Workers scamper over the car's frame--and each other--to attach seats, instrument panels and wiring harnesses.
It's the only big, eight-cylinder, rear-wheel-drive sedan built by Detroit the old way: by welding the body of the car onto a stiff frame.
The Smart car rolls out of the picture, to reveal that the SUV is sitting on top of the inner frame of a Smart car.
Yet the car's body is 25% stiffer than its predecessor because key parts of the frame--like the center post that supports the car body during side collisions and the roof side rail that connects the sides of the roof--are made of ultra-high-strength steel created through a process called hot stamping.
He even took apart the original elevator car and refitted it into a modern frame.
By eliminating the bulky V6-engine option in favor of a smaller, 4-cylinder turbocharged engine, Hyundai could design the car on a smaller, lighter steel frame.
Furthermore, GM is also expected to bring a mini SUV called Trax and a low cost version of its entry level car Spark, although launch time-frame for these cars is not confirmed yet.
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He drew an egg-shaped car with a ceiling high enough to handle his tall frame.
" These include a red Bentley with a license frame that reads, "My other car is a stagecoach.
As I recall Saab (and some other car makers) give more information than others on their door-frame labels about varying tire pressure based on driving conditions.
The Dodge Durango, Ford Explorer, Land Rover LR4 and the Jeep Grand Cherokee are built using a car-like unibody structure, but add a reinforced sub-frame and offer advanced traction management systems that give them added off-road and bad-weather prowess.
He said that what he saw was the car (I think a Plymouth) visible through the tricycle's frame in the carport of one of the houses, and he thought the picture was about growing up from kids' bikes to the adult responsibilities associated with an automobile.
The body design includes a rigid-mounted battery frame, which helps provide greater body rigidity compared to a conventional compact car.
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For example, the car's half-century-old design concept a lightweight space-frame chassis with a plastic composite body has at last found the materials and precision construction techniques necessary to make it reasonably buildable.
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In the mid-20th century, elite car builders reached the effective limit of the materials (steel and aluminum) and engineering (body-on-frame) available.
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