In many cases, the damper is also used as a restraint strap to stop the arm descending so far that the coil spring falls out through being completely unloaded.
[citation needed] The longitudinal location of the cross beam controls important parameters of the suspension's behavior, such as the roll steer curve and toe and camber compliance.
[1] This suspension is commonly used on a wide variety of front-wheel-drive cars (mainly compacts and subcompacts), and was almost ubiquitous on European superminis.
General Motors in Europe (Vauxhall and Opel) continued to use twist- or torsion-beam suspension up to the end of GM's ownership of the brand, and it was used on the 1982–1988 Cadillac Cimarron, Oldsmobile Firenza, and Buick Skyhawk.
[5] The sportiest models of its brands, such as the Renault Mégane RS and the Peugeot 308 II GTi, have proven that twist-beam rear suspension can provide a high level of performance on a compact car, on the racetrack, but also during the Moose test.
The Peugeot 308 II was able to outperform its competitors equipped with multi-link rear axles by passing this test at 82 km/h[6] – only 3 km/h less than the Citroën Xantia Activa's world record of 85 km/h in 1999.