Insane positive castor?

[Underpowered]

This is my first european car, and I couldn't help but noticing that the castor in the front is ridiculous. Look at the strut housings compared to a japanese or american car. Is it because these cars are built as more top-speed cars and the designers were looking for high-speed stability?

ALSO would an '85 BMW 318i have trailing arm rear suspension?

[KenC]

Yes, the the last question.

[Tangent]

Don't our cars have about 5* caster? I used to do alignments on Mercedes and many of them had over 10* caster!

[emmi]

even w/ the caster as is... it still handles really well...

[Madhatter]

over 8 degrees.

[Axxe]

High speed stability. Last thing you want is a car that gets squirelly at 180 kph.

[AdamF 88iS]

You can do that on cars that don't have front axles.

Feels nice to me.

[fretburnr]

Feels nice to me.

same here. natural steering return-to-center is nice too, as opposed to the synthetic torque-driven return on fwd cars.

[ddongbap]

same here. natural steering return-to-center is nice too, as opposed to the synthetic torque-driven return on fwd cars.

Thats funny.