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Originally Posted by olddog
Are there any modern cars being produced today with this type of design?.
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Corvettes, from 1963 up to ?1996, or whatever the prev gen vette, used the half shaft as the upper control arm as well.
From my memory, about 10 yrs ago, at run-n-gun, a contemporary had an exle fail at speed, the back end of the car leaped up, slammed down, ruptured the fuel tank and caught fire. I think it was caused from a faulty weld?
At as autocross, or highway speeds, the failure I would think be more controllable, but at 100+ mph, it could be a problem.
I do know there are thousands of replica's with this rear suspension set up, some of them running more than 700 hp with no failures. Like was said before, make sure you have quality halfshafts and U-joints.