The word 'chassis' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun referring to the frame of a vehicle, such as a car or a truck. For example, you could say, "The mechanic was checking the welds on the car's chassis."
This winter, Karavkin has been trying not to drive the car to avoid corrosion – the chassis doesn't have much resistance to new chemicals used in de-icers.
The alterations to his carbon-fibre chassis have been only 25mm by 20mm but he says he is now far less cramped in his cockpit – "although don't expect too much I haven't yet had time to make the car anything like driver-friendly".
But what was done quickly in Europe is yet to materialise in America, unless the powerful UAW agrees to changes.Another Japanese trick that Ford has learnt is to make many different models using the same "platform"—the basic chassis and other under-the-skin parts.
By 2003, all four of Volkswagen's brands will share just four basic chassis.
The engine's metal chassis lay in twisted pieces, and the track was left in ribbons.
But building them, largely by hand, could take 3,000 man-hours.Now it takes just four hours to build the carbon-fibre chassis and underbody of the MP4-12C, a $275,000 sports car which McLaren launched in 2011 to compete with arch-rival Ferrari on the road as well as on the track.
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.
ALL that was left of two cars packed with explosives was their smouldering chassis after they had been blown up on October 1st near Eagle Square in Abuja, Nigeria's capital, while surrounded by unsuspecting citizens celebrating the 50th anniversary of their country's independence.
To the Iron Duke's great satisfaction, the London public was now clambering over the imperial chassis and eating sandwiches inside it.It seems bizarre that waxworks should have lasted as popular entertainment, when photography and film quickly put paid to all the dioramas, cosmoramas and freak-shows that 19th-century crowds enjoyed.
His strategy was to develop a wide range of cars, all based on a few basic chassis and engine models, to appeal to particular market niches.When Mr Piech started, VW was making 30 different models on no fewer than 16 floorpans (the expensive structural basis of a car body); today it sells 54 models based on only four floorpans.
A small laser sensor, for instance, is mounted underneath a racing car's chassis to reflect a beam off the track surface in order to calculate the down force being exerted on the vehicle.
