Every system offers it owns benefits and disadvantages, and although the more difficult systems are generally superior they have an attached price that far exceeds the easier systems.

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

Torque Vectoring Differential 940x310The yellow-colored arrow highlights the torque transfer occuring through the corner, generated by the artifical level of resistance being exerted by the TVD on the outside wheel. This allows for greater acceleration from the corner as the car’s turning abilitty is certainly increased.

A Torque Vectoring Differential is with the capacity of channelling 100% of the offered torque through a single wheel when needed in the the majority of extreme of circumstances.

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

By continuing to apply this resistance through the corner, as the vehicle passes the apex and begins to accelerate out it’ll Differential Gear 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 hold.

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