Sentences with phrase «when hitting the gas»

There are really only two buttons you use for gas and reverse and when you hit the gas you can sometimes be driving forward at a complete ninety degree angle which brings up a problem with the physics.

Dialed to such settings, the transmission — a new eight - speed version of Porsche's dual - clutch PDK automatic — can occasionally ram into gears with unexpected suddenness, but it's an otherwise seamless unit, downshifting two or three gears at once when you hit the gas at cruising speed.

OK drove my previously functioning 2000 Sienna, it was driving fine / like normal for a minute, then it started «lurching» when I hit the gas.

I checked the MAF data on the scanner, and it seems correct (6 grams / second at idle and rises when I hit the gas).

On the freeway outside Marrakech, the feeling of lightness intensified when we hit the gas at 70 mph and made a quick, furtive burst to 100 mph (there are radar cops everywhere in Morocco).

However, you can't deny that there's a lot of space between the gears, and that makes for more drama and noise when you hit the gas to pass, for example.

When you hit that gas peddle you immediatly get a smile on your face!

But if you like a car that carves the corners and pushes you into the seat when you hit the gas, this is a great car.

Now I don't have power steering when the car is on a cold idle, it only kicks in (again, with a thunk) when I hit the gas for the first time.

The Elantra tends to head straight for sixth gear to provide that fuel economy boost, but tends to downshift quickly — sometimes even dropping a few gears — when you hit the gas for a little extra boost of power.

Up to 184 hp from a SKYACTIV ® - G 4 - cylinder delivers searing performance, so you're almost in hot - hatch territory when you hit the gas.

When I hit the gas, the 4D Chassis Control System recognizes that, unlike the last stretch of road where I've been traveling at a consistent speed, all of a sudden I'm asking the car to accelerate at an abnormally rapid pace.

The low horsepower is only occasionally an issue, most noticeably when hitting the gas hard going up hill.

The parking brake is always engaged when in park, but it releases automatically when you hit the gas.

If you are driving a Porsche, you want to feel the punch when you hit the gas, which is why the 2015 Macan comes equipped to handle life in the fast lane.

With 2.4 L direct injection 4 - cylinder producing up to 201 hp and 180 lb - ft of torque, the new Acura ILX is refreshingly full of spirit when you hit the gas.

Performance: The turbocharged engine bumps up the power output to 220 hp for more thrills when you hit the gas pedal and take advantage of the sport - tuned suspension.

It has a bit of a «jump» when you hit the gas off the line.

It will press you back in your seat when you hit the gas and is wonderfully engaging, especially if you let the revs creep up with that manual transmission.

When I hit the gas for a passing maneuver or a merge, the V - 6 delivered decent acceleration, good enough for traffic but not enough to be impressive.

It does not have the «pick up» when you hit the gas that the Pathfinder had, but I'm getting about 25 MPG.

It did not downshift aggressively in reaction to braking, but stepped down readily when we hit the gas.

When not towing, when you hit the gas, you can really feel this vehicle pick up speed quickly.

An idle - stop feature shut down the V6 when I stopped for traffic lights, helping to save fuel, and never delayed when I hit the gas.

It reacts immediately when you hit the gas.

While buyers generally don't care what size engine is under the hood, they want to feel a reassuring shove when they hit the gas.

Sport exhaust is a must just to hear the sound when you hit the gas.

You'll find yourself pressed back into your seat when you hit the gas hard and breeze into highway traffic.

When I hit the gas in the 2015 Nissan Murano during a typical full - throttle test, the tires screeched a bit before digging in, then propelled this 4,000 - pound crossover smartly forward.

With the V - 6 we found an engine that, though certainly up to the task of moving the Grand Cherokee comfortably down the road, didn't offer an immediate boost when we hit the gas.

It gets better when they hit a gas station, and the explosion sends you rocketing through a house.

Not exact matches

They should instead re-examine their practices that might have led to traces of, for example, diesel turning up in the Wyoming groundwater and come up with standards that would make leaks along the well bore impossible before less appropriate and more costly rules are thrust upon them at a time when natural gas prices are hitting 10 - year lows.

Scoring a major asset at a time when oil prices had hit major lows has transformed Perth - based junior Kalrez Energy NL from a gold explorer to an oil and gas producer.

In 2007, when natural gas prices were still near $ 6 and Devon shares hit the $ 90 mark, Mr. Nichols again received $ 1.2 million in salary and a $ 2.6 million bonus.

But when we hit the highways north and we drive for hours and hours without seeing a gas station, surrounded only by trees and silence, it sinks in.

Dragged struggling and screaming into the gas chamber, he was still shouting «I am Christ» when the cyanide hit him.

When I hit 154mph some tail lights came into view ahead of me and I immediately lifted off the gas, since I knew that I would be closing on the other car at over 90mph.

It was like hitting the gas pedal when the tank is empty.

When the gas hits the water in the meat, it turns to ammonium hydroxide and kills bacteria, the firm said.

Energy was at the centre of the 2006 G8 when the Russian - Ukrainian gas crisis hit Europe and oil prices reached $ 50 per barrel for the first time (a threshold now long forgotten, in 2012 the average price is stood at about $ 112 per barrel).

But the partnership, heralded as a significant break - through when gas from Nigeria hit Ghana in December 2008, has been troublesome on an uncomfortable number of occasions.

You can identify volcanic basalt from its tiny pockmarks, formed by bubbles of escaping gas that froze in place when hot magma hit the cool air.

«When the star explodes, the shockwave hits the dense gas cloud like a brick wall.

The ions get out of the Earth's atmosphere because when sunlight or the occasional cosmic ray hits atoms of oxygen (or any other gas) at the edge of space, those atoms can lose an electron, becoming charged.

Beatty believes that when 570 degree Fahrenheit water from thermal vents hits cold, deep ocean currents, several light - producing processes may occur: sonoluminescence from imploding gas bubbles; chemiluminescence from chemical reactions (analogous to fireflies lighting up); crystalloluminescence from the formation of crystal bonds; and triboluminescence from the breaking of those bonds.

When a particle hits a hard surface at high speeds, it vaporizes and ionizes the target, releasing a cloud of dust, gas and plasma.

When the CO2 hit the seawater, it developed a bizarre icy «hydrate» layer, through which the gas slowly dissolved.

When used to perform HHG, the argon crystal reduced the wavelength of incoming laser light 40-fold, compared to 20-fold in argon gas hit with the same level of illumination.

According to a new study, a small cloud of gas and dust is racing toward the black hole at the center of the Milky Way — and when it hits, be prepared for some astronomical fireworks.

The team figured out what a telescope would see when a star hit the hard surface of a supermassive object at the center of a nearby galaxy: The star's gas would envelope the object, shining for months, perhaps even years.