More than once, pulling each other out of mud or pushing a bow wave though the rivers, the four-wheel drives prove their worth. |
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The few roads that do exist are treacherous even for four-wheel drives during downpours. |
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A lot of our members drive Jeeps of some sort, but we have a good assortment of pickup trucks, hybrids and other four-wheel drives. |
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There had been heavy rain the night before, so even his ten-year-old Nissan Patrol four-wheel drive was slipping and sliding quite a bit. |
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But later he drove home in one of the museum's four-wheel drives with the luggage compartment filled with animal skulls. |
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He hits the gas and cranks the wheel hard to the left, throwing his rented car into a four-wheel power slide around a muddy hairpin curve. |
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We slogged around looking for suicidal prairie dogs and learned that hills and gumbo can overcome the best four-wheel drive trucks. |
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Six airbags, state of the art four-wheel anti-lock brakes, and deformable roof lining all work to protect cabin occupants. |
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There are also issues with people damaging land with trials motor cycles and four-wheel drive vehicles. |
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A trip around a field to investigate moisture levels resulted in a four-wheel drive all terrain vehicle getting mired down. |
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This half-day guided tour will bring them right onto the golden sand dunes of Arabia in four-wheel drives. |
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It was their powerful four-wheel drive car that made light work of the muddy roads that connected the villages. |
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Sales of four-wheel drives dropped even more, down by 11.9 per cent as higher petrol prices turned buyers away. |
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Cars and autos, cycles and rickshaws, scooters and even huge four-wheel vehicles squirm their way through the shrinking lanes. |
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Be alert to transfer case damage in four-by-fours caused by driving in four-wheel on dry pavement. |
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She spent a year retracing the journey of Burke and Wills in a four-wheel drive. |
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When the all-wheel drive is disengaged, the grader will return to four-wheel tandem drive with no parasitic loss. |
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The four-wheel drive is essential because of the incline of the roads and the ice and snow that often cover them. |
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Many of the behemoths were equipped with four-wheel drive, or all-wheel drive, as noted by exterior labeling. |
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By the end they were down to 10, defeated by a new generation of inexpensive four-wheel microcars. |
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Organizers set up a mobile site there to the appreciation of all contestants, with four-wheel drives taxiing those involved between locations. |
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Officers using dogs ran in, as well as officers on four-wheel drive motorbikes and trail bikes. |
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The Patrol has a part-time, four-wheel drive system, which can be engaged on the move at speeds up to 40 kph. |
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The left and right main landing gear incorporate a four-wheel twin bogie beam assembly with individual wheel brakes. |
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The four-wheel clerestory roof planked side Sachsen coach will be in original red livery. |
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The kangaroo bar on the front of the four-wheel drive ploughed down the long grasses. |
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The students outlined plans to limit trail erosion, four-wheel driving and overgrazing. |
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About 200 police are hunting the gunman, a man believed to be in his 40s who drove a four-wheel drive vehicle. |
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They are still failing to protect fragile dunes, shellfish beds, and nesting grounds from four-wheel drives. |
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Changing from two to four-wheel drive can be done on the move, and you can then flick into low-ratio mode for the really heavy going. |
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He believes the company's low-key strategy of establishing itself as a niche player with its sturdy four-wheel drives has paid off. |
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Now his buildings have been sold to offcomers in shiny four-wheel drive vehicles speaking estuary English and playing the country gentleman. |
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Long gone are the days when four-wheel drive owners were mainly farmers, miners or other bushies. |
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Landowners are worried about the impact of trail bikes and four-wheel vehicles on their land. |
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He came up with a four-wheel skate with two pairs of wheels side by side, and so the modern four-wheel roller skate was created. |
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The fifty-two year old businessman was charged with culpable homicide after running Clarke over with his four-wheel drive vehicle. |
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This unit is made from an old four-wheel running gear with a 2x6-foot wooden box fastened to it. |
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This car is four-wheel drive, so down the centre of the chassis there's a drive-shaft, connecting the front and rear axles to the motor. |
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For example, installing new front and rear brake pads on a vehicle equipped with four-wheel disc brakes could take 1 hour and 15 minutes. |
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Standard four-wheel ABS helps maintain directional steering control while braking on slippery surfaces by preventing wheel lockup. |
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When it's time to dry off, explore more of the coastline on a four-wheel drive or quad bike. |
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A tousle-haired man eventually stopped in a four-wheel drive. |
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The side roads are rough and may require high clearance four-wheel drives. |
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We have also the use of motorcycles and four-wheel drives on the path. |
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He said that although using four-wheel drives, quad bikes and other vehicles on green lanes was not illegal, it could cause problems if tracks were not maintained. |
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We've also got more and better surfboards, sailing boats, motorboats, four-wheel drives and trailbikes and new sports that could only have been imagined back then. |
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As we pack our various paraphernalia into the boots of several cars and four-wheel drives, I try not to contemplate what Robert'll make of my ridiculous outburst last night. |
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People who have tussled with four-wheel drives before will be accustomed to this slightly squidgy feel but first-timers might be little disconcerted. |
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Some of the TV crews that have been tearing around town in the hired four-wheel drives are pulling out too, and there's a sense of the story winding down. |
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One woman, going out of the village for a night out, jumped into the large flood-resistant four-wheel drive vehicle, glad rags and all, ready for a lift out to her car. |
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Traction Systems produces electronically controllable systems for four-wheel drives for cars, known as AWD systems. |
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Laguna was equipped with 4Control, a four-wheel steering system designed to enhance performance and drivability. |
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In fact, a four-wheel drive truck or sports utility vehicle is heavier than a police car. |
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They are 132 feet long and ride on three, four-wheel trucks. |
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The luxury saloon car combines quattro four-wheel drive with a powerful V6 engine. |
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If you drive a four-wheel drive vehicle, don't become overconfident when driving in snow. |
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For four-wheel drive vehicles, it is recommended to switch all four tires, both from side-to-side and in axle position. |
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If you want to buy a new four-wheel drive tractor, a combine or a high clearance sprayer, you better get your name on a list. |
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The drug was concealed in a four-wheel drive vehicle, which the perpetrator had driven from Senegal via Mauritania to Morocco. |
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The ability to shift from two-wheel drive to four-wheel drive while the vehicle is moving. |
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When properly used, a four-wheel drive vehicle will take off better on a slippery surface than a twowheel drive vehicle. |
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Fitted with the new Active Drive four-wheel drive chassis system, Laguna GT has received a warm welcome from customers and the sales network. |
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Like the Civic EX-L, the Si gets four-wheel disc brakes, whereas other trim levels make do with rear drum brakes. |
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It is even more silent than the four-wheel drive versions, as there is much less mechanical noise from beneath the floor, due to the absence of propellor shaft and rear axle. |
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Tractor Grapple Our gripple 3PT is an attachment for your four-wheel tractor. |
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Like many senators he trundles around his state in a hulking four-wheel drive. |
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They are usually picked up by plainclothesmen in four-wheel drives — sometimes there are policemen with them, sometimes not. |
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The auto is a Mercedes unit, and selectable four-wheel drive is there for you with either. |
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The group was transported in a convoy of police vans, ambulances and four-wheel drives, which snaked its way along main roads and boreens to the search area. |
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They found him riding an internet-bought four-wheel vehicle with a 49cc petrol motor and a large esky attached. |
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One such feature is the oil pan axle configuration that has the four-wheel drive differential bolted directly to the oil pan instead of to the frame. |
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Two men arrived at the compound with authority from the owner to obtain the twin turbo four-wheel drive hot hatch, which was legitimately released to them. |
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To comply with BTCC regs, the Levorg will lose its standard four-wheel drive and run with a Mountune boxer engine turning the rear wheels only. |
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It's all bundled in a rugged, wraparound frame for protection and a standard four-wheel kit. |
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The majority of four-wheel drive vehicles continue to taxed at the concessional rate of 5 per cent import duty while passenger vehicles incur a 15 per cent duty. |
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Emerging into the chilly streets, Charlemagne was hooted by hulking four-wheel drives. |
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The front wheels of four-wheel and six-wheel power-assisted wheelchairs are normally a type of castor, which swivel according to the behaviour of the large set of driving wheels, the latter being controlled by the occupant. |
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The vehicle was equipped with a four-wheel anti-lock brake system. |
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Up and down the leafy avenues and Georgian squares of Dublin South East, the prosperity of the last five years drips from the sashed windows and four-wheel drives. |
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Up and down the leafy avenues and Georgian squares of Dublin South East, the prosperity of the last five years drips from the sashed windows and 02 D four-wheel drives. |
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The X-TRAIL can seat five persons and will offer a four-wheel option. |
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Under existing laws Wiltshire County Council has been forced to acknowledge the track is an ancient road and should be open to four-wheel drive vehicles and motorbikes. |
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The four-wheel drive system brings its own background noise, too. |
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However, on observing the details of the car on the web, I discovered that the nippy little sports car had turned into a monster beast four-wheel drive. |
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Once you have weighed up the pros and cons of all the cars on offer, buy an enormous four-wheel drive with bull bars, spotlights and a satellite navigation system. |
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At one time four-wheel drive vehicles were just muddy workhorses, box-like things used by folk who just liked to bump along tracks or plough across muddy fields. |
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The answer was to give all X-type models four-wheel drive and this accounts for the car's truly exceptional handling and roadholding, even on poor road surfaces. |
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When shifting from four-wheel drive to two-wheel drive, this system disengages the front axle from the front driveline, so that the front wheels aren't turning the front driveline unnecessarily. |
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Peter achieved four-wheel flight over a rocky whoop-de-doo, scattering empty cans. |
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Unlike its ancestors, this Mustang stops as well as it goes, courtesy of four-wheel antilock vented discs with twin-piston front and single-piston rear calipers. |
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Living in Krum, Tex., he was 19 and on a four-wheel all-terrain vehicle. |
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Note that the Sierra offers a sportier variant which Chevy has yet to match: the 403-hp, 6.2L Denali with full-time all-wheel drive instead of on-demand four-wheel drive. |
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The CityCat 1000 comes either with front-wheel steering or optionally with four-wheel steering for maximum manoeuvrability and directional stability. |
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Mr Liu, the car salesman, wants to trade up his Fiat Bravo for a four-wheel drive and do Tibet again: this time aiming for the chuan jin qing chu distinction. |
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Finally, the KingQuad 750 has the ultimate power-delivery drivetrain and transmission with three drive modes available: two-wheel drive, four-wheel drive, and front differential-locked four-wheel drive. |
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The white UNICEF four-wheel drives used by the delegation had to use their full power to get up the steep and narrow one track road to the Shree Maheswar Lower Secondary School. |
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If it is based on the footprint of the car then we could see small saloons, four-wheel drive vehicles and two-seater sports cars listed together, clearly a nonsense. |
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A four-wheel drive vehicle does not allow you to stop any faster than a regular car, so be careful not to drive them with a false sense of security! |
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In Guinea, whenever it was rumoured that President Conte has died, he would reappear some days later, all spruced up in the front seat of a four-wheel drive car, always holding a cigarette. |
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Top of the range four-wheel drives come no better than the new Range Rover. |
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Pretending to steer and pressing all of the buttons are merely practice foreshadowing a four-wheel drive stick shift and dusty bench seat. |
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Skid-steer loaders are typically four-wheel drive vehicles. |
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In order for this heating system to operate, the purchase of a four-wheel drive tractor will be necessary to transport the wood required to operate the heating system. |
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Overlander Magazine has recognised the Triton four-wheel drive GLX-R utility with its 2009 four-wheel drive of the year award. |
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It will be available with a choice of front-wheel drive and xDrive four-wheel drive. |
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A rough track into Alsek Pass, the 24 km Dezadeash-Alsek Valley Trail, following an old mining trail, provides overland access to the Alsek, suitable for hiking and four-wheel drive vehicles only. |
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This will entail the purchase of four-wheel drive vehicles, capable of transporting medical staff and specialized equipment, especially for the provision of maternity and dental care. |
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Standard fare also includes Honda's Vehicle Stability Assist technology combined with Traction Control and four-wheel antilock disc brakes fortified with Electronic Brake Distribution and Brake Assist programs. |
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I also drove the same circuit in a four-wheel drive Freelander with automatic transmission which just cruised through many of the hairier spots where the eD4 had scrabbled for grip. |
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The residents of the CKGR had largely abandoned their traditional way of hunting on foot with bow and arrow in favour of guns, horses and four-wheel drive vehicles. |
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In 1917, Glenn Curtiss, the pioneer airplane builder and a founder of the Curtiss-Wright aircraft company, combined a four-wheel sedan and a triplane with a 40-foot wingspan. |
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They are used in rear-wheel drive and four-wheel drive passenger cars, sports utility vehicles and light commercial vehicles such as vans and pick-ups. |
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There are two-wheel and four-wheel drive models. |
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The rigid chassis, sharp steering and powerful, four-wheel disc brakes also make for genuinely-sporty driving dynamics, something very few compacts can brag about. |
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Originally a traditional car dealer, the business branched out into four-wheel drives before opting to specialise. |
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Customers are increasingly interested in family hatchbacks with four-wheel drive systems as they offer better handling and safety. |
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Another sits at the rear, able to contribute 68bhp and thus make the RX into a four-wheel drive car, albeit one with a significant frontward power bias. |
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In the back of one of their four-wheel drives I spot a surfboard. |
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With four-wheel drive, the handling is reasonably controlled with lots of traction, but understeer of that heavy body does build up quicker than you'd imagine. |
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Every Grand Cherokee has permanent four-wheel drive, using the Quadra system that reapportions power if any wheel starts to slip. |
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Required gear included a four-wheel drive vehicle with low range, a CB radio, a full tank of fuel, a spare tire, jack and tools and an extra fan belt. |
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Launching his attack, the MP blamed motor manufacturers for creating a climate of fear and urged them to market four-wheel drives more responsibly. |
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It is also a four-wheel drive with racing chassis, and pushrod suspension. |
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He doesn't own a car, his transportation is a custom four-wheel longboard. |
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