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Originally Posted by thePill
Edit: This suspension was kind of high jacked from Jaguar and other foreign car makers. Ford picked it up from Jag in the late 1990's... I think 1996...
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Eh, sorta'. The Control Blade is a very modern take on the old Jaguar E Type suspension which dates back what seems like a century or two. To be fair to the Control Blade, there are some pretty significant differences which constitute major improvements, like the fact that the Jaguar design effectively used the axle as the upper control arm whereas the Control Blade does not.
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Originally Posted by thePill
The Cobra IRS was a type of Control Blade, but the trailing arms were not redesigned when it was fitted to the Cobra. I know it can be retro fitted but Ford should have spent alittle cash to redesign the trailing arms.. It would have been good to go..
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This seems to be a growing misconception, but the Cobra IRS was not a Control Blade design. There are no trailing arms (blades) on the Cobra unit at all. The Cobra uses upper and lower A-arms attached to a cradle that bolts into the car. I think what throws folks off here is that the front attachment points for the cradle look like trailing arms, but they don't actually function like that and aren't a part of the suspension and are, instead, a part of the framework used to attach the suspension to the car.