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Originally Posted by NLS8520
I wonder if they will also include the BBS wheels and Sachs dampers/Dunlop Direzza's (that were pictured recently) as well in the form of an option?
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Yeah, I doubt those will be available here in the US. My beef with those wheels, although they are very nice, from what I saw they are different sized front and rear. That means you can't rotate front and back and it also means less fun/oversteer and higher cost of tires. So frankly, I'd rather just have the 17's. Now if they made that style of BBS wheel in the lighter stock 17 inch size, I'd be rollin' 'em!
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Originally Posted by Yoniyama
I am not sure Toyota is installing a 'stiffer suspension', as in harder springs/bushing and tighter dampers. My impression is that Toyota is trying to improve handling and ride quality by:
1 Increasing the rigidity of the suspension set-up; (with bigger bolts) and
2 Reducing internal friction (or sometimes called stickion) of the dampers. The usual way to reduce internal friction is to use a hydraulic fluid with lower viscosity, and increase the rigidity of the damper body and rod (hence thicker rod). Because internal friction increases exponentially when the damper bends (or flexes) under stress, and a strong body and thicker rod bend less under stress.
I doubt if the ride will feel much stiffer after the 2015 modification.
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Interesting points. However, it looks like they just switched supplier to Sachs from Showa. Which yeah, the Sachs may have those design advantages. Showa is probably the best Japanese shock maker but Sachs is likely a little higher performance.