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  • But the big news is the optional-for-hybrid-models Porsche Active Ride, a fully active system with a motor pump unit at each corner of the car that pumps fluid in and out of the damper. This allows Porsche to put force into the suspension, and so the Active Ride dampers are charged with controlling pitch, dive, roll, and ride height in addition to their normal duties. When set to Normal mode, there’s a driver-selectable setting for Active Ride that reduces pitch and dive to almost nothing, and another mode which has the car lean into the corners, like a motorcycle.

    Porsche’s “Active Ride” sounds just like Mercedes “Active Body Control”. Even the lean into corners function is already a feature of some Mercedes ABC cars that Mercedes calls “Active Curve Tilting”.