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Originally Posted by bneale
I like EVO mag and all, but I think they got some of the priorities slightly wrong with this article.
bneale
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If you trust John Barker on the track, then I'm afraid that EVO got it right.
When Motor Trend drove a preproduction BRZ on the track in Japan they wrote:
"That is not to say push is entirely absent. Apparently, for safety reasons, understeer is the default condition when you get sloppy. It's easy to induce through early turn-in, which causes the front outside tire to roll over and howl unhappily as the nose plows."
Eerily similar reporting from two different publications, testing on two tracks on opposite sides of the world.
There's enough bad news from enough credible testers to make me wait to drive both cars before I buy, and wait for head-to-head Subaru/Toyota comparisons.
For now, my money's in my wallet where it belongs.