A chipped diesel will
not have loads more power than a Type R. At peak revs, the R will have a lot more power, although it's possible that a chipped diesel will make a little bit more torque at the wheels than an R, for the same gear.
It's all irrelevant to the
VSA though. It doesn't care about power, it just looks for rapid changes in wheel speed or vehicle yaw (so that's power-on wheelspin, locking up brakes and skidding off the road).
I wonder if the question is inspired by a comment made by Clarkson on that Brabus Merc "it produced one thousand torques and the ESP just couldn't cope so they turned it down to 700"? When translated into "truth" this means "the cars chassis is so awful that it could not get the engines power through the wheels and onto the road, resulting in perpetual wheel slip and thus remedial action by the ESP. Making the chassis work better was a far more difficult and expensive an option than turning the power down, and then as you can see on the test track we still didn't turn the power down enough".
Or maybe it wasn't inspired by Clarksons comment!
