How to Use oversteer in a Sentence

oversteer

noun

• The mighty engine has more than enough urge to overwhelm the rear tires and send the STO into lurid oversteer.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 25 Nov. 2020
• The rear-drive dynamic allows for oversteer with a blip of the throttle.
  — Tom Voelk, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2016
• The quickest lap came on the third session, and the by-then scrubbed-up tires contributed to a startling amount of turn-in oversteer that robbed some time.
  — Dave Vanderwerp, Car and Driver, 7 Feb. 2022
• Power oversteer is now pretty much out of the question, but that isn't entirely a bad thing.
  — Dave Vanderwerp, Car and Driver, 19 June 2020
• Better yet, Lexus's coupe gladly hangs out its tail to display the balanced power oversteer of a potent rear-drive machine.
  — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 26 June 2020
• Better yet, in the Nevera, oversteer and understeer don’t exist.
  — cleveland, 10 Dec. 2022
• The second mode is a Drift mode, which sets up the all-wheel-drive system and stability control to allow for some delightful oversteer.
  — David Beard, Car and Driver, 9 Aug. 2021
• The steering is a little wooden-feeling at times—too slow, a bit too heavy, and slightly numb to the touch—but any front-driver that can be cajoled into oversteer is all right by us.
  — Don Sherman, Car and Driver, 22 Feb. 2023
• Choosing between torque steer and oversteer is an easy decision.
  — Dave Vanderwerp, Car and Driver, 29 Nov. 2021
• Without it, power-on oversteer is a danger on anything slicker than bone-dry asphalt.
  — Frank Markus, Car and Driver, 6 Aug. 2020
• The system is tuned to favor sending engine torque to the rear axle, meaning throttle-on oversteer is still always available at the aggressive flex of a right ankle.
  — Alexander Stoklosa, Car and Driver, 10 Feb. 2018
• The first part of the turn is dispatched without drama, but as Moers feeds the power back in, there is a flare of revs, a jolt of oversteer, and the sudden application of some corrective steering lock.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 21 July 2021
• Its bespoke Pirelli P-Zero tires grip hard, then break away progressively as the car edges into playful oversteer.
  — Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 23 June 2021
• Foot to the floor acceleration through the curve and slalom resulted in just smooth, neutral handling with no oversteer or understeer and no jerking of the car around as the brakes shifted from side to side.
  — Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
• And oversteer never feels more than an indelicate throttle-prod away, especially on damp roads and with modest tires.
  — Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 31 May 2022
• Easing off the accelerator persuades the car to rotate and tighten its line neatly, and snapping the throttle shut with enough lateral load can even bring modest oversteer.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 2 Dec. 2021
• The result was that the car tended to oversteer (tail-wag) if the correct tire pressures of 15 psi front and 26 psi rear weren’t observed, but the oversteering situation was considered minimal and not dangerous.
  — David Krumboltz, The Mercury News, 24 June 2019
• My goal was simple: master a vehicle's understeer and oversteer and gain the confidence to drive in treacherous conditions.
  — Morgan Korn, ABC News, 15 Feb. 2020
• The cornering response is then linear, with a noticeable bias toward oversteer that encourages tail-out driving.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 1 Feb. 2023
• Single Motor trim, which can almost create Porsche 911-esque throttle-liftoff oversteer due to the front-wheel regen and often becomes a handful during aggressive driving.
  — Michael Van Runkle, Robb Report, 2 Dec. 2022
• In Tour mode, throttle response is mellower, and the prototype's stability-control system could be felt working to quell both understeer and oversteer.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 8 Mar. 2022
• And while the more potent rear motor seems like a power-oversteer dream, the only partially defeatable stability control awakens you to a less fun reality.
  — Dave Vanderwerp, Car and Driver, 8 Dec. 2022
• Students will learn emergency braking and skid control, how to control unintended oversteer and understeer and how to avoid accidents.
  — Jeff Yip, Houston Chronicle, 25 Apr. 2018
• This mode reduces the ESP intervention threshold and uses the torque-biasing rear differential to allow a driver to achieve (and hold) impressive angles of power oversteer.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 19 Aug. 2022
• Its electronic torque-vectoring rear differential does an admirable job getting the power down, and the stability system's Track mode loosens the reins nicely, allowing for some oversteer.
  — Scott Oldham, Car and Driver, 2 Oct. 2020
• In Comfort mode, there's simply an invisible guardrail preventing power oversteer.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 19 Dec. 2021
• The driver sits more or less at the polar center, so the car rotates about its center axis from what's effectively the driver's position, equalizing any yaw effects of understeer or oversteer and increasing the feeling of connectedness.
  — Jim Resnick, Ars Technica, 25 Feb. 2020
• The lesser car's active differential pushes torque to the outside wheel during enthusiastic cornering, producing an entertaining sense of impending oversteer even short of the point at which the rear tires actually run out of grip.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 11 May 2022
• Traditional rear-wheel drive driving dynamics, which allow oversteer to be effortless induced with the accelerator pedal, are also more natural for a driving enthusiast.
  — Michael Harley, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
• The stability control also has a more permissive Sport function, which allows significant power oversteer before intervening.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 14 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024