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Old 11-02-2017, 06:57 PM   #100
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Originally Posted by venturaII View Post
Multilink has ZERO to do with rigidity, and everything to do with facilitating complex and advantageous geometry changes throughout the wheel's travel. You can make a MacPherson strut suspension as rigid as a bank vault, but it still won't perform as well as a multilink setup because it doesn't manage the wheel's geometry as well. That's not marketing hype - it's simple math.
Here is the rigidity part I was mentioning. It is the housing of the shock part:



You are absolutely right about your definition on multi-link, but strictly speaking Cayman does not have a multi-link design. This caused the confusion.

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