Nimbus Suspensions

05/18/2026

This page had a little accident, so we’re starting fresh on a new one.

We won’t be posting here anymore (it’s going to a nice farm upstate).

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Advanced oleo-pneumatic suspension systems for road, off-road, EV, and industrial applications. Built for control, comfort, and durability.

01/14/2026

Nimbus for Toyota LC250.

These are the parts you never see doing the work you always feel. Built for the latest chapter of a legendary Land Cruiser.

Available now: 2 Goliaths up front, 2 Erebus in the back.

If you have planned some serious trips this summer, keep in mind that orders in January start shipping in May.

12/20/2025

Our friend Sylvain Venthenat is racing the French Off-Road Endurance Championship this year. We are sponsoring him, but not for logo placement.

Sylvain has been our test pilot from the start. He drove our prototypes, broke what needed breaking, and told us exactly what felt wrong. Vibranium and Goliath exist in their current form partly because of his feedback. The next generation we release in April too. His shop-built Defender 110 now runs a setup that includes features we have not released yet.

In return, we get data. Real data, not simulations.

Endurance racing is brutal on suspension systems. Twenty-four hours at full speed. Tracks that fall apart as the race progresses. Mud, sand, rocks, water. Impacts that repeat for hours until something gives. If there is a weakness, it shows up. If it’s meant to wear, it will.

The season started with a 24-hour race in Portugal. Strong result for the team, and we were happy for them. But what stood out was thermal performance. Suspension temperatures never exceeded 35°C (95°F) across the entire race. Our heat dissipation is largely under control.

We will be following Sylvain throughout the season, and we'll share updates. Hopefully he brings home a podium, and why not a title. The entire Nimbus team will be rooting for him.

Either way, he will keep bringing us what matters most: honest feedback and hard data. We keep learning.

12/18/2025

We held the line for three years. That line breaks January 5th.

When we launched Nimbus, we never raised prices. Not once. While steel and aluminum climbed steadily, while supply chains tightened, while our costs increased across the board, we absorbed it all.

Now we are launching a new generation of Nimbus suspension. This is not a refresh. It is a substantial technology upgrade, the result of everything we have learned since day one, distilled into a product that outperforms Vibranium in ways we are genuinely excited to show you.

At the same time, we are adjusting pricing to reflect reality. Steel and aluminum have remained 20% above their ten-year averages since the pandemic. International shipping costs have compounded that pressure. We absorbed these increases as long as we could. To keep building what we build, and keep investing in what makes Nimbus different, pricing has to change.

If you are thinking about ordering, here is what matters: orders placed before January 5th lock in current pricing.

The new generation ships starting in April, first orders first. After January 5th, new pricing applies.

Already ordered and waiting? We will reach out. You can upgrade to the new generation at no additional cost, or receive your Vibranium as scheduled. Your call.

Already drive on Nimbus? A trade-in program is coming early next year.

We built Nimbus because we believed drivers deserved the benefits of oleo-pneumatic technology. That belief has not changed. What has changed is how far we have pushed those benefits.

Our best product yet. Your best window to buy it.

12/11/2025

Factory floor reality check.

These photos are from this week. We’re running at full capacity before the holiday closure.

Here’s the honest truth: we’re behind on roughly 20% of our orders. An unusual surge combined with a few supply chain hiccups put us past our normal lead times.

Each Nimbus unit is made of over 40 individual parts. If just one is missing, we can’t finish assembling, test, and ship. That’s where we are on some orders right now, producing upper covers as fast as we can. We can’t rush quality to catch up though; every unit still needs the same attention.

But we are getting there and we are about to send our clients the largest amount of Nimbus we have ever shipped.

We’re not sharing this to make excuses. We just believe you deserve to know what’s happening on our end. We’ll keep working to do better.

If you’re waiting, thank you for your patience. We are on it.

11/29/2025

We are going to retire the “magic carpet” line.

It sounded good. It created nice images. It also misled some people.

It did not come from marketing. One of our early clients stepped out of the truck after his first drive and said, “It feels like a magic carpet.” The expression was already used for some Citroën hydropneumatic cars, a close cousin of our oleo-pneumatic tech. That is probably where he got the inspiration.

We loved it. We made it ours. That was a mistake.

Nimbus does not make you fly above the road. You still feel the surface, the grip, the weight of the vehicle. You still know you are in a serious truck, not in a videogame. That is by design. We want you to be in control of your vehicle, not disconnected from it. You want information, not numbness.

People started imagining something else. Floating. Zero feeling. No more truck, just a sofa on wheels.

That is not what we build.

What Nimbus actually does is remove the violence, not the road. The gas carries the weight. The oil controls the movement. We tune both so the suspension works hard and the cabin stays calm.

Same vehicle, same tires, same route. One of the highest levels of comfort you can get from that platform and that vehicle.

Is it a magic carpet that makes you fly above the dirt? No. It is a very capable truck that finally works with the terrain instead of fighting it.

11/04/2025

This question comes up often: “Can I dump my springs and go 100% oleo-pneumatic?”
The short answer is no.

We already talked about it, but today, there's more.

A normal suspension = springs + shock absorbers.
Nimbus approach = springs + four oleo-pneumatic units, each with its own progressive gas spring.

Think of Nimbus as a fully independent suspension system added to each wheel, working with your existing springs and not against them.

Why keep those physical springs, then, if the nitrogen is the spring?

They carry your vehicle’s static weight and absorb the biggest hits. That reduces stress on the mounting points engineers designed for a spring-and-damper system.

Going 100% oleo-pneumatic would mean taking the risk of having your suspension mounts fail, or considering multiple units per wheel and structural changes.
We don’t cut or weld frames. We want Nimbus to install exactly like factory shocks.

Now, about the springs themselves.

We partnered with one of the world’s leading spring manufacturers, with 75 years of experience. We will announce it in due time, but you know their name.

For each vehicle model, we developed several calibrated versions matched precisely to our oleo-pneumatic dynamics. Two or three different sets exist per vehicle depending on load configuration, and each is designed to work in perfect harmony with the Nimbus system.

When we identify that your current springs limit performance, we offer to replace them with the right combination of Nimbus and springs for your setup. This partnership ensures your suspension performs exactly as designed, at its best, regardless of how you use your vehicle.

That said, if your existing springs still do the job, we advise you to keep them.

One exception: coil-over mounts.
These were designed to handle all suspension forces alone. For those, we built Goliath, our 100% oleo-pneumatic system. That’s the purest Nimbus experience, available only on vehicles that came with coil-overs.

So now you know: we keep springs when it makes sense, and we replace them when we can do better or when necessary.

10/31/2025

We’ve just released the largest oleo-pneumatic suspensions ever built for a terrestrial vehicle — unless you count the Leclerc tank and its 56 tons.

It’s a major technical milestone for the Nimbus team, and part of a larger program: bringing our technology to endurance racing in Europe.

Off-road endurance is brutal. Imagine 24 hours of mud, rocks, and speed, almost nonstop. The perfect lab for pushing limits.

We’ll share more soon. For now, meet “the big ones.”