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 ...

Active Toe Control works with twist beam axles, offering the performance of more expensive multilink rear suspension at less than half the cost. By using a control rod to adjust the angle of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Its rear twist-beam axle is stiffer than that in other Fiestas. Its steering arm is shorter, and the rack ratio speeds up 6 percent to 13.6:1. The brakes have 20 percent more swept area in front ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...