Every system has it owns benefits and disadvantages, and although the more difficult systems are coupling China generally excellent they have an attached cost that far exceeds the easier systems.

The downside to the system is it is extremely complicated and incredibly expensive, and typically only used for racing/track applications because of its high speed cornering potential.

Torque Vectoring Differential 940x310The yellow arrow highlights the torque transfer occuring through the corner, produced by the artifical level of resistance getting exerted by the TVD on the outside wheel. This allows for greater acceleration out of the corner while the car’s turning abilitty is certainly increased.

A Torque Vectoring Differential is with the capacity of channelling 100% of the available torque through an individual wheel when needed in the most extreme of circumstances.

With the TVD exerting more resistance onto the outside wheels clutch, it tricks the machine into diverting more torque through it – increasing the total amount power that can be applied and reducing the understeer experienced under acceleration out of a corner.

By continuing to use this level of resistance through the part, as the vehicle passes the apex and starts to accelerate out it will continue to override a standard multiway-LSD – which would again interpret the quicker moving outside wheel as slipping and divert torque during acceleration to the inside wheel, which it perceives as having more grip.

However, rather than releasing the resistance upon both wheels a TVD continues to activate the clutch externally wheel just – increasing the resistance experienced by that wheel and making the machine channel more torque through it. This imbalance of power to the outside encourages the vehicle to turn in to the part sharper and reducing understeer.