Unless you are planning on a lot of autobahn trips or road racing, I'd stay away from ceramic or carbon pads as they have to be hot to be effective. I would recommend a good quality, low dust, non-squeal pad if you can find one.

 

Even new mini-vans come w/ ceramic pads now, and they're available f/ almost any vehicle at the auto parts store. The ceramic pads aren't all race-type anymore. They're street applicable and don't need to warm up prior to becoming effective. And the ceramic pads are the cheapest way to get significantly better braking w/ your stock system. You can actually feel the difference.

 

I learn something new everyday.

Is that what they did to cut down on the brake dust?

 

I'm not up on the amount of dust that the ceramic pads create. My brother brought me up to speed on the pads, as he has them on his vehicles, Toyota 4Runner, Nissan Quest Van, Toyota Corolla.

I find that it's hard as heck to keep up on all the new auto technology unless I do a heck of alot of reading of the monthly car magazines, and the race-type car magazines are more relative now than ever as race car technology is constantly and rapidlybeing transfered over to street cars, not just through after-market companies, but now through the manufacturers as well. The new Corvette is a good example of race tech used by the manufacturer for a street car, and for an affordable price, considering the class of car and the level of performance.