Sentences with phrase «with passive dampers»

The car's project manager Loic Feuvray says they'd rather sell two suspension setups with passive dampers and get them both right than use electronic dampers, which he describes as being «always a compromise.»

Rear - wheel drive, a manual gearbox and standard steel springs with passive dampers are not available.

With passive dampers, there's no effect on the ride.

Not exact matches

However, the adaptive dampers from the GT - S are replaced with passive units, which like the former, have been developed at the Nurburgring.

If you like the experience of a front - wheel drive car, the 308 offers all the sensations you'll be familiar with — its passive dampers, mechanical locking differential, torsion beam rear axle and Michelin Pilot Super Sport tyres combine to make a car that behaves in such a predictable manner.

The ride can feel overly firm too on passive dampers, but cars equipped with Magnetic Ride offer a B - road appropriate pliancy in Comfort without sacrificing too much body control.

The passive damping setup is obviously calibrated to work better outside 30 or 40mph limits and with more pace you feel the car riding the road more contentedly, soaking up bumps in that transparent way that only fixed rate dampers seem truly capable of.

Like the Hyundai, a six - speed manual is the only transmission option (the Golf can be had with three pedals as tested here, or with the latest seven - speed twin - clutcher), but the 308 stands alone in having purely passive dampers.

The ride on its passive dampers and 17 - inch alloys was pretty good too, a touch firmer than the Comfort mode in my GTI with its adaptive dampers but still pretty acceptable, and well controlled.

The passive dampers are definitely set up with hard driving in mind, though, and the car comes alive when you take it beyond seven - tenths; the firm springs give you the security and confidence to really lean on them in the corners and know that they will support you.

Both of the RSs that we drove (on track and then road) were equipped with the standard passive dampers as opposed to the optional adjustable Magnetic Ride dampers and it's a set up that we would heartily recommend.

This is a «poverty spec» R8 on passive dampers, but the way it flows over the ground is sublime and the combination of perfectly weighted steering with the low - skimming view out means you can pick off apices with joyful ease.

Sharing its platform with the Golf, the T - Roc will benefit from the same suite of active and passive safety systems, as well as other options like adaptive dampers and switchable driver modes — all very grown up stuff for a compact SUV.

Adaptive dampers are optional but our test car came with the standard passive units.

The car comes with a passive coil suspension setup as standard, but there are no fewer than four «adaptive» alternatives to that — Comfort, Dynamic, Professional and M - Sport — which introduce active dampers, a self - levelling air - sprung rear end, stiffened and shortened springs, active anti-roll bars and an active «Dynamic Performance Control» rear differential into the mix in varying combinations.

It gets lowered, stiffened suspension springs, uprated anti-roll bars and upgraded passive dampers as standard, but it can be had with switchable «sport select» suspension as an option (which isn't «DCC» adaptive damping as such but instead describes dampers with two lots of compression and rebound settings that you can chop and change between electronically via the car's driving modes).

Both the Macan S and Macan S Diesel come with steel springs and passive dampers as standard, while PASM adaptive dampers are optional.

The ALD - R160 is a passive air inlet with a automatic wind damper, pressure based flow control and high performance sound absorption set for installation in 6 ″ Lunos tubes.