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meat · 12-01-2003, 05:55 PM

IMHO, my Exige has the best steering feel I have ever experienced. It tells you exactly what it is doing - right now. There is no delay, no wondering. The rear starts to come out under trail-braking and you just steer into it ever so slightly and nail the throttle and life is good again!

Around the paddock the steering is a bit heavy, but you get used to it. At speed, you really don't even notice that you don't have power steering.

When my friend first got his 190S (before I had my Exige) and I would drive it, I would also feel like the rear was coming around before it really was. I think this "feeling" might be inherent to new drivers of mid-engined cars. The physics are different and you really need be more smooth than even with a car like the S2000.

12-01-2003, 05:55 PM	#32 (permalink)
meat Registered User Join Date: May 2003 Location: Chicago Posts: 1,207 Images: 3	IMHO, my Exige has the best steering feel I have ever experienced. It tells you exactly what it is doing - right now. There is no delay, no wondering. The rear starts to come out under trail-braking and you just steer into it ever so slightly and nail the throttle and life is good again! Around the paddock the steering is a bit heavy, but you get used to it. At speed, you really don't even notice that you don't have power steering. When my friend first got his 190S (before I had my Exige) and I would drive it, I would also feel like the rear was coming around before it really was. I think this "feeling" might be inherent to new drivers of mid-engined cars. The physics are different and you really need be more smooth than even with a car like the S2000.