Wheelbase Length

[Guest Sareve]

How does the length of the wheelbase affect a vehicle's handling?

[Guest angela]

Sareve ]

How does the length of the wheelbase affect a vehicle' wrote:

Basic Wiki knowledge.

Track and wheelbase

The track provides the resistance to sideways weight transfer and body lean. The wheelbase provides resistance to front/back weight transfer and to pitch angular inertia, and provides the torque lever arm to rotate the car when swerving. The wheelbase, however, is less important than angular inertia (polar moment) to the vehicle's ability to swerve quickly.

Sauce

From another forum

A longer wheelbase car will ride better than an equivalent short wheelbase car...but since you are speaking of handling that may not be of much concern.

From a weight transfer point of view I would think the shorter wheelbase would transfer wieght better than a long wheelbase car. The long wheelbase car has to provide more torque to lift the front of the car because the wieght is farther from its axis of rotation. The short wheelbase car effectively has a smaller amount of torque resisting rotation allowing more wieght to be transfered to the rear wheels.