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Corvette
General Corvette Discussion
Well, the Vette and I almost bough the big one this AM!
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<blockquote data-quote="Rruuff Day" data-source="post: 180360" data-attributes="member: 2217"><p>Surpisingly, pundits typically agree that a mid-engine car is usually prone to oversteer as opposed to understeer, but not to question GM engineers at this time. That being said, my feeling is we may or may not be totally novice drivers but most are certainly novice when it comes to mid-engine rear wheel drive cars. The C8 is actually more of a rear mid-engine layout but regardless, when mass is centralized or rear centralized and the rear wheels break loose, physics tell us that the center mass position tends to want to continue the motion and recovery is considerably trickier than a front engine layout which typically wants to keep the front facing the front, and the steering correction to ensure this takes place is much more forgiving and easier. This is exaggerated even more with a rear engine layout combined with rear wheel drive (which is why most rear engine cars are typically only found on race tracks and driven by drivers well experienced with corner drifting them. That being said, my advice (which probably isn't worth much), is find an empty paved lot somewhere, ideally with permission to use it, and practice your driving with any vehicle to learn at what point it will break loose and what effect steering, both understeer nd oversteer have on the required amount of correction required for recovery. The long and short is the C8 is going to react considerably different in situational driving and whether we intend to drive aggressively or not, sooner or later, situations do arise that will dirty our shorts. It would be nice to know that we maybe stand a chance of having ONLY dirty shorts. JMO</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rruuff Day, post: 180360, member: 2217"] Surpisingly, pundits typically agree that a mid-engine car is usually prone to oversteer as opposed to understeer, but not to question GM engineers at this time. That being said, my feeling is we may or may not be totally novice drivers but most are certainly novice when it comes to mid-engine rear wheel drive cars. The C8 is actually more of a rear mid-engine layout but regardless, when mass is centralized or rear centralized and the rear wheels break loose, physics tell us that the center mass position tends to want to continue the motion and recovery is considerably trickier than a front engine layout which typically wants to keep the front facing the front, and the steering correction to ensure this takes place is much more forgiving and easier. This is exaggerated even more with a rear engine layout combined with rear wheel drive (which is why most rear engine cars are typically only found on race tracks and driven by drivers well experienced with corner drifting them. That being said, my advice (which probably isn't worth much), is find an empty paved lot somewhere, ideally with permission to use it, and practice your driving with any vehicle to learn at what point it will break loose and what effect steering, both understeer nd oversteer have on the required amount of correction required for recovery. The long and short is the C8 is going to react considerably different in situational driving and whether we intend to drive aggressively or not, sooner or later, situations do arise that will dirty our shorts. It would be nice to know that we maybe stand a chance of having ONLY dirty shorts. JMO [/QUOTE]
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