It has a chassis made of bamboo, reinforced with spiders' silk and plant resin.
On the plus side, the Ford rides smoothly and its strengthened chassis makes it noticeably more quiet inside.
The Veyron's four turbochargers and intercoolers were enlarged and the chassis made more rigid to support the power bump over the rather pedestrian 1,001-horsepower 1,001-horsepower
Giving the McLaren some supercar bona fides is a distinction that the MP4-12C shares only with card-carrying supercars: a chassis made of carbon-fiber composites.
Indeed, while concept cars aren't known for their functionality, the early versions were often mounted on production chassis, making them fully driveable.
Lotus aficionados love the midengine Elise, a tiny, lightweight, minimal roadster with a clever chassis made of bonded extrusions -- formed by squeezing aluminum alloy into specific shapes.
Like the Elise and its derivatives, the Evora has its engine mounted across the car behind the occupants with the boot beyond, and a chassis made from bonded and riveted aluminium sheets and extrusions.
On view, in addition to a blown-up photograph of the car, is a wonderfully detailed 3D model of its body and chassis, made in 2005 in 1/10 scale.
According an e-mail received from a company representative, the basic cab and chassis, made by Avia and imported from the Czech Republic, costs $75,000, but packs ranging from 40 to 120 kilowatt-hours add another $25,000 to $75,000 The batteries are sourced from A123 Systems and Valence Technology.
Coach Co., founded in 1885, relied upon horsepower until 1907, when it introduced the 1st gasoline-powered omnibus ever seen in this country - an open double-decker, the engine & chassis made by the Dion-Bouton, of France, & the body by a firm in Phila.
