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The lateral drift of a vehicle while driving straight ahead has been a major concern of the OEMs on the South America market. Due to its natural way to evaluate and also to different types of roads on the market (roads with different types of bank angle), a vehicle with slight tendency to drift will certainly be a reason of customer complaint. Since such a vehicle dynamics property is very sensible to small variation of some parameters, such as road bank angle, alignment setting, etc, sometimes the subjective evaluation tends to become worthless due to the parameters control. In this scenario, simulation becomes important. As it is a quite difficult subject, since there is big influence of small parameters variation, the usage of statistical approach allow to obtain better understanding of the phenomenon. This work presents a statistical approach for simulation based on DOE analysis and Monte Carlo method.