For instance, a front-wheel-drive chassis would serve as the underpinning for many of Ford's front-wheel-drive vehicles.
The top-of-the-line XTS, a successor to the old DTS, will be large and elegant, and also feature an advanced front-wheel-drive and all-wheel-drive chassis.
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Through a combo of 3D printing, a four-wheel drive chassis and, most importantly, a calculated arrangement of traction magnets, the crew was able to get the cars up and running, and even outfitted with in-dash cams.
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.
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.
Their highly rigid chassis and center-drive mechanisms ensure total reliability and optimum performance at all times.
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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.
Surprisingly, even though it's classified as an Ultrabook, it manages to make room for an optical drive -- impressive, given its 0.81-inch-thick chassis is still relatively slender.
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So, for instance, Holden is developing a chassis that will be the basis for a range of large rear-wheel-drive cars and all-wheel-drive crossover utility vehicles.
An ultra-rigid chassis with strategic use of high-tensile steel provides a vault-like platform for the rear-drive powertrain configuration.
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