Driver takes it to its grip limits to find out
Chevrolet wanted to create a simple, cheap car when it conceived the rear-engined air-cooled Corvair, but what it inherently ended up doing was giving automotive safety a nudge after Ralph Nader published his book “Unsafe at any speed” in 1965.
The first chapter of that book was called "The Sporty Corvair-The One-Car Accident" and it went into detail about how the Corvair’s rear wheels tucked under the car under hard cornering. This and the fact that its engine was rear-mounted had a dramatic effect on the handling and gave the car quite oversteery characteristics.
Swing-axle rear suspension was to blame for the mad hard cornering-induced camber. Chevy engineers back in the 1960s went for the setup not because it resulted in great dynamics, but rather to build the car to a cost.
But in spite of all that, this video by Hagerty aims to find out just what a standard Corvair is like when you throw it around. It turns out what some may see as dangerous, others might call fun.