One of the joys of doing the Autocar road test, whether it's a performance car or something prosaic, is getting to use Horiba MIRA's handling circuits.
The earnest, serious-consumer-journalist justification for slinging family crossovers around a test track is that doing so might unearth undercooked aspects of their stability control systems or their behaviour in an emergency avoidance scenario. But modern cars are pretty sophisticated in that respect. At worst, some ESC systems can feel a bit heavy-handed, but they still tend to do the job safely.
