My two cents: I never drove a car with the kind of steering the Crossfire has. All have been rack and pinion, that I am aware of. To me, my Crossfire feels different, but not in a bad way. It feels very confident, to me. I don't feel like I am lacking information from which to make adjustments or anything like that. I've taken some fairly serious liberties regarding speed limits on some of the twisty, fun roads around where I live and can tell when it is starting to understeer towards its limits just fine. The rest of the time, the car just seems to do what I ask of it, which is perfect, if you ask me.

Taking my thoughts a little further up the line... I think it might be possible that some reviewers and certainly many of us lay folk may not really understand how this car SHOULD feel. Based on my past experiences, I had thought the Crossfire would feel much like one of the old early 90's, late 80's Honda CRX's did. Very go-karty. Seat of the pants. etc. etc. Perhaps with more traction, etc., etc. But that was what I was thinking. My guess is that if you only have a day or two to review a car and you must form your opinions based on prior experiences, you might think that flying by the seat of your pants thing is missing and that this is bad. Having now spent some time with it, my Crossfire feels a whole lot more in control and refined than any other car I've driven.

However, I may be biased. Other than my '69 Camaro, it is the coolest car I've ever owned (though in totally different ways which are not at all comparable).