The front - strut, rear - beam - axle setup doesn't need any improvements.
Not exact matches
The Beetle Turbo uses a damper - strut front suspension and a multilink
setup at the rear, while the standard car makes
do with a beam
axle.
But from behind the wheel it was a clumsy car to drive in some respects, with brake pedal responses that didn't match those of the throttle, steering that always felt detached from the rear
axle somehow, and a chassis
setup that was nothing if not determined in its desire to provide safe but endless amounts of understeer.
Independent suspension on a production car can not
do what a solid
axle setup can
do, and installing a suspension lift on a solid
axle setup tends to be considerably less complicated, which means easier to repair.
Volvo
did something interesting by stretching that dash to
axle ratio while keeping a front - drive / transverse - engine
setup, but it's not the best from an engineering standpoint.