Suspension suggestions

999RXerox,
The Veloster is sluggish for the first few thousand kilometres because the ECU allows only part-throttle until a certain distance has been covered. So when you get yours it will take some time for it to get going properly. It didn't take me long to master the steering and handling of the Veloster (I took a demonstrator for a run on a rough, winding country road and ended up buying that demonstrator), and I was impressed on that first run. However when the car started to pick up more performance I was better able to balance it off the throttle and extract even more grip out of it. Basically it's a bit soft to develop maximum grip on smooth roads although on rougher roads it's a better compromise than, say, a German hot hatch. You can push the Veloster hard on rougher roads where on a stiffly sprung German car you end up backing off because it's all too painful! Like any well set-up front wheel drive with a lot of power it responds well to being driven smoothly, so brake straight, turn in sharp but smooth and squeeze the throttle to balance it on the way out. If you do that it handles very impressively indeed, despite the Hankook tyres (which are decent enough but not quite ultimate for stickiness). A lot of drivers turn-in early, go in off-line and drag the brakes all through the curve, and if they do that like any car the Veloster will try to understeer off the road. Like you I ride motorcycles, I used to race them in years past and I also do a bit of car racing these days, so I do know my cornering techniques.

Australian turbos come with an all-glass roof and glass does not flex. So lets say I'm taking the fast sweepers between Goulburn and Canberra (signposted 85 and 95) at around 130 (with the car rock-solid on the road). If the car was flexing I would hear those glass panels and the sunroof rattling and chattering, but I don't. Instead the car corners flat, the steering gives me great feedback and I am getting immense grip (and probably scaring the drivers I am going past given they're braking for those curves and I'm going past so very fast on the outside lane). This is why I think that strut braces and chassis braces are a waste of money, until at least you get a chance to explore how the Veloster handles on your favourite driver's road. Mind you in Victoria they would shred your licence on the spot if you drove the way we do in New South Wales and the ACT, so that's another limiting factor for road driving (I couldn't believe they actually have cars parked on the side of the road with speed cameras in them - they can't do that in NSW and ACT; it has to be a highway patrol car and they have to pull out and book you). So what you can actually do on winding roads is partially limited by how fast you can go in Victora; a 75km/h curve is an easy 110 or more so anything less tight than that curve is a moot point.

The limiting factor for me, and I did have a German hot hatch previously, is the Veloster is so well balanced and generates so much grip that you end up not being able to go fast enough to stretch it, and your favourite, winding, driver's road becomes just an easy cruise.