Double Wishbone Suspension
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To me Honda implies that the suspension design trickled down from their race car . How much is another story that thanks to you guys we will have to get the F1 engineers to come to this thread to explain every detail just to make u happy.
But my point is that there are two articles that said that F1 technology trickled down to their road cars . The NSX brochure states this as one . I have not found the original article yet .
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Originally Posted by Mr.E.G.' timestamp='1321647585' post='21168540
And to answer your original question, there are literally HUNDREDS of non-Hondas that have used double wishbone suspension. Again, the fact that you don't seem to even understand that is staggering.
To me Honda implies that the suspension design trickled down from their race car . How much is another story that thanks to you guys we will have to get the F1 engineers to come to this thread to explain every detail just to make u happy.
But my point is that there are two articles that said that F1 technology trickled down to their road cars . The NSX brochure states this as one . I have not found the original article yet .
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Originally Posted by Mr.E.G.' timestamp='1321647585' post='21168540
And to answer your original question, there are literally HUNDREDS of non-Hondas that have used double wishbone suspension. Again, the fact that you don't seem to even understand that is staggering.
To me Honda implies that the suspension design trickled down from their race car . How much is another story that thanks to you guys we will have to get the F1 engineers to come to this thread to explain every detail just to make u happy.
But my point is that there are two articles that said that F1 technology trickled down to their road cars . The NSX brochure states this as one . I have not found the original article yet .
Above is a picture of the double A-arm suspension used on the 1986 Accord. It's quite possible that Honda, who used A-arms successfully on FWD cars while most makes were using struts, decided to stick with what they knew and were implementing effectively. Also, as I said in my earlier post, Honda wasn't a chassis manufacture in F1. Honda actually never made their own F1 car. In the 80s all their cars were things like Williams-Honda where Honda was the engine supplier. Starting in 1967 with the Lola-Honda RA300 Honda didn't design the chassis. F1 inspired sounds nice and helps sell Swiss watches but really it has very little to do with a modern road car. Certainly Honda had enough in house talent that they didn't need to ask engineers in England, which is what your read of the book would suggest, how to design suspension for the NSX. In a sense, by saying F1 inspired, you are taking credit due to the Honda engineers and giving it to English engineers who were not involved with the car.