Most Uncontrollable Car

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grrlpurple
Lotus Elise with comfort hard tyres on! Top Gear Challenge anyone?
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Do you really want to get shot!?
Why would you remind anyone of that?! W-H-Y!?
*loads shotgun*
 
grrlpurple
Lotus Elise with comfort hard tyres on! Top Gear Challenge anyone?
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That was a despicable race, I got gold after about 50 tries then repeatedly hit myself in the head to lose any memory of them times.
 
The worst part of doing these Endurance races, is that on the final hour you get a count-down timer, so you know exactly how much more you need to suffer!
It's worse than torture!
 
savage388
The yellow bird and all older 911's oversteered like that because of the power and weight over the rear wheels. the yellow bird seems worse because it has so much power. All in all the yellow bird isn't bad to drive you just can't be stupid with the throttle.
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Driving the Yellowbird around the 'Ring on whatever tyres it comes on as standard, using a wheel and pedals, is one of GT5's best moments. Incredibly hard work but massively rewarding when you get it right. You need to be very careful on the throttle and incredibly quick on the steering inputs but it's definitely worth it for the challenge.
 
I say the most expensive premium Mercedes. It just can't turn (at least when fully tuned), once I fully tuned it I thought I could have a great spin at the Nurburgring, and oh I was dead wrong.
 
Biobunny
I say the most expensive premium Mercedes. It just can't turn (at least when fully tuned), once I fully tuned it I thought I could have a great spin at the Nurburgring, and oh I was dead wrong.
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I agree with the SLR but I love my SLS
 
Well I must say that the Lotus (Elise is it?) on the Top Gear test track special event is a bit tricky, especially in that first turn where you have to break almost all the way down and into the turn (can't remember the name of the turn).

It just WANTS to go sideways. :lol:

But I think I'll go home after work and buy the RUF, since so many thinks that is the most uncontrollable. The heading here should have read "The Uncontrollables". :D
 
For me, probably the shelby Cobra. You turn in, crazy understeer. You touch the throttle, crazy oversteer. It just goes wherever the hell it wants. Feels like taking your bear out for a walk.
 
Yellowbird us an absolute dream to drive. Don't know what the heck you guys are talking about cause I smashed a mclaren MP4-12c with it
 
H0urg1ass
Well that's just sanctimonious elitism talking.

There are a lot of cars in this game that have driving characteristics that don't come anywhere near to matching their RL counterparts, the Gallardo comes very quickly to mind. In those instances, such as the FGT, you practically require the driving aids just to bring them back in line with reality.

If I had to pick a car, then I would have to say it's the Gallardo. Good Lord that thing is uncontrollable. I spent hours attempting to tune that car and drive it without driving aids and I finally gave up and just threw TC 5 on there and set the Active Steering at Strong.

Funny thing is, the Gallardo is perfectly fine until you fully tune it. I didn't have any problems until I did the stage 3 weight and stage 3 engine tuning and then it suddenly wanted to be a helicopter instead of a car.
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Ha ha, yes a fully tuned Gallardo needs some subtle massaging in the right places otherwise the front and the back want to travel at different speeds.

I would assume this thread would be about cars which are fully or near fully modded. Most cars handle their factory horse power without much trouble.
 
X1 is awful i think, with a DS3 its impossible to drive it as fast as it can go without overcontrolling, with a wheel it may be easier to hit apexes at the speeds its capable of but not with a DS3.
 
I've picked up a YellowBird today, tried it stock with no aids but ABS. And I'll say this now...I've seen worse.

It does slide everywhere, but it doesn't slide wildly. I could keep it under control relatively well, although going into a fast long turn would be a guaranteed recipe for disaster :lol:

I think probably the most uncontrollable car is the 1970 Mustang Trans-Cammer. It's not really how uncontrollable it is, but rather how fast it wears out its tyres. I did a race on Nurb 24h, 1 lap, and I was out of rear tyres before I even reached Schwalbenschwanz. :crazy: Then it becomes a total wreck.
 
The dodge viper acr, it has more understeer than a bus, and has brakes from a fiat panda. With TCS off you get catastrophic tire spin all the way to 5th gear, even on racing softs. I guess the fact that mine has over 1000hp doesn't help...
 
Joneseydrifts
The dodge viper acr, it has more understeer than a bus, and has brakes from a fiat panda. With TCS off you get catastrophic tire spin all the way to 5th gear, even on racing softs. I guess the fact that mine has over 1000hp doesn't help...
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Mine doesn't spin past second gear. ;)

I think the RUF has already been mentioned, a truly awful handling car in the game, The Art Morrison is pretty awful if I don't say so myself.
 
CCXRacer
Only because of comfort tires, really. Tune 'em up and they are some of the best handling cars.
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With Comfort Soft, the Lotus Elise is a cinch to drive but in the Top Gear Challenge, it's Comfort Hard which makes any MR car a bitch to drive because almost every MR known to men (and women) are prone to exit lift-off oversteer (and skittish tire will only exaggerate it further) which is actually needed to counter MR inherent understeer (which is what happen when the engine is placed further behind the front wheels).

Since I've discovered the joy of Standard cars (about one and half week ago and over six months into daily use of the game), I've been buying older late 60s and early 70s cars. Everything from Alpine Renault, the early Skylines, Lotus, Marcos, Stratos etc. Even with Comfort Hard (CH) though challenging, it's not without fun or pleasure. If I were to vote for a car it would be the Alpine A310 as the hardest car to handle a corner with. Though I've yet to drive it with anything other than CH. The Stratos oversteers just as much although there's much more information in the steering that you can tell when you're supposed to counter-steer. With the Alpine, it's all down to instinct.
 
mykem
With Comfort Soft, the Lotus Elise is a cinch to drive but in the Top Gear Challenge, it's Comfort Hard which makes any MR car a bitch to drive because almost every MR known to men (and women) are prone to exit lift-off oversteer (and skittish tire will only exaggerate it further) which is actually needed to counter MR inherent understeer (which is what happen when the engine is placed further behind the front wheels).

Since I've discovered the joy of Standard cars (about one and half week ago and over six months into daily use of the game), I've been buying older late 60s and early 70s cars. Everything from Alpine Renault, the early Skylines, Lotus, Marcos, Stratos etc. Even with Comfort Hard (CH) though challenging, it's not without fun or pleasure. If I were to vote for a car it would be the Alpine A310 as the hardest car to handle a corner with. Though I've yet to drive it with anything other than CH. The Stratos oversteers just as much although there's much more information in the steering that you can tell when you're supposed to counter-steer. With the Alpine, it's all down to instinct.
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Well, that makes sense :)
 

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