It is quite right, that I did not notice any difference when the factory changed my Suplex for Spax, neither better or worse. Perhaps mine was the only Suplex car that didn't ride the bumps, I don't know.
I've been thinking about the Trad 4 wheeler suspension discussion and re-read it last night, and whilst it is in the best possible tone, I rather fancy that is because people who buy the 4 wheelers know that they are getting a car with rock hard ride and suspension that hasn't changed in over 65 years, so they can either accept it or do something about it, we Three Wheeler owners on the other hand thought we were buying a modern take on an old design, developed from the ground up to be as good as it can get, with all the knowledge now available to designers, well to anyone really. I was very impressed with the Autocar road test, who wouldn't be? So, when I took delivery of my car and found out that the handling was woefully short of my expectation, even with Suplex suspension, you can imagine how disappointed I was? I wrote to the factory, quoting part of the Autocar road test. From memory, I don't even think I was graced with a reply.
I'm on my second Three Wheeler now, exactly 12 months down the line from my first, and things haven't improved one iota in the handling department, so can you blame me for being a little annoyed. There are other improvements, but not that important one. It would be so easy to at least raise the steering arm on the uprights, so that there would have been less toe in and out in the first inch or two of bump and droop, but they couldn't even be bothered to do that.
So, yes it is what it is, but it isn't what it was supposed to be, hence a few of us making some noise. [I suspect those of us with cars which handle worse, or who notice these things, and care].
If those who are constantly telling us not to rock the boat because it makes for uncomfortable reading would like to ignore us please, then we can get on with bitching about the things that let us down and praising those aspects that give us joy. We do like to be even handed, it's not all bad.
