Originally Posted by
Loren
For every person who complains of numb steering, if it were properly "responsive", there would be 5 who would complain that it was too wandery or unstable or didn't track straight or was too hard to steer or didn't ride smoothly enough. Such is the nature of this market segment.
If you want crisp steering in this kind of car, your first modification is tires. Narrow eco-rated tires are not intended to be responsive. Then you can add a rear swaybar. If that's not enough, you go for shocks. But, it's hard to blame the car makers... they're designing a car to appeal to the masses. (as best they can while still achieving their design goals) Mitsubishi must be doing something right, they've sold 100,000 of them in the US.
Everything is a compromise.
I don't think I mean the same thing when it comes to steering. I don't have a problem with the responsiveness of the steering. What I have an issue with is that you can't feel the tires pushing back through the steering -- you can't physically feel how much you are turning through the wheel. (On the other hand, the body (by default) gives too much of that kind of feedback, but I digress.)
I think this is partially due to the electronic steering. Since the iQ also has electronic steering, I have to assume that there is some mechanism added to give more feedback to the steering wheel.
At least for the 2018 Mirage I have, I don't have as much issue with the body roll as I do with the steering feel. The car does have more body roll than I'd like, but the car seems more planted than you'd expect for the amount of body roll.
Gee, physical sensations are difficult to describe verbally.
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