"Understeer" and "oversteer" and terms we hear and use a lot in the automotive community, and sometimes actually encounter behind the wheel. If you're not completely sure what these words really mean ...

Car control isn’t exactly included in American driver education courses. You’re taught the bare-bones basics, like signaling, lane-changes, acceleration, deceleration, braking, how to turn, and, well, ...

There are times when your car starts "talking" to you. It usually happens when your car is approaching its limits. This phenomenon is called neutral steer or over- and understeer. Under- and oversteer ...

Understeer is one of the most frustrating conditions you can encounter on a race track. It's what happens when you ask your car to turn and it says, "nope," and instead you go wide and blow your apex.

Jonathan loves just about anything with a motor and a steering wheel. As a kid, Jonathan collected any kind of toy car he could lay his hands on, and begged his parents to take him to the monster ...

Dash cam footage from the Nebraska State Patrol captured the terrifying moments when a Jeep hit ice, lost control, swerved from side to side and then tumbled off the road into a ditch. "If there was ...

Understeer is the killer of all fun. Unlike oversteer which is generally quite fun even if unintentional and unexpected, its evil sibling does nothing but suck the fun out of driving. With the right ...

GREER, S.C. — I came here to learn how to chase my tail. If you are lucky, that is what you wind up doing when the back end of your car goes into a seemingly uncontrollable skid. You chase the car’s ...

Snap oversteer is a beast of many names. Some call it just that while others refer to it as throttle-off oversteer, over rotation, lift-off oversteer, and a variety of things that indicate it relates ...