"Understeer" and "oversteer" and terms we hear and use a lot in the automotive community, and sometimes actually encounter behind the wheel. If you're not completely sure what these words really mean ...

We sometimes use the terms "understeer" and "oversteer" here at Autoweek, mostly when talking about fast cars and their behavior on racetracks. Speed is often a factor in understeer and oversteer, but ...

Car control isn’t exactly included in American driver education courses. You’re taught the bare-bones basics, like signaling, lane-changes, acceleration, deceleration, braking, how to turn, and, well, ...

Hello Trony, understeer and oversteer are terms used to describe the sensitivity of a vehicle to steering and how it affects the vehicle’s forward movement. Understeer is when a vehicle turns less ...

There are times when your car starts "talking" to you. It usually happens when your car is approaching its limits. This phenomenon is called neutral steer or over- and understeer. Under- and oversteer ...

Jonathan loves just about anything with a motor and a steering wheel. As a kid, Jonathan collected any kind of toy car he could lay his hands on, and begged his parents to take him to the monster ...

Understeer is the killer of all fun. Unlike oversteer which is generally quite fun even if unintentional and unexpected, its evil sibling does nothing but suck the fun out of driving. With the right ...

Understeer is one of the most frustrating conditions you can encounter on a race track. It's what happens when you ask your car to turn and it says, "nope," and instead you go wide and blow your apex.

Exploring the full potential of a car on the track means understanding the physics behind it, and working your way to get faster lap times. But before letting your ride loose, you need to understand ...

Very rarely have I driven a car that was perfectly neutral. In almost every case there will be an imbalance of either understeer or oversteer — even if it's just by one percent. Sometimes the ...

Snap oversteer is a beast of many names. Some call it just that while others refer to it as throttle-off oversteer, over rotation, lift-off oversteer, and a variety of things that indicate it relates ...