Originally Posted by George Knighton

A McPherson strut FF car allows you to redesign the crush zones for better safety, allows you to build the car more easily and more cheaply. But replacement suspensions will be more expensive for the end user, and the basic suspension design is a poor one for racing (for an FF car). It will work for Porsches, but not Hondas. I think that the last straw was when Ichisima went public with a statement that the DC5 and EP3 were hopeless as racing vehicles, and referred to them as a reworked van chassis.