Sentences with phrase «wheel drive cars often»

Front - wheel drive cars often get a bad name in enthusiast circles.

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«Often, it turns out that a driver just drives off the road or into another car, without even turning the wheel or using the brakes or gas,» Speck says.

This is the deciding factor in high - performance cars that often are rear wheel drive or all wheel drive.

We're not sure if the Automobile Magazine staff is covetable, but it was an easy decision for us to test a four - wheel - drive Infiniti QX56 for twelve months: several of us have young children and related paraphernalia to vacation with, editor - in - chief Jean Jennings has a prize - winning Chesapeake Bay retriever to transport to dog shows, and trailers carrying race cars and campers need to be hitched up surprisingly often.

The Acura MDX is the competitor most often considered: it's priced nearly identically, based off a car platform, and has a V - 6 and front - wheel drive.

Shrinking a car beneath the size of the Jaguar XE requires, according to Callum, switching to longitudinal engine arrangement (as often used in front - wheel - drive cars).

On front wheel drive cars the speed sensor is often found on the front wheel hub.

As is often the case with Audi, this German luxury car comes with the brand's Quattro all - wheel - drive system, making it surefooted no matter the road or season.

[30] Several compact executive cars are rear - wheel drive with longitudinal engines, for improved stability and handling, [30] and in order to accommodate the larger size of higher - performance engines (straight - 6, V6, rarely V8), with four - wheel drive often being available.

In the acceleration - obsessed world of drag racing, one aspect of a car's setup is often crucial to victory: all - wheel drive.

The differential for front - wheel drive cars is often called a transaxle and is located in the front.

Its effectiveness could also be felt in the lack of torque steer — often a problem with powerful, front - wheel drive cars.

The motivation for all this It's not often two 4.0 - litre «hot - vee» twin - turbo V8 all - wheel drive high - performance passenger cars arrive on - sale in Australia within months of each other boasting this stupendous level of price, performance and panache.

It's not that often two performance passenger - cars from Germany launch locally within months of each other with 4.0 - litre V8 turbocharged 400kW - plus engines, all - wheel drive and sub four - second 0 - 100 km / h capability.

Top vehicles here share many drivetrain features of passenger cars, but often come with all - wheel - drive and more cargo space.

But as is so often the way with French cars, the glovebox is tiny — a result of positioning the fuse box next to the steering wheel in left - hand - drive models.

Our top picks share drivetrain features of passenger cars, but often with all - wheel - drive and more cargo space.

With rear - wheel drive and a 4.6 L V8, the car has some performance chops as well, but best of all is its price — examples can often be found for under $ 1,000, for a tired, ratty patrol car, to a few thousand dollars for a mildly used example with a few creature comforts.

Records are broken on a pretty regular basis, but it's not often a newer car can find itself in the top 10, let alone be crowned as the fastest rear - wheel drive production car on the «Ring.

It takes several attempts to learn that the RS in Drift Mode doesn't oversteer as easily as a rear - wheel drive car, like I thought it might, and that it also doesn't so predictably understeer like many all - wheel drive ones often do.

Today, carmakers often seem to offer cars designed around a «lifestyle», and this is no bad thing: four - wheel - drive cars were once the preserve of farmers and those living in the Scottish Highlands, but crossovers like the Nissan Qashqai and Renault Kadjar have redefined SUVs and hatchbacks simultaneously, and made life easier for hundreds of thousands of people in the process.

Furthermore, trucks often have 4 wheel drive systems that are much more costly to repair than the 2 wheel drive systems on cars.

This program will put your teen behind the wheel of the car they most often drive, with an instructor who has been highly - trained and has hundreds, if not thousands of hours of experience driving in high - performance conditions and situations.