Your brakes do the best job right at the moment BEFORE the wheel locks up. ABS keeps your wheel AT that moment. Threshold braking? On ICE? You have obviously NEVER driven on ice before, the minute your foot touched the brake pedal, the ABS kicks in. Same way with accelerating, with both the Mystique, and the BMW, it's nearly IMPOSSIBLE not to activate traction control, and with the 6000, it's nearly impossible not to kick AWD in gear.
