Tim is correct. For safety, understeer is engineered into our vehicles. I
included a link to a great article in Grassroots Motorsports about anti-roll
bars that gives a lot of good background on body roll and vehicle dynamics.
http://www.grassrootsmotorsports.com/antirollbars.html
Dave Mahlmeister
72 tr6
----- Original Message -----
From: "Timothy Holbrook" <tjh173@yahoo.com>
To: <6pack@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2002 8:35 PM
Subject: Re: oversteer, understeer, neutral steer...thoughts, theories,
comments
> Actually Richard, Mike is right, it is common practice for auto
> manufacturers to tune the handling of their cars to understeer. It's
> much safer this way. If someone goes a bit too quickly into a corner,
> the car understeers, driver eases off the gas, and the car is
> controllable. With oversteer, the back end swings out, and everyone
> (including oncoming traffic) is in a ton of trouble.
>
> Tim Holbrook
> 1971 TR6
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