Nice piece by Dan Carney in the September issue of my favorite car mag, SCI. A few new (to me) tidbits:
- the bodywork has "an irregular surface that is visibly wavy at ten paces"
- rigidity is an impressive 9,500 Nm per degree of deflection
- author felt quicker-ratio power steering woud've been better on the "very tight" autocross course at Barber, but on the road course and the street the manual steering was "perfect"
- "with the Sport Pack the ride is not noticeably degraded"
- "extremely tolerant of mid-corner corrections" (base or LSS)
- "With either suspension, the car exhibits mild understeer at turn-in" (later states LSS wider fronts neutralize most of this)
- "Despite...low polar moment of inertia, it's easy to catch slides"
The rest is mostly another confirmation of the great stuff we've already heard, albeit a fairly detailed and comprehensive one. They've got a nice directly overhead shot of a green car I hadn't seen before. In the next issue, apparently they're going to do a comparison test with other roadsters. No mention of an SE-R, though.
Sorry, no scanner.
- the bodywork has "an irregular surface that is visibly wavy at ten paces"
- rigidity is an impressive 9,500 Nm per degree of deflection
- author felt quicker-ratio power steering woud've been better on the "very tight" autocross course at Barber, but on the road course and the street the manual steering was "perfect"
- "with the Sport Pack the ride is not noticeably degraded"
- "extremely tolerant of mid-corner corrections" (base or LSS)
- "With either suspension, the car exhibits mild understeer at turn-in" (later states LSS wider fronts neutralize most of this)
- "Despite...low polar moment of inertia, it's easy to catch slides"
The rest is mostly another confirmation of the great stuff we've already heard, albeit a fairly detailed and comprehensive one. They've got a nice directly overhead shot of a green car I hadn't seen before. In the next issue, apparently they're going to do a comparison test with other roadsters. No mention of an SE-R, though.
Sorry, no scanner.