Ride vs handling:
Ride refers to a vehicle's comfort and effectiveness in insulating the occupants from undulations in the road surface. A vehicle with good ride quality provides a comfort for the driver and passengers by dampening bumps and other roadway imperfections.
Handling is a descriptions of the way a vehicle responds to the inputs of a driver, as well as how it moves along the roadway. It is commonly judged by how a vehicle performs during cornering and stability.
Although I appreciate your insightful wisdom. I think I have read something strangely similar on Wikipedia...
You might want to consider changing a few more words next time.
Let's return to your, er, the Wikipedia definition of
RIDE. It clearly states “A vehicle with good ride quality provides a
comfort for the driver and passengers” and “Other factors include suspension geometry, vehicle mass and
weight distribution.” As I am a competent linguist, I am confident in classifying the concept of
comfort as purely subjective. Can we not also agree that changes to COM (by any means including suspension lift or body lift) alters “weight distribution”?
Wikipedia definition of
HANDLING also states “Other factors include suspension geometry, vehicle mass and
weight distribution.”
So now, by definition - changes to weight distribution has the potential to affect
RIDE AND the potential to affect
HANDLING. I could rest my case, but I will continue...
You wrote:
A body lift won't affect the stock ride. It may have an affect on the stock handling by raising the COM/COG, though the driver's ability to detect it is still questionable.
I will assert that if something is
questionable, then it is still very possible.
Furthermore, you wrote:
By leaving the stock suspension completely unchanged a body lift will not have an affect on the stock ride because the components which control the ride have not changed.
So let us conclude through reasoning…
IF the concept of RIDE is related to the subjective comfort of the passengers,
AND that a body lift may change
weight distribution and
COM,
AND that the definition of
HANDLING includes “
weight distribution”,
AND that the definition of
RIDE includes “
weight distribution”,
AND that if the driver and / or passengers find either subtle or dramatic change in
HANDLING to be satisfactory or unsatisfactory with regards to comfort,
THEN a body lift most definitely has the potential to affect
RIDE.
A body lift won't affect the stock ride.
I have just deduced that the above statement is incorrect.
The key though is in the wording.
Precisely.
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PS, you should have let Mgossett1489 think you counted all the characters.
This time I was not compelled to, as most of them were not yours… MIC DROP.