How to Use active suspension in a Sentence

active suspension

noun
  • Thirty years on, Porsche has figured out active suspension for production cars.
    — Mark Ewing, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The problem is, active suspension systems are heavier and more expensive.
    — Ed Garsten, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
  • But instead of absorbing bumps through springs attached to the car body, each wheel in an Indigo car contains its own active suspension system.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2021
  • As mentioned, with the active suspension doing its active comfort thing, the ride as a passenger is particularly good.
    — ArsTechnica, 2 Apr. 2025
  • The 48-volt hydropneumatic active suspension system is the only one of its kind, on any vehicle.
    — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 5 Dec. 2018
  • The available active suspension and a more direct front axle steering ratio made tackling southern Nevada’s winding mountain roads a breeze.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 2 Apr. 2025
  • The fun doesn't stop there, though, as the company has also debuted the first ATV with a semi-active suspension system.
    — New Atlas, 18 Aug. 2025
  • There are also adaptive air springs connected to the automaker’s active suspension system, torque vectoring and rear-wheel steering, though the last is only available as an add-on.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 18 Nov. 2021
  • The sedan is also available with innovative features that include rear-seat airbags and an active suspension that will lift the car up to reduce the severity of damage during a collision.
    — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Multimatic's active suspension crowns the transaxle, using race-type pushrod suspension and the latest in adaptive spool valve shocks to enable as much control for drivers as possible.
    — Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Selecting the most aggressive Track function both causes the active suspension to reduce the ride height and brings the option of a variable traction-control setting.
    — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Levinson said the four-passenger cabins have carriage seating, active suspension, individual screens for each seat, and four-zone climate control.
    — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2025
  • The Quadrifoglio has active suspension with a four-channel chassis dampening system to quickly adapt to changing driving conditions.
    — Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 15 Aug. 2018
  • Lexus has tried smoothing things out by retuning the base suspension and improving the optional active suspension that constantly adjusts shock dampening.
    — Malcolm Gunn, courant.com, 28 June 2018
  • The chassis includes four-wheel steering and an active suspension system derived from the Ferrari F80 hypercar.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 25 May 2026
  • The active suspension references the period of actual closure; most clubs received a deferred suspension in addition to the active portion.
    — Kevin Litten, NOLA.com, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Four-wheel steering, bidirectional design, and active suspension are some of the features integrated into the Zoox robotaxi to ensure every ride is a smooth ride.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Aug. 2022
  • The ambitious team explored every avenue, including active suspension and carbon-on-carbon brakes with tech poached from F1 and the aerospace industry.
    — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 28 Sep. 2024
  • Though many other carmakers tout advancements in active suspension or high-tech engine developments, there’s nothing that quite captures the ease and solidity of these highway cruisers.
    — Raphael Orlove, Robb Report, 27 Feb. 2025
  • An active suspension that adapts according to road information from the navigation system and forward-facing cameras also promises to keep the ride very luxurious.
    — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 15 Jan. 2020
  • She was then found to be driving on an active suspension under Ohio’s Financial Responsibility Act.
    — Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Modern muscle cars benefit from anti-lock brakes, traction control, stability control, and active suspension systems that can be tuned for different driving conditions at the touch of button.
    — Karl Brauer, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Vehicles are increasingly loaded with accelerometers, which feed data into active suspension systems, for example.
    — WIRED, 14 Nov. 2022
  • One candidate had three active suspensions by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department.
    — Jim Morrill, charlotteobserver, 4 May 2018
  • The truck’s Baja mode samples terrain conditions hundreds of times per second, modulating the truck’s power delivery and constantly retuning its active suspension based on speed and conditions.
    — Karl Brauer, Robb Report, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Building on this success, a new project will merge ERNEST’s active suspension control with long-range intelligent navigation.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 19 June 2026
  • The active suspension and limited-slip differential in the $1,200 Ti Performance Package probably also had a lot to do with handling as well.
    — Scott Sturgis, Philly.com, 22 Apr. 2018
  • Porsche also outfitted a new form of active suspension to the Turbo S, which uses one of the pumps from the Panamera’s trick new Active Ride suspension to drive actuators at each of the car’s four corners.
    — ArsTechnica, 27 Oct. 2025
  • These machines start out as examples of the Defender Octa model variant, but swap the Octa’s advanced 6D active suspension for a dedicated race design engineered by Bilstein.
    — Karl Brauer, Robb Report, 19 Jan. 2026
  • According to the Best Car report, Nissan engineers are impressed with the Taycan’s extremely low center of gravity, as well as its active suspension, dynamic chassis control, rear-wheel steering and two-speed transmission.
    — Peter Lyon, Forbes, 28 May 2022

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