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Originally Posted by Frank Lee
Now, the roads I drive are for the most part quite good- lacking substantial surface flaws- and I'm not careening around at the near limits of control so I'm thinking independent suspension front or rear or front and rear is not really needed.
Why do away with independent suspension? Simplicity, weight, cost, room, etc.
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Maybe not quite the same thing, but I have a double live axle Wrangler and I can assure you it's a scary thing to drive compared my old Isuzu Amigo that was just about identical in layout but had double wishbone IFS (it had leafs rear vs coils on the Wrangler).
Most smaller cars don't have IRS anyway, they have torsion beams for exactly the reasons you've listed. There's no practical way to have a live axle on a front wheel drive either, at the front the single arm/strut has been settled on exactly for the reasons you've listed. Honda used to have double wishbones all around but have now had to go to the standard strut/ beam setups mostly on cost grounds.
I would like to own a Model-T at some stage though, preferably one that's been rebuild in period as a European style 'special'
