With the switch to drive by wire, wondering if one can still left foot brake in the X? In most other cars, ECU starts cutting your engine after 2 secs if it detects gas & brake depressed at the same time. Just curious if the X followed the masses for street safety or decided to still allow it.

With the new electronics that everyone raves about, there is probably even fewer places where you'd want to left foot brake in the X....but I'm curious just the same...

Thanks.

 

That's a good question (that I should have tried when I drove one). That is a very annoying issue if it exists. One can only hope that with its rally pedigree it wont be an issue at least with the ASC disabled.

To be honest I LFB to kill understeer mid corner on long corners, the car does not understeer there because of the torque vectoring diff (that's why I didn't think to try it). In the dirt though or on a Auto-x it would be potentially useful.

 

In the X MR, you have to use both the brake & gas for launch control.

 

I don't think that's the same....the car has to be moving for the case I'm referring to.

 

based on what the videos i have seen on best motoring you should still be able to do the usual left foot breaking. if u need it to eliminate understreer in turns i bet with evo X u don't need to do that since evo x makes good use of its ayc and make the car seem like its oversteering.

 

Being that their top performance trim level is an automatic, it would seem foolish to cut power when LFB. That said, the only way to be for sure is for someone to try it.

 

Yup, everything will be answered in time.

 

I'll go outside and try it right now. Be right back.

 

I was pretty sure before I tested, but yes, left foot braking is still possible in the X. There is no intervention to reduce power to the ECU with the brakes unless its the stability control. With ASC completely off, you can do whatever you want, including do something stupid like apply throttle and light brake pressure completely through a fast corner (which I just did) and never have the ECU cut power.

 

Thanks for trying and confirming. I'm not sure I'd call it stupid as this is a good advanced driving technique for certain situations.