2013 Infiniti JX35 Long-Term Road Test

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2013 Infiniti JX35 Long-Term Road Test

Edmunds conducts a Long-Term Test of the 2013 Infiniti JX35 and reports on its steering.

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seppoboy

Don't blame electric power steering. Many cars on the road have lousy steering accuracy and stability in a straight line, and have had for years. It's more a function of front wheel location and articulation, castor angle, suspension design, rigidity of the steering rack location. Ever drive a full size US car from the seventies or eighties, with hydraulic assist? What a joke they were in the steering department.

I've been spoiled by owning and driving some cars with really tight, precise, communicative steering. Ninety percent of the cars on the market have sufficiently lax steering that I won't consider owning them.

If they can't pass a look-away test on a narrow two lane (deliberately look away from the straight ahead, out the side window, the car should stay completely and confidently within the lane by feel alone), it will prove to be tiring to drive on longer hauls. Even some expensive and supposedly desirable vehicles quickly fail that test.

fordson1

Very true. Lots of cars just need a lot of minding and have no sense of straight-ahead. I have another culprit - tires whose tread design is for one reason or another not playing nice with the type of road surface.