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Originally Posted by cody
I thought it had to do with "long travel suspension" that Subaru advertises.
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"Long travel" is a generic phrase for a spring & shock package with, simply, a lot of travel. Typical production cars will have about 6-7" of total bump & droop travel; if you look at a desert race truck, it might have 20" or more. This allows you to run fairly soft spring & shock rates which cushion the impact shocks from racing across dunes & gulleys at 80mph...
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Originally Posted by cody
I just remember this flash demo on SOA's site that doesn't seem to be there anymore. It illustrated that the suspension pivoted from the center of the vehicle and therefore the camber was not as adversley affected by uneven surfaces...thus making Subarus safer.
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Pretty much no suspension design will ever physically pivot from the center of the vehicle, it's impossible due to packaging constraints with everything else in the car... engine, fuel tank, passenger compartment, etc. Even F1 cars don't have their suspension links mounted in the center of the car. That picture you posted is pretty typical, and you can see clearly where the inboard pivots are.
Now, maybe they were talking about the suspension instant centers, which would be a different story.. I don't know.