jg, dragula, I agree with both of you, even when talking about a front engine/fwd car.
Most manufacturers build in a fair amount of understeer because it is more controllable by your average run of the mill driver - oversteer is a horse of a different color! Even on Sports Car Revolution on Speed Channel, as they were building their season long Acura RSX project car (front engine/FWD) they cautioned on the use of an overly agressive rear anti-sway bar as it would elimate the understeer and induce oversteer. In their words "something you DON'T want on the street".
The big question is - how agressive do you have to go to eliminate the high degree of understeer in the DNA of a front engine/FWD car? Are we even coming close to doing this with anybody's aftermarket anti-sways bars? I would hope that none of them are that agressive.
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