How to Use understeer in a Sentence

understeer

noun

• Instead of steady understeer, the X5 M is playful and works all its tires hard, not just the fronts.
  — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 7 Feb. 2022
• Robby cuts the wheel toward the apex of Turn 1, corrects a moment of understeer, and powers out to the edge of the track with tires howling.
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 17 Nov. 2015
• Oversteer and understeer are dealt with during the Drifting course.
  — Kyle Edward, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
• But an overriding sense of safe understeer at the limit is always present.
  — Scott Oldham, Car and Driver, 28 Feb. 2020
• Pressed hard, its secure front-wheel-drive grip gives way to predictable, benign understeer.
  — Martin Padgett Jr., Car and Driver, 15 June 2020
• Add some throttle with your steering lock—which in a nose-heavy all-wheel-drive car would normally result in tragic understeer—and the rear end will start to swing wide while the front holds the line.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 11 Nov. 2020
• Our test driver noted tire chatter and understeer on both cars.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 11 Sep. 2017
• We were given a direction from the sim in terms in where to go [with setup] to try and help our understeer and rear instability.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 9 Aug. 2018
• At higher speeds, pressing harder tips the car into gentle understeer, while easing off tucks the nose in.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 15 June 2022
• Both understeer and steering effort increase noticeably when the center and rear diffs are locked.
  — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 22 May 2020
• 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
• Thanks to plenty of steadying understeer, even drivers of modest talent will find the Reatta difficult to upset in hard corners.
  — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 27 Nov. 2020
• The Ariya system stands out in its ability to reduce understeer and the front-end diving that occurs while coming to a stop by moving the stopping power to the rear wheels instead of relying heavily on the front.
  — Roberto Baldwin, The Verge, 20 Mar. 2023
• Charging into corners, when a front-engine car could be expected to understeer, the Portofino turns in crisply, providing the steering feedback needed to balance the car through the turn with the steering, brakes, and throttle.
  — Dan Carney, Popular Science, 23 Mar. 2020
• Thanks in part to four-wheel steering, that temperamental looseness provides an ever-present reminder of understeer and its consequence: the spin out.
  — Robert Duffer, chicagotribune.com, 2 Oct. 2017
• The rear suspension loses some dynamism with a torsion beam setup replacing the multilink system to save weight, space and cost, and there will always be a whole lot of understeer in tight corners from a front-wheel-drive car.
  — Robert Duffer, chicagotribune.com, 22 May 2018
• There’s new rear damper mounts on hand as well, which are 18 percent stiffer than the previous units, working in conjunction with the re-tuned shocks to help reduce understeer while allowing for greater corner entry and exit speeds.
  — Bradley Iger, Robb Report, 5 Mar. 2021
• Punch the gas out of corners and the system resists power understeer by shifting torque rearward, which then is split side to side by its torque-vectoring rear differential to create a rear-steer effect.
  — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 20 May 2021
• Torque is again focused to the rear, but the electronics are tuned to nearly eliminate dreaded understeer and twitchy oversteer for the fastest possible velocity around a corner.
  — Michael Harley, Forbes, 2 June 2022
• The Tonale resists understeer impressively well, too, with the Pirelli P Zero tires finding plentiful adhesion and biting hard in tighter turns.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 5 May 2022
• 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
• While the Senna applies the brakes to each wheel independently to help rotate the car into corners, lower speed bends still require proper weight transfer techniques to load up the front tires and avoid speed-sapping understeer.
  — Basem Wasef, WIRED, 30 June 2018
• There is a good deal of body roll and a bit of understeer during particularly hard cornering, but the car is never less than completely communicative.
  — Matthew Phenix, WIRED, 14 Jan. 2008
• The Maverick manages a not-terrible 0.81 g on the skidpad, but attaining that number requires torturing the front tires with drastic understeer.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 27 May 2022
• The engineers claim to have eliminated the 911's typical front axle lift/power-on understeer through redesign of front oil-cooler intake and venting, together with a new front splitter.
  — Eric Tegler, Ars Technica, 24 Aug. 2018
• All eleven of our affordable sportsters drive their front wheels, which typically makes a car benign—if not always lively—in hard cornering, thanks to protective understeer.
  — Kevin Smith, Car and Driver, 4 Mar. 2023
• Amazingly enough, the Riviera doesn't signal its traction limits by falling into a crippling understeer.
  — Don Sherman, Car and Driver, 8 Mar. 2023
• Hinchcliffe’s car suffered some understeer going through Turns 1 and 2 following Rosenqvist.
  — Christopher Deharde, The Indianapolis Star, 2 May 2021
• Power into a turn and the Turbo understeers resolutely, its tail remaining safely planted no matter the throttle setting or g-load.
  — Arthur St. Antoine, Car and Driver, 17 July 2023
• On the other hand, understeer is reasonably well controlled even when going nine-tenths, the chassis feels well balanced during cornering, and the directional stability is hard to fault too.
  — Georg Kacher, Car and Driver, 12 May 2023

Last Updated: 18 Oct 2024