Keven, I agree with a lot of what you say, but what kind of damfool believes advertising claims?

I still get riled ever time I see the "tests" of rollover stability performed by the likes of Consumer reports (the ones with the LONG and HIGH added outriggers that drasticly raised the SUV's center of gravity, and the ones where they whip it from right to left to use the spring rebound to accentuate the body roll.

In response to the analogy of the 20' radius turn to an evasive maneuver, do you know the minimum turning DIAMETER of a Gen1 2dr (probably the shortest of the bunch). It's just under 40'! You'd have to whip the wheel to full lock AND have oversteer to achieve a 20' radius turn. The typical evasive maneuver is less than a half turn of the wheel, because you just don't have time to crank it further even with the reflexes of a gunslinger. I'm still one of the quickest people I know, and I can't do much more than a half turn, especially since that quickness outruns the power steering's boost.

That idiot's analysis is just GIGO.

I have actually tested the lateral adhesion of my Raider with a G-Tech, running on a huge parking lot with fresh asphalt on a 300' diameter circle, and the G-tech levelled on the side window, and I generated .84g just short of front tire breakaway. I could surge up to .86, but not hold it, because it picked the front inside wheel off the ground. I had a LARGE amount of body roll, but the tires stayed planted except for the above front wheel lift. With a tad more hp I could have thrown the rear end out a little and used rear wheel thrust to hold it to higher g's (the old timey 4 wheel drift like a dirt track car), but 180hp just wasn't enough with big meats on pavement. Works nice on the dirt, though.