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Automotive industry has shown, in the recent years, a dramatically increase of competition at emergent markets. The incoming of new Brands, for example in the Brazilian market, is causing the OEMs to decrease costs while increase quality, which represents a big challenge nowadays. In this challenging scenario, virtual simulation has become mandatory. While cutting costs since no physical prototypes are required, virtual models also reduces development time. Time to time, as computers processing capacity grows, virtual models are becoming more and more accurate, being able to capture even high non-linear phenomena, which ten years ago would not be feasible. It is also known the natural tendency of vehicle dynamics engineers to develop shock absorber tuning only by means of subjective evaluation. Many reasons can be raised to this tendency, but one of them is the lack of representation of the entire shock absorber behavior in the virtual models.