This overall view doesn’t reveal much about the Maverick hybrid’s rear suspension beyond the point that it’s quite simple. Now we can identify this as a twist-beam rear suspension ...

the Fit—like a lot of cars these days—has a rear torsion beam (also known as a "twist-beam") suspension, which is typically a stamped-steel member that stretches underneath the car across its ...

While the torsion beam or “twist beam” isn’t as compromised as a solid axle, neither is it a truly independent suspension. Stiffer bushings can compensate for the torsion beam’s inherent ...

The front-drive hybrid version of the 2022 Ford Maverick uses neither, but its rear suspension design threads a needle between these concepts with a trailing twist beam that leverages Ford's ...

The suspension system of a road-going vehicle has two main purposes. Filtering out unwanted motions that occur in a moving vehicle is one thing, but the suspension system also improves handling ...

The system, named “Active Toe Control,” has the ability to make a standard twist beam rear suspension behave more like a complex multi-link arrangement by changing the wheel's angle relative ...

Benteler, a 1998 PACE winner, knew it had to innovate to capture the Ford Windstar 98 rear axle order from another long-standing supplier. Benteler creatively drew on its history of tubular ...

The steering setup isn't quite as advanced as that in the Focus ST, and the Fiesta does have a twist-beam axle out back. But with the Fiesta ST's modified front knuckles (providing more camber ...

with a limited-slip differential and a multilink independent rear suspension rather than the twist-beam axle. I dare say that this is the most enjoyable Jetta since Volkswagen regrettably killed ...

Prodrive claims its new system can match the handling of a vehicle with a complex multi-link rear suspension using just a traditional twist beam set-up. “Active Toe Control, fitted to an ...