Peaty

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If you join this group:

http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/foresterxt/

There is a files section that has a cool video from japan called:

Forester.ram

That has some video about rollover and such. Lots of other good info there too.

Roo

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I was on a drive a couple of weekends ago, keeping up with the fastest Rex's and STi's the Bay Area has to offer on some of the windiest, most technical roads, and felt completely comfortable and confident in the ability to stay 8-acre moonroof side UP on those roads.

20mm swaybar, 225/50/17's, and nothing else to help.

Did a 180 rounding a corner taking some unfortunate people home, however. I didn't remember that boost comes on so quickly, and I downshifted into second, and before I realized it, I was at max countersteer, trying to keep in the center of the road as the tail end went past 90 in about 1 second...

upshift and gas might have helped, but I didn't want to take a chance of hitting anything.

deke

For what it is worth, I have seen two seperate Foresters laying on their side within 5 miles of my house. Obviously whoever was driving these things (not XTs) were being incredibly stupid.

pleiad7

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Are you sure they weren't (F)lipped (O)ver (R)eally (D)amaged Exploders? I can't see how someone could do that short of falling into a ditch...

Mind you, I guess the training in how to drive properly helps.

deke

I swear, they weren't Ford Exploders. Yep, I have seen two Foresters take a dive (well the aftermath of the dive) in residential streets, though there are really sharp corners and hills here and they just HAD to be going way too fast. I was pretty surprised, but that was nothing to the Ford Escort I once saw roll three times from swerving too fast on a freeway - the unfortunate moron was right next to me flipping all over the place, but he was actually okay enough to learn a valuable driving lesson.