The first large-scale industrial use of vanadium in steels was found in the chassis of the Ford Model T, inspired by French race cars.
These new iMacs will reportedly keep the thin chassis of the current models, and might appear alongside their non-Retina variants and higher-priced options, which is how Apple introduced its Retina laptop line.
There were toys, bicycles, guns, chandeliers, tapestries, thousands of books, fourteen grand pianos, an organ, the chassis of a Model T Ford, and Dr. Collyer's canoe.
The upper Fifth Avenue home, where these sexagenarians had been living for decades, turned out to be packed with, among other things, mountains of old newspapers, 14 grand pianos and the chassis of a Model T Ford.
Ever since it opened in the winter, the play, by Richard Greenberg, reintroduced into a certain cultured vernacular the painful case of Homer and Langley Collyer, known as the Collyer brothers, a couple of sexagenarians discovered dead in 1947 in their Uptown brownstone crammed with about120 tons of personal debris: 14 grand pianos, the chassis of a Model T, lots of newspapers.
But, once the marriage is aborted, the brothers begin their slow retreat from the outside world and, in the second half, eke out their immured existence in a house filled with a mountain of stuff that, historically, included 14 grand pianos, the chassis of a Model T Ford and booby traps to deter intruders.
Building on the solid if workmanlike chassis of the 2001 original, heavily modelled on the lines of ur-guilty pleasure Point Break, successive mods – hip-hop and martial-arts stars; Bond-style glocationsations from Tokyo Drift onwards; the addition of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, a great jutting spoiler of a casting coup – have put F&F in the entertainment big league.
The money will be spent on designing systems to allow the chassis of future models to be made out of aluminium.
And yet they both gradually retreated from the world, filling their home with stacks of newspapers and books, 14 grand pianos, human medical specimens, and the chassis of a Model-T Ford.
Even the BMW 5 Series, the benchmark for action-oriented sedans, has gone softer; the latest model is built on the chassis of the larger 7 Series.
