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Old 28th February 2010, 10:23 AM
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Dangerous ..... That's a bit of a strong word to use there

I am no design engineer but even I can see that the lower wishbone does not carry the entire weight of the front of the car !!??
Most of the weight will be tranfered to the main chassis structure Via the front shock's

The addition of braces or drop links as they are better known will only serve to assist anti roll .... Being that the Roadster does not suffer badly with body roll, not a lot of point fittng them !!??

Do you not think that VOSSA might have picked up any dangerous design defects !!!

There are thousands of 7 type cars out there .... All using the same type of wishbone design & that includes the original Lotus 7

One last point !! This type of wishbone design was used for many years on F1 cars & even with the advent of the Carbon fibre age .... Current F1 wishbones are still not a world apart ( theory wise ) to our humble wishbones .

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