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Originally Posted by Needsdecaf
Sounded familiar to me, so I looked up where I had read this. You and I must have been recently reading Satch's article in Roundel:
"But wait: suppose - said the M engineers as they designed the current M5 and M6 - we mounted the carrier assembly directly to the body? Would that not stiffen the chassis? And then, with this cradle assembly secure, we could isolate the differential within this structure by the means of some kinelastic bushings that would securely hold it in place, minimizing noise and vibration from the active M Differential. That's another page from the M5 book of handling; the result is a chassis so stiff that M GmbH VP Albert Bierman says 'we can say now that the body is actually part of the car's suspension.'"
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Good ol Satch. I vascillate between absolutely loving the man and his writing and rolling my eyes at him.