Hooning and lift-off oversteer

[entropy]

Yay or nay?

[mrmr96]

entropy said:

Yay or nay?

How about: WTF?

[Baryonyx]

Lift off oversteer? What about it?

[Bear Phils]

[robmlufc]

[Rawwr]

Time and a place.

[anonymous-user]

[Captain Muppet]

[troll]

Not as much fun as real oversteer.

[/troll]

[ant leigh]

The driver
The passenger

[Baryonyx]

If you meant to do it, fine, if you didn't mean it...

My old mk5 Fiesta Zetec S was pretty good at this. Coming off the throttle lightly on a roundabout or a corner was often just enough to gently tip up a back wheel and pull the front end through. Probably the last time Ford made a car light enough to do that in!

[civicduty]

Discovered in a Corsa B after missing exit on a fairly large roundabout without traffic lights, then going all the way round whilst geting faster get back to my exit, lifting off and then wondering why I was navigating out of the side window. Missus not impressed

[Mr2Mike]

I say yes, unpredictable lift off oversteer spoils hooning. That was the question wasn't it?

[r1ch]

I'm sensible/boring, so i tend to stay away from LOOS in the 205.

[ant leigh]

Mr2Mike said:

I say yes, unpredictable lift off oversteer spoils hooning. That was the question wasn't it?

Predictable though, adds to the hoon.

[Captain Muppet]

doogz said:

Captain Muppet said:

[troll]

Not as much fun as real oversteer.

[/troll]

I don't think that's trolling. I agree. Apart, maybe, from your use of the word 'real'.

My car will do both 'types', and one is more fun than the other. Although one often leads to the other too.

Just the "real" was trolling. I'm happy initiating oversteer with a dirt drop, shift lock, clutch kick, scandi-flick, a well timed turn of the wheel over a crest, handbrake, power or lifting off.

However I'm very unlikely to use most of those on a hoon, because one of my favourite things about driving is not being locked up so I can keep doing it.

Extending the slide with power is the easy bit, but also the most fun bit (unless you're trying to scare passengers, in which case it's scandi-flick every time).


I'm now dreading some anti-elitist calling me a driving god.