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Originally Posted by Quentin
Because someone turned off the stability and traction control and wrecked? I think you're being a little dramatic. People wreck cars every day even with TC and SC on.
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Same thing happened with the MR2, toyota had to neuter it... honestly a simple spring swap with the BRZ springs should reduce incidents like this. Maybe scion should organize free HPDE events for FRS owners, maybe word will get around as the car gets more popular that this car has a kick to it.
And not every car behaves like this at the limit, a RWD with an open diff wouldn't oversteer like that. Not many RWD cars come factory with LSD or such an aggressive suspension tune.
Anyway, to OP, I can't believe you didn't know the car's reaction would be oversteer; I've watched too many race crashes and every time it's the rear wheels that lose traction, never ever ever the front. I've lost rear traction in the rain due to ghey rear tires... in a FWD. I 180'ed into a sign, minor bodywork damage thank goodness.
There was actually a Jalopnik featured story recently where a guy with the same car as me was street racing and lost rear traction on the highway, and slammed into the barrier on the other side of the highway, after careening across 3 lanes.
Anyway, never EVER push a car to it's limits on a public road. Take it to an HPDE and have a blast safely!