I guess they would be a bad choice for the offroad rally type of racing.
A couple of years ago one was hit in a busy intersection 2 blocks from my
home. It looked comical laying 'tits up' until the towtruck arrived.

Gould 0738 wrote in message
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I remember that test.
My question would be......did they test other SUVs in the same manner?
Was the Suzuki much worse than the others under the same test? That
would
influence how I buy.

Several SUV's did badly in that particular test. The Samurai was the
worst,
probably due to a relatively highg ground clearance and narrow track. If
you
remember news coverage about rear wheels of SUV's leaving the ground
during
certain maneuvers, this was the test those reports
referred to.

Personally, I tend to agree with Suzuki and
some of the other manufacturers who cried "foul" at the time. If you found
yourself in a situation where you were required to dodge
a series of consecutive obstacles and slalomed back and forth between
them,
would you continue at full throttle? I'd hazard a guess that few people
are
often at full throttle in a motor vehicle to start with, and most would
slow
down if encountering such a situation.

The tests proved only that if a vehicle is driven in an extremely stupid
manner
a disastrous accident could result. Maybe CU expects all manufacturers to
build
products that are totally idiot proof under any circumstance.