My friend had and raced an Avante back in the day. It handled a lot better than the optima and the mids because t was able to stay at the lower grove of the track during a high speed turns. The tracks were pretty smooth back then, so there was no way to really tell how it handled jumps.
His biggest problem was the durability of the car. Suspension components were always bending / breaking. He would beef up one part which resulted in the weak point moving to another part.
Today's tracks may not be so kind to the design of the car, but with all of the aluminum aftermarket parts, it might hold up a little better.
Since none of us actually run our cars
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, we may have to wait for our friends from down under to give us a report on how it handles.