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The first gen Insight (ZE1) is one of the best examples of an extrem wind slippery car. BUT the car is very, very sensitive to crosswinds above 50 mph. It needs the amount of correction trying to go straight in heavy crosswinds that you have to reduce the speed to feel more or less safe. It's not lift front or rear I guess. The car is very light, the wheelbase is quite narrow and the tires are narrow. Honda engineers went at one extrem between air drag and high-speed stability. Noone would accept the behaviour of such a car nowadays. But up to the 70ies most of the cars were like that BUT NOT aero at all.
For vintage car testing fans (I really love these true kind of car testing videos): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M1Y7gC0vkE FF to 9:15 a car is running at 62 mph in a crosswind section with also 62 mph. The deviation is mesured without correction via the steering wheel.
For vintage car testing fans (I really love these true kind of car testing videos): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M1Y7gC0vkE FF to 9:15 a car is running at 62 mph in a crosswind section with also 62 mph. The deviation is mesured without correction via the steering wheel.