View Single Post
Old 12-18-2006, 06:30 AM   #20
John V
Registered User
 
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: MD
Posts: 447
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sammy
Try taking the car to a skid pad and see what happens...
I can go around a skidpad in steady-state understeer or steady-state oversteer. Does that mean the car oversteers AND understeers?

The point I'm trying to make is that there is a lot more to it than saying "this car understeers" or "this car oversteers." What are you doing when it over/understeers? Braking and turning into a curve? Going through the middle of the curve? Accelerating out of the curve? Going in a bit hot and decelerating / braking IN the curve? It's not as simple as people are making it out to be. With the Boxster (and several other cars I've been lucky enough to drive hard) you have so much control over what the car is doing, it's hard to just label the car as one thing or another.
John V is offline   Reply With Quote