Thread: Top Gear - Bad Attitude
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Old Sep 3, 2008 | 12:10 PM
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Default Re: Top Gear - Bad Attitude
Take a look at the Tiff Needell review of the Crossfire.

He takes a 6MT Limited Coupe for a spin on some twisty backroads.

That footage shows some extremely fast driving through some very tight corners. The dude is really pushing it and the car is flat as a board through every turn and looks like it's about to tear the blacktop off the gravel the way it's flying.

By the way, I don't understand what the problem is with the steering. Honestly, it's like those people don't know what "good steering" is. In my opinion, the Crossfire has great steering feel. It gets "heavy" when understeering and "light" when in neutral or in oversteer. It tells me exactly what the car is doing. The car has the turning radius of a shopping cart and I can swing it around a parking lot at 5mph without feeling like I got a workout. At 60mph, I can twitch the steering wheel and I can instantly feel the nose of the car go exactly where I want it to (for example, to avoid potholes.)

Whose standards are they using? I've never driven a Porsche, a Lambo, or anything like those cars before, but I have driven the new BMW 3 series, and the steering feels similar. I've driven the S2000 and the steering on that car is MUCH lighter than the XF or the Bimmer. But with the S2000, I can't tell anything through the steering wheel. Everything feels light on the steering, whether under or oversteering. The older Audi TT felt like the steering was way too quick at highway speeds. It felt kind of unstable. Don't know about the new one.

Anyways, as stogey says, my two "centaurs" worth
 
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