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Old 10-23-2013, 04:33 PM   #12
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^^I'm gonna have to go ahead and disagree with a fair amount of your post. If a vehicle is FWD that means it's weight distribution is grossly imbalanced and it's polar moment of inertia is far from idea. Both anathema to a naturally good handling car. You can't beat the laws of physics.

And lift throttle oversteer, mainly for FWD sporty cars, is most certainly helpful in getting that vehicle to rotate in turns. A little bit of oversteer in a turn is always faster than a little bit of understeer.

Sure, almost all cars these days are tuned to understeer at the limit. But that's because mandatory driver training is practically non-existent and because (at least in the US) someone is always looking to sue automakers for things that aren't their fault (see: Toyota's runaway acceleration).
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