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Originally Posted by JWDnl
Try the car on a circuit, you will learn that the the car is extremely stable but only limited by it's front tires (fool proof), understeer is acceptable but you can not really correct it by throwing in some oversteer (more power) because of the rear that has way, wayyyy more grip than the front.
The only real reason that you cannot drift the car is that the front always loses from the rear.
I'm sure that 95% of the i8 buyers couldn't be bothered less with above facts but I keep wondering how the car would handle with slightly bigger/normal front tires.
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That's what the other cars are for
. Anyone buying an i8 as a track weapon is going to be severely disappointed. I see taking it to the track as a novelty; something I wouldn't buy a new set of tires to do once. That doesn't mean people aren't going to but I hope they go in eyes open, knowing the experience is always going to be compromised to something like a GT3 or even a factory M car. The understeer they engineer into almost every car is because the natural reaction from 99% of the population is applying the brakes which transfers weight to the front loading up the front tires and increasing traction. Super safe, not much fun.
That's not to say I'm disinterested in finding out what others discover with other tires but I won't be looking for another performance tire until the factory ones are worn out.