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Originally Posted by fatoni
I don't have any first hand experience and it probably should be in the context of very highly desired cars but it was described to me in my quest for a car of this nature that it is not very balanced. Understeers hard into corners and is rather unruly coming out. I was in the market for a special sort of car and ended up with an Elise over the atom and a seven I think the brz is an amazing normal car up there with the miata but the elise is the ultimate slow car fast. The atom seems like a compromised fast car/spaceship. Fwiw, most of this info came from a person who was at the time selling an atom and an Elise and he steered me towards the elise based on these facts.
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I’m sure the understeer is there intentionally to limit driver error. With a short wheelbase and HP/kg comparable to many super/hypercars/superbikes, it could be a deathtrap with a neutral setup. It probably wouldn’t be hard to alter toe angles or other suspension components to get the feel someone desires. The Lotus is a more powerful, harder suspension’ed Miata. The Atom is like gutting a NA Miata then adding an LT4/LS9.