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A Bose Suspension? ("the first mega-breakthrough in car suspensions")
Automobile ^ | 9/04 | Jean Jennings

Posted on 09/14/2004 4:42:37 AM PDT by Aquinasfan

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Who said nothing good can come out of Massachusetts ;-)
1 posted on 09/14/2004 4:42:37 AM PDT by Aquinasfan
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Video of cars fitted with the Bose Suspension here.
2 posted on 09/14/2004 4:43:55 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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But don't anticipate it coming down to a low-priced car. They're low-priced for a reason.

Oh, well.

3 posted on 09/14/2004 4:45:14 AM PDT by mewzilla
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Time to buy Bose stock.


4 posted on 09/14/2004 4:45:46 AM PDT by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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Time to buy Bose stock.

Privately held.

Check out the Quicktime movies. They're jaw-dropping.

5 posted on 09/14/2004 4:47:01 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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It's a privately-held company.


6 posted on 09/14/2004 4:48:46 AM PDT by Poohbah (If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room.)
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From the website:

Comparison of Factory-Installed and Bose® Suspension System Two vehicles of the same make and model are driven over a bump course at night.

The vehicle on the top has the original factory-installed suspension, and the vehicle on the bottom has the Bose suspension system. Both vehicles are being driven at the same speed.

7 posted on 09/14/2004 4:50:47 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Partisan Political Operative)
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Let's pause a moment to appreciate that any company would have a well of optimism deep enough to sustain a research project for more than two decades.

No wonder Bose is so 'lucky'. Luck is defined as the intersection of opportunity and preparation. God bless America.

/john

8 posted on 09/14/2004 4:53:57 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper
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No wonder Bose is so 'lucky'.

Dr. Bose is an engineer patterned after Thomas Edison. There's no substitute for perseverance and hard work, especially in applied science.

9 posted on 09/14/2004 4:57:24 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: JRandomFreeper

BUMP


10 posted on 09/14/2004 5:01:12 AM PDT by Publius6961 (I don't do diplomacy either)
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To: Aquinasfan

Bose suspension?

Will it make my CD's sound better?


11 posted on 09/14/2004 5:01:32 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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HEY CADILLAC !...ARE YOU LISTENING?
12 posted on 09/14/2004 5:01:33 AM PDT by Khurkris (Proud Scottish/HillBilly - We perfected "The Art of the Grudge")
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That's why I defined 'luck'. Or as one wag put it.. 'The harder I work, the luckier I gets'

/john

13 posted on 09/14/2004 5:03:05 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper
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HEY CADILLAC !...ARE YOU LISTENING?

Amen to that!

Mike

14 posted on 09/14/2004 5:12:02 AM PDT by MichaelP
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I know a couple engineers for Bose. They don't care if you have a degree or not, you just have to be smart, very smart.

The amount of dollars they pumped into research was amazing. They would spend a year or more with prototype GM cars making the sound system perfect.

If it's Bose, it's as close to perfect as you can get.


15 posted on 09/14/2004 5:12:33 AM PDT by Fierce Allegiance ( "Stay safe in the "sandbox", cuz!)
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To: Aquinasfan

This sounds a great deal like a suspension used by a company that does some R&D for many of our military vehicles. That company has developed a, for lack of a better word, shock, that is a slurry of metal particles that changes density according to ride demands. The shock material can change from density of water to a solid in an instant.
I don't remember the name of the company. I became aware of it while watching a Discovery Channel show.


16 posted on 09/14/2004 5:14:42 AM PDT by em2vn
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Bose = nice but costly stuff (5 bills for a table radio). I guess somebody is buying those Wave radios that Paul Harvey pitches.


17 posted on 09/14/2004 5:19:45 AM PDT by asgardshill (By direct order, I LOVE ALAN KEYES!)
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Wow.

Bose must be a conservative- his ads have run for years in American Spectator, National Review & The Washington Times.

Yes Virginia, there are Conservatives in the peoples republic of massachusetts.

I know- I grew up there one town away from the Bose shop in Framingham.

Can't buy Bose stock but, we can buy Bose stuff as we divest our viacom (cbs) stock.

I hope we Freepers are doing both!

AC

18 posted on 09/14/2004 5:22:12 AM PDT by Atomic Comet (www.aroostookbeauty.com)
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To: em2vn

bump! I love Bose stuff.


19 posted on 09/14/2004 5:25:32 AM PDT by Big Giant Head ( < Roast Pork?!?>)
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To: Atomic Comet
Wow.

The appropriate reaction.

An interesting angle on this for conservatives is the project development time. Dr. Bose owns the company and could afford a 24-year product development cycle. What does this say about the publicly-held corporate model?

Maybe the existing mix of privately and publicly held corporations is best, since I can see advantages and disadvantages to both.

20 posted on 09/14/2004 5:32:49 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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