Suspension for motor vehicles

A suspension system for a motor vehicle having a body, said suspension system including at least a pair of lateral suspensions each comprising:

• a shock absorber having an upper end thereof adapted to be mounted on said body of said motor vehicle;
• a knuckle operatively connected to said shock absorber for supporting a wheel thereon;
• a radius arm adapted to be mounted at one end thereof on said body and at a distal end thereof on said knuckle;
• a rubber bushing which is resilient in substantially the fore-and-aft direction of said motor vehicle, said rubber bushing supporting said one end of said radius arm on said body;
• a torsion bar spring having one end thereof adapted to be fixed to said body, and having a substantially twistable and flexible distal end, and being adapted to extend in substantially the fore-and-aft direction of said motor vehicle;
• a resilient lower arm having one end thereof fixed to said distal end of said torsion bar spring and the other end thereof fastened to said distal end of said radius arm, said lower arm being resiliently flexible in substantially the fore-and-aft direction of said motor vehicle and rigid in substantially the vertical direction thereof;
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• said lower arm comprising a leaf spring.