We sometimes use the terms "understeer" and "oversteer" here at Autoweek, mostly when talking about fast cars and their behavior on racetracks. Speed is often a factor in understeer and oversteer, but ...

Experienced drivers know that crazy numbers in horsepower and torque alone won't cut it. Sure, a beefy V8 muscle car like the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170 can dominate the quarter-mile track like no ...

Car control isn’t exactly included in American driver education courses. You’re taught the bare-bones basics, like signaling, lane-changes, acceleration, deceleration, braking, how to turn, and, well, ...

More commonly associated with motorsport, both are not restricted to track driving, though, and will at some stage be experienced out in the word. According to MasterDrive CEO Eugene Herbert, the ...

There are times when your car starts "talking" to you. It usually happens when your car is approaching its limits. This phenomenon is called neutral steer or over- and understeer. Under- and oversteer ...

Snap oversteer is a beast of many names. Some call it just that while others refer to it as throttle-off oversteer, over rotation, lift-off oversteer, and a variety of things that indicate it relates ...

Oversteer is the opposite of understeer, and is the reaction of a car that steers too much into a corner. However, there are different types of oversteer to contend with, the main difference being ...

Hello Trony, understeer and oversteer are terms used to describe the sensitivity of a vehicle to steering and how it affects the vehicle’s forward movement. Understeer is when a vehicle turns less ...

Oversteer: Oversteer is defined as a car’s tendency to turn more sharply than what the driver intends it to. This usually happens when the car’s rear tyres are spinning at a much higher rate than the ...

The calendar says Spring is a couple of months off, so common sense is still needed when it comes to our vehicles. And while you should have taken care of this back in the fall, the fundamentals are ...