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Originally Posted by Poochie
Or, hear me out on this farfetched suspicion; it was added to electronically aid in the enhancement of the vehicle's dynamics and by extension, its braking (pitch) and handling (roll)..
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Ah, ok. So you need to control brake pitch and roll. This is because the starting point for a dynamic suspension is a SOFTER baseline than a firm fixed M suspension. You wouldn't need so much pitch and roll control if they were just firm in the first place.
Race cars have no problem with pitch and roll because unlike street cars they run firm suspension, firm springs and firm anti-roll bars with smaller wheels and bigger sidewalls. They let the sidewall absorb imperfections and the firm suspension controls pitch and roll. This is fact. Ironically, race cars usually run on tracks where the road conditions are better than on many streets and roads we drive on.
So what happens when you have customers complain about their sports cars and sports sedans are to harsh on the street? They don't want to run smaller wheels with sidewalls because they don't look as cool. They want to run the biggest wheels with the thinnest sidewall.
Ah, brilliant you can design an intelligent strut that will change dampening on the fly by looking at speed, steering angle, pitch, roll etc. Ah, very cool. You can go slow and go over a speed bump and the active strut, coupled with a softer-to-begin-with-spring-to-allow-for-the-softer-motion goes soft and makes for a pleasant speed bump. Then when you hit the perfect race-track grade mountain road it firms up to allow a sports-car firmness. Sounds great and that is the real raison d'tetre for these street suspension. It sounds great, but people just need to understand and admit that this is what they are really for. It's for people that want to feel they have a manly sports car but don't want the harshness that can come with it.
Race cars on the other hand that run active suspensions have a single purpose...to win races but they start life firmer and with sidewalls. People are conflating the two.
What the M2 was supposed to be and the CS variant which is supposedly more hard-edged but now people want to dilute its core difference with the same electro-comfort wizardry that was the whole reason, they came out with the 1M and followed with the M2. It was supposed to be less tech, more basics. If you want an electronic suspension, get an M4. Don't ruin it for everyone else that wants something more hard-edged and pure. They already make an "executive" version of the M4.