My 1969 Dodge Charger has been my trusted warhorse for a long time now as a daily driver here in the hills of Northeastern Pennsylvania. It’s a far cry from a nimble canyon carver, but I’ve done ...

The suspension system of a road-going vehicle has two main purposes. Filtering out unwanted motions that occur in a moving vehicle is one thing, but the suspension system also improves handling and ...

The design brief for the Mercedes-Benz 190 was simple: Build a Mercedes, only smaller. The W201, as it was known internally, was Mercedes-Benz's response to the oil crises of the Seventies and ...

In a solid-axle suspension system, the axle moves primarily vertically, with leaf or coil springs providing support for the vehicle's weight, and shocks controlling dampening of the axle and related ...

But we also bought into a fantasy of sorts, and that is that these cars were designed with nothing but performance in mind. Truth is, Chrysler didn't make its real profits off of fanatical gearheads ...

Horst-link (also known as four-bar) suspension is a popular rear-suspension design, named after its inventor, Horst Leitner. Used by Specialized, Norco and many other brands, the Horst-link design is ...

The Metric four-link suspension design is a bit different than most other rear suspensions. This configuration is common in General Motors cars built in and around the 1980's as well as some Ford cars ...

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 ...