Up until the mid-'70s, most cars came from the factory with a solid rear axle suspended by two semielliptic, parallel leaf springs. A leaf spring is made | up of one or more long, narrow strips of ...

There is the matter of power, and then there is the matter of putting that power to work most efficiently. Without a well-designed chassis and suspension, all the power in the world doesn't mean ...

Automotive design has come a long way since Karl Benz designed the Patent Motorwagen in the late 1800s, and Henry Ford brought the T-4 powered Model T to the masses in 1908. Those early cars were ...

Why does anybody use air shocks with full-size trucks? Fox says a 2.5-inch air shock has a spring force of 750 pounds per inch at full pressure, which means it's OK to hold up my truck's 5,000-pound ...

Back in 2020, we wrote about this incredible 1977 Ford pickup that was being combined with a Lexus LS400. The Ford kept its frame, sheet metal, and other parts, but the entire drivetrain and even the ...

Shackles? All those do is connect the springs to the frame. What sort of innovation can there be related to shackles? This is a valid question. Shackles are the least glamorous component of a ...

Porsche is quietly preparing a suspension revolution that looks, at first glance, like a step back in time. Instead of ...