The standards were different, lower, for something built on a truck chassis than a car chassis.
It is a solemn funeral for the planet, with the relics of recycled bags and deconstructed car chassis setting the mood.
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.
Ford is very excited about a pair of crossover vehicles slated to debut later this year, SUVs built on car chassis called the Ford Edge and the Lincoln MKX.
By 2010, when the new crop of small cars hits showrooms, Ford expects to be selling 38% trucks and SUVs, the rest, cars and "crossovers" (smallish SUVs built on car chassis).
Were they fully merged--they remain distinctly separate despite sharing a chief executive and such tasks as purchasing, tech networks and some car chassis, engines and transmissions--the amalgam would be the fourth-largest carmaker on the planet.
The revamped car's added chassis rigidity gave the ride-and-handling department more room to firm up the Civic's suspension without compromising ride compliance.
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He returned to Turin, stripped the car and mounted the chassis to the wall, in a representative display of the Polish flag.
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Unadvertised fact: The expensive car will share a chassis and many of its high-cost components with next year's Malibu--and also with the forthcoming Pontiac Grand Am, a new Saturn model and likely a Buick.
And without any grand programme, Mr Smith is also cutting the number of basic car platforms (the chassis and drive-train mechanical bits that make the wheels go round) from 16 to eight, in line with best practice at firms such as Ford, Volkswagen and Toyota.
Throw the car hard into a right-hander, and the car wants to roll left but ARS counters the motion, flattening the attitude of the 7's chassis and keeping the car more directly on-line without (like other systems) having to bite at the progress of the wheels via traction control and other tricks.
So, to stay within the standards manufacturers started to put car bodies onto a truck chassis: the SUV.
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.
It was later offered in a variety of models--town car, touring car, delivery car--but all on the same chassis.
The steering wheel never wiggled and the bumps were mitigated as good as any smallish car due to the firmness of the new chassis.
So that's why the company will build up to 800, 000 midsize cars and car-based crossovers off of one common chassis, saving billions in engineering costs.
It's not that the R-Design is vastly quicker than the regular T5, but the chassis tuning inspires more confidence to explore the car's limits.
Brawn also revealed that the chassis has been slimmed down and that the car's appearance will also change dramatically before the first race grand prix of the season on 16 March.
The car was built in Australia with a fiberglass body and a custom chassis.
The car caused a sensation, even though it was built on the chassis of the dull and dowdy Ford Falcon.
And the chassis and suspension have also been significantly upgraded, making the car exceedingly quiet--and able to corner smartly at well over 130 mph with unerring agility.
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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The car appears to include a number of innovative features - including a top to the chassis in front of the cockpit which is lower than on other cars, and a more extreme aerodynamic treatment in front of the sidepods alongside the driver.
In Japan the March, a compact car with e-mail capabilities, became the first to be built using a common chassis with Renault.
The chassis is lightweight, but it felt secure and staunch, and driving became almost intuitive, as the car responded to driver commands.
Hiding behind the petrol pumps, viewers could watch the astonishment of a mechanic as he discovered that the car Mr Routh had coasted into the garage contained no engine neither under the bonnet, nor under the chassis, nor in the boot.
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