Every exit is different as is every car. It might be that your driving the Xfire in a way that it dosent like. I know my roadster is much diffent than my RX-7 and the MR2 we had. each one handled great and I could carry some great speed in turns but each one needed a little bit diffrent style. My guess is that ouare used to the lazy turn in and slower steering input of the eclipse compared to the quicker xfire