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Originally Posted by Maxim
Basically, Toyota/Scion have tuned the car to appeal to the drift generation...to which I do not belong. The car has a slight front weight bias, it SHOULD have a small amount of steady-state understeer.
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Not true. Exceedingly easy to tune out understeer with spring and sway bar rates. Slight front weight bias => slightly more rear roll bias = neutral. They will have tuned to achieve the handling balance they wanted, which is not strictly dictated by the 53/47 weight distribution. Easy enough to tweak front/rear roll stiffness to get even load distribution between the outside front/outside rear, which would maximize total lateral grip and reduce understeer.
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Tuning it to oversteer leads me to believe that a bit of overall grip was given up to do so.
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There's no way they will have "tuned it to oversteer". Maybe tuned to understeer less. In which case it would have slightly more total grip at max cornering than the BRZ, not less.
Realistically, the cars are going to be very similar. With the same toe and camber settings, they're going to be close to equivalent of course.
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Subaru has done what they always do for their performance cars. They've tuned it to reliably go fast as hell in a variety of conditions, with a little bit of safety net built in because in the real world you never know the exact amount of dust or moisture on the road. That comes from their long history of rally racing, and that kind of tuning produces a faster more stable vehicle in real world conditions.....
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If not at the track or autoX...
But again, the performance is going to be *very* close between the two.