"Understeer" and "oversteer" and terms we hear and use a lot in the automotive community, and sometimes actually encounter behind the wheel. If you're not completely sure what these words really mean ...

Car control isn’t exactly included in American driver education courses. You’re taught the bare-bones basics, like signaling, lane-changes, acceleration, deceleration, braking, how to turn, and, well, ...

There are times when your car starts "talking" to you. It usually happens when your car is approaching its limits. This phenomenon is called neutral steer or over- and understeer. Under- and oversteer ...

Hello Trony, understeer and oversteer are terms used to describe the sensitivity of a vehicle to steering and how it affects the vehicle’s forward movement. Understeer is when a vehicle turns less ...

Snap oversteer is a beast of many names. Some call it just that while others refer to it as throttle-off oversteer, over rotation, lift-off oversteer, and a variety of things that indicate it relates ...

GREER, S.C. — I came here to learn how to chase my tail. If you are lucky, that is what you wind up doing when the back end of your car goes into a seemingly uncontrollable skid. You chase the car’s ...

The calendar says Spring is a couple of months off, so common sense is still needed when it comes to our vehicles. And while you should have taken care of this back in the fall, the fundamentals are ...

Understeer is one of the most frustrating conditions you can encounter on a race track. It's what happens when you ask your car to turn and it says, "nope," and instead you go wide and blow your apex.

Dash cam footage from the Nebraska State Patrol captured the terrifying moments when a Jeep hit ice, lost control, swerved from side to side and then tumbled off the road into a ditch. "If there was ...