Test results from a prototype in 2010 looked promising:

 

What company issued these??

 

This is a small shock manufacturer that I work with in Asia. We shock dyno tested the prototype for a professor. We will be attempting to produce them for Honda's... This is basically the same technology as found on Ferrari 599 and such. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetorheological_damper

 

The force-velocity plots make it look like it has variable slope low speed damping (good), but that's because it is another one of those useless dyno plots with 3 data points. The force-displacement plots show that it is a fixed slope variable blowoff damping, characteristic of many MR shocks (bad).

Also, make sure you don't violate any of the patents that Lord Corporation has spammed.

 

MagneRide Performance and Challenges
Vehicle Dynamics Expo 2008

http://www.vehicledynamics-expo.com/...erraynauld.pdf

 

I'd buy them

 

those graphs are the ****!