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Originally Posted by Maxim
Also, AWD always makes a car understeer to some extent IF you accelerate and turn at the same time. Any time you're asking a tire to provide both forward and lateral acceleration at the same time you're going to produce understeer.
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It's not that simple. The handling characteristics depend on a lot of things, like sway bar thickness (you see some WRX owner getting thicker rear sways for that reason), front tire width vs rear, LSD, suspension damping/bump, camber, etc. For example, very stiff rear bump damping resists transfer of weight from front to rear, meaning it'd favor oversteer. Then there's how torque is distributed in the AWD system.
As for price, I don't care how sublime its handling characteristics are, it can't be any higher than $24k. Hopefully it'd be around $23k with 200hp. If it's 180hp (which is still my guess), then it had better hover around $20-21k. Anything more and it starts sounding overpriced.
Speaking of iQ, my only fear with Scion is that they'd dump a whole bunch of features/options in the base FT86, thus driving up the base price. It's what they're doing with the Scion iQ, which is why it's at a very unappealing price point. I mean $16k for that car, gimme a break. Why would I spend $1500 more than that instead say a Mazda 2? I don't need Pandora internet radio.
If Scion pulls the same crap with FT86 that'd be really sad.