Citroens new suspension revealed

[russ92xmsed]

Revealed on a Cactus prototype. It sounds promising, especially the new seat design.

Link to Steve Cropley's autocar write up.

http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-c ... 99-comfort" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[raynoon]

Well done Citroen. I hate the jittery ride in modern cars

[White Exec]

Our RAV4 is a good example of a ride which is really quite good when the car is loaded light/medium (eg two-up), but is pretty unforgiving on extremely bumpy ground with 4-up, when the bump stops come into play. It has some pretty short, single-coil rear springs which doesn't help. These provide oodles of extension (good at keeping all four wheels on the ground) but not much compression travel.

Interesting write-up, Russ. I bet Citroen had to go on bended knee for the funding for this modest-looking research item, and to promise it would be "for the benefit of all"! They certainly need "an edge" now, or what's the point? Did I hear talk of a new PSA SUV recently?

[marc61]

The company nearly folds, sells out to the Chinese, then figures out it might just possibly be able to differentiate itself by going back to the biggest feature it was renowned for - comfort! Hope springs!

[Peter.N.]

Sounds interesting, wonder if I will ever be able to afford one.

Peter

[Rommel]

Wow. There really is hope. I'm glad to hear about this.