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Originally Posted by tubwreck View Post
The 964 went to power steering because it was needed to support the steering geometry required by ABS.

ABS requires a near-zero steering offset (the steering axis needs to pass through the center off the contact patch), and zero-offset steering requires much more effort to turn the wheels than the large positive offset steering of the pre-964 911.

Also the reason that the traditional Fuchs were not available on the 964 -- incompatible with zero-offset geometry.

(See Paul Frere, 911 Story.)
Is there some way you can expound on this with some basic foundational concepts?
Any links I can read?
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