| The softish suspension and noticeable understeer produces a nice comfortable drive. |
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| It was a fine demonstration that taking a car by the scruff of the neck doesn't have to mean ten minutes of lurching, understeer and oversteer. |
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| No matter what I did, it stayed very composed, pushing into understeer rather than oversteer. |
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| The consequent loss of grip invariably causes understeer that the drivers must contend with. |
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| Basically until you are used to its effects, it feels like the car wants to understeer on fast tight bends. |
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| Argue the point all you want, but virtually every modern car bar the hardest TVRs have understeer dialled in to safeguard the occupants. |
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| When the vehicle was pitched hard into a tight corner, the expected understeer wasn't there. |
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| We were having a little understeer in the beginning and then we were working that out. |
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| It's his first race and stuff, but when it starts to understeer, you should get out of the gas and not run into the car above you. |
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| On my first set of tyres I had some understeer and that switched to oversteer with my second set which slowed me a bit. |
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| The drive itself was not too bad, although there was a fair amount of understeer and a little bit of roll. |
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| To quell understeer, for example, the system slows the inside rear wheel slightly in order to pull the nose back toward the inside of a turn. |
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| My toe-in was knocked out of line and I suffered from massive understeer in left turns. |
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| Unusually in a front-wheel drive car, it also exhibits hardly any tendency to understeer. |
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| In situations where you would expect understeer on street tyres, the sticky rubber endows the front end with amazing grip. |
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| The cars tend to understeer here, which is the main consideration for us in setting up the car. |
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| It was okay, but I was struggling with severe understeer, so we tried some different set-ups during the afternoon. |
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| The car can be driven on the throttle quite easily, with both understeer and oversteer smoothly quelled by your right foot. |
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| The suspension makes short work of potholes while the positive steering gives a hint of understeer. |
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| More of a concern is that, with the traction control on, the car suffers from disastrous understeer. |
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| Handling is pretty well neutral for a front-wheel-drive car, though those models aren't really intended to be fanged along as understeer will eventually enter the equation. |
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| However, on a twisty track, it creates significant understeer due in large part to the weight of the engine. |
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| The single lap format, however, allows no mistakes at all, which means we tend to make the car understeer a little more to give the driver confidence. |
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| When pushed hard with the traction control switched off, the initial understeer will give way to a tail-wagging oversteer. |
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| This system provides oversteer and understeer control to help you maintain control when treacherous road conditions have other ideas. |
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| Full-on is the default mode and ESP applies selective braking to control oversteer or understeer, adding to on-road security. |
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| My biggest problem was a lot of understeer, particularly at the end of the last section, which was where I was losing most of the time. |
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| This allows the driver to take the curve more tightly while reducing any tendency to understeer. |
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| Less weight on the front end means less understeer, which is always a good thing. |
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| Taut, tight and responsive, barring some understeer, the car will do what you want it to. And that's regardless of the trim or powerplant. |
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| At mid to high speeds, the Focus displayed little or no understeer thanks to this technology. |
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| Its multi-link rear suspension counteracts any tendency to understeer while the McPherson front suspension struts promote superior comfort. |
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| Fitting the least worn tyres to the rear of the vehicle allows the car to maintain an understeer balance when cornering. |
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| In overview, understeer intervention is one of the core functions of an ESC system, a feature common to all current production systems. |
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| The standard Roll Stability Control system prevents or decreases the likelihood of rollovers by managing throttle and brakes to induce understeer. |
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| Argue the point all you want, but virtually every modern car, bar the hardest sports models, have understeer dialled in to safeguard the occupants. |
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| The cars are configured for mild understeer, although you can turn that into oversteer quite easily if you twitch your toe in the middle of a corner. |
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| In fact the only times I ever got understeer were when trying to induce power oversteer, which of course effectively means using too much throttle for the turn. |
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| This is an active safety feature designed to help prevent accidents by registering and helping to correct oversteer, understeer and loss of stability in the vehicle. |
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| There is some understeer here but not enough to spoil the ride at all. |
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| When you do push it beyond the limit of grip into a sweeping bend or large roundabout the front end drifts wide, revealing that the chassis is biased towards mild understeer. |
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| Once you get over the first initial shock, it proved easy to use, though there was noticeable understeer if you enter the corner carrying too much speed. |
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| Not a hint of understeer or oversteer could I find at my modest speeds. |
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| This system uses all the features of the ESP but adds electric steering control to prevent oversteer and understeer as well as correct steering errors. |
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| Also known as electronic stability control, VDC monitors the vehicle's dynamic systems and helps compensate for oversteer or understeer to help keep you on your steered path. |
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| With four-wheel drive, the handling is reasonably controlled with lots of traction, but understeer of that heavy body does build up quicker than you'd imagine. |
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| But it is preferable to having a following car stuck in another's wheeltracks because the moment it gets close to the turbulent wake of the car ahead it kills the following car's aerodynamics, making it understeer helplessly. |
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| It rides well enough, though – but with understeer in charge, and precious little feel through the steering wheel and brake pedal, it's not what you'd call crisp to handle. |
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| The former is pretty comfortable with gentle understeer building up. |
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| Causing manufacturers to optimize understeer intervention at extremely low coefficients like this may create overly-aggressive systems that compromise oversteer control on more moderate lowcoefficient surfaces. |
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| But I was having a lot of understeer again and our Race Engineer told me to take it easy. |
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| I did notice some heaviness in the steering and a slightly excessive understeer tendency in the tightest turns, but overall, the machine handles like a charm. |
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| If the car is tending to go straight on or is in understeer, ESP will force it to take the bend by applying braking pressure to the right rear wheel, and possibly the right front wheel. |
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| We lacked overall grip, consistency, there was a bit of understeer, it was a poor ride, so a very difficult day. |
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| The anti-roll bars are different, with a softer one at the front and a thicker one behind, changing handling balance from understeer to more neutral. |
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| The anti-roll bars are different with a softer one at the front and a thicker one behind changing handling balance from understeer to more neutral. |
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| And there are also modifications to the ESP software for more precise handling and control of understeer plus upgrades to the FlexRide adaptive damping system. |
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| Understeer is present in the dry, countered by progressive oversteer with right foot tickling. |
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