Crossword clues for test drive
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. 1 A sample use of a motor vehicle done in order to assess its quality before purchase. 2 (context figuratively English) Any preliminary assessment of something through use. vb. 1 To take a motor vehicle on the road to assess its quality before purchase. 2 (context figuratively English) To make a preliminary assessment of something through its use.
WordNet
n. test of the roadworthiness of a vehicle one is considering buying
v. test a vehicle by driving it; "I want to test drive the new Porsche"
Wikipedia
Test drive is a trial use of a car. It may also refer to:
- Test Drive (series), a series of racing video games
- Pepsi MAX & Jeff Gordon Present: Test Drive, an American 2013 short film
- Test Drive (EP), 2011 American EP
Test Drive was a series of racing video games. Originally published by Accolade, which was later bought by Infogrames, the first game was released in 1987 and has since been followed by several sequels. The Test Drive games are now published by the Atari Inc. label, a subsidiary of Infogrames after being acquired in 2008 for an estimated eleven million dollars.
In Test Drive, the player typically uses one of several exotic performance cars to race to a finish line against opponents or in a time limit, while avoiding traffic and police.
V-Rally 2 is a rally racing video game and sequel to V-Rally. It was succeeded by V-Rally 3. The PlayStation version is known in Europe as V-Rally 2: Championship Edition and in North America as Need for Speed: V-Rally 2. The Dreamcast and Windows versions are known in Europe as V-Rally 2: Expert Edition and in North America the Dreamcast version is known as Test Drive: V-Rally.
Test Drive is a cross-platform racing game released by Accolade in 1987. It is the first in the Test Drive series of racing games and has been followed by numerous sequels.
"Test Drive" is the extended play (EP) by Japanese singer and former KAT-TUN member Jin Akanishi, serving as his debut single in the United States. The EP which features American singer Jason Derulo was released digitally to the American market on November 8, 2011, while on December 7, 2011 was released physically in Japan where it topped the Oricon and Billboard album charts.
Usage examples of "test drive".
I know that no man in his right mind is going to be foolish enough to marry a woman without taking her for a test drive, so to speak.
This little evolution is just a new car test drive with us doing the driving.
Tabori took the rover for a test drive before the crew prepared for sleep.
He said he knew how to test Drive-node facet plugs for good or bad, and how to pattern what good ones he could find, into each node, to get the best push and balance.
The mechanic took out a sheet of paper, accidentally on purpose smudging his greasy fingers across the sundries column, which contained the tip for the waiter at an incredibly expensive restaurant he had taken his girlfriend and the Heart of Gold to on a test drive, the replacement solar tiling (the original tiling didn't need replacing but the tiling on his star buggy did) and the money he lost playing Eddie the shipboard computer at electronic halma.
He brought so little with him that I worried he might be thinking of the move as a test drive: since all of his belongings were still at his place, he could always go back to them if we failed.
So you kick the tyres, look under the hood, go for a test drive, ask searching questions.