Overdrive \O`ver*drive"\, v. t. & i. To drive too hard, or far, or beyond strength.
overdrive \o"ver*drive`\, n. 1. (Machinery) A gearing device which causes the drive shaft of an automobile or other machine to rotate at a speed greater than that of the engine crankshaft. [PJC]
2. (Automotive) The gear setting of a motor vehicle at which the overdrive[1] is operative; as, cruising at 80 mph in overdrive. [PJC]
3. Hence: [fig.] A state of unusually intense activity; as, when they got their new supercomputer, their research kicked into overdrive; one look at her made his heart jump into overdrive; -- used mostly of the activities of persons or groups. [PJC]
Prices for the newly redesigned Excel subcompact now range from $5,899 for the three-door hatchback equipped with a four-speed manual transmission to $8,979 for the GLS four-door sedan with a new four-speed automatic overdrive transmission.
The optional equipment made standard on the new Regal includes tinted glass, which cost customers $120 last year; a fourth-gear overdrive on the automatic transmission, which cost $175 last year; and "deluxe trunk trim," which cost $53 last year.
Teamed with a four-speed automatic overdrive transmission, the engine was smooth and peppy.
Ford's responses, however, sent safety advocates into overdrive.
Growth is expected to kick into overdrive as a new Europe takes shape.
The Hollywood rumor mill, always hyperactive, is going into overdrive these days on the subject of Columbia Pictures Entertainment Inc.
And when President Lech Walesa proposed earlier this year that he also become prime minister, critics derided the idea as 'a two-in-one solution, just like Wash & Go'. P&G went into overdrive to limit the damage.
He realised he had to find overdrive, a gear everyone else thought he had been in for the past 40m. 'Try' went up the cry and even members of the press stood to give Davies a standing ovation.
The 5-liter, V-8 engine, teamed with four-speed automatic transmission with automatic overdrive, delivered good acceleration even though it had to power more than 4,000 pounds of car (that's about equal to the weight of two Hyundai Excel subcompacts).
All come in handy as the plot shifts gear all the way from gentle romance to cynical overdrive. Strawberry And Chocolate is also free with the gear-shift.
The Explorer is a family of compact five- or six-passenger utility trucks, available in either two- or four-wheel drive, with an improved electronically fuel-injected V-6 engine and either manual or automatic overdrive transmissions.
OPTIONS ON TEST CAR: Touring package (leather seats, moonroof, fuel computer) $2,465; automatic overdrive transmission $550.
Etc. The Caribbean has suffered pretty badly from the attentions of over-zealous brochure writers anyway, but describing Caribbean beaches sends these poor people into overdrive.
Small construction firms, which make their living from sub-contracts and which borrowed heavily during the boom years of the late 1980s, are the last in line to receive payments. The Spanish economy has changed down fast from overdrive to second gear.
The company said the transmissions should be inspected for possible miscalibration, which could result in the loss of overdrive gears.
The 929's 3-liter V-6 _ an 18-valve, fuel-injected powerplant that produces up to 158 horsepower at 5,500 rpm _ was smooth and flawless with the four-speed overdrive automatic transmission.