Hi all,

in the end I'm still in the middle of the spec process. I was almost convinced on an 2.0 Elegance 4x4, then I remembered of the understeer issue on my oldie PD170.

 

On one side I thought that the 4x4 would solve undesteer issues by traction, on the other side I remind of XDS which should be standard on the vrs (and both of them sport rear multilink).

 

Any thoughts on which would be the most corner and traction effective on normal tamrac (highway)?

 

Don't laugh at me but I recently drove a humble focus 2013 1.6tdci and it was quite good at fast corners with something called "torque vectoring control", or something like that. Anyway the small focus was a pleasure to drive on mixed corners. If the XDS is similar to this device...

 

Thanks for your thoughts.

 

Stefano

Edited 2 March, 201412 yr by Genoa1893

The Octy III 4x4 come with XDS as standard. Also noticed you can also alter the stability control to a sport mode via the Bolero infomat system but haven't tried it to see what difference if any it makes.

 

 

TP

Good! I couldn't find much info neither on standard Octy III brochure nor on official (national) web site.

 

Thanks a lot,

 

Stefano

The Octy III 4x4 come with XDS as standard. Also noticed you can also alter the stability control to a sport mode via the Bolero infomat system

You can also put it in sport by holding the button near the gear stick.

Sport mode turns the esc into "sport mode" and allows a limited amount of sliding before in interferes.

Understeer you say sir?

BMW or sporty RWD is that way....