Just curious, but like the title says, who still makes a double wishbone FWD car? All I can think of is Accords up to '12 and the TSX until it's discontinuation in '14.
Just curious, but like the title says, who still makes a double wishbone FWD car? All I can think of is Accords up to '12 and the TSX until it's discontinuation in '14.
Outside of your list, no one in the US.
Ouch. Luckily Mrs. neon should have a few more years out of her current Accord('03, 170k+)
If I can get her out of FWD(move away from snow
) then the answer is The Answer. But I want one too. Two Answers!
I think the Ford Fusion uses upper and lower control arms similar to the Accord.
Sonata 2 generations ago before the fluidic. So not anymore.
Thought long and hard about building one up as the caliber SRT4 motor should have bolted on.
I do not understand the 'need' for double wishbones. yes, on a track car or on any vehicle that will see heavy loading either through racing or work.. but for a car that mostly sees street duty, struts work perfectly well.. and if you believe Porsche and BMW, they work just fine on the track too.
I am not saying that double wishbone or A-arms are not superior to struts.. they are.. but for most cars with their already small amount of suspension movement, I doubt 995 of the people would even notice
C5, C6, and C7 Corvettes all do. Same for the rear.
I don't know about the previous generations.
Petrolburner wrote: C5, C6, and C7 Corvettes all do. Same for the rear.
fujioko wrote: I think the Ford Fusion uses upper and lower control arms similar to the Accord.
Any car I can think of with upper control arms uses TWO lower control arms. In fact it's more common to see two lower arms than not, nowadays.
Fusions definitely have a pair of lower arms up front, not "double wishbones".
mad_machine wrote: I do not understand the 'need' for double wishbones.
Well, it makes lowering a car a lot more pleasant process/outcome. I dunno if the newer strut setups can cope with lowering very well, but I remember lowered strut cars losing all of their travel after a moderate lowering. 
Petrolburner wrote: C5, C6, and C7 Corvettes all do. Same for the rear.
They would qualify when reversing I suppose 
Yeah, he said it had been 11 years since they moved it into his garage. You know this car?
And their camber curve starts going the wrong way. 
A lot of the problems with lowering mcpherson strut cars are still problems with double wishbones. I think you also hit on one of the biggest problems with mchperson struts which is that the damper starts ABOVE the cv axle. You lose so much space up there after drastic lowering that you basically have to go to a completely different, shorter damper body/design which is a hurdle relatively few people ever jump.
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