How to Use understeer in a Sentence

understeer

noun

• Our test driver noted tire chatter and understeer on both cars.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 11 Sep. 2017
• Pressed hard, its secure front-wheel-drive grip gives way to predictable, benign understeer.
  — Martin Padgett Jr., Car and Driver, 15 June 2020
• But an overriding sense of safe understeer at the limit is always present.
  — Scott Oldham, Car and Driver, 28 Feb. 2020
• Oversteer and understeer are dealt with during the Drifting course.
  — Kyle Edward, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
• Instead of steady understeer, the X5 M is playful and works all its tires hard, not just the fronts.
  — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 7 Feb. 2022
• At this point, the foils can lose grip in the water, much like the feeling of understeer or oversteer when cornering at high speed in a car.
  — Andrew Rice, New York Times, 7 May 2026
• At higher speeds, pressing harder tips the car into gentle understeer, while easing off tucks the nose in.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 15 June 2022
• On a tight corner the wheels need to turn at different speeds but can’t, so that causes problems like wheelspin or understeer.
  — New Atlas, 24 Feb. 2026
• Both understeer and steering effort increase noticeably when the center and rear diffs are locked.
  — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 22 May 2020
• We were given a direction from the sim in terms in where to go [with setup] to try and help our understeer and rear instability.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 9 Aug. 2018
• But at first, the 4x4 drivetrain suffered from horrid understeer in tight corners.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 16 Oct. 2023
• Leclerc blamed the poor brakes on his car for his crash, but the fact that his left front wheel was covered in broken bits of tarmac seems a more likely cause of his terminal understeer.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 8 June 2026
• Robby cuts the wheel toward the apex of Turn 1, corrects a moment of understeer, and powers out to the edge of the track with tires howling.
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 17 Nov. 2015
• There wasn't much body roll, but your progress will be limited by the grip available to the low rolling-resistance tires—push too hard and the result is plenty of understeer.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
• For example, immediate e-power kicks in on the front to pull you out of a turn, banishing any potential understeer.
  — Jeremy White, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2023
• Add some throttle with your steering lock—which in a nose-heavy all-wheel-drive car would normally result in tragic understeer—and the rear end will start to swing wide while the front holds the line.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 11 Nov. 2020
• In addition to its low drag coefficient, the new body has little aerodynamic lift, with slightly more in front than in back to promote high-speed understeer.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 28 July 2023
• The suspension upgrades have helped reduce understeer by 12 percent while improving ride and body control.
  — Angus MacKenzie, Robb Report, 12 May 2024
• Thanks to plenty of steadying understeer, even drivers of modest talent will find the Reatta difficult to upset in hard corners.
  — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 27 Nov. 2020
• There is a good deal of body roll and a bit of understeer during particularly hard cornering, but the car is never less than completely communicative.
  — Matthew Phenix, WIRED, 14 Jan. 2008
• Foot to the floor acceleration through the curve and slalom resulted in just smooth, neutral handling with no oversteer or understeer and no jerking of the car around as the brakes shifted from side to side.
  — Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
• Students will learn emergency braking and skid control, how to control unintended oversteer and understeer and how to avoid accidents.
  — Jeff Yip, Houston Chronicle, 25 Apr. 2018
• Amazingly enough, the Riviera doesn't signal its traction limits by falling into a crippling understeer.
  — Don Sherman, Car and Driver, 8 Mar. 2023
• All eleven of our affordable sportsters drive their front wheels, which typically makes a car benign—if not always lively—in hard cornering, thanks to protective understeer.
  — Kevin Smith, Car and Driver, 4 Mar. 2023
• Power into a turn and the Turbo understeers resolutely, its tail remaining safely planted no matter the throttle setting or g-load.
  — Arthur St. Antoine, Car and Driver, 17 July 2023
• Hinchcliffe’s car suffered some understeer going through Turns 1 and 2 following Rosenqvist.
  — Christopher Deharde, The Indianapolis Star, 2 May 2021
• The rear suspension loses some dynamism with a torsion beam setup replacing the multilink system to save weight, space and cost, and there will always be a whole lot of understeer in tight corners from a front-wheel-drive car.
  — Robert Duffer, chicagotribune.com, 22 May 2018
• On the other hand, understeer is reasonably well controlled even when going nine-tenths, the chassis feels well balanced during cornering, and the directional stability is hard to fault too.
  — Georg Kacher, Car and Driver, 12 May 2023
• The iX1's steering is completely devoid of low-speed feedback, and its front-biased handling balance is easily powered into understeer.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 9 Nov. 2022
• McLaren had earlier tweaked the front wing angles on both cars after initial runs, with Piastri reporting understeer before improving.
  — Alex Harrington, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025