On 09/04/12 14:12, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

Jaguar showed in the '60s that decent independant rear suspension could be
made for a medium priced car. It took BMW (and others) 30 years to work
out how to do the same.


This has gone very off topic, but it's available in cheaper cars too. Ford
have been fitting independent rear suspension to the Focus since it came out
in 1998. VW have since followed suit with the Golf. Honda appear to have gone
backwards, as the current Civic does not have independent rear suspension but
the previous generation did.