Wow, post one response citing this GRM article, and look what happens
Honestly folks, the CSVT brakes are way better than most cars, and could do the job very effectively with good tires and pads. Unless you are racing, you don't need the huge rotors with six pot aluminum calipers. It will stop your brakes from fading on the track, but for the street (my two cents here) they are pure overkill. Unless you are doing it for looks, which is cool too.
Most of the time the reason for the ever-increasing rotor sizes on production cars is a giant pi$$ing contest: "We have better brakes because our rotors are bigger." As the debate here has shown, it isn't that cut and dried. heck even ford made the concession that swept area was not as important as we might think when they went to the smaller pad on the later CSVTs. Brakes stop just as well, probably even better with the slightly stiffer E1 shock valving.
It also comes back to a personal PHILosophy I hold true to whenever possible: If you buy quality parts, and install them correctly, you can't go wrong.
