The Grand vitara Strut Brace is not just for looks, being a unibody construction and the front being coil on strut suspension you get flex in the body of the GV.
The old Gv comes standerd with a strut brace and suzuki decided not to go wityh this in the new GV which to us was a strange option.
we have found that the strut brace reduces this flex stiffening the body and making it behave better when on road for better cornering.
The brace is a simple add on takeing 5mins to fit, also giveing your engine bay that sport look too!!