Saturday, March 31, 2007

Tom's Suspension Test Drive

The Tom's Suspension set for Toyota Wish was recently released and we have yet to see in on the shores of Singapore yet. However, I had the chance to test it's performance on Lao Pi's ride at SE Motorsports in Taipei.

This is the actual set installed on his car.




From his comments, he said that the Tom's set is better than TRD's set in terms of handling. Basically, the set is priced higher than TRD's, but the car is lowered more than the TRD set. In terms of hardness/comfort, it's interesting to note that The TRD set is softer in front than the Tom's set. For the rear, the TRD set is harder than the Tom's set.

So we took a test drive and at one point, we were doing about 150 to 160 km/h on his turbo charged car. The road holding is very good and the car seems even more stable due to the lower CG. In term of comfort, it does not seem harder than the TRD set. It's a shame that this set came out so late. Otherwise, I would actually prefer this set to the TRD one.

Anyway, this is the bling ride that we tested on. Notice how low the car is.



By the way, 19" DAD chrome rims. Bling ah!!

Cheers,

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