Is it that easy to lose your rear?
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From: Melbourne!
Not hard to drive rear wheel drive at all. The main problem with driving the S2000 is that people assume that because it has such high limits it will automatically compensate for stupid driving manouevers and get them out of the sort of trouble they should never have gotten into in the first place.
If you drive like this then any vehicle will spit you out.
Driven normally the S2000 is just like any other car. Driven at the absolute limit and having the driver chicken out half way through a corner is what causes problems.
If you drive like this then any vehicle will spit you out.
Driven normally the S2000 is just like any other car. Driven at the absolute limit and having the driver chicken out half way through a corner is what causes problems.
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From: Charlotte
The car has incredibly high limits. If you drive the car on the street like a car should be driven in public you will never see the rear stepout as long as you keep decent tires on it. Take to the track and you can play with stepping out the back. I would not worry about it. Driven on the street like it should be the back end will not be an issue. It will go around a corner far faster then most cars out there without a hitch. Pushed to the limits the back will come out. Limits have no place in street driving so it should not be an issue. The problem is that to many S drivers don't understand that. Every new insurance bill drives that home as the car keeps heading toward the most expensive insurance groupings as the accidents mount.
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From: Ojai
Quote from TrueDrezzer
A misshift or badly matched downshift can cause the car to jerk and that could be enough for the rear to slip, especially in a corner. This gets much more dangerous in the wet. If you haven't yet, practice learning heel-toe downshifting in your current car to prevent these kinds of problems with the S.
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Could someone explain what heel-toe downshifting is and how to do it? Also how does it help prevent these kinds of problems?
A misshift or badly matched downshift can cause the car to jerk and that could be enough for the rear to slip, especially in a corner. This gets much more dangerous in the wet. If you haven't yet, practice learning heel-toe downshifting in your current car to prevent these kinds of problems with the S.
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Could someone explain what heel-toe downshifting is and how to do it? Also how does it help prevent these kinds of problems?
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From: St. Louis
The S2K isn't as bad as other FR cars, like Mustang's, Camaro's, and Corvettes, most of which have enough torque to spin you around in a heartbeat. The S2K is a piece of cake to keep the rear end planted compared to my Mustangs.
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From: Stroudsburg
I'm definately not the most knowledgable about cars. With that being said, I drive a 1991 MR2 and I drive fast around corners quite often but NEVER has my car ever even seemed like the back end would slide out. I know my limits to this and never plan to go over them. I can take backroad turns between 50-65 MPH without a problem, and that's my limit. Now, this is due to 50/50 weight distribution am I correct? My MR2 has this, as well as the S2000 (2004 model has 49/51). The S should handle very similar then right?
j/k