I have a "sports car" that I can drive if I want a "sports car" ride - polyurethane bushings, H&R lowering springs, upgraded anti-
sway bars, wide low profile tires - corners like it's on velcro, but too stiff for these weary old bones - my son drives that now.
The GV is intended to be more of a comfortable cruiser, over longer distances - Guyana is a small country (as countries go), 85,000 square miles of mostly uninhabited rain forest and most of the population lives along a narrow strip of atlantic coast, so as soon as you start heading inland, you're off the pavement and on a laterite surface, if you're lucky, recently graded.
At present the GV handles quite well, you can, of course, tell that you're driving a larger, heavier, taller vehicle (compared to one of the cars), but it's not in any way a boat (loose or floating) - when empty the rear tends to "bang" a bit and in a bounce test, the right rear (the one with the shock that's on it's way out) is still reasonably well damped, but appears softer than the left side.
The need to replace this shock is one of the reasons I'm looking at OME as an option.