Essentials of Vehicle Dynamics

Appendix 6

Vehicle Data

A6.1 Passenger Car Data

This section contains arbitrary, but realistic, vehicle data for a typical sporty sedan, indicated in Figure A6.1.

Figure A6.1 Passenger car with indication of CoG and axle positions.

We will always assume for the acceleration of gravity g that g=9.81 [m/s²].

a	1.51 [m]	Mass	1600 [kg]
b	1.25 [m]	Jx	880 [kg.m2]
tfront	1.50 [m]	Jy	3110 [kg.m2]
Trear	1.51 [m]	Jz	3280 [kg.m2]
hCoG	0.57 [m]
Steering ratio	15
Spring stiffness front	19 [N/mm]	Spring stiffness rear	75 [N/mm]

Damper characteristics are usually described as the ...