The way I read it there's a bit more
bite on corner exit and a suspension set up that allows you to carry more speed in fast flowing corners.
The Maxima has what Nissan calls an Integrated Dynamics Control Module (IDM) that manages a system known as Active Trace Control to keep the car on your intended line as you dial in more
power on corner exits.
In slow corners it can understeer a bit (it's got a massive great V8 up front after all), but for the most part it's neutral and shifts into small angles of
oversteer on corner exit.
In Sport mode (splitting the torque 10:90 front to rear), the Aventador actually felt a little loose if you touched a white
line on corner exit or really tried to lean on the tyres.
It makes for some tight cornering and huge grins, followed by some gentle oversteer if you're a touch overzealous with the gas
pedal on corner exit.
Because of the smaller sideslip angle in curves the test vehicle equipped with AHK was more
stable on corner exits allowing the driver to apply throttle much sooner and gaining higher speeds on the straights.
Power - down was what I expected, with more weight, less tyre and a bigger bump in torque making for an excitable
rear on corner exits.
So your instinct is to stay in a higher gear and let the car take the strain, but when you do the Spider's balance
disappears on corner exit.
The aero and ceramic stompers were still there, as was Porsche's excellent torque vectoring system (PTV), but the rear end was much more playful,
especially on corner exit.
They also find strong traction, aided by a tightly - wound limited - slip differential that drags the nose out of corners with real aggression: acclimatisation is a process of getting on the gas earlier and earlier through corners and each time being amazed that the nose doesn't wash
wide on corner exit.
The steering is just delicious, so good that it almost feels like sensory overload at first, and the progression of the chassis, the way the front picks up and the rears dig in
on corner exit while the steering wheel jigs and fizzes in your hands, is just so intuitive.
As a result, the Civic scrubs a bit of speed easily when entering a corner without hitting the brakes, while providing plenty of
thrust on corner exit without you needing to worry about downshifting from fourth to third gear.
It's all
hardware on corner exit as a standard helical limited - slip diff keeps power distributed, leaving the driver free to mat the gas.
The transmission automatically downshifts during hard braking before a corner then holds a lower gear through the corner for best control and then selects the most suitable
gear on corner exit to give the driver greater throttle response.
With lateral acceleration of up to 1.4 G and improved interaction between the tyres and the intelligent all - wheel drive system, the Super Sport offers perfect handling and even more powerful acceleration of 1,500 Newton
metres on corner exits.
Throw in that clever differential, which can open or progressively lock on - demand, and the GT S bites
hard on corner exit.
«There's an unflappable poise to it as you chuck in that very willing front end, and absurd traction from those 295 - section rear
tyres on every corner exit»
The IV ramps up steering response, reduces steady - state understeer and adds a little power - on
oversteer on corner exit.
It grips hard at the front and feels like it pivots very much around its middle, and the sport differential, which presumably under extreme moves pushes quite a lot of the rear's power to the outer wheel, will do its best to straighten a
line on corner exit.
Track mode is the last stop before «everything off,» and the idea is to provide the kind of high - performance traction control that would be outlawed in most actual race cars: flatten the
pedal on corner exit and the car will deploy as much power as the tires can handle, just like a Ferrari 458 Italia in race mode.
When really pushed, the CVT's manually selected ratio changes have a rubber - bandy feel that lacks immediacy and the automatic Sport program does a lot of hunting for the right ratio, which dulls a bit of the throttle response when, for example, looking to add
power on a corner exit.
The back of the new XE can be made to easily step out by disabling the traction and stability control and getting a bit carried away with the
throttle on corner exit.
The result is even more - lively steering during the «turn - in» phase of cornering, and excellent stability mid-corner and
on corner exit.
I left the traction control on as instructed and only felt the slight pullback of the system two times all day, both
on corner exits.
On corner exit, predictive downshift logic controls the system to ensure the optimal gear ratio is selected for required level of acceleration.
That put the engine in the sweet spot of its rev range so I was able to get the fullest power
on corner exits, where Audi's quattro all - wheel drive did a great job sticking all four wheels to the tarmac.