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Originally Posted by aerohead
Around here, rollovers are limited to jacked-up 4WD pickups and SUVs. Mostly during black-ice events.
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Not so many parts of my country are prone to have black-ice, yet truck and SUV rollovers are not unheard of.
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The owners drive like on television advertisements, slide into the bottom of a bar-ditch, the tires dig in, and then momentum carries them, rolling over with their high center of gravity ( not shown on the TV ads. )
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I often say people here drive a Hilux as if it was a VW Golf, and that's why so many Hiluxes actually roll over. My grandfather used to own a '06 Hilux, and I once drove it in a quite spirited way, which he wasn't so confident to try. Sure it was not the smartest thing to do, but I was aware a truck with a rear live-axle would not react the same way the FWD compacts I was more used to.