1. A system for determining vibration characteristics of a motor vehicle, comprising a sensing arrangement adapted to sense vibrations of the vehicle or of a vehicle part, and an electronic processing means adapted to apply an algorithm for evaluating signals from the sensing arrangement and for determining the vibration characteristics based on the evaluation, the algorithm includes at least one support vector machine adapted to output a probability that a second vibration characteristic belongs to a particular pre-set type of the vibration characteristics; and the support vector machine is configured to output a probability that a current vibration characteristic belongs to a particular one of different pre-set types of vibration characteristics.