Originally Posted by
foreigneRS
you have to apply science. it governs the world we live in. cars do things according to the laws of physics. we may not understand how something as complex as a car at speed is being affected by them in detail, but it is.
as you say, it's complex as aerodynamics plays a large part at speed but we can understand what might be happening with suspension geometry and maybe do things with that to improve stability with things like castor, toe-in, squat etc.
Unfortunately I don't own a wind tunnel or anywhere I can apply actual science and measure it though.
I just know how my car feels under those circumstances, and how a car will feel under those 3 conditions, and with other cars I have owned.
Many will say a Mini ( proper Mini ) feels dangerous at say 100mph when held at that speed, and to be fair they are probably correct if that's the upper limit of that vehicle.
On the other hand, I'd say at 100mph under hard acceleration to, at and beyond that speed...if we ignore torque steer for as second and assume it has good traction at that speed, a Mini feels very stable at and far beyond that speed.
Now I wouldnt want to go around many corners, but straight line and no sidewinds etc to contend with, it will feel stable even accelerating past 100, 110, 120, 130, 140mph.
Slowing down on the other hand not quite so much.
But same again, I wouldnt want to try and maintain say 130-140mph over any distance in one.