There's no denying it: Your car's suspension needs some work. There are various suspension set-ups from MacPherson struts and double wishbones to single shock absorbers and multilink structures.

His strut would appear on French Ford Vedettes and English Fords. Possibly to distance his design from the GM patent, MacPherson’s Ford struts used the anti-roll bar as a replacement for the ...

John ANSWER: Struts are a combination of springs and shocks. Commonly called MacPherson struts, they are named after Earle MacPherson, a GM engineer credited with inventing the suspension component.