It seems increasingly difficult to find a modern car with good steering feel. BMW used to do it well, but it seems like they dropped the ball recently, and I say this as an owner of a 2018 BMW 340i xDrive. It does almost everything well, but the steering feel is just completely absent.
Besides the Alfa Romeo Giulia, what 4-door cars from the last 5 years have good steering feel? I’m more of a hatch guy, but I understand that even further limits my options in North America.
by Bulky-Window-1125
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CT4/5 V?
Panamera/Taycan,
C63 AMG,
RS3/RS5
Genesis G70. Yeah, really!
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Lexus IS
Buddy of mine bought a Giulia. 150$ for an oil filter. I don’t really think I care what it’s steering feel is like.
Mazda 6
Hate to say it cause I’ll get dragged but the Model 3 Perf.
Kia Stinger GT
Civic type R, but I’m assuming that isn’t your style lol I also have an m340i and I find the entire car very bland. If I were to do it again for a daily, I’d just get a 330.
The W204 C63 uses hydraulic steering which, to me, was 10/10
Isnt that version of the guilia like 130k? At that point id rather have a manual ct5 blackwing.
5Bw is the last of a dying breed. Everyone and their mother is making a 6 TT car.
These may be the worst suggestions I have ever seen.
2015-2021 Subaru WRX. Had the best steering I’ve felt in a modern car. Beat any M, AMG, Alfa, Porsche, etc. I ever drove. One of the last hydraulic racks. Didn’t know how Subaru hit it out the park but that was my favorite part about the car.
My Audi S5 is amazing for this, RS same thing – something perfect about that chassis balance
VW gti/golf r
Steering feel is broad. Do you mean turn in feel, the weight of the wheel, road feedback, etc. Upgrading to poly bushing and changing an alignment can do wonders to change the overall feeling of a car.
You have a Quadrifoglio pictured but your comparing it to a car that’s priced closer to the base Giulia so I’m assuming that’s the car you’d be comparing.
I spend a ton of time in rentals and have spent weeks or more in a handful of BMWs and Audis plus a ton of American muscle and plenty more, the base Giulia is the best handling car I’ve ever driven other than the MX5.
The biggest disappointment is that you can’t turn the traction control off unless you upgrade to whatever package includes the driving modes, which isn’t the end of the wold on the AWD but I’d want RWD, so unless I could get that package, it would be a deal breaker.
Something older like an E39 M5.
Most modern cars lack in the steering feel department
Test Drive?
Jaguar XE SV Project 8