Active suspension effectively allows the car body to float smoothly - as if on a «sky hook» - by applying power to move the wheels
over road irregularities.
At the same time, the fat, squared - bottomed RS wheel, which in the coupe delivers adequate (though not fulsome) feedback, oscillates side to side in your hands
over road irregularities.
Not exact matches
As senior editor Joe Lorio noted, though, «The downside is that the ride can be brittle
over small - and medium - size
road irregularities.»
As for on -
road dynamics, there's no question the Q30 Sports favours the aggressive side of the spectrum, with firm reactions to bumps and even a little reverberating thumpiness
over sharp
irregularities.
It's a big cushy
road car in the grand American tradition, I guess; I was disappointed by both the understeer and the somewhat dated - feeling suspension that seemed to transmit the feeling of potholes through the otherwise comfortable seats while bouncing
over slightly larger
road irregularities.
Do this and the X5 can find
irregularities in the
road surface in the most unexpected places, and
over the bigger ones it thinks little of bump - steering its way off course and jostling its occupants.
The ride quality isn't as «cushiony» as the NuvoSport that simply glides
over irregularities in the
road surface.
Over the bumps, the independent rear not only soaked up every
road irregularity it came across but allowed for easier application of power upon exiting.