To
feel this car dancing on the edge so beautifully, understeer and oversteer played out almost in slow motion and absolutely to your whim, is a fantastic sensation.
Not exact matches
For anyone who has witnessed me bouncing from one Armco barrier to the next on Gran Turismo this might not seem like a wise idea but at the wheel of the Insignia today is Volker Strycek, Vauxhall's Director of Performance
Cars and Motorsport, and once he's
danced his way down Hatzenbach and blitzed the rest of the lap I can't help but
feel I may have misjudged the GSi.
It simply
feels too big and bulky to
dance in corners like a true sports
car.
I'd ask for stiffer steering response and a little more road
feel, but these are nits in a
car that's always ready to
dance.
Where the old
car feels very nose - led and slightly stubborn, its steering lethargic where you need flighty flicks left - to - right, the S
dances through the slalom with a balance that
feels much more in line with your hips, and steering that
feels light years faster.
While DiRT 3 seemed caught in two minds as to whether to carry on with the impeccable rallying from the near - perfect DiRT 2 or try and turn your
car into a demented pole -
dancing skateboard, Showdown
feels much more focused, admittedly more towards a Mad Max meets X-games mashup.