Available in the United States on only a few sport and luxury cars, stability controls are more common in Europe.
Good old-fashioned physical suspension has some advantages, like fewer bugs, but ClearMotion's tech could indeed be a big help to a future where in-car stability is more important, since those spaces act more and more as extensions of our other living environs.
It's great fun to play with the suspension and to marvel at the car's stability and response on the highway in either the low or normal setting.
Given the competition, what isn't unreasonable is for Subaru to give this car standard stability control or at least offer it as an option.
At the rear, two electric motors, one at each wheel, operate independently, applying torque based on input from the car's stability control system.
That even happens in everyday driving, and if the car had stability control like the Volvo T5, we bet it would make the Viggen a lot more enjoyable.
It will cost the company more than $300 million over the next two years to increase the car's stability on turns, and the blow to the company's prestige is incalculable.
The reduction in drag means that we can widen the rear-wheel track still further, from its original 1.8m out to 2.2m, increasing the car's stability by nearly a fifth - which gets my vote!
We drove our tester Benz through a horrendous downpour, with SUVs hydroplaning all over the highway, and we had to literally throw the E320 through a gravel-laden turn just to test the car's stability system.
Surveying the most readily appreciable dynamic features of this car, intelligent stability management works to keep all four wheels planted on the road, a must on this frosty morning; Sport mode is engaged for a slightly sharpened throttle response; adjustable suspension is tuned to softness; heated seats are set to reduce fertility – and the top is down, of course.
