Chrysler will be responsible only for the final trim and assembly operation, where the body and chassis come together and where the seats, instrument panels and other components are installed just before the sport utilities roll off the line.
Chrysler will pay the suppliers for each painted body and rolling chassis they produce.
Painter still has to contend with the uncomfortable fact that attaching a body to a chassis is a little harder than attaching a hard drive to a motherboard.
The car was built in Australia with a fiberglass body and a custom chassis.
It also has a Foden chassis, a body by Glover and Webb and is powered by a 12-litre Rolls-Royce engine, Mr Humbert of JP Humbert Auctioneers said.
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.
Before, an engineer could work on a Mustang body one year and a truck chassis the next.
The new chassis will lower the body, improve stability of the axles and require tyres that hold the road better.
Suppliers will own and operate three of the four factories: the body-welding shop, paint shop and chassis assembly line.
Other advances included rubber cone independent suspension, designed by Alex Moulton (who incidentally, went on to design the Moulton bicycle -- another of my favorite designs), rack and pinion steering and a monocoque body that eliminated the need for a costly separate chassis.
The i3 will be powered by huge lithium-ion batteries positioned under the floorboards (a distribution of weight that eases handling) with a drive system, chassis and energy storage unit all incorporated into a body module made of aluminium.
Called the Hummer O2 (like the H2, only less toxic), this concept -- which just won the L.A. Auto Show Design Challenge -- incorporates a number of innovative, futuristic features into its oddly-shaped chassis, not the least of which is a "phototropic" body shell that contains algae-filled panels.
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The initial turn-in is crisp and the chassis settles into a nice cornering stance, with a pleasant lack of body roll.
He first removed the screen and trimmed the chassis so that a GNex case could be bolted flush with the rest of the body.
This means a body-on-frame type of construction in which the shell is bolted onto to a separate chassis.
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