Honda suspension comparison.

[JohnL]

It is good to read an accurate comment on the Macpherson strut suspension not simply the "New hondas have Mcstrut suspension so they are automatically crap" mentality that seems to be prevalent.

Not "crap", just compromised, and a pity considering that older Hondas were fitted with a superior / more sophisticated design, so the cruder Mac Strut represents a backward step from Honda.

It is always surprising that Mac Struts can be made to work as well as they can be made to work, but I suspect much of this is down to the ability of modern high performance tyres to overcome suspension deficiencies (up to a point).

DC5 front suspension works okay despite being Mcpherson strut and a quite poorly designed one at that.

You said it; "works okay despite being Mcpherson strut". All else being equal, if it were an equally well sorted SLA it would be better.

Care to come to the track to compare the relative merits of each suspension architecture?

Who would we get to ensure that all the other pieces of string were equally long?