My bottoming out concerns come from the experience of years of daily driving mine. The clearance on these cars is not good. Straddling road debris, deep snow and ice chunks (of course not a problem anymore), speed bumps, and more have all had mine scrape bottom. The worse hit came when I went over an ice chunk and the thing struck the flywheel cover, smashing it into the gear teeth. Nothing needed replacement but the cover but it sure made a racket until I could get the car home.
