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Velociphile - No longer in the building
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Interesting insight

Not sure what bias ratio was chosen but this torsen is 'tight' in full lock turns. Also the rear brakes activate to control the 'slipping' wheel if needed when this happens on looser surfaces. This can feel clunky but is normal.
Not sure what tyres you had but the stock grip is deliberately 'low' exposing the driver to the handling earlier. Sadly the knife edge breakaway of the Primacy's (especially when cold/winter) were not Tada's choice but a corporate greenwash one ("look our new sportscar has the same tyres as our Prius", along with production economy of scale), he preferring the equal grip but more progressive Yoko DB70s. The car is very responsive to different corner entry techniques, yielding understeer with a gentle turn rate up to immediate roll oversteer for the trail braker or those with more aggressive wheel work. I think the problem is 99% of potential buyers just don't get any of this and can buy a faster, easier to drive car for a lot less. It is certainly overpriced, fortunately the poor sales meant phat discounts were easy to come by. I think the problem Toyota has with it now is that everyone who wanted one now has one.
Nice choice with the 328, but that's a completely different beast, old school six and 400ish kg heavier for a start Credit to BMW though, they design their cars to handle first and use the DSC second unlike some brands I could mention.
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