Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Vintage Auto Journalism - Active Suspension Top Gear 1983 (NFC)

[Charles Perry (charles]

If you like vintage videos (and vintage tech predicting now common tech), this is certainly period-correct. When I bought my 928GTS, it sat for a while because the differential pump was bad. They are no longer available and there is only one guy in the country (as far as I know) who rebuilds them. He never has stock on them because people refuse to return cores to him when he sells them one. While waiting, I learned a lot about what Porsche called the PSD, which is a fancy electronically controlled locking differential with premonitions of today’s torque-vectoring diffs. This video explains it in super-sweet late 80’s style, including WarGames-grade computer graphics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PoocIsiV2c

 

 

 

 

 

From: Ferrari <ferrari-bounces+charles=carolinasound.com [at] ferrarilist.com> On Behalf Of Peter Rychel
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2021 11:54 PM
To: Charles Perry <charles [at] carolinasound.com>
Cc: The FerrariList <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Vintage Auto Journalism - Active Suspension Top Gear 1983 (NFC)

 

It’s hard to believe this type of technology appeared in the 1980s! That was incredible. As mentioned here months ago, this pre-dates by decades the magnetologic (sp?) suspension on cars we see today. I always thought Lotus tuned suspension by design, I never thought they dabbled in electronic control.

 

Thanks for posting this.

 

Peter

 

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From: Lashdeep Singh via Ferrari
Sent: February 16, 2021 7:03 PM
To: PeterGT4
Cc: The FerrariList
Subject: [Ferrari] Vintage Auto Journalism - Active Suspension Top Gear 1983 (NFC)

 

To the point made a few days ago about real auto journalism...

It is hard to believe that this appeared on a public TV station.

Just superb!

https://youtu.be/iPQ66fW9RAM
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