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Originally Posted by Suberman
Understeer is always safer. Understeer is always quicker.
ALL modern road cars understeer at the limit. Only excess engine torque can induce oversteer in a road car. There are those who claim some cars, particularly fwd hot hatches, will oversteer but this is technically inaccurate. Drop throttle induced oversteer is not a result of chassis behaviour or characteristics but of deliberate driver induced instability and is of very little use for quick road driving. Ditto inducing oversteer in our gloved BRZ. That's just poor driving to be honest.
Unless there's too much power for the drive wheels to put down onto the road fwd will always be quicker.
Only when the engine torque significantly overwhelms the drive wheel traction will rwd be quicker.
There is a myth that rwd is "better" but it just isn't.
The only real advantage rwd has in a low powered car is driving feel.
The oversteer you get in the BRZ actually slows the car down significantly. Better tires are the answer to get what little power there is down onto the road and driving the car forwards. Sideways may be exciting but it is very slow.
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I want whatever you are smoking! You have almost everything you said backwards. You never want a racecar that understeers.
As for the RWD vs FWD in the snow.
My last supra (RWD no TC) was 100% useless in the snow.
If there was more than 1 inch of snow, I just stayed home from work.
My next car was a Solara (FWD w/ TC) and I could go ANYWHERE in the snow. I once witnessed a 4WD jeep spinning its wheels trying to climb up an icy hill.
I went right around him in the Solara w/ TC and up the hill with him watching me and cussing.