handling...

[growler_south]

I found it! the mysterious point at which the MR2 switches from mild understeer to remarkable oversteer. And when I say 'switches' I mean 'like a lightbulb'. One moment you're zipping around a tight motorway onramp with the front pushing a little wide, the next you're a passenger on a wild fun-fair ride, trying to think fast enough to prevent the back wheels from overtaking the front. Thank god for quick steering and plenty of practice with the throttle over the last week. And wide onramps.

Lets not do that again.

Comments

[mikeybill.livejournal.com]

Bad growler! Bad bad growler! Gggrrrr! I htink we need to take that car off you and give you a Hillman Imp instead ;-)

[smellykaka.livejournal.com]

Mine is irritatingly sudden in the way it goes from taking a corner quite happily to drifting into the opposite lane without warning. After having driven it a few years I don't get that happening to me much any more.

[droo3556.livejournal.com]

and you *want* thinner rear tyres to promote more oversteer? I can picture you doing a 'Clarkson' screaming out "Powerrrrr!" mid drift!

Remember that hitting pedestrians is softer than hitting power poles side on, as they dont ding the panels as much. Older pedestrians have softer bones too : P (just an fyi)