bah, i can do a mean 10 foot burnout in my FWD beast.

 

E-Brake FTW :run:

 

That completely negates my low end torque.

 

one tire fires?

 

No way dude, I light both them bitches up. Two halfshafts ftw.

 

Quoting since nobody else responded.

And we both drive Miatas.

But yeah, since there's still an undercurrent of "torquesteer bad" going on, yeah, the car's engine management is in fact tuned to limit output based on steering angle and gear selected.

 

Looks like a fun little car.

 

so you're saying it sucks pretty much

 

No, I don't think so. Mazda just tried to minimize the torque steer problem.

 

Excerpted from the generally favorable Car & Driver review:

"As for the torque steer, Mazda knew it would be Oscar winning. So it wrote the engine-control software with a nuance that links the engine’s output with steering-wheel angle. Boot it with the front wheels centered, and you get the whole can of Spam. If the helm is turned a few degrees left or right, the computer backs off the throttle a couple of percentage points to relax the sideways tug on the nose. This car also comes with Super LSD, which we were dismayed to learn is perfectly legal. It’s the GKN-supplied mechanical limited-slip differential borrowed from the RX-8.
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When the specs were revealed, my skeptical gland went into overdrive. These guys are gonna put 263 horsepower in a small front-drive car? Without having the thing snatch the steering wheel out of your hands every time you tramp on the gas? Uh-huh. Saab tried to make a manly virtue out of demonic torque steer with the Viggen. Yeah, it’s a little unruly, but keeping it pointed straight is half the fun. Hey, who needs it? But in this case it turns out my skepticism was unwarranted. Mazda seems to have shackled the torque-steer demon, pretty much, in a car that looks cool, drives hot, and is priced to go. Wow. How do you say GTI in Japanese?"