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I chose other. I've understood handling to be how your car behaves when it starts to lose traction. Performance is what your car can do before it loses traction (like skidpad numbers).
Some examples of cars I've driven-
Miata is a great handling car with only medium performance, you can make it oversteer or understeer just by being good with the brakes. And if you do get loose it's easy to gather up. If you take no action when you start to go sideways, the whole car will just sort of stays even and slides sideways until it catches again.
Camaro is a car with pretty high performance but only moderate handling. You can push it pretty hard, but when it breaks loose the front end starts to feather and you can't really bring it back quickly except by dumping throttle (which suddenly makes the back end feel light). I'm sure you could bring the back end out by clutch-kicking- but it wasn't my car so I didn't go that far.
A Corvette is high performance and high-unforgiving handling. When it breaks loose it tends to do so quickly so you have to be a better driver to handle it at the edge. I'm not good enough and so it felt like I was always about to swap ends.
Don't chastise me, no insults here. Just being honest.
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