hahahahahaha! another joke of the day again.. ask yourself first you want a car die and stop in the middle of the road or still able to move a bit that allow you to pull aside?
If you think stop in the middle of road is good then proof to us why? If you dare go drive in any highway.. drive around 80 km/h switch of the engine like what our friend joelkclim experiencing. You came back to tell us if you still alive on whether this is good design.
By the way where the hell get the info the steering stuck when a EPS overheat but engine is still running? If EPS failed the only thing you wouldn't have is power steering and not steering stuck. Even if you say steering stuck but at least the car is moving and the driver can slowly decrease the car speed and eventually stop it rather than sudden stop.
Some time don't just simply jump to the gun by giving untrue, no fact comments.
LASTLY! This is my first post to this forum... shoot also shoot wrongly.. Maybe raping the toll so much? Really, you can't run away from you good name "JAY RAPE TOLL"....
Nokia,
How sure are you that cars with EPS could still turn when the electric motor failed? Hydraulic power steering relies on hydraulic flow on the actuator to ease the steering while the steering is still connected to the rack & pinion mechanically. Electric power steering for some cars brands I knew connected to the electric motor that drives the rack & pinion.
Cases of EPS overheating I received from technicians of renowned Japanese makes, the owners said they could not steer the steering at all as it is jammed when their EPS failed. If you think the steering could still turn when EPS failed by turning the key to ON without igniting the engine, that is totally wrong. Since it's running on electricity, like the ECU, the EPS received power supply whenever you turn the key to ON.
For joelkclim,
I forgot to inform him to perform extensive test on EPS by steering endlessly hard, it tends to overheat anyway. That is why sports cars, bigger segments and even BMW, Merc, etc, they are not encouraged to use EPS but stick to traditional hydraulic power steering to avoid getting steering jammed especially these cars could travel at higher speed when bad things happen. Not until someone technical could prove the EPS has failsafe like hydraulic power steering, I would avoid buying cars with EPS. If the engine shutdown is part of the failsafe when EPS and brakes failed like in other EU conti cars, it will still shut your engine down.
Back to Nokia,
Regarding the engine stop, don't you doubt it's part of a failsafe to prevent you from moving when you could not even turn at all? Or do you prefer like City, Latio that would still move when the steering is entirely jammed and if the driver panic and didn't brake end up slamming into others? Accord '09 VSC or ABS jammed case, you can still floor the pedal but the brake might win and you end up damaging the brake pads, is this better or do you prefer it to shutdown since you would not be able to drive to the side after all? The Teana so heavy yet using EPS, is that encouraged? Others prefer to have hydraulic.
jolokia,
I don't own the Forte SX, when I posted that comment at that time only driven it few times. Is there anything wrong if I am not sure whether it has keyhole? You haven't registered with AW yet but you seems to know everything I posted, does this mean that you are one of the existing old users that created new account to make it look like there are many people support those dumb marketing bunch?
No wonder you are so frustrate that you taking your grunge here ! poor soul 
