Modeling and Non Linear Control of a Ground Vehicle's Steering describles a study in vehicle dynamics, which presents an analytic model representing the generation of longitudinal and lateral forces at the contact patch between tire and ground. Next it is developed, for a typical passenger car, a non-linear model with four degrees of freedom (longitudinal, lateral, yaw and roll velocities), and its linearization. This model is then expanded to another one with eight degrees of freedom, which includes the axial rotation of each one of the four wheels, and considers the vehicle's movement only at a known plane, whithoud pitch and bounce effects, but including some load distribution among the wheels, due to roll. Computational simulation in varius typical operation condition validate all open loop models. The second part of this work presents the proposed strategy for directional control of a vehicle at any type of manoeuvre, using the feedback linearization methodology, directly applied to the linear four degrees of freedom model. Theresults obtained trhough computational simulation for a closed loop model with different parameters are analysed using both nonlinear four and eight degrees of freedom models. The possibility of generalizing this procedure to distinct applications in Vehicle Dynamics is, then, discussed.