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Understeer Vs Oversteer S70

posted by  jadnhm on  Fri Nov 4 12:17 CST 2011
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I agree with you Klaus - the feeling of an oversteering RWD car is much preferrable to the feeling of an understeering FWD.

However with a RWD you can modulate the amount of oversteer with throttle input. In a FWD your rear tires become skis with little ability to feed back to the driver.

As much as I prefer the feeling of a RWD, it's pretty hard to argue that FWDs are safer in the modern driving environment. Maybe if we all got rally training it would be different, like in Finland.

A rear-engined rear-drive car must have been fun in the snow eh? That's another story again from even the rear-drive front-engined cars we see in NA more often.

4 tires with equal grip are preferrable in every circumstance (unless maybe you're a stunt driver or something).


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