Inconsistent steering

[Skoolbus]

MotorTrend PVOTY Review

One of the issues a tester complained about was inconsistent steering. “Finally, throw a corner or two the Mach-E's way, and it can be damn near impossible to get the Mustang to perform the same way twice. "Entering a tight corner, the Mach-E might take a heavy set on its front outside tire and oversteer," deputy editor Alex Stoklosa said. "Entering the same corner again at the same speed and from the same direction, I experienced gross, unrelenting understeer.”

Has anyone else experienced this inconsistent steering? If so, details would be appreciated.

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[npgeorgeuw]

Um, nope. It just seems to steer. Then again my other "car" is a lifted Jeep Gladiator so maybe I'm immune to terrible steering? All joking aside mine seems to steer fine but I wonder if maybe I'm just not "advanced" enough to notice unlike these testers? Good God, now you got me all paranoid that I'm too vanilla for it now.

 

[iNeedANameHere]

I came from a 2019 Mustang Performance Pack 5.0 and my Mach-E handles turns at almost the same speeds I could in the 5.0. The low center of gravity from the batteries really helps in my opinion. The only thing it could use to really help control / stability is probably some wider tires but that’s an easy thing to fix.

 

[Mach1E]

MotorTrend PVOTY Review

One of the issues a tester complained about was inconsistent steering. “Finally, throw a corner or two the Mach-E's way, and it can be damn near impossible to get the Mustang to perform the same way twice. "Entering a tight corner, the Mach-E might take a heavy set on its front outside tire and oversteer," deputy editor Alex Stoklosa said. "Entering the same corner again at the same speed and from the same direction, I experienced gross, unrelenting understeer.”

Has anyone else experienced this inconsistent steering? If so, details would be appreciated.

Haven’t experienced it. But I (and hopefully no one) drives like that on the street.

Do you plan on tracking your car or trying to drift?

Based on the videos of people drifting (or trying to) in the GTPE I would say the description is accurate though. No one (even pros) seem to be able to get a consistent clean drift because of it switching between under and oversteer.

Could be the stability control never shutting all the way off. Could be just a factor of weight/balance AWD and how it puts down power.

I don’t know that any AWD electric car (except the Mach E 1400) makes for a good consistent drift.

 

[Skoolbus]

Reassuring to know it only behaves that way on the track or with very aggressive driving. I was concerned it might be noticeable with normal driving because although I won’t be tracking or drifting, I do plan on getting in some spirited driving on mountain roads with some tight turns.

 

[sotek2345]

Um, nope. It just seems to steer. Then again my other "car" is a lifted Jeep Gladiator so maybe I'm immune to terrible steering? All joking aside mine seems to steer fine but I wonder if maybe I'm just not "advanced" enough to notice unlike these testers? Good God, now you got me all paranoid that I'm too vanilla for it now.

Try going into corners about 20 mph faster than you are used to in your Jeep.

 

[iNeedANameHere]

Reassuring to know it only behaves that way on the track or with very aggressive driving. I was concerned it might be noticeable with normal driving because although I won’t be tracking or drifting, I do plan on getting in some spirited driving on mountain roads with some tight turns.

You will have lots of fun. There’s always bad reviews of every product somewhere. Enjoy your car!

 

[Ride_the_lightning]

Not sure about the inconsistency, but wider tires improved mine in corners significantly. The stock tires did kind of suck (on the premium. GT comes with wider ones).

 

[Murse-In-Airy]

I always enjoyed throwing my car around corners to slide the back end around a bit. When it was on stock tires anyway. It felt predictably the same when I did it.
Now I have wider tires and it is t easy to accomplish o dry pavement.

 

[highland58]

I'm hoping that somebody here gets the sway bar that was talked about in another thread, (steeda?) and tests it out. That might help the issue the OP is talking about.

 

[RedStallion]

I didn't try doing donuts or any crazy stuff. Just my observation is that my car (AWD) tends to slightly oversteer and when trying to push it further makes it wiggle its rear end like a fat Las Vegas hooker. ?

 

[Caramel]

I don't track mine, but I have no problems with inconsistency during daily driving, even (relatively) spirited driving. Truly spirited driving will have to wait until a day without snow on the ground and free time coincide!

 

[Stang68]

Reassuring to know it only behaves that way on the track or with very aggressive driving. I was concerned it might be noticeable with normal driving because although I won’t be tracking or drifting, I do plan on getting in some spirited driving on mountain roads with some tight turns.

Yeah I wouldn’t worry to much about this car on public roads. You’ll have a ton of fun driving it on mountain roads.

And funny how tough Motor Trend was on the GT here (then again they’re basing this on the Performance Vehicle of the Year testing so that may be different standards) because they really do love the GTPE in general:
https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/...h-e-gt-performance-edition-first-test-review/

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