Early cars were mostly built on a separate chassis frame, with the body often ordered from a specialist coachmaker.
The Ford Focus, its well-regarded small car, gets a facelift this spring, and next fall Ford will have a brand-new Mustang coupe, a new full-sized sedan, the 500, and a new SUV, the Freestyle, built on a car chassis rather than the truck frame.
And, it's now gotten better, even though it's not built on a car chassis (like a lot of SUVs these days), but on a full-fledged truck chassis.
A new design based on the AVX concept of 1997 and built on a Pontiac Firebird chassis.
Like the Tesla Roadster, the SP 01 will be built on a Lotus Elise chassis.
The Stutz Blackhawk, built on a G.M. chassis starting in the early 1970s, was built along the same outrageous lines.
The first model to result from the partnership was a cabriolet built on a Ferrari chassis, the 212 Inter Cabriolet.
What we have now is a long passenger car, built on a stock chassis, with minor adaptations such as stronger springs, tougher upholstery, a partition, and a meter.
Built on a nondriving chassis about the size and weight of a Ford Taurus, the E.P.A.'s system achieves fuel economy of more than 70 m.p.g.
