Miata Mailing List: December 1993, Message #150
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   From: Edward.P.Lewis@gsfc.nasa.gov (The Easter Bunny 286-3047)
Subject: Re:Miata brakes, tires
   Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1993 16:01:29 -0500

Recently I was driving a friend on a rainy night to a store.  Cornering a
90 degree turn at, oh, about the blinding speed of 3 mph, she thought the
car was sliding.  (She doesn't trust anything as small as a Miata, hence we
are not dating.  And I guess her husband wouldn't like our dating much
either. ;-() )  I didn't even notice the alleged slide.

All this talk about oversteer/understeer made me wonder if this is what
happened then.  I have never (outside of rental cars) ever driven a front
wheel car - 77 Malibu, 86 S-10, 92 Miata, and a 94 Dakota.  I guess what
some consider oversteer I consider normal.  If someone wants to type a bit,
could anyone explain to me (not necessarily through the list) what
oversteer refers too?


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"Yeah, and if a frog had wings, it wouldn't bump its rear 
when it jumped" -
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