Untripped SUV (Sport Utility Vehicle) rollovers are dangerous and possibly lethal accidents. This thesis address some issues in the detection and prevention of untripped SUV rollovers.Before a rollover can occur, the wheels on one side must lose road contact. The wheel lift off situation is chosen as the critical situation to be avoided. If wheel lift off is prevented, then rollover is prevented as well.A new kinetic energy based measure, that indicates an imminent wheel lift off, is introduced. This measure is used by a gain scheduled LQ (Linear Quadratic) controller to prevent wheel lift off. The LQ controller outputs the desired changes of the forces acting on the chassis. These force changes are mapped to braking and traction system commands by a control allocator. Three different control alloca tion approaches were evaluated, including a new convex optimization approach. The convex optimization approach seems to work well. The controller is capable of preventing wheel lift off in the simulated test cases, and the results are promising.