Re: Recirculating Ball
The devil is in the DETAILS...
A light four cylinder Manual rack and pinion steered car does indeed respond like a go cart.
A big heavy car with Power rack and pinion steering is not going to be so great. I've had a '97 Cougar (3,800 lbs.) with a v8 and a Jeep Liberty with a diesel engine (4,150 lbs); both have rack and pinion and neither one steers as nice as my crossfire. (duh ! 2,960 lbs)
I like the Crossfire's steering. It doesn't kick back and fight me over every pothole, road seam and tar strip like a rack and pinion setup. My Cougar had some pretty fat tires and it used to pull and tramline in the "hog-wallow" rutted freeways around here like crazy.
Rack and pinion is, LIGHTER, CHEAPER AND SIMPLER.
But not automatically better...
Slim