How does the 4 wheel steering on a Honda Prelude work?
Your 4WS Prelude will cock its back wheels over and happily bash your rear quarter into the curb itself. The whole point of the system—to help you turn at low speed, as well as offer stability at high speed—is negated by how it works. It was expensive, too.
Can a Honda Prelude turn away from the curb?
The funny thing about 4WS, as Regular Car Reviews notes, is that you can’t park right up next to the curb and then crank the wheel to turn away from it. Your 4WS Prelude will cock its back wheels over and happily bash your rear quarter into the curb itself.
Are there any Japanese cars that have four wheel steering?
The 1980s were the Jurassic Park of Japanese car design. Engineers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should. A case in point: the all-mechanical four-wheel steering system in the Honda Prelude Si 4WS. Too expensive, insufficiently practical, but totally wonderful.
How does a four wheel steering system work?
The whole thing steers the wheels in as well as out, helping you turn tightly at low speeds (turning against the direction of the front wheels) and doing things like making lane changes at high speeds (turning in the same direction as the front wheels), though the genuine benefits of both were somewhat suspect.
Your 4WS Prelude will cock its back wheels over and happily bash your rear quarter into the curb itself. The whole point of the system—to help you turn at low speed, as well as offer stability at high speed—is negated by how it works. It was expensive, too.
The funny thing about 4WS, as Regular Car Reviews notes, is that you can’t park right up next to the curb and then crank the wheel to turn away from it. Your 4WS Prelude will cock its back wheels over and happily bash your rear quarter into the curb itself.
The 1980s were the Jurassic Park of Japanese car design. Engineers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should. A case in point: the all-mechanical four-wheel steering system in the Honda Prelude Si 4WS. Too expensive, insufficiently practical, but totally wonderful.
The whole thing steers the wheels in as well as out, helping you turn tightly at low speeds (turning against the direction of the front wheels) and doing things like making lane changes at high speeds (turning in the same direction as the front wheels), though the genuine benefits of both were somewhat suspect.