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The 928 is a very good handling car. very balanced and easy to control. I wouldn't consider myself an expert driver, but I can tell when a shock is weak, and how a car handles without super touchy steering. 911s and 944s have good feel, but a lot of it is extraneous and has nothing to do with how the car is actually handling. If you need great steering input to tell you that the front end is washing out, you are already at a point where there will be a lot of other evidence of it.
With a 928 you can go into a corner at a steady speed. you can throttle down in the corner or accelerate. You can trail brake. None of these will upset the handling. If however you are running small tires, the fronts will wash and you can balance on the throttle, but you will be under tired. I think you need 225 50 16s minimum on the front, and 245 45 16s on the back.
This is standard setup on an S4 BTW, and then you will find that the standard S4 setup for springs and shocks is a little soft, and designed to understeer. This is for the novice, who will normally back off the throttle when going into a corner too fast. In this case weight will be transferred to the front wheels and understeer will lessen without causing the back end to swing out. What most of us want is a little more neutral response, possibly stiffer springs and a set of decent shocks. At this point a 928 is going to feel like a sports car. Most of the imput you are going to feel is going to come out of your seat and your body. You will percieve that the weight is all going to the front out side corner or more to the middle or back. Get into a steady state corner and roll on or off of the throttle and you will see what I mean.
That is where your feel will come from in a car like a 928. Well set up, they drive a lot like a late model viper, with about the same inputs, but less power. With time behind the wheel, 928s seem to shrink and become lighter and more agile. Also, they corner very flat, and convey a sense of incredible stability. They encourage one to drive faster, and compel many to seek out superchargers, free flow exhausts or other power enhancing goodies. ARRRR.
BTW, most modern supercars have power steering. The 928 was not the first, but it was one of the first to get it right. Zoom Zoom
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