An Unsettling and Disturbing Guide to Handling, Modifying and Enjoying Your Car...

With understeer consider also weight transfer (FWDs are nose heavy for starters). Sometimes just modifying your driving style is better and cheaper. Try lifting off to get some weight transfering back to the front - thus lightening the rear. Personally, I prefer a generally understeering car that can be tricked into oversteer at times of my choosing. Front drives are good, in that they will understeer under power but, especially the short-wheelbase models, can be provoked into oversteer by lifting off the throttle. With a rear drive weight transfer works in the opposite way and it's easier to induce rear-wheel wheelspin (and thus correct your understeer). Just don't go too far!