Sitting Pretty: What's the Perfect Driving Position?

July 08,2024

Everybody has their own way to sit in a car—but which one’s right? Let’s belt in and explore what should be a simple subject: the perfect driving position..
We walked away from testing the 2020 Corvette C8—our Car of the Year—hugely impressed. Still, our tight figure-eight handling course revealed some less-than-perfect performance mid-corner. The mid-engine Corvette seemed, at times, to understeer. So, Chevy invited us out to try a track-aligned version, with racer Randy Pobst at the wheel and MotorTrend’s Kim Reynolds manning the data. Here they discuss what they found.