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The OEM's go round and round with the design of suspension components. One day they want Aluminum control arms and the next they want stampings. The basic designs are stampings, forgeings, castings and some tubular designs, the later being few. Stampings are cheep but difficult to design for durability due to the shell design and the use of welding. Forgeings are heavy and normally used on heavy dutiy applications or whrere realestate is at a premium. Aluminum castings are light but expensive, although usually have greater stiffness than stampings. Aluminum forgeings are the best of all, these have the added stiffness, and reduced material and higher mechanical properties. I have not delt with tubular designs although they do have the benifit of optium use of section modulas. The Pantera suspension uses mild steel so the benifits of using tubular designs is minimized. There is one thing to note between the different designs is how the entire vehicle handles. Each component of the vehicle acts like a spring, ballancing each component to minimize total flex and harmonics is key.