[GlennGlenn]

I haven't driven my CTD in snow, but while a LSD would be nice, I have in 3.5 years never been in a situation where the TC wasn't sufficient.

The other day I was travelling at 110kph with cruise control on while it was raining heavily, when I hit a puddle of deepish water on the freeway. The car pulled slightly to the left, nothing problematic, and the cruise switched off. I have never had this happen before so I suppose it was the stability cutting in. All was good when I turned it back on, anybody else have this happen?

Cruise control cutting out when stabilitrac or traction control activating is documented in my owner's manual.

Annoying as heck.

ironically, funny you mention this @Aussie . I have several AMG s and if you turn TC off ( called ESP), they do not allow cruise control to work. So you basically have to have ESP on ( activated) for cruise control. They work in sync.

Ive found that electronic TC is a very poor substitute for a Quaife differential ( or awd for that matter) the difference in performance is like night and day with a limited slip diff. Electronic TC cuts power too much to be effective on high HP or tq cars like the diesel CTD. Shame it's not an option. With AMG in most cars it was/is a $2000 option and one well worth it.

 

[GlennGlenn]

If it were even offered as an option with any of the existing engines, they'd probably sell about 10 of them because people wouldn't pay the extra price. The rest of them would sit on lots unsold, and then it would go the way of the 2LT 6M and fade into nonexistence.

Give a Cruzen more power, like the Cobalt SS (likely won't happen), sure, it becomes a viable option that really helps it put down power in corners. My high powered FWD constantly lit up the inside tire exiting corners when the turbo spooled.

Actually, the take rate for high performance vehicles is near 100% if it's optional, so to them it's a sine qua non for the vehicle. I'd take it for $500 bucks in a heartbeat, but I do see your argument . I had a Neon ACR with a fwd Torsen and it was phenomenal out of corners.

Ragardless if whether it's stick or auto as you reference above, a LSD is really something that's required on even high tq small displacement diesel cars like the CTD. But I agree, not gonna happen. So essentially, we're left with a one wheel driver

 

[GlennGlenn]

defiantly agreed, the malibu was a poor excuse. Cobalt was nice besides the ricer wing and the trail blazer ss was very very nice. Reminds me of the ol jeep grand cherokee 5.9. Fastest suv production for a long time

Actually, the fastest production for 8 years was the ML55 AMG and then later the Srt8 in 08 and / or the ML63 in 08 and beyond. While quick , the JGC couldn't hold a candle to the MLs. The MLs had ESP which was defeatable entirely, not like the one on the cars which is still not entirely off when deactivated.