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Originally Posted by regal
Electric steering has been an industry wide mis-step. Even the new 911, people are having issues with the lack of road feel with its new e-steering.
I grew up driving beat-up BMW's and similar cars where you just learn an innate intuition to the road thru the feel of the steering.
My first e-steered vehicle was a 09 Yaris, I had no accidents in 20 years with Gieco. I ran that Yaris off the road 3 times in the first year. Just never could get used to the e-steering it was so damn numb, after three wrecks I knew I needed a better car.
And the FR-S is much better, Toyota have taken steps and learned from their earlier mistakes with e-steering. But I've also been looking for aftermarket options that would help give a manual rack feel, from what I have researched there isn't much that can be done to improve the stock steering.
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The best steering feel I experienced so far was in Mazda RX8, which I bought 9 years ago. And it also was electrically assisted. So steering feel is more a function of design rather than execution. Actually you can always play with alignment or even tires pressure to significatly alter sense of road in most cars.