Compared with its numb predecessors, the 2013 Avalons actually transmit some road sensations to the driver's fingertips.
In the run-up to the London 2012 Olympics, Clancy could face competition in the omnium event from road race sensation Mark Cavendish and Chris Newton, the Olympic points race bronze medallist.
Then, on a steeply inclined fire road, the sensation of quietly flying up an unpaved mile-long hill that normally requires a granny gear was amazing.
Tommy Bridewell and road racing sensation Peter Hickman clinched their maiden British Superbike wins at the meeting.
Lastly, it is evocative of road images and sensations: it has a smell, this line, you smell asphalt, you smell what the game wants you to smell, you understand the speaker, whose entire life is asphalt, riding on it, being scraped by it, lying on it, looking at it.
And carmakers are looking into the use of MR fluids to impart the sensation of road resistance to drive-by-wire vehicles, where the steering wheel has no mechanical connection to the wheels of the car.
It's meant to have a slightly numb steering sensation, to dampen road noise at the cost of sacrificing some road feel and to let your conversation with that important client stretching his legs behind you not be overwhelmed by the roar of the motor.
On the road the Viper delivers the sensation of infinite grip.
(The physical sensation of the road is an important component of driving, but is missing in drive-by-wire systems).
Comparing his company to a yeoman rock band, he said, "After eight years on the road, we're an overnight sensation".
