Thanks for the detailed response Loki!

The braking thing takes some getting used to. I brake aggressively (w/o kids and wife in car) but wife doesn't and it's noticed more so then as you had stated.

I assumed it had something to do with adaptive transmission. Now I just need to override it and let me drive it the way I like, not how it thinks I am going to drive. :p

Still need to take/post some pics one of these days...