The new chassis will lower the body, improve stability of the axles and require tyres that hold the road better.
The new chassis design has a convenient recess desk on top with a non-slip surface for charging smartphones and cameras.
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The championship leader is running with a new chassis but was well off the pace, down in 18th during final practice.
Just a quick word on Great Britain rider James Ellison, he is close to the end at Yamaha unless his new chassis comes good.
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The steering wheel never wiggled and the bumps were mitigated as good as any smallish car due to the firmness of the new chassis.
The 19B is heavily revised, with a new chassis and fundamentally redesigned aerodynamics and extra features aimed at reducing the fragility of its Mercedes engine.
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When conceptualizing the Bolt, Digital Storm engineers found no chassis on the market that met their design criteria, so they designed their own brand new chassis from the ground up.
Also noteworthy was the new P2 chassis Alienware employed for this model, which improves on older cases both aesthetically -- it sports a glossier paint job and more configurable lights to play with -- as well as functionally, with the shorter-but-deeper design intended to support extra-long graphics cards.
Harley (nyse: HDI - news - people) was introducing the V-Rod, a sexy anodized-aluminum dragster with an all-new engine, chassis and suspension.
But fear not: while the new PowerBook's chassis is unchanged, under that black polycarbonate skin is a totally new logic board that gives this portable more in common with Apple's supercomputing G4 desktop machines than last year's PowerBook.
Today's DeLorean Motor Co. makes about six "new" cars a year--they have stainless-steel reproduction chassis and a combination of new-old stock (NOS), original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and reproduction parts.
To compete both on cost and marketing, big car firms have had to squeeze a variety of new models onto ever fewer basic chassis and engine designs.
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Stateside quality control and retooling on the doors worked out the kinks in subsequent generations, and the new DeLoreans are built on a lighter chassis and can be wrapped in any color or pattern to protect the steel panels.
The Italian carmaker says the Quattroporte has new engineering features including a refined lighter-weight chassis design.
The redesigned Explorer, with new engines and a more fuel-efficient car chassis rather than a truck platform, promises to deliver a 30% improvement in gas mileage.
Fusion is the first of ten new Ford, Lincoln and Mercury models that will share a modified chassis borrowed from Mazda, Ford's Japanese affiliate.
The new versions of the Punto and Palio in a few years will share chassis as well as engines and gearboxes, enabling production of some 2m vehicles from a single platform, and yielding the sort of economies of scale these days enjoyed only by the likes of Toyota, with its Corolla world car.
As part of the agreement, existing teams must help new outfits - Campos, US F1 and Manor - with their engines and chassis.
The new Vengeance K70 gaming keyboard is built on a rugged, brushed, aluminum chassis and features highly responsive Cherry MX Red mechanical switches under every key.
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Red Bull are running with a new 'double' diffuser in the Principality while championship leaders Brawn also have a series of modifications, including a new rear wing configuration, changes to the car's suspension and a reconfigured chassis to suit the tight, twisty track.
The new Focus will be built on one platform and will have the same engine, transmission, chassis and main body in all the markets where it is sold.
Mechanically, the most notable upgrade is the Civic's reinforced front-chassis section, designed to cope with the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's new 40-miles-per-hour narrow-offset front crash test (which is quite a wallop, by the way).
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That new hardware is evidently smaller than what it's replacing: though the Pro shares the same size chassis as its predecessor, it packs a 74Wh battery (the older Blade has a 60Wh cell).
It means the British team will head to the first of four winter sessions at Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia between 1-3 February with a standard 2010 chassis and a limited number of updates, while rivals Red Bull and Ferrari will unveil their new models for on-track testing.
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