This is one very quick car if you use the
loud pedal but, driven carefully, it will also return well over 50mpg.
The 2.0-litre feels sluggish until you try and get the
loud pedal through the floor, at which point it really wakes up and sounds lovely.
The current six-cylinder 3.2 slides from 135 to soon 300 horsepower depending on how one wants torque to be pressed out of the
loud pedal. According to Steyr's boss Rudolf Mandorfer, there is every reason to believe that putting two six-cylinders in brotherhood work will easily churn out 600 horses out of 6.4 litres.
Stamp on the
loud pedal and the result is phenomenal - 0-60mph in 4.5 seconds or, on the autobahn, 0- 100mph in 10.5 seconds.
However, no petrol Golf could ever match the Citroen's amazing 50 miles per gallon, which is quite easily achievable as long as you don't use the
loud pedal too much.
The IMA powerplant comprises the Jazz's 1.3 litre i-DSI petrol engine coupled to a small, 10kw electric motor which lobs in an extra 10bhp and 46lb/ft of torque when you press the
loud pedal. The batteries are 50 per cent smaller than the Insight's and hidden in the rear seat-back.
This music on this disc, played on the Visser-Rowland tracker organ and the University of Texas at Austin, does not exhibit super-deep, super
loud pedal notes, and so the Hsu had no problem at all with delivering sound as forthright and clean as what I could get out of my F1800RII.
When you are driving a strange car and have trouble getting it to go above zero miles an hour on the clock, surely a little heavy duty of the
loud pedal is entirely excusable.
PRESS THE
LOUD PEDAL Raucous has the speed to win the Stewards' Cup cavalry charge at a big price
Spend too long on the
loud pedal of the CLS63 AMG and you're not going to get anywhere near its posted 28mpg consumption figure but you're going to have a heck of a good time.
You'd like the engine to sound interested when you go at it with the
loud pedal, but it doesn't -- not even after a hopeful press of the Sport button.
A combined fuel economy figure of 65.7mpg seems scarcely credible for a car with this amount of verve when you floor the
loud pedal.
I found an appropriately deserted section of carriageway, switched off the traction control and floored the
loud pedal.
Another change into her Ascot clobber, one more screech of tyres with the chauffeur's foot on the
loud pedal and she was in the Royal Box at Ascot studying the form by 2.15, with a full 15 minutes before the first in which to do the Placepot.
Select this mode and the suspension stiffens, the steering becomes more responsive and the
loud pedal has a much more direct effect.