While RWD fanboys love to belittle the handling of FWD platforms, the truth is that a properly set up front drive car can be a very potent track weapon in the right hands. Unfortunately, Germany’s famed Nürburgring circuit doesn’t exclusively attract the “right hands,” and on touristenfahrten days, the Green Hell is open to anyone with a street-legal car and 29 Euros.

Free: The added thrill of dodging other people’s mistakes.

In today’s video, we get to see a compilation of nothing but front wheel drive cars displaying the entire spectrum of handling quirks specific to that drive layout, but the plurality of these crashes can be traced straight to (pun intended) good old understeer. Manufacturers are fond of building a good amount of understeer into street cars, reasoning that it’s safer for novice or low-skill drivers than a neutral or oversteer-biased handling balance.

Man, you don’t see a lot of Del Sols rolling around nowadays, do you…

This is doubly true for most FWD cars that concentrate their weight on the front wheels due to the drivetrain layout, so it’s no surprise to see so many stock-looking three door hatches with the front wheels at full lock sliding straight into the gravel right in front of the photographer at the infamous corner just past Brünnchen. If they’re fortunate, they just tap the left wall. If they’re not, those wheels dig in just past the rumble strip, and terminal understeer turns into snap oversteer, sending them cross-track (and cross-traffic) into the wall on the other side.

Throw in some rain and sleet in a few clips, and a smattering of other corners from around the track, and you get an illustrated guide to the entire crappy rainbow of ways it’s possible to run up a body shop bill on the ‘Ring. The Nürburgring is on our bucket list of places to visit, but for hot laps, we’ll stick to a ring taxi the first time around.