Sentences with word «wheelspin»

The only real improvements I noticed driving the R around town were its much meaner exhaust note and, more important, its lack of wheelspin on hard launches.

At the same time, the electronic differential locks react more quickly to help prevent wheelspin at individual wheels.

That we figured the outgoing 276bhp Cupra, in DSG form, at 5.9 sec to 60mph — with the non-negotiable presence of plenty of unwanted wheelspin in the mix thanks to the car's hilariously ineffective launch control system — suggests a well - driven manual might be a 5.5 sec car in ideal conditions and probably deserves consideration as one of the very quickest front - drive performance cars out there.

When the boost hit home in the Sierra, the relatively narrow 205 - section rear tyres could flare up in wheelspin with little warning but this Escort uses its all - wheel drive system to slingshot its bewinged body forward with maximum traction via sticky 225/45 rubber on 16 - inch alloy wheels.

In low range, the standard traction - control system also helps keep the vehicle under control when creeping downhill on a slick surface, not just in preventing wheelspin on acceleration — but only if the driver's foot is on the accelerator, not the brake.

I feel the eDiff controlling wheelspin before the stability control would lend its helping hand, improving both momentum and stability.

With the traction and stability control in Sport mode, there's a fair bit of wheelspin at launch, but the car quickly grabs hold as I approach the first right - hander.

Vehicle Dynamic Control (VDC) helps you maintain your steered path, while the Traction Control System (TCS) helps reduce wheelspin in low - traction situations.

With five modes to choose from, this system helps regulate wheelspin by automatically adjusting the engine throttle and traction control.

Launching the ZR1 from a standstill is not easy; you have to keep wheelspin at bay all the way to 60, which doesn't do much to help the time.

An electronic diff lock joins electronic stability control to limit wheelspin when needed.

In the normal setting, with all power going to the front wheels, we could easily get wheelspin from the inside front tire while accelerating out of tight corners on that damp, drizzly morning.

It was hard to launch the car without wheelspin on gravel by the side of the road after a driver swap.

Too much low down torque meant rampant wheelspin in most gears.

From about 30 mph on, the Audi comes on strong, and the fact that there are four drive wheels eliminates wheelspin.

Because the weight of a car is shifted toward the rear under acceleration in all cars as a rule, this further improves the amount of grip on the rear wheels, increasing the amount of torque that can be supplied to the rear wheels before wheelspin occurs.

There's more wheelspin now, a more pronounced rear bias, a more blunt invitation to kick out the tail and keep it there.

Standard on Metris vans, this dynamic handling system actively intervenes to help keep the van firmly under control and safe by automatically braking individual wheels and reducing engine power to help stabilize the vehicle if wheelspin, understeer, or oversteer is detected.

The provocatively named Race mode limits wheelspin enough to prohibit properly competition - worthy driving, encouraging the manettino to get clicked into CT Off mode.

Buyers can choose between a standard six - speed manual gearbox featuring a throttle - blip function, or an optional seven - speed DCT dual - clutch automatic gearbox with the choice of both manual and automatic modes, Comfort, Sport and Sport + driving modes, launch control and a so - called Smoky Burnout function, which allows wheelspin off the line.

Dropping the clutch at 5,000 rpm produces just enough wheelspin to conjure a broad grin.

On unplowed streets after an overnight snowfall, Floraday observed: «The first time I left a stop I got big wheelspin with maybe one - third throttle applied.

Multi-terrain Select allows you to choose from four modes that will help regulate wheelspin by adjusting the engine throttle setting and traction control to help provide you with maximum traction on various off - road situations.

With all - wheel drive and a Track mode that's not afraid of a little wheelspin, launching the big 5300 - lb Jeep is easy: Just floor it and let the truck figure out the rest.

Even with the XDS electronic differential lock doing its best to stop wheelspin, the inside front tyre does tend to scrabble for traction on the way out of corners.

But Toyota likely assumes that any Camry buyer getting too much wheelspin needs to be rescued — and frankly, Toyota is probably right.

Taking off, we didn't get a lot of wheelspin from the Coopers, except for when we spun out and had to get pointed in the right direction.

It's easy to launch hard without any effort, the car's traction control and limited - slip differential mitigating wheelspin without halting forward progress.

But instead of simply tracking variables such as wheelspin, throttle position and steering angle, the Speciale benefits from sophisticated algorithms that also calculate the deviation from the «target» line through a corner.

The manually locking rear differential from the earlier generations was replaced with a conventional open differential, with Electronic Differential Lock (EDL)(which detects wheelspin via ABS road wheel speed sensors, and applies brakes to one spinning wheel, thus transferring torque via open differential to the opposite wheel which has more traction).

«When we apply the stability control, it counters inside wheelspin by applying the brake to the inner wheels to push the torque to the outside wheel.

(The transmission offers a Snow setting, to help tame wheelspin when conditions are extra slippery.)

However, it can lock to prevent unwanted wheelspin on a slick road, or send up to 85 per cent to the rear wheels if that's what's needed.

It works by detecting wheelspin and then applying the brakes to stop the spinning wheel, transferring power to the wheel with traction.

A fundamental lack of grip means you will see the car wheelspin all the way up into third in greasy conditions, while the skinny front tyres lack proper bite on turn - in.

Also like LC1, it allows the engine to rev to between 4000 and 4500 rpm before launch, but instead of a hard clutch dump, it releases the clutch more progressively to avoid wheelspin.

The limited - slip unit in the GMC's rear axle needs wheelspin before it'll work, so the gnarliest, loosest spots took lots of throttle and momentum to negotiate.

Every time you upshift the rear wheelspins, every time you downshift the rear locks.

However, under load there is excess wheelspin from the inside wheel that triggers the traction control.

Simply push the button marked L / C and move your foot from the brake to full throttle and, after a moment's pause, the car screams off, with minimum wheelspin and maximum forward momentum.

Engineering changes have been made to deal with the extra power, with revised gearing to reduce wheelspin under acceleration and a carbonfibre propeller shaft.

Just max the engine at all stages of driving and attempt to mitigate understeer and / or induce wheelspin with feverish rotations of the steering wheel.

In addition to the aforementioned horizontal motion damper, the Ram SRT - 10 combats wheelspin with a limited - slip differential, 305 - section Pirelli Scorpion Zero tires, and a surprisingly good 56/44 percent front / rear weight distribution.

One of the reasons why the standard V12 Vantage's claimed 0 - 60 time was a slightly disappointing 4.1 seconds (and why we could only manage 4.4 sec when we tested it) was that it was simply too tricky to translate the torque to the tarmac without a lot of wasteful wheelspin.

Turn off the electronic stability systems and the F12 doesn't fall apart or alter its essential character, doesn't suddenly become a mess of scrabbly wheelspin.

If either of the drive wheels suffers wheelspin while accelerating through tight bends, brake force is applied to this individually, so that the opposite wheel maintains traction.