Land Rover Defender OCTA: Suspension inspired by Rivian?

[aAlpine]

Sounds like a very similar suspension setup to Rivian: no swaybar with hydraulic interlink. Land Rover makes similar claims about the range of capabilities from being good both on road and off road.

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[Donald Stanfield]

From the video it sounds like it comes with the gen 1 suspension noise as well.

 

[iansriv]

Cool. Thanks for sharing.

 

[ndmiller]

Rivian's suspension came from McLaren.

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[Forager]

Sounds like a very similar suspension setup to Rivian: no swaybar with hydraulic interlink. Land Rover makes similar claims about the range of capabilities from being good both on road and off road.

Not at all. Land Rover has run air suspensions on their vehicles since the early 1990s (starting with Range Rover Classic, I think in 1993). They’ve had a hydraulic interlink since at least 2005, as that was included in the air suspension design on the LR3.

 

[richpike]

Not at all. Land Rover has run air suspensions on their vehicles since the early 1990s (starting with Range Rover Classic, I think in 1993). They’ve had a hydraulic interlink since at least 2005, as that was included in the air suspension design on the LR3.

Land Rover has had air suspensions - yes. But I don’t believe they’ve ever had the hydraulic interlinks ala McLaren. The LR3 had traditional sway bars, etc. And plenty of body lean (we’ve owned five Land Rovers - LR3s, LR4s, FFRR, D5, all with air suspension, I don’t believe any had hydraulic interlinks?).

-Rich

 

[SoCal Rob]

Land Rover has had air suspensions - yes. But I don’t believe they’ve ever had the hydraulic interlinks ala McLaren. The LR3 had traditional sway bars, etc. And plenty of body lean (we’ve owned five Land Rovers - LR3s, LR4s, FFRR, D5, all with air suspension, I don’t believe any had hydraulic interlinks?).

-Rich

I was going to say the same thing. Maybe @Forager was thinking of the hydraulic Active Cornering Enhancement (ACE) available as an option on the Discovery II for a time. This wasn’t an interlink though, since it acted on the sway bar.

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