How To Use Four-wheel drive In A Sentence
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When you run into a real four-wheel drive system like the one available on Outlander, respect it ... and the company which includes it on their rock-crawler.
Steve Parker: Mitsubishi's 2010 Outlander Off-Roader a Serious Vehicle
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Its name stands for recreational active vehicle with four-wheel drive and is priced for entry-level buyers.
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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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A four-wheel drive vehicle is not needed unless planning to go off-road on dirt tracks used by the forestry department.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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Much of the aid was consumed by the various international organizations whose four-wheel drives clogged the streets of Kabul.
The Longest War
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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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Around two hours after Amerine was first alerted to the approaching Taliban column, Navy F-18 fighters spotted a group of around ten four-wheel drives and started bombing them.
The Longest War
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Remember when four-wheel drives were driven by people who had more than one coloured swannie and had different gumboots for every day of the week?
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Then the going got a bit snowy and steep and it was time to engage four-wheel drive.
Times, Sunday Times
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The four-wheel drive system brings its own background noise, too.
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He turned right, down a dirt road that forced him into four-wheel drive.
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It had four-wheel drive and anti-lock brakes and was marketed as the world's safest car.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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But sensors monitor road conditions and automatically engage four-wheel drive when necessary.
The Sun
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Then the going got a bit snowy and steep and it was time to engage four-wheel drive.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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Hire a four-wheel drive vehicle - there are lots of off-the-beaten-track spots to discover.
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These days it has been put on a short leash, with four-wheel drive and one of the best electronic stability systems going.
Times, Sunday Times
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A field station is based at Cap Iouik (Iwik), with an outstation at Oued Chibka, equipped for six researchers and four support staff; it has three Zodiac boats, one motor launch, a radio station and is accessible by four-wheel drive, motor launch or light aircraft.
Banc d'Arguin National Park, Mauritania
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Her new four-wheel drive was donated by a businessman.
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These days it has been put on a short leash, with four-wheel drive and one of the best electronic stability systems going.
Times, Sunday Times
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She spent a year retracing the journey of Burke and Wills in a four-wheel drive.
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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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Nor, though a professional geographer, does she explore the impact on her cherished imagined landscape of the 1993 road built from Daphne to Karyés that brought buses and four-wheel drives to this unchanging paradise.
A Fossil With Flesh
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On icy roads, a four-wheel drive vehicle really comes into its own.
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Like other modern SUVs, the Grand Cherokee Overland Summit, available with rear-wheel or four-wheel drive, is a work of unitized-frame construction - used to reduce vehicle weight and increase fuel economy.
2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee Overland Summit: Off the canvas and off the road, in style
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One of off-roading's classic experiences way back when was ending the four-wheel drive segment of the trip and getting back onto hard pavement, headed, naturally, for the nearest In 'N Out Burger.
Steve Parker: Mitsubishi's 2010 Outlander Off-Roader a Serious Vehicle
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Hire a four-wheel drive vehicle - there are lots of off-the-beaten-track spots to discover.
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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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After that I'm told I'll need a four-by-four, which is what they call a four-wheel drive truck.
HIGH STAND
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Then the going got a bit snowy and steep and it was time to engage four-wheel drive.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's a practical four-seater, a four-wheel drive supercar and a diesel hybrid capable of running on battery power alone for up to 30 miles.
Dream Cars
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The FF, a four-seater, four-wheel drive model, will be sold via the sole dealership of Ferrari in India's national capital.
Ferrari Introduces FF Car in India
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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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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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This half-day guided tour will bring them right onto the golden sand dunes of Arabia in four-wheel drives.
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He took it slowly in four-wheel drive, the road much narrower here, the outer edge of it crumbling away.
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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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Our options were further limited by the fact that we need four-wheel drive — the Taconic, our preferred route upstate, is double the fun in a blizzard and the driveway of our house is essentially a snowfield until someone remembers to plow us out.
Life on Four Wheels
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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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There are also issues with people damaging land with trials motor cycles and four-wheel drive vehicles.
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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 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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Preference for the low-slung sports coupe with soft-top, the stretch limousine with a uniformed chauffeur, a station wagon or a utility vehicle with four-wheel drive can tell a lot about the owner and his or her passion in life.
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Four-wheel drives can claw their way along mud tracks, wet grass and the occasional snowscape.
Times, Sunday Times
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Speaking of real off-roading, one of the best Outlander features is a locking four-wheel drive system which gets the same amount of torque and horsepower to all four wheels.
Steve Parker: Mitsubishi's 2010 Outlander Off-Roader a Serious Vehicle
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Then the going got a bit snowy and steep and it was time to engage four-wheel drive.
Times, Sunday Times
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I disagree strongly with the answer in last week's Car Clinic regarding the comparative merits of a 4x4 off-roader and a car with four-wheel drive in snowy conditions in a hilly area.
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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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You can horse-ride with the jackeroos or Australian cowboys who work this station, or have a camel ride, explore the tropical gorges, go canoeing, experience nature walks or four-wheel drive treks, or fish one of the rivers.
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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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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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Type: Front-engine, four-wheel drive, nine-passenger, full-size sport utility.
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The road from Uthai Thani to Lansak is metaled, but thereafter a four-wheel drive vehicle is often necessary.
Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary, Thailand
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But sensors monitor road conditions and automatically engage four-wheel drive when necessary.
The Sun
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We rented a four-wheel drive to get around the island.
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Both cars used aluminium extensively for low weight, and both had four-wheel drives for stability.
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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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Its design is outdated and inappropriate; its size, looks, and four-wheel drive bring out the worst in drivers; it clogs streets and fouls the air.
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Then the going got a bit snowy and steep and it was time to engage four-wheel drive.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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Tell Transportation I want the largest vehicle they have with four-wheel drive, preferably a step-up maxi-van.
CHAINS OF COMMAND
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It was the first mass-produced road car to have four-wheel drive and a turbocharged engine.
Times, Sunday Times
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No need to slow down: the four-wheel drive and electronic stability control will keep the car on the straight and narrow.
Times, Sunday Times
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But clever suspension changes and, more important, the four-wheel drive, have tamed the beast.
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Unlike the Land Cruiser, where four-wheel drive is always connected, the Pajero uses a selectable system and can be driven in rear wheel drive only when on dry, well surfaced roads.
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If you intend spending time in rougher terrain or do a lot of mountain driving you should consider a four-wheel drive.
Times, Sunday Times
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Should the road surface adhesion change when taking a corner, the efficient four-wheel drive system cuts in imperceptibly to apportion power according to grip and ensure that all remains under control.
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