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- "Bose suspension." Edmunds.com, Inside Line. Accessed April 26, 2005.
- Cars.com Glossary Double wishbone suspension.
- Clynes, Tom. 2004 Better living through curiosity. Popular Science. December 3.
- DiPietro, John. 2004. Encyclopedia Britannica 2005, s.v. "damping." CD-ROM, 2005.
- Kahn, Dan. Monroe Shocks and Struts. Tech Support, Technical Training.
- Sherman, Don. The Suspension Bible.
- Wright, Michael and Mukul Patel, eds. 2000. Scientific American: How things work today. New York: Crown Publishers.
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