yes, the car at low speed and stopped, the steering is very light and easy to turn....but crusing at high speed, it become too heavy, not same like those other car, CRV, City, Altis etc...

you will find it very differently heavy....i dont know why...but for my case, i hate this ....and need to use lot of energy to maintain the steering turn duing cornering...

For both versions of Forte 1.6, it uses hydraulic power steering which will give that kind of characteristics (heavy during stop/slow but lighter at higher speed). Forte 2.0 instead uses MDPS (motor driven power steering) where the electric motor are used to assist the steering effort. MDPS is designed in such a way that it usually gives the opposite characteristics than the hydraulic one which is lighter at stop/low speed (for easier parking manuever) & will becomes heavier at higher speed. Personally for not-a-raceboy like me, i prefer the MDPS characteristic 

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Added on July 23, 2010, 1:28 pm
That's correct