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Originally Posted by SkullWorks

Let's try and help this guy out with all the info,

A "shock" or shock absorber is used in the rear, it only has to deal with vertical (up, down) motion because the suspension has multiple links and keeps the shock from being loaded.

In the front however, The "shock" also has to help locate the front suspension laterally, therefore it has to be much more stout and is referred to as a "strut" in this configuration,

Our front suspension design is commonly referred to as a McPherson STRUT assembly,

It's like the all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares arrangement.

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