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HYUNDAI IONIQ 5N

OUT ON the ice, it’s apparent that what the tall, trim, grey-haired engineer told me last night is true. Like he said, the rear of the Ioniq 5 N does snap sideways “just like that” in Drift Optimiser mode.

“As a kind of advice, you really have to overcome your limits in yaw angle,” the 60-something German continued. “You have to really let it go far, drifting, and then almost go to full steering lock.” Remembering this, lap after sideways lap of the large circle scraped into the surface of the frozen lake, isn’t all that hard…

Albert Biermann is always worth listening to…

The German veteran spent more than three decades at BMW, where he guided development of some of

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