"Dave H." wrote in
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Arny Krueger wrote:

We call steering link ends, tie rod ends.

Track rod ends here.

In US automotive parlance, a track rod or a track bar, is a
specific kind of link between a solid rear axle and the body. It
runs parallel to the rear axle.

Either I haven't seen one of those or it's what I would know as an
anti-roll bar.

Panhard rod in the UK / Europe (after the guy who invented it about
1900...) - mkes a real difference to the way a leaf-sprung
(cart-sprung?) rear end behaves, and with a rear beam axle plus
trailing arms and coil springs is *essential* to locate the rear axle
sideways.

Agreed, however it also shows up in a goodly number of cars with live-axle
link-arm rear suspensions, including some NASCAR racers.