The Gizmo is a small front-wheel-drive car, and it asks for a completely different driving style than the muscle cars. It is light, it turns in fast, and it carries speed through flowing corners that would have a heavier car pushing wide. What it does not do is put power down cleanly out of slow corners — the driven front wheels are also the steering wheels, and asking them to do both at once is where a FWD car loses time.
How it drives
Turn-in is sharp and the front end bites hard, so on tarmac the Gizmo is a point-and-shoot car through medium and fast corners. The trouble starts at corner exit: get greedy with the throttle before the wheel is straight and the front washes into understeer. The car is fast when you are patient with your right foot and slow when you are not.
On dirt and gravel it lifts-off-oversteers more than the muscle cars — back off the throttle mid-corner and the light rear will rotate, which you can use to point the nose before feeding the power back in. This is the FWD trick for loose surfaces: rotate on the lift, drive out straight.
In a pack the Gizmo is vulnerable. It is light, so contact moves it, and a solid hit from a muscle car will spin it. Its defence is agility — stay off the racing line when you can and use its direction changes to avoid getting pinned.