oversteer: you hit the wall with the rear end of the car understeer: you hit the wall with the front of the car. horsepower: how hard you hit the wall torque: how long you take the wall with you :D
They should show things like this in schools, this can save tons of teenage lives. Too bad the schools are no longer used for teaching but are used to blend in peer pressure and conforming to society.
Yeah, I never learned anything about cars in school. And the auto tech class was only available to seniors, long after the crucial time to learn about cars at a young age so the knowledge sticks. And it was only available to men. Women couldn't join this class. I am honestly not joking. My high school was fucked up.
+Admiral Ackbar 3:13 "With modern cars, the grip level is so high that you should never reach the limit on public roads." More lives would be saved if you could impress upon them the need to drive at a prudent speed and with an appropriate gap to the vehicle in front.
Yes I agree, Every Driving Test should include Lessons in ADVERSE Car CONTROL in Wet & ICY Conditions in the UK. Every Driver Should PASS the LATEST Driving Test every 10 or 15 Yrs. This Will Keep Long time Drivers Alert to modern Cars & Roads. Everything Changes , Driving Tests Need to be For the Very Best Drivers. An Old Person at 70 Yrs Old Should have the Ability to Spin a BMW 5 Series Around a WET Track, Same as a 17 yr old new Driver. & Have Full Control. Fail the Test = Go Back for DRIVING LESSONS REGARDLESS OF AGE, OR GENDER. 17 Yr old Girl? 72 Yr old Granny. ONE Driving Test every 10 / 15 years For Everyone. FAIL = Go Back To Reading the Highway Code & Clicking Boxes on a THEORY TEST at 82 yrs old, Because their Car will have TOUCH SCREEN CONTROLS etc. 3 Outright Fails = You cannot apply for 3 more years. & With a DOCTORS Letter of FULL HEALTH. if over 70 yrs old.
@@jeffreylebowski2291 I like to deliberately push the limit (braking in the wet, oversteer, understeer...) of my rwd car so that when something unexpected happens I have more chances to not to crash. I recommend you to cautiously try it, plus you can learn to drift :)
That was a series 1 Citroen XM at the end, which was shown to have virtually comparable handling to the sports car. The Series 2 Citroen XM's that followed had much better handling, with evolved hydropneumatic/nitorogen gas suspension. Putting low profiles on that car results in a car that seems impossible to "shake" of line. It seems to me that most people are unaware of the exceptional handling on these cars.
Top Gear is the most awesome all car reviews ever. Still today, they are keeping the same methods like old the Top Gear series. Just awesome. I watch them all when i can
I don't see how understeer is "safer" than oversteer. It's really easy for me to control oversteer but with understeer You can only turn as hard as you can and ease off the gas pedal and hope the car regains grip. The reason I love old Porsches is for the reason that they naturally oversteer and it's so rewarding to hold the slide in them. But everyone has their own preference I suppose
I guess it depends on the road and the corner, but it's usually safer to hit something with the front of the car than the side. Safest of all would be to drive REALLY fast, so you hit with the rear. We need to double the speed limit and make roads out of banana skins!
And that would create a 'handbrake turn.' Also, It seems easy to control ovesteer, but it really isn't! With understeer you can just slow down and fix the problem.
Driving in snow, down a curving ramp onto an Interstate, I liked front-wheel drive over rear drive. Rather contend with understeer than oversteer if hit some really slick stuff.. Drove 'em both in nasty snow storms.
pastrami1945 Different strokes for different folks. In the snow I'd much rather have RWD. I can manage oversteer quite easily as I've had a lot of practice on dirt roads. Understeer to me is no good.
No drivetrain will save you if you go in to a corner too hot. Lift off oversteer is cool (unless unintended). I used to own an XM, and it was a beast at keeping everything level. I currently own an Integra type R... which is a lot better, in terms of lift off - it just goes sideways until you put your foot down. Those XMs were almost impossible to get sideways. I did try.
The "cheap" Porsche 944 pulls 0,97 g: pretty nice! I've read several rewievs that rated it as the best handling Porsche of its era! Better than the 911's and 928 of its time!
Hey! Someone else watched the Drift Bible! Sweet. At any rate, I will concede to you, since it seems you know more about drifting than me. I'm more of a grip driver, anyway; gotta work hard to keep a car turning if you've got front-wheel drive.
no matter how many videos are out here to know how to manuever a car,in whatever condition,teens all the like is speeding,but not learning how to control the machine,In fact it has help me somehowt to steer accordingly,
@kenjoje Agreed. After all he's a real racing driver. He was in f1 on a minor team for a short time, also WSC in the 80s. Have you seen the vids of him testing a Porsche 962? Awesome stuff.
Generally drifting is about having a greater rear slip angle than the front tires. It can be done by using power over, handbrake, interia, etc. You just get more options with a RWD and easy of keeping it under control than other types. Also you shouldn't allways be at opposite lock durning drifting, you could if you wanted to and try to use power only but sometimes that won't work on smaller hp cars and you will need to figure other ways out as well
I think I know where 06:40 was filmed. Looks like the A64 southbound turnoff at Askham Bar here in York. A tricky Long 270 degree left-hander that feels like you're turning left for eternity.
Without any doubt Tiff is one of the best drivers EVER! Yes he was a former Race Driver .... Vicky is also an excellent driver! Jeremy is funny. I wonder if Tiff was a Stig ever ....
I've heard that before, but as I understand it, drifting, in its strictest sense, is holding a car at opposite lock and using the pedals to steer, which is something you can only do in a rear-driven car. The only time you come off full lock is when you're turning the wheels the other way. Drifting, then, is intentional heavy oversteer. Four-wheel slide, on the other hand, means that all four wheels are sliding to some degree or another, with the steering a lot closer to centered.
@kenjoje Does it snow where you live? Thats one way to do it, make the car slide in the snow. Also, you can do autocross and even track days. (I know in some countries they're cheap). ...you can also slide your car around in large empty parking lots, deserted back roads...etc.
@NutsandGuts basically, depending on how you differ the power distribution between the front and the rear....for instance, most Audis tends to understeer, while the Audi R8 tends to oversteer becuz the R8's diff tends to give more power to the back rather then to the front, as to most Audi's are
What do you do with the pedals if you oversteer? Since one of the causes if lifting off the throttle I'm guessing you shouldn't lift off the throttle completely, but do you keep your foot on the accelerator if you power oversteer?
maxpowers3732 depends on the situation, if youre playing it safe ease of SLOWLY if you want to push it through the corner maintain throttle position and correct the slide with countersteer honestly rhough it cant be explained, just practice
That can be achieved with any drivetrain layout, though. It's just easier if you can put down some power on the rear wheels. I do in front-driven cars through trail braking, and it's even easier if you have some weight in the back. Also, a technical complaint: Calling four-wheel slide "drift" is inaccurate, as the term "drift" only applies to intentional oversteer.
Muhlis Goktas Not a chance in Hell. Top Gear was off the air by then, and looking at5 how old Tiff is in this puts it further back. Maybe 5 years earlier, give or take a couple of years
I have a doubt if we use too much of throttle in a corner then the backend of the car will slip n we will lose the cars rear to prevent that shd we use more throttle or lift off throttle?
if you induce oversteer by throttling too hard more throttle won't fix it obviously, but if you oversteer due to your car's momentum you should give it some throttling so it won't snap back at the end of the corner
@NutsandGuts They tend to hold their grip, and especially with modern cars with electronic systems differentiating how much power goes to each wheel, sort it all out for you. Expect more performance oriented AWD cars to oversteer while your mom's Subaru wagon to understeer. Your dad's old 4WD SUV will probably flip over.
yeh, true, but it wouldve been interesting to hear his views on it. esp if it were with the more interesting ones like acuras sh-awd or the nissan GT-R
Tiff needle and Jeremy clarkson would be great to do a car show together they both are great drivers in my eyes and would be funny to see them both trying to beat each other all time not one of them would ever admit defeat😂 Wish car shows where still like this today
My BMW e34 Glides Superbly, Very Smooth & Controllable. If You Demand it to. The Rest of the time It STICKS LIKE GLUE to the Roads in all But the Worst Conditions & a Very Silly Driver. The Harder you Push an e34 through the bends at High speed , the More it Grips the Road & the Faster you Go, The Car Feels to SHRINK to Less than the size of an e30. AMAZING When You Hammer a BMW e34 525i Se into Sharpe Double Hairpin Bends. BRILLIANT Cars For the Narrow Lanes & Steep Hills of Yorkshire. at 59 mph of course !!! Gently Wafting along. A BMW e34 is Not for Elderly Folk with Slow Responses. It's a stupidly Fast 4 dr Saloon With A Limo Ride & Handling to Beat some Very Fast modern Cars. A BMW e34 Comes with NO COFFEE CUP HOLDERS. To Drive it as it was Designed, You Need One Hand on the Wheel & the Other on the Gearstick Flicking from 3rd to 4th & Back to 5th, then 3rd & 4th & down to 3rd again to power out of a bend. Keeping the Revs above 3,500 allows the engine to Do what it was Designed to do. LAUNCH a Big Heavy Car Down the Road, & Feel like you are Not even moving.
@@eetherington That is great! 😄 has it had many major problems through the years? I got a e34 2 years ago, have now had 4, currently two in rlly good condition I am planing to keep a very long time, one of them permanently if not both. 88 models. Getting pretty good at these cars, but wanted to hear how your ownership has been 😄
you don't want either, though understeer when it appears its so damn easy to correct especially when your drunk.. oversteer is so tempting to go drifting hahaha
i think all leaner drivers should learn about this and be tested on it how to stop car from over-steer/under-steer etc not just if they can do a well executed 3 point turn
@ClTIZEN 3 point turns and reverse parks don't save lives mate ( yes it's important) response times and knowing what to do in a fraction of a second (how to control a car in the event something happens) does though one could make the point that it will encouraged hoon driving possibly but teens are going to hoon drive anyway
