The Galant's handling traits, including the GTZ, seem to be balanced in favor of comfort over aggressive response. There's a little more body roll than you'd encounter in an Accord, and the defining characteristic is progressive understeer--the faster the car enters a corner, the less it wants to turn.
However, we found the Galant's steering to be reasonably accurate, with acceptable road feel once the steering wheel had moved a degree or two off dead center. The Galant is very forgiving to driver errors, such as braking hard in the middle of a turn; while some cars would spin out under these circumstances, we had no trouble controlling the Galant.
Braking--provided by discs up front, drums at the rear, discs all around in V6 models--seemed to be about average for this class. We prefer the superior fade resistance of an all-disc system. On the other hand, we didn't encounter any fade problems during our driving, despite repeated hard stops. Next Page