The debate over spring vs air ride trailer suspensions is far from over, even if air ride has emerged as the decisive winner in the marketplace. Some fleets are taking a fresh look at the virtues of ...

Getting rid of the coil lets Porsche lower the strut tower. That allows different styling, and Porsche says it can even help ...

One of the most important components of any car is its suspension. It’s what helps to absorb imperfections in the road—both big and small—and provides a comfortable ride. Today, nearly every vehicle ...

A German automotive supplier has developed an innovation for a critical part in every car. Rheinmetall has invented a suspension spring that's up to 75 percent lighter than a conventional spring — ...

Consider the lowly leaf spring. It’s often the forgotten component, but the leaf spring is critical to vehicle safety and performance, and should definitely be included in any preventive maintenance ...

The most common coil-spring front suspension uses two control arms (also called A-arms because of their shape) per side, mounted to the frame, and a coil spring between them that exerts force on only ...

First of all, thank you for the great magazine:Four Wheeler. I own a 1974 Dodge Power Wagon (W200) with a 360ci LA engine. This year Dodge switched to parabolic leaf springs, which I am happy with, ...

The torsion bars are as good of a place to start as any. The torsion bar is basically a cleverly designed spring that provides excellent performance from a compact assembly. People might curse torsion ...

Horsepower and torque are useless unless you can apply the energy to the ground in order to accelerate your muscle car. Traction becomes quite a challenge for those dealing with leaf-spring rear ...

We have gotten ahold of the man behind the “cantileafer” suspension on this week’s most interesting project, a custom Lexus LS400-Ford F100 mashup also known as the F-1UZ. But despite his machine’s ...

The next-gen Toyota Tacoma is out testing these days, and it appears to be taking a page out of the new Toyota Tundra’s book for its rear suspension. These spy photos give us both a good look at the ...

A heads up to anybody aboard their Katoom of choice: It sounds like Kraftfahrzeug Trunkenpolz Mattighofen will soon be playing around with composite leaf spring suspension on her motocross offerings.