You need good tires. Aurion is very user friendly, if it start loosing traction you will feel it before bad happens. Personally I was driving it to Gold Coast from Melbourne via Dubbo this NYE, if you remember there was very heavy rains, flooding there. On speeds that you dont want to speak about on public forums, Aurion drives like it on rails, very good. i have the standard tyres and in the wet it doesnt take much to hit the traction control shudder... yeh i guess its safe but i do not have half the confidence as i do in the scoobaru.