New vehicles arrive at the plant as stripped-down chassis assemblies that include wheels, a drivetrain, a steering wheel, a dashboard, a driver's seat — and nothing more.
Thank heavens they will never make it, and if they do, I'll wager it will end up with bigger side windows, smaller wheels and the cut-down chassis from a Discovery underneath, as happened with the Range Rover Sport.
Nevertheless, aficionados were horrified upon hearing that Jaguar would be using a hand-me-down chassis rather than one developed at the company's own factory in England.
Imagining my body's bent frame and broke-down chassis (with worn-out suspension) as a vintage auto that's been towed (by ambulance) to a "body" shop, I hope that miracle-working medical mechanics would give me a realistic estimate of the damage and how much good mileage is left on my life-expectancy odometer.
Some Kabul residents describe efforts spanning many months and big money to free their vehicles, only to win back a chassis long since stripped down for its parts.
The unibody magnesium chassis keeps the weight down, as does the lighter lens.
We're only a few hundred metres from the River Avon and the tide in the river makes the floor (and the surface table, and therefore our chassis) go up and down very slightly.
It also cuts back on inventory: The new CT line has only 5 chassis on the floor, down from 12. "Once you fix this, productivity improvements start to happen automatically," Leonard says.
Built on a scaled-down Ghost chassis, the Wraith's BMW-based 6.6-liter twin-turbo V-12 engine churns out 624 horsepower and 590 pound-feet of torque, good for a claimed 4.6-second burble from 0 to 60 miles per hour.
Hence, the currently feasible and promising way to construct a chassis is the top-down strategy, in which an existing cell is trimmed to its relevant genome following a targeted or untargeted approach.
