Its transmission, wheels, chassis, frame and radiator all came from 1921.

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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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Then he wants to cut costs and improve quality by building more cars on the same chassis--that is, frame, suspension, engine and transmission.

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For instance, the Audi A8 not only has a 372 horsepower engine that provides exhilarating driving characteristics, but it also has an aluminum space frame that lowers vehicle weight considerably versus a steel chassis.

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Shoving a full-frame sensor in a 4.5 x 3 inch chassis is quite a technical achievement, and the photos it produces are the highest quality we've ever seen in a shooter that size.

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This means a body-on-frame type of construction in which the shell is bolted onto to a separate chassis.

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