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The front chassis is so adjusted to provide the best balance of road isolation, handling precision, and bump recovery damping. To reduce the unstrung weight the front suspension of MacPherson strut features forged-aluminum lower control arms. The overall system is assembled with floats on rubber mounts to a front sub frame to provide road and engine isolation.

To provide chassis vibration control and superior ride isolation the front suspension uses bewly developed fluid filled bushings. Further to improve impact harshness and ride comfort anti dive properties were modified.

To control rear wheel as well as body movement the rear multilink suspension is designed which accepts the unique lateral and forwarded forces of the SH-AWD system. The design is such that it features squeeze-cast aluminum uprights to make reduction in unstrung weight for improved response and during acceleration, to reduce suspension squat trailing arms are well positioned.

The coil springs of suspension, anti-roll bars and dampers get extensive tuning to gain an ideal combination of superior ride and exceptional handling. The system has been placed on a separate steel sub frame for the purpose of improving steering response.