Experienced drivers know that crazy numbers in horsepower and torque alone won't cut it. Sure, a beefy V8 muscle car like the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170 can dominate the quarter-mile track like no ...

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, ...

To start, it's important to state that Audis are not necessarily bad-handling cars. It's true, though, that they sport different handling characteristics compared to other premium German marques — ...

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 ...

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 ...

After our previous discussion on what we can teach teenagers about driving that hasn't also been figured out by rats (you can still catch that one online in the Life & Style section by clicking on my ...

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 ...

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 ...