Also, try to remember to let go of the wheel & let the caster sort it all out - the car oughtn't over-correct itself as it won't wind on too much oppo the first slide.

There's a really good You Tube! clip of Chris Harris doing just that whilst fuckingabout with a Cayman GT4.

 

Tyres were Bridgestones, worn but not badly. My car was 2007 so with VSA I think. The key issue seems to have been the road surface (and my incompetence, obviously). Its a section of road resurfaced last year for the Tour de France and its quite an oily surface still. The recovery truck driver said they picked cars up from there every other week during the winter. That made me feel a wee bit less daft!

 

Commiserations - I managed a 360 on a wet country lane in my Z4M in exactly the circumstances you describe but without the other vehicles around. I had the DSC switched on and neither that nor my frantic arm flailing could do anything to stop the spin.
I've had the back end step out unexpectedly in my S only once so far. It was as a consequence of an over enthusiastic upshift from first to second with too much gas before the clutch was fully engaged and on a wet road.
I'm also in danger of thinking the S is predictable at the limit and then finding myself caught by surprise. Good luck with your new car.

 

This advice saved my bacon after 6 months of ownership (and a few times since, especially on damp roads and white lines)!

And whilst I'm quoting Mr G, here's another pearl of wisdom from the wise ans sage one; "the S2000 is like a disciplinarian teacher, the minute it catches you looking out of the window in class it WILL chuck the board rubber at your head". Wise words for us all

Glad you're OK, the S is an incredibly strong car, I'm always amazed how much protection they offer the passengers considering the age of the design and the lack of passive/active safety systems.

 

Friend wrapped his M 2 weekends ago. Currently sat in BM waiting to be fixed. RWD, wet, cold, same old story,

 

Trudat.

If you're VTECcing out of wet bends in 2nd gear, chances are you're concentrating like it's a track day.

Start daydreaming and in the words of Deep Purple, wait for the ricochet...

 

I heard about your accident at few weeks back from the guys at Auto-Serve. Was so sorry to hear it; I really loved your car.

Good luck with the Celica!

 

Was thinking about this post whilst driving as just put car on the road after winter..
Take some getting used to again forgot the power to weight and is a such a handful and gear change needs learning all over forgot how very difficult the car is to drive from a FWD

 

and these aee much more benign than an S2

I can drift the BM all day, i can drift the S2 for about 1s at 10 degress

Your lotus is also a bit of a widowmaker according to reports

 

My ST220 is scary some times too... oversteers too much for such a big saloon... I find it more complicated to drive it than the Honda as well as more forgiving because of the ESP. It takes some time for me when I drive FWD to accelerate pretty early during cornering. Lift off oversteer occurs pretty often if I am not concentrated; and in such a FWD boat is scary tho...