Every system has it owns benefits and drawbacks, and although the more complicated systems are generally superior they have an attached cost that far exceeds the simpler systems.

The downside to the system is it is extremely complicated and incredibly expensive, and typically only used for racing/track applications for 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 being exerted by the TVD on the outside wheel. This allows for better acceleration out from the corner as the car’s turning abilitty is usually increased.

A Torque Vectoring Differential is with the capacity of channelling 100% of the available 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 outside wheels clutch, it tricks the machine into diverting more torque through it – increasing the total amount power which can be applied and reducing the understeer skilled under acceleration out of a corner.

By continuing to apply this level of resistance through the corner, as the automobile passes the apex and starts to accelerate out it’ll continue to override a normal 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 grasp.

However, rather than coupling China releasing the resistance upon both tires a TVD continues to activate the clutch on the outside 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 into the corner sharper and reducing understeer.