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Originally Posted by Alpha1BC
Right, but keep in mind most publicized reviews are likely done with the factory alignment, not necessarily the track alignment. Both cars have an understeer tendency out of the box. The track alignment (which you'll definitely want to keep from destroying the outside shoulders of your tires on the track) makes the camber much more negative in the front resulting in a nearly neutral setup on both. Not that camber is the only factor, but it's definitely significant. Take that and throw more capable front tires on and you get more of an oversteer tendency if you don't change anything else. There's always more alignment or spring/roll bar mods that can be done to help balance it back out. Not trying to say you'll make the car undriveable or anything like that if you put a square setup on your car, just making the point that you can do some other stuff to get more out of the package if you're able to hold the car at its limit.
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You have a good point with factory alignment vs track alignment. My car's 'before any adjustment' camber settings were -1.3º and -1.1º on front, and -1.2º and -1.1º on rear. Compare those to the track alignment specs (regular SS here) of -2.0º on front and -1.25º on rear, and you can see that just doing the track alignment alone will help reduce the tendency to understeer.