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Originally Posted by curiosul
My DD for the past 8 years is an old Infiniti G20. I either got used to it too much (imagine a pair of old shoes, enough said) or the steering is the best I tried. I can literally feel everything in the steering wheel. From slight loss of grip when turning too fast to road banking to grooves in the pavement.
The salesperson was really disappointed when I told him my impression after half a mile. He kept pushing me to "feel the engine", "hit it", "open it up" and he couldn't understand why I'm not interested in doing that (he was probably used to kids coming just for joyrides). The rest of the drive back (another mile or so) wasn't better.
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I actually do understand where you're coming from. When I first test drove my 2016 FR-S I also felt the steering was kind of numb - not what I expected after reading all the reviews. However what I have learned is that the car's steering does come alive at higher speeds, it's as if it trades off low speed feel for high speed feel. My previous car was a 2001 Civic and at lower speeds the steering was very telepathic (but went loosey goosey at higher speeds) I think it's just hard to compare steering feel with cars nowadays with even average cars of old, at least at certain speeds.