I have a friend who used to work for Bose. About 2 years ago he told me that Bose was working secretly on automotive suspensions. I kinda laughed at this but thought if anyone could make an improvement it would be Amar Bose. If any of you get a chance to own a Bose home theatre you'll know what I mean...

anywho... jump forward to last week I buy the new MotorTrend magazine and there is an article about Bose's new suspension. These are not available yet just in testing phases. Motortrend did several tests on their suspension with 74yr old Amar Bose watching. They used two identical Lexus' and ran them around this course...the pictures they got were AMAZING.

Just some highlghts:

0% body roll....none. No body roll at all. I kid you not.

0% nose dive on braking. None.

3"~~ the number of inches the Lexus can vertically jump! I'm not making this up. He laid a 2X6 in the road and at 35mph the lexus jumped it! The neat thing here is he said it takes roughly 67hp worth of force to lift the car over the 2X6 but 49hp of that is regenerated when the vehicle lands. It takes about another 1 hp from the engine to re-charge the suspension.

http://motortrend.com/av/112_0501_bo...id1/index.html

watch this video....be amazed.

p.s. don't expect this out anytime soon....no time before 2008 I'd say. Even then it'll be like a $5-7,000 option.

 

Yo I saw that article and I have to say I am highly impressed too. The first thing I thought was "BOSE" but once I read on it sounded pretty good to me. But I would really like to see what the whole kit looks like. I was also thinking that would have to be a very uncomfortable ride.

 

why would it be uncomfortable?? I bet it's SUPER soft and when the wheel hits a bump the shock would absorb 99% of it. before moving the chasis any.

Think of a regular spring on a car. It can only compress so much before it starts pushing up against the chasis lifting the car. With this new system I bet you'd have to do some serious rock crawling before you lift the fender any.

 

I just figured that during "spirited" driving without alittle body role the driver and buddies would flung around a bit. But I read it again and might not be that bad. I also wonder how much it weighs

 

There was an article on it in Fortune Small Business a month or two ago. Apparently Bose has been toying with it since the 70's. developing itwasn't so different from the principle involved in noise cancelling headphones. It reads the road and cancels the bumbs instantly.

 

Thats so cool, super smooth, wonder how it handles! Bet it wont be cheap but hey, if its worth it and you can throw the money into it!

 

http://www.bose.com/controller;jsess.../mazda/rx8.jsp




here is a link to the info and even more video's on Bose's own site...VERY GOOD READING!!