Bose Corporation is best known for creating high quality audio products, and if asked to piece together your ideal car, its 11-speaker sound system would certainly be a contender to feature within.

Active suspension is an emerging secret weapon for vehicle dynamics. And that’s great news, as new automobiles are so big and heavy that they’re much less nimble in the corners. Many automakers have ...

An electronic (‘intelligent’ or ‘active’) suspension system can control the vertical movement of a vehicle’s wheels relative to its chassis or body via an on-board system. Given that a conventional ...

The suspension system is one of the most important components of any vehicle. The system must be engineered to handle expected and unexpected conditions when driving. When considering suspension ...

Massachusetts-based startup ClearMotion has bought up Bose's revolutionary proactive suspension technology, and has raised US$100 million to commercialize it – and potentially refocus it toward making ...

How Does an Adaptive Damping Suspension Work? Most adaptive damping suspension systems use electronically controlled valves within the damper. These valves use sensor data provided while the vehicle ...

New holistic chassis controller can assess whether that jarring bump damaged anything; predict when shocks, air springs, ...

In Part One of this series on racecar dynamics we introduced a new way of looking at the vehicle's suspension systems. We learned that it is important to match the desires of both ends of the car in ...

Automotive suspension design has traditionally had to strike a difficult balance between three conflicting needs: road holding or handling, load carrying and passenger comfort. At its most basic level ...

For those who cannot decide if they want a sports car or a luxury sedan, Audi offers the best of both worlds with the 2021 S8. It features a twin-turbo V8 that packs a punch while a smooth ride is ...

Every vehicle has its own suspension system, a collection of springs, shocks, and bars that keep the vehicle level and keep the tires on the pavement at all times. Remove a vehicle's suspension, and ...

Every car has some combination of springs, shocks, bars, or links that suspends its chassis, body, engine, and drivetrain above its wheels. Get rid of any of it and the ability to accelerate, turn, ...