[noahe]

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noahe, from what I've read on the subject, everything you said above is accurate except I don't know how DSC can send more torque to one drive wheel, since no MINI model has a limited slip differential.

Since the DSC system can moderate, and apply the brake to a threshold, by braking one wheel, more torque will be applied to the unbraked wheel. In a severe oversteer condition, the MINI's DSC could have the front left tire just on the verge of locking (actually rotating slower than the road) and the front right tire just on the verge of slippage (slightly spinning). The effect of which is to drag the car around a corner, it otherwise wouldn't make, steering it's self like a Bobcat construction shovel or a tank does.

Another example would be if one of the car's front wheels was on ice. The wheel not on ice would move the car, and the other one would be braked to the extent that it just rolled along with the car. There's no torque-sensing differential, but it utilizes the brakes and a real fancy conputer to achieve the same results.