lol I had to re-read it several times. Could just be my edumacation level. :tup:

took a friends daughter for a ride in the z the other night and on the way back to her house she asked if it goes sideways... took it down the next road to the left and turned off the vdc and gassed it through the turn and it slid out with no problem but despite counter steering it didn't recover until it was halfway in the other lane(no cars on the road but me). i would say this is more of a power slide than drift but i've had the vdc on and had the car sideways and it definitely helps in the recovery. all in all the vdc and sync-rev tranny make all of us z owners much better drivers than we are in real life.

I personally believe that you would have to be a mad man to even bring the Z close to its limits on a public road not only because it is dangerous, but mostly because the limits are so high that you need to be going stupidly fast.

I am a first time RWD car owner and I have only turned off VDC a couple of times in the parking lot. Even with my Touring and the open differential, I was able to step the back end out relatively easily. My recommendation is find a professional performance driving school and learn how to properly push a car like the Z to its limits under supervision and instruction, then start Auto-x'ing and tacking the car.

Do you mean the Z oversteers like crazy? Your video showed the car oversteering.

RE: Any general stories
Within 24 hours of driving my new Z vs older Z, I comfortably took all turns 10% faster than previous personal best. Then worked up from here.
I am in the minority about the VDC. I think it a fine feature in wet weather. I turn it off all the rest of the time. It is faster out of the sharp turns. The VDC triggers when you are in no danger too, so off it stays. The VDC to me feels like an automatic transmission driving downhill when you don't know when it will shift.
The car recovers easily when you make a mistake. I am not a big drifter but it does it well.

I was initially timid to turn VDC off because of the way people on this site revere it and fear the alternative. A poll here at the 370.com shows 60% of members are under 30 years old. 30 years is how long I've been driving rear wheel drive sports cars, none of which had traction control so I learned to become the VDC and apparently prefer it.

Yea, yea... but you got my point.

But talking about understeer, WRX have it worse.

Kind of a side note on the subject... The weekend after I got the roadster, I was leaving a parking lot with two exit lanes. I was preparing to make a right waiting for traffic to clear. There was a guy to my left also waiting. He apparently decided not to wait for both directions to clear because as the first break in nearer traffic approached, I saw him start to crank the wheel in my direction as he edged forward... still watching traffic and never looking to his right. I went for the horn as I dumped the clutch. Good thing he heard the horn and jumped on his breaks because the VDC left me stumbling in his path! I came very near to catching one in the drivers door... and then going to jail for choking him.

Power can get you in or out of trouble, but the VDC tries to out think the driver. In this case stumbling.