Sentences with phrase «less understeer»

The Spec C's turn - in is sharper with less understeer, and yet it retains an excellent ride, certainly being more comforable than previous Spec Cs.

Driving two 5 - series - one equipped with Active Steering and one without - back - to - back on an autocross course, we found the car equipped with Active Steering allowed us to hustle through much more quickly and with far less understeer than the car with BMW's conventional, but still excellent, rack - and - pinion setup.

While we wish the cars had a bit less understeer (no doubt dialed in to keep over-ambitious drivers from oversteering off the road), truth is you'll be hard - pressed to find two more competent, confidence - inspiring cars for high - speed traveling.

Means, you could take a old A4 with these features and the car still has less understeer then the BMW 3series rearwheel with sportsuspension and tyres.

The Cayman exhibits slightly less understeer in terms of static balance, but the big difference is that the Porsche allows you to quickly and dramatically adjust the car's line with the gas pedal.

So we grab a coffee while a new set of pads is fitted, along with a pair of the optional 20in rims for the front to see if they give less understeer through the Palmer Curves.

Ford says the limited - edition XR6 Sprint (just 550 examples are to roll out of the company's Campbellfield plant) was engineered to be sportier than the regular XR6 Turbo in terms of ride quality with improved balance, sharper steering responses involving less understeer, increased grip and better stopping via a Brembo brake package — all helped along with asymmetric (245/35 R19 front and 265/35 R19 rear) Pirelli P Zero tyres.

For less understeer and oversteer, the car employs electric power - assist steering.

Front and rear sway bars (giving early models a tad less understeer than the later models).

Working with the car's Active Understeer Control system that brakes the inside front wheel, the new Nissan sedan is tuned to have less understeer at all times.

It feels like it would go a bit faster with less understeer, and reducing the front tyre pressures to match the rears (we normally stick with the manufacturer's recommendations) does the trick.

Uh, suffice it to say that the HGTE provides better body control and more lateral grip with far less understeer.

While there is a bit less understeer, a more effective way of controlling the car's attitude is via left - foot braking — happily, the new Turbo doesn't cut power when overlapping throttle and brake as with most Porsches.

Whatever you try on set - up the car reacts accordingly, so a little more understeer, less understeer, more oversteer, one tenth better here, one tenth slower here.

The new A6 corners eagerly, with less understeer than you'd expect.

It's the chassis revisions and the Cup 2 rubber that really make the CS though and the greatest benefit is to the steering which feels more direct and makes the M3 turn in with greater precision and less understeer that before.

The geometry changes have wrought much more steering weight and feel, there's less understeer and less ride comfort.

Less understeer would have been nice.

Finally, the rear differential gets an active torque vectoring system, which controls the yaw rates for a more engaging driving experience and less understeer.

While there is less understeer, I found that a more effective way of controlling the car's attitude was via left - foot braking, sometimes overlapping throttle and brake.

These have involved adapting the Land Rover platform to incorporate Jaguar's 5 - link multi-link rear suspension while, at the front, a new hollow - cast aluminium front knuckle added to the pseudo MacPherson struts is claimed to provide additional camber for a better turn - in and less understeer.

However, when pushed a little, we found the 17 - inch tires provided more grip and less understeer than expected.

Of course, Ford has their reasons for selecting a manual transmission rather than a dual - clutch automatic; Chief Engineer Tyrone Johnson told CarAdvice last year that the Focus RS» six - speed was selected partly for its lower cost, and partly because it means less weight on the front axle, translating to less understeer.

Torque vectoring brake comes as standard, applying friction to the inside rear wheel while cornering for crisper turn in and less understeer.

At speeds of up to 60 km / h (extended to 100 km / h in Race mode), the system will steer the rear wheels in the opposite direction of the front wheels for better turn in (or less understeer) in tight turns, while above those speeds all wheels will turn in concert for more precision in high - speed corners.

In hard cornering or acceleration we can feel the car settle down under the grip of the AWD; then the Juke corners nimbly and with less understeer than expected.