Standard steering rack removes the biggest barrier to the enjoyment of Lamborghini’s big-hearted junior supercar Lamborghini’s Huracán junior supercar, minus one of its more influential and contentious optional extras. The Huracán became something of a trailblazer when Sant’Agata launched it with an active variable-ratio power steering system last year, dubbed ‘Lamborghini Dynamic Steering’ (LDS).Introduced on the larger Aventador, the set-up allows for particularly direct control over the front wheels at low speeds, with gentler directional responses at higher speeds to the benefit of handling stability. Sounds simple enough and maybe even uniquely appealing in principle, given that mid-engined sports cars have inherent high-speed stability challenges and active racks are something that Ferrari, McLaren and Audi have yet to dabble with. But the execution has proven problematic. Our first two acquaintances with the Huracán have been of cars with LDS – and on neither occasion have we found that it can produce either the predictability or the feedback we expect of a near-£200k, 200mph driver’s car. Thankfully, LDS is an entirely discretionary addition to any Huracán order. So in order to find out how much better the V10 baby Lambo's handling is in passively steered form, we borrowed a standard one. from Autocar RSS Feed http://ift.tt/1QqMeTS
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