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Dec 26, 2024
8:43:06am
Bert609 All-American
I can notice understeer on FWD cars on left-hand turns at 10mph. The steering fights you, it's especially obvious if
you have decent hydraulic power steering and if you've driven RWD for hours.

There was a good article in Car and Driver or one of the other rags years ago where the author theorized that the current "love of pickups and SUVs" wasn't the fact they "sit high" (which marketing likes to talk about), but rather the fact that the RWD balance of the vehicle rotating around you is subconsciously pleasing to drivers so they prefer driving their trucks and suburban daily over their Corollas (which fight them).

I can detect FWD bias in both FWD cars and FWD-biased AWD cars as low as 15-20mph. It's a horrible driving experience.
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