is expected, along with the possibility for a smaller engine.

This however does not hold true for rear wheel drive vehicles which can have a strong weight transfer (high, soft - suspension cars, as most US vehicles), as the added braking force on the rear wheels without added (weight - transfer caused) friction could cause wheel lockup and possibly loss of control of the vehicle.

My front - wheel - drive red test car did indeed look sharp, and a little less like the economy box it is than does the base Toyota Corolla.

We were trying to negotiate some of the road car technology (hybrid all - wheel drive, etc) but it was settled to do GT3, which doesn't allow some of that technology.

While we don't get the rear - wheel drive and the wild swept - back appearance of the show car, the 2017 Buick LaCrosse does incorporate a variant of the Avenir's front grille, with a chrome strip in the center of the grille linking the two front headlights.

Honda isn't the first company to have to ditch all - wheel - drive in order to enter into GT3, Audi has had to do the same with its new R8 race car, as has Bentley.

Affordable, lightweight, rear - wheel - drive sports cars don't come along every day — or even every decade.

Unlike the BMW M6, the all - wheel - drive B6 Alpina doesn't try to be a track car.

There's some heft to the wheel, but it's a dead weight that doesn't draw you into the driving experience like a performance car's steering should.

It's a small, short - wheelbase, relatively light (curb weight is still unknown) car that does without turbocharging, large - displacement engines, all - wheel drive, trick transaxles, or big rubber.

In the wet, the M2 still doesn't behave like a scary, wild, turbocharged, rear wheel drive car that you might expect it to.

IMMEDIACY OF DRIVING POSITION Streetfighter: Rider doesn't see the front wheel Abarth: Driver sees nothing of the car beyond the cowl

I don't understand why we don't see the MR2 Spyder on these lists more?!? I know the earlier ones were plagued with oil / engine - eating problems, but the later models are reliable to 100k + miles and cost similar to the same aged Smart Roadster above... but compared to the Smart, for your # 2k - # 5k you get a 6 speed manual gearbox, over 70 % more power (~ 20 % more weight) but this is packaged in a mid-engined, rear wheel drive, normally aspirated car with no traction control and a LSD as standard:)

But that's okay — you shouldn't be on your phone or drinking anything while driving the 4C, anyway, as that would require having one hand off the wheel, which is not what you want to do in a car this razor's - edge.

Don't get us wrong, the notion of a 600bhp all - wheel drive XE with touring car - style bodywork and liberal use of carbonfibre is extremely tempting, but a rival for the BMW M3 and Mercedes - AMG C 63 S would be more relevant — Project 8 has a huge price tag and a limited production run.

So how on earth do you replace a car like the F12, which was surely one of the great front - engined, rear wheel - drive sports cars there has ever been, Amen?

Now, that might not sound like a very «evo» thing to do to a car — the new Fiesta ST, with its lower, firmer chassis, bigger wheels and more powerful engine, certainly sounds more promising to us — but some of the lofty, pseudo-off-roaders we've tested have been more interesting and more involving to drive than you might think.

Yes, I know every all - wheel - drive car might sort of do that too, but the STi was built for the purpose.

Much of the new car's vast range of abilities can be attributed to its new four - wheel drive system, a trait that means the latest big AMG doesn't fit the mould created by previous generations of E63 that we got in the UK.

You would think that with Subaru readying a GT300 - class version of its new BRZ rear - wheel drive sports car, Toyota would be doing the same with its GT 86.

Cadence braking (releasing the brakes when the wheels lock and reapplying) is an advanced driving technique which should not be required at all when using a car with ABS because that system does it for you.

How It Drives Luxury - car owners don't want to hear typical diesel engine clatter, feel harsh vibrations through the seat and steering wheel, or poke along the road like there's a mouse turning a wheel under the hood.

However if you're used to the way a rear - wheel drive car looses grip under power, performing a slide with Drift Mode on takes some getting used to — instead of backing off the throttle slightly to regain some control, maintaining full throttle doesn't feel very natural.

The sluggishness doesn't pay off much in fuel efficiency: Lexus expects the IS 250 to attain 21/30/24 mpg (city / highway / combined), which matches the old car; all - wheel drive sacrifices 1 mpg overall.

Fairly early, we had come to the conclusion that it's unreasonable to expect that if you have a self - driving car and we tell our customers that you can do something else behind the steering wheel — and something else goes wrong because of the failure of the car — that to put the responsibility on the driver would be really strange.

Performance Equipped with all - wheel drive, the Golf R should offer better grip, handling and overall sense of command than the GTI, but some of our editors thought Volkswagen didn't execute this car's all - wheel - drive as well as it could have.

Got a lesson about all wheel drive cars and tires that day, but didn't believe the tire place (thought they were trying to con me actually).