A device for controlling damping coefficients of shock absorbers (22FL,
22FR, 22RL, 22RR) of a four wheeled vehicle constructs a phantom damping
system composed of a phantom side shock absorber (122, 122F, 122R)
disposed vertically at a lateral inside of a turn running of the vehicle
to have a lower end movable along a ground surface together with the
vehicle and an upper end vertically movable relative to the lower end with
a first phantom damping coefficient (Cg, Cgf, Cgr) therebetween, and a
phantom angular shock absorber (124, 124F, 124R) arranged to act between
the upper end of the phantom side shock absorber and the vehicle body with
a second phantom damping coefficient (Ca, Caf, Car) therebetween, whereby,
when the damping coefficients of the shock absorbers are controlled to
substantially equalize the phantom damping system with the actual damping
system of the actual shock absorbers with respect to damping vertical and
rolling movements of the vehicle body, the mass center of the vehicle body
is lowered according to a rolling thereof during a turn running of the
vehicle, as the vehicle body rolls around the upper end of the phantom
side shock absorber located laterally inside of the turn running.